Amcol Health & Beauty Solutions, Inc.HEADQUARTERS: Amcol Health & Beauty Solutions, Inc. 1500 W. Shure Drive, Arlington Heights, IL 60004, USA Toll free Number: 866.657.0743 Tel: 847.394.8730 * Fax: 847.506.6199 Website: www.healthbeautysolutions.com General Email address: HBS@amcol.com KEY PERSONNEL: Kevin Cureton; Managing Director Ro Oteri; Director, Sales Ralph Spindler, Technical Director COMPANY DESCRIPTION: AMCOL Health & Beauty Solutions, Inc. (HBS HBS Harvard Business School HBs Hepatitis B Surface HBS Heinrich Boell Stiftung (German Political Foundation) HBS Household Budget Survey HBS Hogere Burgerschool HBS Hawaii Biological Survey (Bishop Museum) ) is a subsidiary of Amcol International Corporation Amcol International Corp. is a specialty minerals and chemicals manufacturer. Its main operations focus on the mining, refinment, and applications for Bentonite Clay. The corporation is split up into several wholly owned subsidiaries. , a $300 MM specialty materials producer and marketer. HBS was incorporated in 2001 to apply Amcol's 80 years of polymer and mineral technology expertise to the Personal Care, Cosmetics, Pharmaceutical, and Nutraceutical markets. Through its leading technology platforms -- Delivery Systems and Functional Rheology Products -- HBS is able to provide solutions that improve both the functional performance and aesthetic characteristics of its customers products. HBS customers achieve exceptional growth and profitability using these technologies in expanding their markets and increasing customer satisfaction, while lowering their total cost of creating new products. TECHNOLOGIES, PATENTS, NEW PRODUCTS: Poly-Pore[R] Delivery Systems: Highly adsorptive polymeric microspheres enable substantially improved stability of actives like retinol retinol: see Vitamin A under vitamin. and ascorbic acid, while controlling the rate of release. Excellent sebum sebum: see sebaceous gland. adsorption and shine control. Polargel[R] UV: Multifunctional nanoclay/titanium dioxide dispersions offer exceptional boost of SPF (1) (Stateful Packet Firewall) See stateful inspection. (2) (Sender Policy Framework) An e-mail authentication system that verifies that the message came from an authorized mail server. performance of sunscreen actives in all types of personal care products. Alphasomes[TM]: New solid core liposomes Liposomes Aqueous compartments enclosed by lipid bilayer membranes; liposomes are also known as lipid vesicles. Phospholipid molecules consist of an elongated nonpolar (hydrophobic) structure with a polar (hydrophilic) structure at one end. offer all natural way to protect and control the rate of release of lipophillic actives. Magnabrite[R]: Magnesium Aluminum Silicates and other purified clays. MAJOR MARKETS: * Skin care, sun care, color cosmetics, and OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). topical treatments MAJOR PRODUCTS: * Poly-Pore[R] E200 hydrophillic and lipophillic adsorbent adsorbent /ad·sor·bent/ (ad-sor´bent) 1. pertaining to or characterized by adsorption. 2. a substance that attracts other materials or particles to its surface by adsorption. * poly-Pore[R] L200 lipophillic adsorbent * Poly-Pore[R] 120RE -- Retinol delivery system * Poly-Pore[R] 150 HQ -- Hydroquinone hydroquinone /hy·dro·quin·one/ (hi?dro-kwi-non´) the reduced form of quinone, used topically as a skin depigmenting agent. hy·dro·qui·none n. delivery system * Poly-Pore[R] 175 H20 -- Purified Water "Cooling Effect" delivery systems * Polargel[R] UV -- Nanoclay/TiO2 water-based dispersion * Alphasome[TM] Delivery Systems * Magnabrite[R] MAS products SPECIALIZED SERVICES: With 10 fulltime chemists/engineers, including four PhDs, HBS is capable of providing a full range of technical support. Our programs include custom product development through the Custom Solutions Program; analysis and invitro evaluation of finished product performance and stability, and formulation development. GLOBAL CAPABILITIES: HBS has a world-wide network of marketing partners. Please contact us at our headquarters for more information. www.healthbeautysolutions.com |
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