Innovation is at the core of the today’s cosmetic, up to the point when one wonders what the latter would be without the former … Active ingredients, the basis for formulae and sales points, obviously are at the forefront of this theme. With as many constraints as challenges to fight. This was the topic of the lecture given by Karl Lintner during the 25th Breakfast Meeting - Cosmetics, organized by Sylvain-Romain Cotte (SRC Consulting).
Quite often, when speaking of innovation in cosmetics, the notion of “constraint", or more rightly, of “constraints” (with a very harsh and even discouraging plural) is at the top of the concerns list. Karl Lintner has followed the path, even if this has come as challenges for him to overcome, be they technical, psychological or almost philosophical …
Karl Lintner, by far is not a never-heard-about man in the cosmetic world. Currently the CEO of Kalidées, a lecturer in University, a teacher in the International Institute of Perfume, Cosmetic and Food Fragrances (ISIPCA), this chemist and biochemist by training has worked on both sides of the Rhine River: ten years in the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in Saclay, near Paris; six years in Henkel, in Germany, before coming back to France, first as the Technical Director in Sederma to develop new products and active ingredients, then, as its CEO …
Which kind of active ingredients and which innovation?
The speaker of this 25th Breakfast Meeting - Cosmetics, organized by Sylvain-Romain Cotte ( SRC Consulting ) for professionals, began working out his subject with two definitions.
• An active ingredient
“The notion of ‘active’ is present only in the sales …
