INGREDIENT & FORMULATION INNOVATION
Rethink how you formulate with Hogo by Symrise Creating award-winning solutions is part of Symrise’s DNA. The latest innovative offering from the company is a cosmetic product protection online platform, Hogo by Symrise, which promises to simplify formulation work for manufacturers and brand owners. In Japanese, hogo means protection.
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hether for face or body care, a lotion or shampoo, Hogo by Symrise includes a comprehensive database that allows formulators worldwide to obtain a list of suitable ingredients for preserving cosmetic products. The platform offers access to potential combinations as well as information about dosage guidelines. Another benefit is that it provides users with efficacy data. Users can easily search for ingredients, efficacy data, a wide range of potential combinations and dosage guidelines, regardless of where they are located. The platform utilises filters to find solutions that fulfil global regulatory requirements. This helps formulators to develop the best possible product protection system for modern cosmetics. “Ingredients that protect cosmetics from microbial growth are essential for consumers, making them extremely important to our customers,” says Yohanna Sander, director, micro
Did you know? Symrise’s cosmetic ingredients portfolio comprises advanced actives, modern product preservation solutions, pioneering protection against sun and environmental aggressors, innovative hair care ingredients, original botanical extracts, highperformance functionals and specialised colour solutions.
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"We see Hogo by Symrise as a helpful assistant for our customers. It offers valuable benefits and allows them to work faster and more efficiently" protection business unit at Symrise cosmetic ingredients division. “Unique in its structure, the new platform offers our partners an opportunity to obtain a list of suitable ingredients for modern product protection. We go one step further with Hogo by Symrise as it offers the suitable dose of the ingredients and efficacy data, which is real added value for our customers.” Hogo by Symrise users are given a password that allows them to login to the platform. Formulators collect the initial information online; thereafter they can consult with their Symrise contact to discuss the results. They can also contact Symrise directly via the platform to ask the sales team questions. “We see Hogo by Symrise as a helpful assistant for our customers. It offers valuable benefits and allows them to work faster and more efficiently,” Sander adds.
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The company developed Hogo by Symrise based on its extensive expertise in modern product protection. Symrise also has an accurate understanding of its customers and their needs. With this knowledge and the results of in-depth analysis of the platforms currently available, Symrise has begun to compile its own data in the new platform.
AWARD-WINNING TECHNOLOGIES As a global leader in the cosmetics industry, over the years Symrise has received many awards for its innovation and expertise. Despite the challenges brought about by COVID-19, 2020 has been a significant year for the company in terms of awards. Symrise took top honour for SymEffect Sun in the in-cosmetics Global Innovation Zone Best Ingredient Awards in the Functional Ingredients category. SymEffect Sun stood out for its use of natural resources, as well as its efficiency in boosting UV protection and formulation stability. The company also received a PCHi Fountain Award this year. These awards recognise and motivate the cosmetics industry for efforts toward research advancement and technological development. All entries are judged independently against a set of standardised criteria, which includes product ingenuity, scientific and technological innovation and market application prospects.
