BASF Care Creations Reaches Largest NPA-certified Selection May 6, 2021 Contact Author Michele Behrens
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The BASF portfolio for natural cosmetics ranges from raw materials such as surfactants and emollients to additives and active ingredients.
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Following the Natural Product Association’s (NPA) re-certification of 81 of BASF’s ingredients, BASF Care Creations reportedly continues to offer the largest selection of personal care products displaying the NPA seal of approval.
The BASF portfolio for natural cosmetics ranges from raw materials such as surfactants and emollients to additives and active ingredients.
In addition to the NPA natural standard, the company supports customers by providing the necessary data for the COSMOS, Natrue standards and the ISO 16128 norm, as well as offering low-1,4-dioxane ingredients.
Chronicle Staff May 3, 2021Updated: May 3, 2021, 7:20 am
Mugwumpin’s Black Baba struts down a scenic path in Cutting Ball Theater’s “Phantasmagoria.” Photo: Julie Schuchard, Cutting Ball Theater
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Cutting Ball, Mugwumpin and Bay Area Theatre Cypher team up for Lewis Carroll collage
Among the few theatrical upsides of the pandemic is the emergence of thrilling multi-troupe collaborations, as companies who were long on each other’s radar suddenly have more bandwidth to make partnerships happen.
The latest in this glorious list, “Phantasmagoria,” brings together two stalwarts of the experimental and avant-garde, Cutting Ball Theater and Mugwumpin, with a relative newbie, Bay Area Theatre Cypher, which combines theater and hip-hop.
Another powdered caffeine warning letter issued, highlighting FDA’s plight in combing through flood of imports A warning letter sent to a Connecticut wholesaler about the sale of pure powdered caffeine points to the difficulty of keeping problematic products off the market in an environment in which hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo arrives in domestic ports every day.
The letter was sent to a company called Trippo International LLC, a wholesaler based in Newington, CT. Trippo offers a quirky blend of products mostly aimed at CBD vaping and the smoking of hemp. But it also carries some goods that have a potential nutritional use, such as powder lactose and powdered forms of mannitol. Both of these can be used as diluents in formulas meant to be inhaled or snorted.
Another powdered caffeine warning letter issued, highlighting FDA’s plight in combing through flood of imports A warning letter sent to a Connecticut wholesaler about the sale of pure powdered caffeine points the difficulty of keeping problematic products off the market in an environment in which hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo arrives in domestic ports every day.
The letter was sent to a company called Trippo International LLC, a wholesaler based in Newington, CT. Trippo offers a quirky blend of products mostly aimed at CBD vaping and the smoking of hemp. But it also carries some goods that have a potential nutritional use, such as powder lactose and powdered forms of mannitol. Both of these can be used as diluents in formulas meant to be inhaled or snorted.