Drug & Cosmetic Industry articles from May 1993

Drug & Cosmetic Industry archives from May 1993

Dermal testing. (32nd annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology was held in New Orleans) (Scientifically Speaking)
May 1, 1993... The 32nd annual meeting of the Society of Toxicology was held in New Orleans the second week in March. Despite blizzard conditions in many parts of the United States, three thousand attendees managed to attend and listen to symposia on the...

Scientist, inventor, futurist. (Jack Mausner) (DCI People)
May 1, 1993... Dr. Jack Mausner, senior vice president, Chanel, Inc., who heads up its research and development laboratories, is not the stereotypical scientist -- the man in the white coat with a vague, preoccupied air and rather outerworldly look, nor...

Courting disaster! (government regulations to cosmetic industry) (Editorial)
May 1, 1993... In the context of regulation, there inevitably occurs something called "lag time," the interval between when a problem develops the ability to garner headlines, and when a state or federal agency becomes sufficiently motivated to write and...

All about aloe: curative claims lead to scientific studies.
May 1, 1993... History is full of aneodotal tales of the aloe plant as an efficacious folk remedy. Around 2100 B.C., aloe was noted in Materia Medica by Sumerian physicians. Roman scholar Pliny the Elder wrote of the healing power of aloe in 35 A.D. And...

A new hybrid sunflower seed oil for cosmetics.
May 1, 1993... Traditional techniques of recurrent genetic selection have been employed to create a novel and functional natural ingredient for the cosmetic formulary. While hybrid sunflower seed oil and the stabilizing effect of high oleic (C-18:1) and...

Global fast-track development of cosmetic ingredients.
May 1, 1993... If quality improvement was the watchword of the '80s, time-based competition and globalization are emerging as the basis for competitive advantage in the '90s. These themes are vital to the research, development and commercialization of...

Getting essential oils back into fragrances.
May 1, 1993... In response to consumer demands that their cosmetics (and foods and soaps and cleaning materials) be as natural as possible, the cosmetic industry has had to initiate major shifts in its marketing and positioning strategy. Quite apart from...

H2O Plus: a fresh approach to specialty retailing. (Interview with Cindy Melk and Fred Weinert) (Interview)
May 1, 1993... H2O Plus, manufacturer and retailer of water-based personal care products, has managed to carve out its own niche in the specialty retail scene in its scant four years of existence. Founded in 1989 by Cindy Melk, who serves as the company's...

Why not lanolin?
May 1, 1993... In today's cosmetic market, "natural" is the buzzword for formulations and the raw materials they contain. To fulfill this growing demand, companies constantly strive to introduce novel new materials of natural origin, the notion being that...

Odor dichotomy. (Compounder's Corner)
May 1, 1993... To odorize or deodorize -- that has been the question for several hundred years now. Customs have varied from country to country, from century to century. We Americans have built a substantial industry on the premise that body odor is...