Our Carrot Moisturizing Body Lotion is a Top 10 Hit at Happi We're extremely proud to announce that one of Coast Southwest's leading personal care formulations has been listed on Happi's Formulary Top 10 list for 2017. To be honest, this is an accomplishment that leaves us humbled, because it's based on proving your [...]
Coming to Happi's Anti-Aging Conference? Look for Coast Southwest! We're glad to say we'll be on hand as an exhibitor at Happi’s Anti-Aging Conference & Tabletop Exhibition, taking place November 29–30, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick, NJ. If you're planning to be one of the many anti-aging skincare product professionals in attendance, we look forward [...]
Lisa Jones of Coast Southwest Will Be Speaking at SWSCC Lisa Jones, our Regional Vice President, General Manager in the great state of Texas, will be the guest speaker at the November Chapter Meeting of the Southwest Society of Cosmetic Chemists (SWSCC). Her topic, which she'll undoubtedly deliver upon engagingly and informatively? [...]
Saluting Private Sector Support for STEM Sooner than you know, it'll be time for another You Be The Chemist!® program, aimed at instilling K-8 students with understanding and appreciation of the sciences. It's a great program that we're happy to be a supported of in California, but we also have to salute anyone supporting [...]
Rihanna’s New Beauty Line Forecasts the Future Among the many trends powering the future of the global beauty and personal care products marketplace, there's one that's symbolized by the recent news that Rihanna (or "Riri," as we semi-coolish types think of her) was launching a new makeup line, Fenty Beauty. The line, only available at [...]
Why We've Joined CICC We're proud and pleased to have become a member of the Chemical Industry Council of California. To understand exactly why we've taken that step, you only have to read over CICC's objectives: Alert member companies regarding public attitudes and governmental intent in matters affecting the industry; Provide a forum for member discussion [...]
How Hurricane Harvey Showcased Chemical Industry Safety We've been following developments around Hurricane Harvey closely, since we've got our own team in Texas. Thankfully, Arlington was far north of Harvey's worst effects. But is anyone surprised that – as soon as an incident happened at a flooded Houston-area chemical plant in the wake of [...]
Ingredients of Controversy: The Parabens Panic As more manufacturers and formulators develop an expanding range of cosmetic and personal care products to answer the call they're getting from consumers worldwide, regulators around the world are beginning to exert their muscle when it comes to what they deem acceptable or unacceptable ingredients. That's all well [...]
'Allure' Gets It Wrong About Anti-Aging As GCI put it in their coverage of how Allure had banned a certain term from ever being used again in the magazine's pages, "Anti-aging Is So 2016." Allure's reasoning? The words "anti-aging" are "subtly reinforcing the message that aging is a condition we need to battle [...]
Is There Really Now An "Ultimate" Sunscreen? Hot on the heels of a recent announcement about how DNA may be the secret to a more effective, longer-lasting sunscreen comes word out of the University of California San Diego about yet another innovation that may produce an "ultimate" natural defense against UV. How does this [...]