(BASF) -- At this year's In-Cosmetics trade show, BASF and Cognis - which is now part of the BASF Group - presented their latest formulation concepts and innovations for personal care products. Together with their cosmetic active ingredients businesses, BASF Beauty Care Solutions and Laboratoires Serobiologiques (LS), the companies showed how their combined technical skills, market expertise and product ranges can even better help their customers meet the latest consumer demands.
During the show, a selection of new formulation concepts was presented for sun and skin care. For skin care, the focus was put on advanced photostable UVA protection as a key factor in the prevention of premature skin aging (photoaging). The formulation concept ⌠Daily Skin Treasure with Advanced UVA Protection is one example for a skin care lotion with optimal photostable UVA protection.
Also on show was the BASF Sunscreen Simulator, which has become a very popular in silico tool among the community of sunscreen developers worldwide. It enables formulators to see immediately how a given UV filter combination is likely to perform in terms of Sun Protection Factor and the various UVA metrics and criteria used in different countries and regions.