Cosmeceuticals are the latest addition to the health industry and are described as cosmetic products with drug-like benefits. Сosmeceuticals have come a long way in recent years to become one of the fastest growing cosmetic options. Thousands of ingredients, tens of distinct claims, that is the wide open playing field of cosmetic product development and…
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Equipment, Raw materials
Nanocosmetics and Henry Ford or Back in the future
The aim of this article is to try visually to familiarize a reader with some sphere of the nanoscience and nanotechnology. The field of nanoscience is occurred at the intersection of traditional science and technology, quantum mechanics, and the most fundamental processes of life itself. Nanotechnology describes how we use our knowledge of nanoscience to…
Packaging
Integrated into packing
Nowadays we can see the quick and dynamic growth of color cosmetics and personal care markets. It is rather difficult to make proper chose from offered products. But modern consumers are more conscious when purchasing goods and want to have multi-purpose cosmetic products. Mission of packaging is to attract the consumer’s attention on store shelves.…
Raw materials
Silver-containing preparation: analysis of advantages and disadvantages
Increasingly, the Russian market has seen products containing silver. There was knowledge about silver beneficial properties for many centuries ago. It was used for disinfection, sterilization of food and water, as well as for medicinal purposes. To date, we have scientific evidence that silver directly affects bacteria, inhibiting their growth. Therefore it is absolutely justified…
Raw materials
Surfactants Which Looks as Green and Natural
Eco-friendly (‘green’) and mild surfactants derived essentially from vegetable raw materials are briefly reviewed. Demand for these surfactants is stirred up by a fast-growing market of natural and organic products, especially from the personal care market. Some recent developments in the field of green and natural surfactants from oleochemicals, lipids, carbohydrates, proteins and other raw…
Raw materials
A touchless car wash
A touchless car wash uses high water pressure to clean the vehicle instead of brushes, minimizing the chance of surface damage to the vehicle. There are five primary factors to cleaning a vehicle successfully using a touchless system. These five factors are water quality, water temperature, chemistry, time, and water pressure generated by the equipment.…
Raw materials
The market of natural cosmetics in Russia and Europe: look of the expert
More and more consumers worry about possibly dangerous ingredients in their daily cosmetics. That is why the international natural cosmetics market has been booming for several years. This has a growing impact on the conventional cosmetics industry. The market is changing because ”green” products become more and more successful.
Packaging
Biodegradable polymers
Biopolymers are derived from renewable biomass sources, such as vegetable fats and oils, corn starch, pea starch or microbiota. They are more sustainable because they can break down in the environment faster than fossil-fuel plastics, which can take more than 100 years. There is a variety of bioplastics being made; they can be composed of…
Raw materials
Hair coloring – technology, color harmony and identity
Over the last years an interest to coloristics has increased in the context of opportunity of its use in a hair color development field. Leading hair color manufacturers are in a phase of realizing the need to apply the latest methods for both as the development of coloring mixtures as for the objective quality control…
Nonwovens
Viscose non-woven materials for household wipes manufacturing
One of the most popular segments of the household wipes is a product for dry and wet cleaning. There are a huge number of brands of wet wipes – both domestic and foreign production in the Russian market. Probably, there is a bright orange or blue color wipe in every apartment which is used to…