[video] Snails, R&D Crowdsourcing and H2O: News & Insights

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Join Cosmetics & Toiletries assistant editor, Brooke, to catch up on this week's top insights, including "energizing" skin care, carbon neutrality and the snail skin care market.

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What Food Science Can Lend to Skin Care

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What insights can personal care leverage from the foods industry? This article explores food trends, sensory language and metrics that translate across these categories.

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Pilot Chemical Appoints Houston Plant Manager

Wanda I. Gonzalez will oversee all manufacturing and logistic processes at Pilot Chemical Company’s Houston plant, leading a team of about 30 employees.

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Symrise to Debut Hydrolite 5 Green at in-cosmetics Latin America

The naturally derived ingredient is a by-product from sugar product and can be used to hydrate skin and boost the efficacy of active ingredients

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Vbeauté Introduces Organic Skin Care Line, Vbeauté Pure

The new line includes Nighttime Facial Oil and Daytime Anti-aging Facial Serum, both of which contain "The King of the Alps" or Swiss stone pine, the "Queen of the Antioxidants" or Swiss Aronia berries and Swiss glacier water.

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In Case You Missed It...

4 Emerging Ingredient Trends for Anti-pollution Hair Care

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Anti-pollution is not just for skin care, anymore. Hair care containing antioxidative, food-inspired and other pollution-fighting ingredients are on Mintel's radar.

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Has H2O Got to Go? Personal Care and Cosmetics Reduce Water Dependency

As the global water crisis grows, cosmetics and personal care businesses are turning toward products that limit its use.

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Read the Label: Mádara Birch Algae Balancing Face Soap

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This “energizing” soap is designed to thoroughly yet gently clean the skin while providing balance.

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From the Archives: Sugar

Comparatively Speaking: Proteins vs. DNA vs. Sugars

Industry expert Tony O'Lenick discusses the structural differences between the biopolymers DNA, sugars and proteins, which are all important to life but function differently in the cell and in cosmetic products.

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[podcast] How Nutrition Translates to Beauty, Part I

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Can consumers “eat themselves” to beauty? Cosmetics & Toiletries posed these and other questions to two renowned dermatologists, featured in this five-part podcast series. Here, in part I, they discuss how nutrition impacts beauty.

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Cooking Chemistry and the Formulator: Sugar and Grains

This article is the third in a four-part series that highlights connections between cooking chemistry and personal care product development, including reactions that occur and why, and how to best utilize these reactions, for the benefit of formulators.

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Current Issue

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July/​August 2018

Topics include:

  • Cellulose Alternative to Plastic
  • Marine Collagen Speeds Delivery
  • Biocatalyzed Color Pigments
  • Biodegradable SPF

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