Just like for many other things, we tend to like and forget certain formulation technologies. Let’s focus on the example of cerates. This term comes from the Latin word ceratus: according to …
Nourishing Creams
As a professional, like me, you must have met people who talked to you about “nourishing creams”. It is quite a common, even ordinary term. But every time you need to describe what it refers to, maybe …
The Avant-Garde Lady
There is an outstanding exhibition going on at the Paris Museum of Jewish Art and History about Madam Helena Rubinstein. I am inviting you to go see it – or go back – which I did. It is full of …
The Sensitive Skin
The birth of the Sensitive Skin concept in the 90s. The notion of sensitive skin has always been a tricky issue for the cosmetics industry. Long mistaken for skin irritation or allergic skins, …
Cetyl alcohol
Fatty alcohols are valuable ingredients in the formulators toolbox. Let's take a closer look at the case of cetyl alcohol. Cetyl alcohol belongs to the large family of fatty alcohols, these …
The sensory assessment.
Sensory analysis is still under discussion. Proposed more than 20 years ago in our business, sensory analysis has had various fortunes. Sometimes very used, it gradually integrated the development …