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BASF Care Chemicals active ingredients not only deliver powerful results for skin and hair, but they also positively impact communities around the world. Read on to learn more about the communities in Morocco and Vietnam who partner with BASF to produce the highest quality plant materials for BASF active ingredients in a safe, sustainable, and fair way.

How can the beauty and personal care industry contribute to water conservation? Enable consumers to use less water by directly reducing the water content of formulations and providing fun, effective solutions to reduce the need to shampoo hair every day!

In 2019, BASF, The Estée Lauder Companies and the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) partnered with the civil society organization Solidaridad to promote sustainable palm oil and palm derivatives production in the district of Waykanan, Lampung, Indonesia.

Simply Zinc STICK formulas: light weight, non-greasy, and smooth as silk for natural SPF in convenient stick format!

Adaptogens crossed over from health and wellness circles to the realm of personal care. Their claim to fame: they help the body resist stress-induced damage and restore its regular functions.

It’s not everyday that BASF Care Creations features products where the key ingredient is good enough to eat, so we wanted to take this opportunity to make this concept a bit more experiential; a fun and interesting way to connect with ingredients that have been used over thousands of years in the traditional food and medicine of a number of cultures around the world.

Personal care formulators now have fermentation-based skincare solutions offering biotech-derived skin firmness and elasticity

Scientists from BASF Care Creations are certain they can do more. That’s why they came up with Mimiskin, a natural polymer alternative that mimics the skin’s lipid particles to form a protective film. As we know, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.