News & Analysis on Cosmetics Innovation
BASF and CSM subsidiary Purac have announced that the start of negotiations to form a joint venture for the production of bio-based succinic acid to meet anticipated growth in demand growth in the coming years.
PET packaging company APPE, has won the ‘Beyond the Package’ award from the Greener Package Awards, for its initiatives in recycled PET production and its 100 per cent remanufacture of material into packaging applications.
A UK-based business processing firm has beaten off all competition to land a three-and-a-half year procurement co-sourcing contract with cosmetics giant L’Oreal, as it looks to streamline processes and make savings.
A research project carried out by Organic Monitor to analyse the formulations of leading natural and organic personal care products finds that many fall short of their ‘chemically-clean’ claims.
Although market researcher Demeter Group is predicting tougher times for the US cosmetics industry in the second half of 2011, there are a handful of key industry trends that are expected to cushion the blow.