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<title>Chemical Week :: Markets :: Specialty Chemicals :: Personal Care</title>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com</link>
<description>Chemical Week</description>
<language>en-us</language>
<copyright>2008</copyright>
<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:39:05 EST</pubDate>

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<title>Cosmetics Demand Expected to Remain Healthy</title>
<description>Several suppliers are continuing to invest in the cosmetics sector, one of the few specialty chemical end markets in which growth is forecast to rise at a healthy clip despite the economic...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/markets/specialty_chemicals/personal_care/15538.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Elevance, Tetramer Collaborating on Renewable Specialty Chemicals</title>
<description>Elevance Renewable Sciences says it has entered into a partnership with Tetramer Technologies for the development and commercialization of renewable...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/markets/specialty_chemicals/personal_care/15019.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Dow Corning, Elevance Ink Development Deal</title>
<description>Dow Corning and Elevance Renewable Sciences (Lisle, IL) have signed joint development and marketing agreements to create a line of naturally derived ingredients for personal care applications...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/markets/specialty_chemicals/personal_care/14203.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Church &amp;amp; Dwight Finalizes Purchase of Del Pharmaceuticals</title>
<description>Church &amp;amp; Dwight (C&amp;amp;D; Princeton, NJ) says it has completed its previously announced acquisition of over-the-counter drug producer Del Pharmaceuticals (Uniondale, NY) from Coty (New York)...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/markets/specialty_chemicals/personal_care/12863.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 7 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>BASF Hikes DMAPA Capacity at Geismar and Ludwigshafen</title>
<description>BASF says it will add a combined 10,000 m.t./year of dimethylaminopropylamine (DMAPA) capacity at Geismar, LA and Ludwigshafen by end 2008, to meet increased demand. The project will raise...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/markets/specialty_chemicals/personal_care/12837.html</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>California Sues Personal Care Manufacturers Regarding 1,4 Dioxane Labeling</title>
<description>California’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against four personal care manufacturers, alleging that the companies have violated Proposition 65 law by not listing the presence of...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/markets/specialty_chemicals/personal_care/12631.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>California Files Suit Against Mislabeled Personal Care Products</title>
<description>California’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against four personal care manufacturers, alleging that the companies have failed to give “clear and reasonable warning” of...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/markets/specialty_chemicals/personal_care/12405.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>M&amp;amp;A Catches the Green Wave</title>
<description>The global personal care industry has long been consolidating but the growing trend of using more natural ingredients is driving many of the recent M&amp;amp;A deals, said suppliers exhibiting at...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/markets/specialty_chemicals/personal_care/12121.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Metabolic Explorer Breaks New Ground with Bio-Route to PDO</title>
<description>Industrial biotech start-up Metabolic Explorer (Clermont-Ferrand, France) this week disclosed that it has successfully produced initial samples of 1,3-propanediol (PDO) generated from the...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/markets/specialty_chemicals/personal_care/11900.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>M&amp;amp;A in Personal Care Industry Tinged Green</title>
<description>The global personal care industry has long been consolidating but the growing trend of using more natural ingredients is driving many of the recent M&amp;amp;A deals, say suppliers exhibiting at the New York chapter of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists‚ show, held this week at Edison, NJ....</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/markets/specialty_chemicals/personal_care/11895.html</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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