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Today we look at packaging and sustainability. Nowadays customers are looking for products with less or even no packaging and buying more sustainable face brands. For some, sustainable means formulations without water. What challenges come with making water-free formulations? How well do these formulations perform, especially when compared to conventional products?

INGREDIENTS

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Going water-free

Nowadays customers are looking for products with less or even no packaging and buying more sustainable face brands. For some, sustainable means formulations without water. Laura Ratz and Annika Kramer talk about the challenges and advantages of developing water-free cosmetics.

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Care and protection of the skin barrier

Sunflower, olive or soy? Nature serves as the best source of versatile ingredients for skin care. Berg + Schmidt, based in Hamburg, Germany, offers a diversity of cosmetic specialities that are natural and Cosmos-approved, such as silicone alternatives, active delivery systems (e.g. for ceramides) and phospholipid fractions.

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PRODUCTION

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Automatic and flexible

Every season customers ask for new colours and product sizes in make-up, creating a processing dilemma for Laverana. Daniel Traub explains how a fully automatic packaging process and TLM-line solved the challenge. Any company within the beauty sector manufacturing cosmetic products on a somewhat larger scale needs its packaging process to be at least semi-automated. To be more efficient, many companies even prefer fully automatic production.

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Full Service – All from one source. Your partner in cosmetics

Lutz Packaging and Wicklein, as your competent partners, will be pleased to develop your individual ideas in all phases of product development of your primary packaging. We stand by your side with our expertise in relation of function, form up to refinement and design. Our strengths are above all indiviuality and quality.

BUSINESS

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Reductionism & sustainability

This article is an excerpt from Helga Hertsig-Lavocah’s presentation at Formulate, a key UK event organised by the Society of Cosmetic Scientists. Hertsig-Lavocah discusses reductionism, sustainability as a side effect and lessons from the whiskey industry as inspiration for cosmetics and toiletries.

UPDATES

New at "STOP THE WATER WHILE USING ME!": Manuela Salmina-Petersen

Manuela Salmina-Petersen holds an engineer’s degree in the technology of cosmetics and detergents from the University of Applied Science in Lemgo, Germany. Starting her career in 1997, she has several years of experience in the development, formulation and testing of professional hair and skin care products.

IFF Drives Sustainability Leadership with New Milestones

IFF (NYSE:IFF) (Euronext Paris:IFF) (TASE:IFF), a leading innovator of taste, scent, nutrition & ingredients, has realized several sustainability milestones which underscore the Company’s commitment to its recently updated purpose statement: to redefine how we live in and care for the resources of our world.

BASF invests in capacity expansion for methane sulfonic acid

As already announced at the end of 2018, BASF will proceed with expanding global capacities for methane sulfonic acid (MSA) to 50,000 metric tons per year. This involves a higher double-digit million euro investment in constructing a new methane sulfonic acid plant at the Ludwigshafen site. The construction works started recently. The volumes from the additional capacity are expected to be available from the end of 2021 and are dedicated to mainly serve European customers as well as the rapidly growing Asian market.

SNEAK PEEK COSSMA 04/2020

Publication date: 20.03.2020

Focus: Body care: Relevant development at a glance

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