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Anti-Aging Will Keep Booming – By The Billions!
If there was any doubt that the anti-aging marketplace was growing, the numbers projected by a variety of publications and pundits should put that to rest. This article from GCI, which cites data from Persistence Market Research, is just one of the latest to confirm the vast potential in anti-aging...
Preservative Solutions to Meet Formulating Requirements and Market Demands
Preservatives are one of the least glamorous ingredient groups in cosmetic formulas, but are the most critical to making a product function. If a formulator can’t keep a skin cream, shampoo, or eye shadow fresh, nothing else matters. When it comes to personal care ingredients, especially preservatives, the Internet has...
Chelates: Removing metal ions in a controlled way
Chelates are an important component of most personal care and industrial applications. The key function is to act as an oxidizing agent and sequester free metallic ions, which by themselves can cause stability and micro issues within a system. It is common to add chelates to a water phase early...
Dissolvine® GL-47-S Improves The Performance Of Personal Care Preservatives
Going green? Don’t forget your chelate! Derived from corn, Dissolvine® GL-47-S is the natural choice to enhance the performance of those halogen-free, formaldehyde-free, and paraben-free preservative systems available to the chemist who is formulating “green.” Dissolvine® GL-47-S has no biocidal properties by itself, but when formulated properly can improve the kill...
Another lesson in safety: the floods in Thailand
The Thai floods should reinforce the need for best practices in safety and security for chemical distributors everywhere!
Innovation as a jobs engine in the chemical industry.
Innovation begets jobs — just ask anybody in Silicon Valley about that, or any of the numerous communities springing up around the world, where engineers and chemists and other scientific professionals are applying themselves daily to the task of making better products and breakthrough strides in our knowledge of how they...