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Personal Care and Homecare Ingredients (PCHi)

The Personal Care and Homecare Ingredients (PCHi) trade show closed its doors with “brand new record-breaking figures that reinforced the event’s relevance and prominence in China and on the world’s center stage,” according to organizer Reed Sinopharm Exhibitions.

Silicone Safety and the Cosmetic Industry

The use of silicones in personal care products continues to expand because of the unique performance attributes they provide and their well-established record of safety. As a result, progressively larger volumes of silicones are being released to the environment, and interest in their life cycle has increased. The present article summarizes relevant fundamental chemical and physical properties of silicones and how these relate to material performance, safety and environmental fate.

Dihydroxyacetone-Induced Pigmentation and Other Topics

Dihydroxyacetone-induced pigmentation: Dihydroxyacetone (DHA), a three-carbon sugar, is the browning ingredient in commercial sunless tanning formulations.

A Foaming Cleanser and Other Topics

Care Isoflavonoids in skin care: Beiersdorf discloses the use of isoflavonoids to fight skin aging and acne. The invention concerns cosmetic and dermatological preparations that contain isoflavonoids and cyclodextrins. Cyclodextrins are added in order to increase the solubility of the isoflavonoids in the preparations that are applied against skin aging and acne. An example is shown in Formula 1.

Alpha-Lipoic Acid and Other Topics

Lin et al report that alpha-lipoic acid is ineffective as a topical antioxidant. This contradicts a previously published study that proposed alpha-lipoic acid as an antioxidant for topical application to protect the skin against ultraviolet photodamage including skin cancer and photoaging changes.

Perfumery Raw Materials and Other Topics

Biotec Pharmacon describes methods of skin and ulcer treatment and use of water-soluble β-(1,3) glucans as active agents for producing therapeutic skin treatment agents.

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Glycation and Skin Aging: A Review

The present article, adapted from Draelos and Pugliese*, provides a review of the chemistry involved in the glycation process to assist formulators in developing topical or nutricosmetic solutions for mature skin care.

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Lessons in Peptides and Finding Balance

On April 16, 2013, in Paris, in-cosmetics organizers presented Karl Lintner, PhD, with the Lifetime Achievement Award; a well-deserved honor as the father of Matrixyl, who has dedicated much of his life to identifying and validating active cosmetic technologies.

Formulators and Marketers: Working Better Together

It is often said that the most challenging interface during product development is the one between R&D and marketing. Five years ago the Journal of Product Innovation Management reported that significant barriers exist between these two key product innovation functions.

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Cosmetics & Toiletries Formulary: Foundation and Color

Autumn is around the corner for at least half of our readers, bringing with it dramatic color-change across the landscape. For others entering spring, the refreshed earth is awakening with color. In both cases, a color formulary seems appropriate; so we've included one here.

Nanoparticles in Sunscreens: Fact and Fiction

This paper reviews important issues regarding the classification for UV active ingredients and the need for a uniform classification and labeling system covering all nano ingredients. The definition of nanoparticles is not questioned here; however, the highly selective manner in which the definition is applied to different materials is.

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Addressing Tooth Sensitivity and Dental Erosion

While the introduction of fluoride remarkably increased the life expectancy of natural teeth, two oral care problems have since emerged: tooth sensitivity and dental erosion. This article describes approaches to these problems and discusses the challenge of simultaneously maintaining fluoride efficacy in multi-benefit toothpaste formulations.

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Under-eye Circles: Causes and Care

Under-eye circles are clinically complex and difficult to characterize due in part to their transitory nature. This article briefly reviews the known causes and topical attempts to mitigate them, with a look toward sun protection and plant extracts as promising prospects.

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Expert Opinions: Hand Hygiene and Care

Consumer concern has continued to grow with panic buying and precautionary safety measures due to COVID-19. With these factors, it is predicted the demand for hand soap—and hand care, for that matter—will continue to escalate. Several industry experts reinforced this direction, “raising hands high” as their following testimonials and new ideas for this market illustrate.

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Screening Botanical Ingredients: Challenges and Opportunities

Botanical ingredients are interesting for their unique and complementary chemical diversities yet they are criticized for these very traits, which make quality assurance, reproducibility and good phytochemical characterization—required for successful high throughput screening, difficult. This article discusses these challenges as well as the benefits of large-scale screenings of botanical extracts that are currently used or developed for cosmetic product development.

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Expert Opinions: Purifying and Rebalancing Skin

Following are insights from industry experts about male consumers, maskne, therapeutic care, pollution, quorum sensing and scalp health.

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Expert Opinions: Skin Care and Emotion

In our May edition of Expert Opinions, we ask experts about skin care and how it connects to emotion. These opinions divulge in personal beliefs, the bigger picture impact, sustainability and transparency.

Trending in Skin: Restoration and Repair

In this industry insight, Mamina Turegano, MD. (MT), board-certified dermatologist and CeraVe brand partner, discusses trends, active ingredients and restorative skin care.

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