Originally, Kialab was a spin-off of Eurotrading’s research and development activities but over the years the company acquired the status of an independent company focused, both on consultancy and development of special ingredients for the cosmetics industry
Based in Gerenzano,...
SPF is no longer enough, hair and skin need an extra layer of defence, performed by specific antipollution skin care products, a key rising trend, currently top of industry’s agenda.
Globally air quality has deteriorated seriously in the past few...
Nico-menthyl® (INCI Name: Menthyl nicotinate) is a new active ingredient composed of pure Menthyl Nicotinate, with no residues of other nicotinates, obtained through a new and exclusive industrial synthesis process developed over 20 years of research at Multichem in...
Alberto Donati is today the CEO of OFI, the company his father established in 1946 and that in its early stages was specialized in the injectable solutions sector, in order to serve the needs of Italian hospitals, but that,...
Established in San Pietro Viminario, near Padova, at the end of the last century, Claire Spa proved able to fulfill its customers request for new formulas and technologies thanks to the efforts and investments it dedicated to research and...
Some of the most difficult ingredients to use in natural cosmetics are emulsifiers and surfactants. There are a number of natural or green surfactants available for cosmetic formulation but these new green compounds bring many technical issues. The market...
…it is a volume filled with experience: Il Manuale del Cosmetologo is a compendium of the Italian know-how in cosmetic technologies and manufaturing. Published by the Italian Editor Tecniche Nuove, the second edition of the Manuale del cosmetologo has...
Milano-based Silvio Mora is one of the one of most experienced companies in the hair
color cosmetics business in Europe in which it has been playing as hair color manufacturer for more than a century, leveraging its employees or partners’...
The story of the Milan-based Luigi & Felice Castelli shows how complicated it is for a distributor to succeed in the cosmetics arena; having to pay attention to a number of different factors ranging from a constant research for...
Established in 1990, the Italian company Artcosmetics has developed and consolidated itself, becoming an important firm at national and international level working on all aspects concerning cosmetic formulation, from conception to production. In a brief interview, Federica Origo, Vice...