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Spotlighting Innovation, Ingenuity and Hard Work

Welcome to the Coast Southwest INNOVATION BLOG, where we focus on the inventiveness of the companies and individuals helping our industry grow and prosper, and on the trends affecting us all.

CC Creams: Advanced Ingredients Create Market Demand

May 09, 2014
by Coast Southwest
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As every chemist knows, the difference between a really great product and the rest of the bottles on the shelf starts with the ingredients. And, as every woman knows, any effective product that shortens her beauty regimen is worth a long hard look. That’s the all-in-one appeal of CC c ... (continue reading)

You Be The Chemist® Makes Chemistry Fun for K-8 Students

July 24, 2013
by Coast Southwest
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John M. Rice, Executive Director Chemical Educational Foundation Everyone wants a society that understands science. Yet, according to any number of well-verified studies and reports, the sciences are not being taught adequately. This isn’t meant as a criticism. Our educators face many ... (continue reading)

Preservative Solutions to Meet Formulating Requirements and Market Demands

July 01, 2013
by Coast Southwest
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Preservatives are one of the least glamorous ingredient groups in cosmetic formulas, but are the most critical to making a product function. If a formulator can’t keep a skin cream, shampoo, or eye shadow fresh, nothing else matters. When it comes to personal care ingredients, especia ... (continue reading)

Chelates: Removing metal ions in a controlled way

April 11, 2013
by Coast Southwest
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Chelates are an important component of most personal care and industrial applications. The key function is to act as an oxidizing agent and sequester free metallic ions, which by themselves can cause stability and micro issues within a system. It is common to add chelates to a water p ... (continue reading)

Dissolvine® GL-47-S Improves The Performance Of Personal Care Preservatives

February 28, 2012
by Coast Southwest
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Going green?  Don’t forget your chelate! Derived from corn, Dissolvine® GL-47-S is the natural choice to enhance the performance of those halogen-free, formaldehyde-free, and paraben-free preservative systems available to the chemist who is formulating  “green.” Dissolvine® GL-47-S ha ... (continue reading)

Congratulations in order…

November 11, 2011
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Our sincere congratulations to Donna and Jim Boldt of Deeks & Company of Stone Mountain, GA, for being selected by NACD as 2011 Distributors of the Year. When you're recognized as such by an organization with the pedigree and authenticity of the NACD, that's a high hono ... (continue reading)

Another lesson in safety: the floods in Thailand

November 08, 2011
by Coast Southwest
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The Thai floods should reinforce the need for best practices in safety and security for chemical distributors everywhere! ... (continue reading)

Chemical Distribution growth on the climb in 2010.

October 27, 2011
by Coast Southwest
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NACD members saw a strong 2010, thanks in part to their membership in a forward-thinking Association. ... (continue reading)

Innovation as a jobs engine in the chemical industry.

August 31, 2011
by Coast Southwest
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Innovation begets jobs – just ask anybody in Silicon Valley about that, or any of the numerous communities springing up around the world, where engineers and chemists and other scientific professionals are applying themselves daily to the task of making better products and break ... (continue reading)
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