A Low-Cost Complete Conditioning Base from Inolex

• Hair care formulators can now benefit from Inolex’s new Kerabase LC for making low-cost, high performing hair conditioners. It is a pre-blend system that yields highly stable formulas with the application properties desired by consumers, according to the company.

Kerabase LC allows customizable products with “one-pot” production. Simply add water and emollient as well as fragrance and actives and your work is done, according to the company. It uses amidoamine conditioners, avoiding the irritation and environmental problems associated with quats. It is pre-neutralized, making it much easier for formulators and manufacturers to achieve their goals.

More info: www.inolex.com

Sustainability and WellnessFor Color Cosmetics

• For more than 60 years, Arkema hasbeen developing high performance polymers from bio-sourced materials. The company is expanding its ultra-fine powder range with Orgasol Green Touch, 100% derived from renewable raw materials, according to the company.

Inspired from the key principles of green chemistry, this new texture powder features excellent functional and sensory performance. Perfectly suited to the pressed powder application, it combines strong binding power and very even texturing with comfort and convenience of use for a natural and even complexion. The Orgasol Green Touch life cycle starts with the castor bean plant named Ricinus communis. Castor oil is extracted from the seeds and used as starting material for further transformation into ultra-fine polyamide 11 powder.

More info: www.arkema.com

Caresoft Targets Sensitive Skin

• Caresoft is the most recent launch from Provital Group designed to improve sensitive skin conditions through the regulation of the epidermal skin pH gradient and its implication on the skin’s barrier homeostasis, according to the company.

Studies have shown that people with skin barrier deficiencies, such as sensitive skin and atopic dermatitis, have a higher skin pH. This new ingredient regulates the skin pH resulting in a decrease in the sensitivity and reactivity of the skin and improves the skin’s barrier integrity and function.

Caresoft contains the actives obtained from the Curculigo orchioides rhizome, an herbaceous tuberous plant widely distributed in India with rootstock bearing several fleshy lateral roots (rhizomes).

Centerchem, Inc. is the exclusive North American distributor.

More info: www.centerchem.com

Ashland UnveilsRevamped Website

• Ashland Inc launched its newly de- signed website, www.ashland.com, with many significant enhancements to make it simpler and more useful, according to the company. At its core, the new site features expanded product information with easy access to Ashland’s broad portfolio of specialty chemical products.

It’s not just about products, however. It’s the people of Ashland, their talents and dedication that also come alive in video examples that show customers discussing the advantages of working with Ashland, said the company. The new website makes it easy to conduct business with Ashland around the world. Expansive and readily available information for contacting sellers, customer service agents, chemists, applications specialists and other representatives in more than 100 countries is easily accessed, along with tools for posing questions.

Ashland-featured news is also posted on the home page and RSS feeds are available so visitors can stay up-to-date on Ashland activities.

More info: www.ashland.com

Beauty from the GardenAt Symrise

• Cosmetic products that contain active ingredients from botanical sources are still very much in demand among consumers. But popular fruits like pomegranate are not the only things with a positive effect; different kinds of vegetables can also have a meaningful impact on wellbeing and beauty. With its new Superveggies product portfolio, Symrise is now expanding its range of natural active ingredients for cosmetics.

The Superveggies line allows formulators to take advantage of the healthy properties of asparagus, broccoli and other vegetables. These liquid- and water-soluble substances are ideal for many cosmetic products such as shower gels, shampoos and face creams.

The Superveggies range is Symrise’s newest addition to its successful Actipone series, which is based on natural ingredients.

More info: www.symrise.com

Resistem Is NewFrom Sederma

• Sederma’s new Resistem is positioned as a high tech anti-aging ingredient, which mimics the natural hormetic action of defense. Resistem is able to reproduce a hormetic response in the skin cells that develops a genuine defense system in skin to act as an anti-aging “bodyguard” of the skin. In vivo studies demonstrated its ability to soothe the skin, reduce redness, improve the evenness of the complexion and restore its natural glow. The skin feels appeased and reveals a much fresher look, according to the company. According to Sederma, Resistem is produced by plant cell culture, a technology that is an inexhaustible source of metabolites of interest and provides numerous benefits pertaining to sustainability, safety, quality and sourcing.

More info: (33) 134841010,[email protected], www.sederma.fr.In the U.S., [email protected], www.crodausa.com