derma e® Introduces NEW Tropical Solutions™

Simi Valley, CA – Inspired by the skin beautifying elements of Tamanu Oil, derma e®’s NEW Tropical Solutions™ help protect skin, prevent age damage and restore your natural, youthful radiance for a healthy, beautiful complexion.  With over 25 successful years of formulating cutting-edge natural skincare products, derma e®’s NEW innovative product line continues to deliver powerful antioxidants, nourishing vitamins and beneficial botanicals that provide results.

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Soothing Skin-Loving Soaps is Saponifier Magazine's May Focus

Feature
Aromatic Materials
Citrus Perfumery Ingredients Now Set To Disappear

Columns

Ingredients
Ten Summer Herbs For You And Your Products

In The Lab
Nourishing Soap Ingredients

Interview:
Rita Scheu; Modern Soapmaking Pioneer

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Saponifier Magazine Welcomes Tony Burfield to its Editorial Board

Feature & Aromatic Materials Editor

Tony Burfield has now spent 30 years in the aroma trade, mainly working hands-on with essential oils (their production, analysis and applications). After initially qualifying as a food scientist, he returned to academia mid-career to do a further degree in biochemistry, eventually becoming a Chartered Biologist. This was followed by a period of post-doctoral research in the microbiological biotransformation of essential oil components at Cranfield University. Now deeply involved in perfumery, natural perfumery, and with natural aromatic products generally, Tony is an aroma industry consultant, looking after the interests of various essential oil, cosmetic and fragrance clients, from the small to corporate (especially those with “green portfolio” credentials). Tony also writes, lectures and produces educational materials on aromatic topics.

Tony is the author of Natural Aromatic Materials – Odours and Origins (2000) the privately published second edition of which (updated and completely revised) is to be released shortly. Tony is also a co-founder of Cropwatch, the unfinanced Independent Watchdog to the Aromatic Natural Materials trade.

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Saponifier Magazine's Holiday Issue is Out!

With less stress, and less things that we let stress us, we might actually be able to enjoy the season and accomplish the things we need to, at the same time!

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The Changing Face of Natural Makeup

Natural Foods Merchandiser> Face it—the glowing, flawless beauties you see in commercials and on the pages of fashion magazines do a great job of selling cosmetics. That’s why the companies that dominate this $6 billion-a-year industry spend a bundle on marketing. But when it comes to makeup, is too much money being spent on packaging and celebrity spokesmodels, and not enough on the products themselves? “Yes,” says lifestyle and beauty expert Kat James. “Many mass-market makeup products are overhyped, irritant-packed products that are priced based on how they’re marketed, rather than on the cost of their contents.”

James, author of The Truth About Beauty (Beyond Words Publishing, 2003) says if the goal is to protect skin, consumers should avoid many of the ingredients commonly found in commercial makeup products. For example, the two most commonly used cosmetic preservatives, parabens and imidazolidinyl urea, both pose health risks. The latter has been shown to cause contact dermatitis, while James says the former have been found to collect in breast cancer tumors. A University of Reading study published in the January Journal of Applied Toxicology found that 18 of 20 breast tumors studied contained significant concentrations of parabens. Continue reading>>

Functional Cosmetics? Cosmetic Drugs?: Skin Creams Turned Inside Out

Natural Foods Merchandiser> The first time I had a facial, back in 1984, I was pressured into buying an almond butter facial scrub on my way out. When I got home, it smelled so delicious that I didn’t know whether to spread it on my face or slather it on toast. Twenty years later, we see more and more food ingredients and herbal supplements ingredients used in skin creams, which constitute the largest part of the multi-billion dollar cosmetic market. This is not surprising, since our quickly aging population knows that the complexion is an obvious biological marker for one’s age.

What were once traditionally foods and ingredients to swallow are now making their way into topical cosmetics as the internal becomes external. Ingredients that make skin creams almost good enough to eat include lemon oil, soy phospholipids, oat bran, coconut oil, Ester-C, green tea extract, Co-Q10, wheat germ oil, vitamin E, olive oil, avocado, wild yam, lemongrass, aloe vera, grapeseed extract, caffeine, chamomile, jojoba oil, papaya, kiwi, peach, apricot, mango, hazelnut oil, soybean sterols, licorice extract, evening primrose oil, DMAE, rose hips, eucalyptus oil, rosemary, wild mint, coneflower extract, black currant extract, vanilla oil, lecithin, grape leaf extract, guarana, kola, maté, cucumber, carrot oil and willow bark extract.

And this is just a fraction of the delectable cream, gel and “butter” ingredients in products with tempting names such as “Orange Cleansing Soufflé.” At the Functional Foods and Beverages Forum to be held in October in Orlando, Fla., one scheduled talk, “A Functional Skincare Ingredient: Lutein—The Short Cut Antiordinary Antioxidant,” will argue that the same ingredient in spinach and green leafy vegetables that maintains eye health also has an important role in skin health. Continue Reading>>

Space Industry Provides Innovative Cosmetics Storage

Thermagen, the French manufacturer of specialist container solutions, claim to have found an innovative storage solution for application in the cosmetics industry, using a cooling technology previously found only in rocket engines.

The company is developing the packaging innovation in conjunction with partner firm Cosnessens, which manufactures skincare ingredients, and plans to market the new product under the ‘Ice Source’ label. The proposed product range will include an edition made from an extract of Arctic berry, which is said to provide an ‘immediate lifting effect’ when applied to the skin.

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Clients can Create their own Scent

bodyFood helps feed the senses

The Mississauga News> Imagine having your skin and hair care products made up just for you. The Clarkson woman who created the concept says it's an affordable luxury. Irene Spedaliere has brought to market her vision of bodyFood hair and skin products that are tailored to individual clients.

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A Natural Beauty; organic and plant-based products take root

Daily News> "Obsessively organic" soap? Herbal hair spray? Certified-vegan sunscreen? Sometime in the not-so-distant past, it seems, natural health and beauty marketing propaganda went clean off the rails.

Some might find labels touting "raw," "unprocessed" and "chemical-free" products almost absurd. But their makers are laughing all the way to the au naturel bank.

According to research done by the upstate New York pure-cosmetics company Kiss My Face, the sales of natural personal-care products exceed $4.1 billion annually, and make up about 15% of the total U.S. health and beauty market. Full text>>

The New Face of British Men and their £1.3bn Habit

Independent UK> Have they fragrance? Lashings of it. Have they moisturiser? More than ever before. In fact, British men are now Europe's biggest spenders on male grooming products. Maxine Frith reports

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