Personal care products

Personal care products

Also known as toiletries, this industry refers to the manufacturing of consumer products which are used for beautification or personal hygiene.

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concrete

Personal care products; Perfume

The mixture of volatile oil, waxes and color that is obtained after an aromatic raw material such as flower petals are extracted with a highly volatile solvent e.g. Hexane. The ...

coumarin

Personal care products; Perfume

A compound that smells like vanilla. Usually derived from the Tonka bean, but also found in lavender, sweet grass and other plants. Coumarin is banned as a food additive in the ...

cloying

Personal care products; Perfume

An odor that is excessively sickly sweet and clinging, it can be an effect where a perfumes note does not change, as in a linear perfume that seems to last too long and becomes ...

cologne

Personal care products; Perfume

A city in Germany where the precursor of modern perfumes was first produced - Eau De Cologne (Kolnisch Wasser) almost 300 years ago. It’s a blend of primarily Citrus Oils. Popular ...

compound

Personal care products; Perfume

The name used in the industry for the concentrated perfume or flavor mixture before it is diluted or used in products.

chypre

Personal care products; Perfume

French for "Cyprus" and first used by François Coty to describe the aromas he found on the island of Cyprus. He created a woodsy, mossy, citrus perfume named Chypre; the word is ...