Our best wishes for 2023 might come a bit late but it kind of feels like the new year truly starts with the lunar new year so here we go: the entire team at Avenir wishes you a fruitful year with a good balance of action & rest, decision making & self reflection and work & play! Happy 2023!
Where do we go from here?
You can count on us to help you with any creative ideas you may have related to the beauty industry.
We're turning 10 this year! This may sound young but we have decades of past experiences in the cosmetic industry: in the lab across all beauty categories as well as consultant, manufacturer and distributor.
Time to reintroduce ourselves and show you how we can help, shall we?
We want to help raise the standards in the Beauty & Science Industries and the Workplace.
We wish to inspire and be part of your successes by offering innovative ingredients to create holistic & transformative beauty products through connection and care for people and the planet.
Sounds good? How do we do that?
We assist you from learning about trends, ingredients, formulations and efficacy and how they apply to your projects all the way to ensuring that you receive your orders on time with the expected quality.
Concept/ Ideation
Concept Presentations from our suppliers as well as our own creations on relevant themes to save you time
Mesmerising Colour Trends from our trusted partners
Trend Reports and Presentations to keep up with consumer demands
Prototypes and Ingredients Toolkits to inspire new applications and give you confidence with tested starting formulations
Innovative Textures and Technologies to awaken your senses and your creativity
R&D support
Our sales team are technically trained with over 100 years of combined experience and can offer technical advice to trouble shoot or suggest solutions for your brief or ideas and provide formulation support.
Preservative Efficacy Testing
In conjunction with our partner Evonik/Dr Straetmans we are pleased to offer advice regarding safe preservation to maintain your products integrity. We also offer preservative efficiency testing for your product development.
Bespoke fragrance development to heighten sensorial experiences and create innovative products
Samples/ Documentation/ Regulatory
We keep a large sample library so you can start your lab trials asap.
We can assist you with general regulatory guidance.
We provide all the documentation for our ingredients from regular COA/ SDS and specifications to clinical data and export related information.
We can also provide regular updates of our Stock On Hand so you can plan better.
Customer service
We are dedicated to creating positive experiences by conveying a genuine concern for your needs and providing quality products, regular updates and on time deliveries.
So yes we sell specialty ingredients!
We offer a complete spectrum of ingredients that are used in most personal care products as well as complementary medicine with 15 international suppliers known and trusted around the world for their quality and reliability, many of whom are leaders in their field of technology, all aligned with our DNA.
Our DNA was built on consciously seeking partners with high levels of innovation and strong sustainability & ethical standards.
10 years ago, we set out to service manufacturers and brands with our expertise in our ingredients and the local & international markets. This is still what we're passionately doing in 2023.
Would you be interested in discussing your projects with the team?
We are well connected with consultants and manufacturers so let's connect and see what happens!
You can contact us at office@aveniringredients.com.au or (02) 9166 2989.
Let's make 2023 a year to remember in a positive way!
This strange concept called time has taken us to the end of the year at the speed of light!
Did you miss our last newsletter of the year?
In terms of new ingredients, our Spanish partner Lipotrue launched 2 new actives at In Cosmetics Asia
Echioseb™ is an ingredient obtained from Echinacea purpurea and the stem cells from Rhodiola rosea coming from the Greenbeat™ technology
The adaptability of these plants allows the skin to normalise sebum content and release, pore size, elasticity and moisturisation by regulating the sebum biosynthetic pathway following the retinoids steps
Echioseb™ customises its efficacy by adapting to the different needs of combination and oily skin.
Timlog™ is a plant-produced human TIMP-2 (Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinases) produced in Wild plants as biofactories technology
Just as trees need sunlight, skin does too, but an excess of it can lead to premature aging which alters the skin's dermochronology
Photoaged skin is characterised by a high content of MMPs which degrade the extracellular matrix and alter collagen density & organization. The guardians of MMPs is TIMPs
Timlog™ repairs dermal solar scars, redefining the past.
Do you have any projects that these actives could help with your claims and efficacy? Contact the team.
Talking about In-Cosmetics, the trend that keeps trending is sustainability.
Green is the new Black and our partners are all on board with this!
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Ceramides are trendy because they bring both beauty and health benefits.
They are already present in virtually all categories of beauty and personal care, gaining prominence as a hero ingredient or added in the formula for a performance boost, improving the perception of the effectiveness of the products.
1: Mintel 2022: Percentage of total launches containing Ceramides in the evaluated period
Ceramides are waxy lipid molecules. Composed of a sphingoid base and a waxy fatty acid that connect by an amide bond. Hence the name CERAMIDE: CERA being the Latin word for wax, because of the waxy part of the molecule, and AMIDE in reference to the amide bond.
Ceramides are lipids present throughout our body, representing 47% of the composition of our body's largest organ, the skin, and 7% of our hair.
On the skin, ceramides are present in the stratum corneum, in the outermost membrane of the skin (epidermis) and is an essential part of the barrier between our body and the environment.
In the hair ceramides compose the cell membrane complex (CMC), an important layer of the strands whose function is to unite the cell membranes of the cuticle and cortex.
When the sphingoid base is applied directly to the skin, it will be used by our body as a material for the natural synthesis of ceramides.
When ceramides are applied to our skin or hair, we have the direct incorporation of the structures in our barrier or hair fiber, performing a faster recovery of these structures.
When we combine the sphingoid bases with ceramides and other ingredients, we will have optimised blends that will bring multiple benefits and high performance in the recovery and maintenance of the structure of the skin and hair.
With three optically active carbon atoms in phytosphingosine, there are theoretically eight different possible structures of the final molecule. In human skin, only one is present – the same produced through Evonik’s biotechnological process.
In a study conducted with Evonik’s biomimetic ceramides and others without this characteristic, it was observed that Evonik ceramides can recover the natural barrier of the skin, while other types of ceramides do not present efficient incorporation and may even further damage the already damaged barrier.
If the skin loses ceramide, the protective barrier becomes more fragile and permeable, allowing the water present in the skin to be lost to the environment, leaving the skin less hydrated and prone to environmental harm.
This loss of ceramides can also accelerate aging.
Because of this, today we have many cases of dull, sensitive and dry skin, which can even evolve into cases of psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, acne among other clinical skin conditions.
For hair, this loss leads to more fragile strands, which break more easily and are less resistant to untangling. Hair can also get more porous and rougher.
In addition, our scalp is also part of our skin, which with the loss of ceramides can present irritation, flaking and itching.
The good news is we can restore the ceramides that we lose at any age.
We can restore them by applying products with ceramides on the skin, making the replacement "from the outside in", recomposing the skin barrier structure, repairing its protective function.
We can also restore ceramides from "inside out" by helping our skin in its production process. We can provide “building blocks” to produce ceramides (with the use of precursors) or use ceramides that signal to the skin that it needs to produce more ceramides, further stimulating its natural production.
As the global, undisputed market leader in the skin-identical ceramide business, Evonik’s objective is to bring innovation and share new findings within the ceramide research field on a regular basis.
As opposed to chemical synthesis, Evonik has developed a patented biotechnological green production process based on the fermentation of a non-conventional yeast extracted from tonka beans.
The ceramide biosynthesis pathway is maintained from yeast to human. Therefore, Evonik ceramides have the same stereochemical conformation as the ceramides in our skin, i.e. they are truly skin-identical.
Time and environment never stop, the secret to keeping hair and skin always beautiful is replenishing the ceramides we lose daily and consumers need to know that!
This was a very brief summary of the power of ceramides. To find out more about Evonik’s solutions, see performance tests, formulation suggestions or ask technical questions, please reach out to Avenir Ingredients, Evonik exclusive distributor in Australia.
You can contact our General Manager Paul Kent at pkent@aveniringredients.com.au or (02) 9166 2989.
