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AkzoNobel launches sustainable hair styling solutions

AkzoNobel launches sustainable hair styling solutions

By Simon Pitman

AkzoNobel Global Personal Care has launched a series of sustainable and eco-friendly hair styling products. At the recent Suppliers' Day event in New Jersey, we caught up with Laurie Marshal, global marketing manager, styling, who explained about the...

Mark Sysler, VP sales, Bio-Botanica

Bio-Botanica discusses co-branding deal with DuPont Tate & Lyle

By Simon PItman

Bio-Botanica vice president of sales Mark Sysler spoke to Cosmetics Design about the company's co-branding with DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products at the recent Suppliers' Day event. In this video interview Sysler explains how the company's...

April Yeager, head of personal care, North America for Clariant

Clariant launches three new biopolymers focused on the natural trend

By Simon Pitman

At the NYSCC Suppliers' Day Clariant's head of personal care April Yeager spoke to Cosmetics Design about the company's three new biopolymer active ingredients that are being marketed as sensory boosters for skin and hair care. The vegetal-based...

Cosmetics Compact: in-cosmetics roundup

Cosmetics Compact

Cosmetics Compact: in-cosmetics roundup

By Andrew McDougall, Simon Pitman, Claire Videau and Michelle Yeomans,

Welcome to the Cosmetics Design Compact, brushing up on the latest industry news – in miniature.

Lionel Genix, marketing manager, Dow Personal Care

Dow Personal Care launches new family of sustainable surfactants

By Simon Pitman

Cosmetics Design caught up with Lionel Genix, marketing manager for Dow Personal Care, at last week's in-cosmetics event in Barcelona to find out about the launch of a new family of sustainable surfactants and a waterproof polymer.

Solar beauty shines at in-cosmetics 2012

Solar beauty shines at in-cosmetics 2012

By Andrew McDougall and Claire Videau

The in-cosmetics show returned to Barcelona this year, with solar beauty as the key theme, and more products than ever being introduced in the innovation zone.

Big future forecast for pre- and probiotics

Dispatches from Microbiota 2011

Big future forecast for pre- and probiotics

By Shane Starling

The Boston-based Human Microbiome Project is three years into a five-year project that is throwing up revelations about how human microorganisms behave – and its leader predicts a big future for pre- and probiotics.

The grey area between beauty claims and health claims

The grey area between beauty claims and health claims

Are beauty from within products covered by the health claims regulation? Eversheds lawyer Owen Warnock explains the grey area between beauty and health – and why the lack of clarity may eventually go to court.

Oral antioxidants can have 'beautifying' properties

Oral antioxidants can have 'beautifying' properties

By Simon Pitman

Taking antioxidant oral supplements can help enhance the skin’s natural protective properties as well as having beautifying properties, according to Lycored’s wellness and cosmetics director David Djerassi.