News
French health agency tightens controls on baby cosmetics
Laws & regulations
The French Agency for the Medical Safety of Health Products (AFSSAPS) has announced its intention to tighten controls over cosmetics...
Pumps: betting on innovation
Innovation & new products
Main producers of pumps for the perfumery and cosmetic industries say they are bound to innovate. Actually, they hardly have any other...
Beyond Beauty Paris : good figures for the opening
Industry buzz
According to the organiser and to several exhibitors, visitorship at the opening of the 2008 edition of Beyond Beauty Paris (600...
Sephora in Russia
Industry buzz
Sephora SA, a subsidiary of French LVMH group, has purchased a45% stake in Ile de Beauté one of the leading retailer of perfumes and...
Technicaps highlights its contribution to sustainable development
Packaging & design
Enterprising and tenacious, here are the best words to define Technicaps’ leading team. The French SME, specialised in the compression...
DGLA now available in commercial quantities
Industry buzz
Equated, a Scottish manufacturer of fatty acid compounds, has developed a method to synthetise the omega-6 fatty acid...
Megaplast supplies the first airless dispenser for a shaving gel
Packaging & design
The German company, which owns two factories, one in Germany (200 staff) and the other in the USA (50 staff), equipped with a total of...
Revival time at Garraud Paris
Industry buzz
Recently acquired by a new management team, René Garraud Paris is revamping its entire business. The components of the brand’s renewal?...
Ancorotti: A plant entirely devoted to mascara and full-service productions
Industry buzz
Chicca Ancorotti, the daughter of Renato Ancorotti, the founder of Gamma Croma SRL, has just opened a new manufacturing facility named...
Nanoparticles can seep through skin, new study reveals
Science, R&D
Scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center found that nanoparticles that can breech the skin barrier, especially when...