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“Eco-friendly” Innovation: A Sunscreen to Help Save Coral Reefs
Formulators, product planners and marketers alike have to deal with a mushrooming number of considerations when they’re developing new personal care products. Sunscreens, as we’ve noted, are one of the most complex segments they need to deal with thanks to the growth in regional and national regulation, the hue and cry that’s...
Is There Really Now An “Ultimate Sunscreen?
Hot on the heels of a recent announcement about how DNA may be the secret to a more effective, longer-lasting sunscreen comes word out of the University of California San Diego about yet another innovation that may produce an “ultimate” natural defense against UV. How does this one work? According to a paper published in...
Reflections on Ten Years in the ICIS Top 100
We’re proud to be included in ICIS Chemical Business‘s 2017 list of the Top 100 Chemical Distributors in North America. What’s even more humbling? How it’s the tenth consecutive year we’ve been privileged to be included on that list, going back to the time when the NACD first instituted it. All the companies listed are...
Cosmetovigilance and Other Changes In Beauty Product Regulation
Methylisothiazolinone (MIT) is having a rough go of it in the European Union. The preservative, used in a variety of products, including rinse-off products like shampoos, has been accused of causing skin rashes. EU regulators decided that makers of rinse-off products can no longer use MIT above a level of 0.0015%,...
Why is Warren Buffett Bullish about Specialty Chemicals?
Markets reward pragmatic innovators, and smart investors recognize that. There’s no better example than this cover story in IHS Chemical Week, which profiles how Berkshire Hathaway’s 2011 acquisition of one company, Lubrizol, for $9.7 billion has powered expansion and diversification that’s included a significant foray into specialty chemicals and advanced materials....
Your Next Sunscreen? It Might Be DNA
Imagine you’re headed for the beach, and you search the medicine chest for sunscreen. When you find a bottle and inspect the label, though, you’re not checking for its SPF. You’re making sure it contains DNA. That’s because medical researchers at Binghamton University in New York have developed a sunscreen...