NYSCC Announces 2024 Executive Board
Largest Chapter of SCC Elects Beauty & Personal Care Leaders Representing Prominent Manufacturers and Suppliers (New York, NY, December 2023)—The New York Society of Cosmetics Chemists (NYSCC), the largest chapter of the SCC, has announced its 2024 Executive Board. The new board will be officially inducted during the NYSCC Supports Education Night on Tuesday, December […]
Challenges in Cosmetic Formulation
Formulating cosmetic products presents many challenges, ranging from regulations, product safety, performance, aesthetics, consumer demographic trends and claim substantiation, in addition to media scrutiny, etc. To be a successful formulation chemist, one must toggle many priorities with limited resources of time and money, while maintaining market launch timing. In this blog, a few of the […]
Formulating effective and stable W/O emulsions
Cosmetic chemists are an innovative, curious, and creative group of scientists, continually looking to formulate the most effective and pleasing products for the world’s consumers. Yet when asked to create the galenic forms most often requested by marketing – creams and lotions – the “default emulsion” is almost always oil-in-water (O/W). While O/W systems offer […]
Sunscreen Monograph Proposed New Rules and its Impact on Formulations-Part II
In my recent blog published in August, changes to the current sunscreen tentative monograph were proposed. These changes are probably the most drastic changes to the sunscreen monograph since its inception. In this section, I would like to tackle two key areas related to the changes requested by the FDA. The first one is the […]
NYSCC Suppliers’ Day Partners with Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) on New Beauty Award for Supplier’s Innovative Ingredients and Formulation
All Things Beauty to Be Celebrated May 2019 in NYC (New York, NY, December 2018)—The New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists (NYSCC) has renewed its partnership with CEW by sponsoring a new category in its prestigious Beauty Awards program the “Supplier’s Award: Ingredients and Formulation.” Mirroring the Academy Awards Science and Technical Achievement awards, […]
