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This Week in Anti-Aging Innovations
It’s a thrilling time to be involved with anti-aging products and treatments, even if you’re just a witness to the constant stream of ingenuity and inventiveness coming out of laboratories and development centers, both in the U.S.A. and globally, as researchers and formulators deliver new discoveries, approaches, and products. It’s...
Being Heard: the 2017 NACD Washington Fly-In
It’s always important to stand up and be counted in a democracy, and that’s even more true at a time like this, when there are so many competing voices being raised at once. So it’s vital that organizations like NACD exist, providing not only training and best practices for its membership, but...
Anti-Aging, ‘Memory Age’ and the Gen X Market Upside
It’s less about chemistry than it is about psychology, but it’s likely to have a major effect on anti-aging and personal care marketing, as a new survey offers insights into the question of “Memory Age” and its implications for Generation X consumers. The survey was conducted by a California-based “facial...
The Race is On for Alternative Preservatives
If there was ever any doubt about how heated the competition has become to develop new preservatives to cater to consumer demand for alternatives to formaldehyde, triclosan and other chemicals, it should be evaporated by this story about an actual prize competition to find those new ingredients. A competition has been launched...
9,000 Attendees Can’t Be Wrong: NYSSC Suppliers’ Day 2017
We’re always happy to come back to the Big Apple, especially when it’s for NYSCC Suppliers’ Day, brought to us all courtesy of the New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists. This year was no exception to the standard set by past events, with full attendance by 8,752 visitors from the four...
Why We Support STEM – and Why You Should, Too
AIf there’s a better way to spend part of your weekend, we can’t think of it right now: It was our pleasure and privilege to sponsor and attend this year’s California State Finals of the You Be The Chemist Challenge®, held at the Discovery Cube in Orange County. A quick recap: The You...