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Water resistance of sun care formulations

Consumers are looking for reliable Sun Care products that have high SPF, are water resistant… and in addition, they want products that not only protect their skin but make them enjoy a complete beauty experience with exceptional sensorial benefits. Water Resistance is the key requirement for most beach sub care products. Several ways are available…

Improving the efficiency of extraction

The development and implementation of innovative, flexible, and mobile technologies, their intensification to more efficient recovery of valuable components, which have a high biological activity, is an important and urgent task.

Expert’s Opinion: Preservatives for Cosmetics and Household products. Interview with Oleg Belikov (Troy Corporation)

How to choose a preserving agent considering technological and legal details? How to treat of so fashionable “green preserving agents?” Is it worth to reject the old one, well-tested for the sake of them? There are answers on these and other questions of Oleg Belikov, a person who has been working with preserving agents for…

Russian Hygiene Competition Heats Up

Several factors have made the Russian market for nonwoven hygiene products and baby diapers an attractive investment for leading producers. These include a significant increase in local production capacities and projected sales, the steady increase in birth rates in Russia and the improvement of economic security among local consumers. The birth rate in Russia has…

Celebrity fragrances: novelties of 2012

Globally, fragrances were hard hit by the recession but have made a remarkable recovery. According to Euromonitor, global premium fragrance sales surged by 10,9% between 2010 and 2011 to reach US$23.7bn. Much of this growth is down to a resurgence in sales in North America on the back of strong growth in the premium segment.