International personal care major Colgate-Palmolive has developed a range of whitening and abrasive oral care formulas with improved stability and in-use delivery using fatty acid salts.
The EU-funded research project COSMOS got under way in The Netherlands aiming to reduce the dependence of Europe’s oleochemical industry on imported plant oils, by turning camelina and crambe into profitable, sustainable, multipurpose, non-GMO European...
Baobab oil, a prominent ingredient in African cosmetics and traditional medicine, is “unfit for human use” according to the South African minister for health and social welfare.
Provislim is the latest launch from ingredients supplier Provital and has been designed to act through a number of different pathways in an attempt to fight against the appearance of cellulite.
Mothers who supplement their diet with fatty acids rich in
docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) during pregnancy and lactation may be
doing their children a favour in later years, say researchers in
this month's Pediatrics journal.
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