NEWS DIGEST QR code aids ingredient disclosure
Floratech announces an innovative web-based service which provides full ingredient disclosure via a QR (Quick Response) code printed on the product label. Scanning the code leads to a rich menu of useful information about the raw material, in essence providing full product disclosure from the label. For example, formulators can browse guide formulas, product descriptions, efficacy claims, and technical data sheets. Quality personnel can obtain appropriate certificates of analysis, material
Editor Richard Scott
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safety data sheets, and nomenclature and registration information. In addition, logistics personnel will find emergency contact, storage, and hazard information – all which can easily be delivered to anyone via email. Unlike most current use of QR code, the Floratech system has nothing to do with advertising or social media. “We don’t ask for contact details. Frankly, we would rather not have your personal information,” says Steve Brown,
vice president of Floratech. Brown adds: “We aren’t in the data business. We are however in the business of serving our customers, product formulators and brand managers, in more effective and rational ways. This system saves them tonnes of time because it allows them to easily ‘pull’ the most updated version of needed information within seconds. Nobody in our industry has done this yet, but soon almost everyone will.”
NPA certification gained
Honeywell has announced that one of its Asensa personal care additives, Asensa NFF 11, has been certified by the Natural Products Association (NPA).
Asensa NFF 11 (INCI: Hydrolyzed Corn Starch) is made from corn starch and can be dispersed into latex. Third-party studies have shown that NFF 11 performs equally well as synthetic polymers in hair fixative applications. It can also be used in skin care formulations. NFF 11 is the first Honeywell Asensa product to be based on renewable ingredients, and is ideal for formulations that have a high concentration of renewable ingredient content. Based in Washington DC, NPA is the largest and oldest non-profit organisation dedicated to the natural products industry. NPA advocates
the rights of consumers to have access to products that will maintain and improve their health, and for the rights of retailers and suppliers to sell these products. Honeywell Asensa products are used in a variety of end-use applications ranging from lipsticks to moisturisers to pressed powders. Asensa products increase permanency, emolliency, moisture retention, water resistance and thermal stability. They act as film-formers and structuring agents for oils. The line also includes size-regulated materials for exfoliation as well as micronised products (some as low in size as 3 micron) for dry lubrication and binding. The Asensa DS line of zeolites includes odour-absorbing and warming materials.
COMMENT
Protection from the sun found in the sea
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Sun care products are perhaps some of the most important products that come under the personal care umbrella. Providing effective protection from the sun’s rays, sunscreens save lives and allow people to live an active life in the great outdoors with an increased level of safety.
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Improving the ease of use, efficacy and skin feel of sunscreens is vital to ensure people continue to use them, and in turn reduce the chance of developing skin cancers. This issue of Personal Care contains articles that will hopefully assist in the development of improved sunscreens, and the subject will also be a key area at this year’s in-cosmetics show in Barcelona.
The search for new chemistries to help in sun care technology is ongoing, and one particularly interesting location for this work is the sea. As marine life often has to endure prolonged exposure to the sun, and desiccation, among other hardships, study of marine-derived chemicals is helping to make even more effective products in sun care, and skin care in general. This issue contains a detailed look at the latest marine ingredient technology, which I am sure you will find interesting and useful. If you are heading to Barcelona later this month, please do look out for us on stand C74.
Richard Scott Editor
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