NEWS Vantage acquires Jeen
Vantage Specialty Chemicals, an Illinois-based supplier of naturally derived ingredients and formulations for the personal care market and others, has acquired Jeen International, including its BotanicalsPlus subsidiary. Terms were not disclosed. Jeen founders Adam and Jeanne Perle will join Vantage and retain a stake in the business. Jeen is active in the same fields
as Vantage, offering specialised active ingredients, botanical extracts and complexes for skin care, hair care, fragrances and other applications. It has about 3,000 customers and works through 20 distributors. Vantage said that Jeen is highly complementary to its own range of some 2,500 actives, natural oils and bio-based chassis
IFF obtains
ingredients, which are sold in around 60 countries. “Our team has long admired
Jeen’s solutions-based approach to rapidly develop tailor-made blends meeting its customers’ requirements,” said Vantage CEO
Steve Doktycz. “In addition, the acquisition fits squarely within our strategy to expand Vantage’s capabilities in personal care and food ingredients, which now represents over two-thirds of our business.”
EU to ban 12 nanomaterials
certification Three ingredients in IFF’s Health & Biosciences’s Genencare OSMS range of personal care bioactives have achieved certification through the Upcycled Food Association’s (UFA) Upcycled Certified Programme. The three are Genencare
OSMS BA, MI and CC. Their bioactive ingredients, betaine and inositol, are obtained from sugar beet molasses, a by-product of sugar beet processing. Applications are found in skin moisturisation and barrier strengthening by improving skin elasticity. IFF has developed
technology enabling sugar mills to extract more sugar from the de-sugarisation process. Betaine molasses can then be processed into cosmetic ingredients in the form of highly purified crystalline powders. IFF, which has been an
associate member of the UFA since 2019, is one of the first ingredient suppliers to receive this certification in the cosmetic active category. The Upcycled Certification Programme is the world’s only third-party certification programme for upcycled food ingredients and products.
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The European Commission has notified the World Trade Organisation of a draft amendment adding 12 nanomaterials to the list of substances banned under the Cosmetic Products Regulation. They are: ■ Styrene/acrylates copolymer ■ Sodium styrene/acrylates copolymer ■ Copper ■ Colloidal copper ■ Hydroxyapatite, gold ■ Colloidal gold ■ Gold thioethylamino hyaluronic acid
■ Acetyl heptapeptide-9 colloidal gold ■ Platinum ■ Colloidal platinum ■ Acetyl tetrapeptide-17 colloidal platinum
This measure is based on
opinions reached by the EU Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety in 2021, identifying a basis of concern for the substances. It will be open for a 60-day comment period at the WTO, and is expected to be adopted in the EU in Q3, with entry into force 20 days after publication in the Official Journal.
ASD funds palm oil project
Action for Sustainable Derivatives (ASD), a collaborative initiative between users of palm oil derivatives users to transform their supply chains, has announced plans to pool funding to support to “an on-the-ground project in a priority region that has strong supply chain links and systemic environmental and human rights challenges”.
Those participating are Croda
International, Estée Lauder, GSK Consumer Healthcare, Natura & Co, Seppic and Stéarinerie Dubois. They will seek to identify existing projects that address underlying issues influencing responsible practices in palm production landscapes. The funding model will enable them to collectively direct resources to those projects, they said.
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NEWS IN BRIEF AAK strengthens
Infinity role in US AAK Personal Care has expanded its partnership with Infinity Ingredients to distribute its personal care product line across the US, with effect from 1 April. This comprises the Lipex, Akocare and Akoline brand names. AAK will continue to provide select base oils and fats on a direct basis. Infinity has already been a sales agent for AAK since 2007.
Emuage brought
to the market B2B Cosmetics and BASF have brought their Emuage technology to the market through a new financing round. Emuage allows users to create individualised hair, sun and skin care products by placing capsules into a machine. Projects with partners and customers will come in the following months globally and the first Emuage stores, run by B2B, will open in Switzerland, France and the Middle East.
Natrosol HEC
expands in US Ashland has announced plans to increase production capacity for its Natrosol HEC range of hydroxyethylcellulose at Hopewell, Virginia, instead of at its Chinese site at Nanjing, as previously indicated. This naturally derived product is used as a non-ionic rheology modifier in multiple applications, including personal care. Ashland has experienced “unprecedented demand” for it in recent months.
DKSH works
with IOI Oleo Under a new agreement DKSH’s Performance Materials business unit will distribute IOI Oleo’s range of oleochemical specialities in Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Taiwan, South Korea, and Vietnam, effective on 1 April. The agreement covers business development, marketing, sales, logistics, and distribution services for IOI’s triglycerides, lipids, oils, fatty esters, hard fats, liquid solubilisers and specialities, including brands such as Softigen and Softisan.
April 2022 PERSONAL CARE
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