R&D professionals can choose from over 80 Technical Seminars across the three-day event, all designed to inspire new product formulations. Each session is delivered by professionals from raw material suppliers, giving a comprehensive overview of key personal care ingredients from in-depth knowledge of the benefits they provide, to sharing scientific evidence that substantiates the claims associated with their products.


Development of new personal care formulations relies on the ability of an active ingredient to diffuse through various skin layers without any irritation, however, ethical and regulatory pressures have limited testing of personal care formulations on human or animal skin.


Reviewing Skin models for personal care research: types and their applications, Vivek Joshi, applications and market adoption manager at Merck, will talk about 3D skin models based on cell culture and differentiation for irritation studies, as well as a synthetic membrane model - Strat-M® membrane - that is useful in diffusion and trans-epidermal water loss studies.

Whether for dilution, dissolution, suspension, homogenization, dispersion or emulsion, the mixing processes in any formulation must be very carefully studied for optimum results. Nesrin Hesso, process engineer at VMI, will address the topic of Mixing technology in cosmetics and how to adapt mixing tools to cosmetics processes.