Japan Cosmetics News

 Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services, a leading provider of biopharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing services, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the manufacture of commercial products on its high potency drug substance vial filling line. . Ajinomoto Bio-Pharma Services has six fill and finish lines in San Diego, USA, of which the new line will offer a wide range of fill and finish formats, including prefilled syringes, cartridges and vials. This high-speed process is rated to run up to 22,000 syringes per hour on line, and is capable of batch processing over 200,000 syringes, meeting FDA and EMEA commercial compliance designed. Bert Barbosa, president and COO of the company, said: “The FDA approval of our highly active active pharmaceutical ingredient (HPAPI) filling line is an exciting milestone for us, due to the tremendous effort, dedication, care and support of our entire organization as the Aji Bio-Pharma team. As one of th...

 On April 13, Lion renewed and concluded a forest maintenance agreement with Yamanashi City, the Kyoutou Forestry Cooperative, and OISCA to expand its forest maintenance activities in Yamanashi City, Yamanashi Prefecture. bottom. Through "washing", the company has always developed its business in a deep relationship with water, so it conducts various activities that value water. We are working to reduce the water and wastewater used in factories, develop water-saving products, and conduct river monitoring surveys to reduce the burden on the water environment. In addition, with the aim of preserving the forests that serve as water sources and fostering environmental awareness, employees are conducting training and volunteer forest maintenance activities at the Lion Forest in Yamanashi. The "Lion Forest of Yamanashi" activity has been carried out in the city-owned forest in the Minakuchi district of Yamanashi City since the first phase in 2006. Aiming to further enhan...

 In Satsumasendai City, Kagoshima Prefecture, with the cooperation of Nakadai, a general recycling company, Kao will provide plastic packaging for toiletry products to about 1,000 households in the city for one year from April 2023 to March 2024. Conduct a demonstration experiment to collect containers by putting them on the city's recyclable collection route. A recycling scheme that utilizes municipal resource collection routes has already been established for PET bottles for beverages, but this will be the first attempt at a demonstration experiment with plastic containers for toiletry products. With this new approach, we aim to solve the problems of securing the collection amount and reducing the cost of collection, which have become apparent in the recycling demonstration experiment currently underway, and to establish a sustainable collection scheme. , we will realize a society that recycles plastic resources through horizontal recycling.

 A study was conducted to examine the effects of mesotherapy with glycyrrhizin. The current study compared 108 acne patients in two treatment groups: topical clindamycin gel alone and topical clindamycin gel plus mesotherapy with compound glycyrrhizin. The results confirmed that a combination of moderate to severe glycyrrhizin infusion mesotherapy treated acne more effectively than clindamycin gel. Mesotherapy protected the patient's skin barrier more effectively and improved skin water loss. Compared to treatment with clindamycin gel alone, combination with mesotherapy suppressed the inflammatory response more effectively and reduced skin damage in acne patients.

 The new peony cultivar “Yumesaika” bred at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Innovation, Health and Nutrition is known to have a high content of the active ingredient (paeoniflorin). All will be removed. Therefore, although it is known that peony flowers can be used as a raw material for cosmetics, this cultivar has not been used as a raw material for cosmetics. Therefore, Albion compared the new peony cultivar "Yumesaika" with other peony cultivars in order to evaluate its usefulness as a cosmetic ingredient. Three cultivars of peony, including the new peony cultivar 'Musaika', were extracted in the same way, and then evaluated for their antioxidant activity and hyaluronan synthase gene expression. As a result, it became clear that 'Yumeisaika' showed the highest efficacy in all cases, and it was decided to use 'Yumeisaika' as a raw material for cosmetics. The company's research department prepared cosmetic raw materials from the flowers of "Y...

 Menard Cosmetics Japan has discovered that the extract extracted from the akebi fruit has the effect of increasing beige adipocytes, which have the property of consuming fat as heat. By making it easier to consume body fat, it can be expected to lead to the creation of a body that is difficult to gain weight. In recent years, it has become clear that there are "beige fat cells" that consume fat as heat in the subcutaneous tissue. may be reduced.

 POLA CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES has succeeded in developing a technology that improves the UV protection effect of sunscreen products while ensuring comfort during use. This technology was realized by making good use of components obtained by decomposing air pollutants in the air. The film of sunscreen products applied to the skin rubs off when it comes into contact with clothes or is washed off by sweat, making it impossible to obtain the expected effects. It is In the research so far, the method of hardening the membrane has mainly been used, but with this method, it was difficult to achieve both comfort and comfort because the hardness of the membrane leads to a squeaky feeling. Therefore, this time, we aimed to establish a new technology that can achieve both "comfort of the film" and "UV protection function". We focused on the "thickness of the film," applying the law of light, which states that if the thickness doubles, the light attenuation rate will incr...

  Kao has developed a fermentation production technology that uses microorganisms to produce the aromatic compounds gallic acid and 4-amino-3-hydroxybenzoic acid from corn and sugarcane-derived glucose. This technology enables the production of compounds (chemical raw materials) that are the basis of products from biomass, and is believed to contribute to the stable supply of earth-friendly products in the future. The results of this study were presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry (March 14-17, 2023, Hiroshima Prefecture). Currently, many chemical raw materials are manufactured by chemical synthesis from petroleum or extraction from plants, but fermentation production is attracting attention as a new manufacturing process. Fermentation production, which utilizes the properties of microorganisms to produce substances in the body to create specific ingredients, generally emits less CO2 than conventional manufacturin...

 Matsumoto Trading proposes PASSIOLINE (Arysta Health and Nutrition Science), an oil extracted from passion fruit seeds produced in Peru, which is discarded during the juice manufacturing process. It promotes the proliferation and movement of cells necessary for skin repair, and reconstructs the entire skin from the epidermis, basement membrane, and dermis. This product has won the Gold Award at the in-cosmetics Innovation Zone Best Active Ingredient Award in the past. 　In addition to upcycling what was previously discarded, the unconventional extraction method was highly evaluated. The unsaponifiable substances contained in the oil are concentrated using a unique molecular distillation method. Not only the PASSIOLINE oil, but also the fruit extract "ORMESIA" (Arista Health and Nutrition Science) is made from this Peruvian passion fruit. “While there are many raw materials that work on a part of the skin, tests have shown that it has a healing effect on wounds by extracting i...

 Ichimaru Pharcos, an R&D manufacturer of functional raw materials, develops new raw materials mainly from natural plants. Supports added value. In recent years, in the field of whitening and sun care, we have been promoting multifaceted research and development focusing on "brightness of the skin". , plans to introduce a new raw material that focuses on the transparency of the skin. Here, we would like to introduce three raw materials for brightening, "Mandarin Clear <Chinpi Extract>", anti-glycation material "Absolage <Plant Seed Extract>", and soft peeling material "FM Extract LA-B", for which inquiries have been increasing in recent years. “Mandarin Clear” prepares the surface by giving firmness to each corneocyte, increases the amount of internally reflected light (light recognized as the color of the skin) from deep within the skin, and gives the skin a sense of depth and transparency. . If the surface of the keratinocytes i...