BASF's Net Zero activities are driven by the company's goals and strategies to achieve net zero emissions. These efforts are based on three key pillars – circular economy, renewable energy and CO2 reduction.
This session will provide information on the enormous potential of new projects and initiatives for achieving low carbon solutions or even carbon neutrality, including concrete examples from the most relevant Care Chemicals value chains. Our commitment to sustainability and the transition to a low-carbon economy is driving our current and future activities in the area of emissions reduction and innovative solutions. We look forward to taking advantage opportunities together with our customers.

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The urgency of stepping away from fossil carbon to meet ambitious 2050 net zero targets is undeniable. How can we accelerate the transition towards renewable feedstock? Certainly, collaboration between BASF and our customers is key to achieving this goal. In this session we will speak about sustainable innovation around renewable feedstocks, biomethane sourcing and key initiatives like Biomass Balance. We look forward to sharing ideas and strategies for a sustainable future. We need to act now, and we need to do it together.

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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is becoming increasingly important also for the personal care industry. In addition to levers to reduce the product carbon footprint of personal care ingredients, we offer concepts to reduce CO2 emissions along the value chain. This includes transport related CO2 emissions, as well as formulation concepts to save greenhouse gas emissions, which occur at our customers’ sites and during the use phase of personal care products.

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Create very mild personal care products that qualify for COSMOS certification, with BASF’s SFA product family.

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The beauty industry continues to strive toward a more sustainable future, driven by consumers, regulators, non-governmental organizations, corporate commitments, and shareholders. The recording of this interactive session with industry experts gives you an insight how the future could look like.

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Replacing traditional ingredients whose performance consumers have come to love but whose sustainability profiles are less desirable is a significant challenge for today’s formulators. Digital services can help formulators accelerate their more sustainable product developments from lab bench to market. In this session, we show you how these can be used in your formulation development, using recent examples from the lab.

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In 2022 BASF purchased 1.2 million metric tons of renewable raw materials. By shifting from fossil- to bio-based starting materials, positive effects like reducing greenhouse gas emissions can be achieved. As part of our commitment to sustainability along the entire value chain, we are working with trusted partners to improve the sustainability in our supply chain.

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D’lite – benefits of our D’Lite System – focusing on the specific needs of formulators.

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D’lite – benefits of our D’Lite System – focusing on the specific needs of formulators.

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Master High Performance Sustainable Surfactant Solutions
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Palm and palm kernel oil remain two of the most important raw materials for personal care and many other industries. Much has already been achieved on the road to sustainable palm, but global deforestation continues at high levels. The upcoming EU regulation on deforestation-free supply chains aims to curb deforestation and forest degradation caused by EU consumption and production.

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If we want to preserve a world that is still worth living in tomorrow, we must be mindful of its resources. That is why the personal care industry is striving for circularity. Upcycling and the reuse of by-products are important drivers. At BASF, we use these technologies to improve the resource efficiency of our botanical supply chains.

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On the way to sustainable beauty, biopolymers play an important role. The search for natural and renewable alternatives without compromising product performance presents R&D experts with a challenging task. With the introduction of our new Verdessence™ biopolymer product line, we have already made significant progress.

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Climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges of our times, and we recognize the responsibility we have to address it head-on. At BASF, we are on a mission – with strong partners at our side – to find solutions for reducing emissions along the value chain and to increase transparency of our own environmental impact.

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With a special focus on botanical sourcing for its bioactives portfolio, BASF has initiated a comprehensive sustainability program. It is based on three pillars: innovating products that protect natural resources, respecting and empowering people along the botanicals value chain, and reducing the climate impact and operational footprint.

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Enamel is the outermost shell of our teeth and helps protect our smiles from daily acid challenges from consumption of acidic food and beverages. Through years of research, we have discovered Enameguard™, a naturally derived protein peptide that binds to enamel surface and further boosts the natural remineralization process to help repair the softening of enamel caused by an acidic diet. 

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Very mild, natural and innovative anionic surfactants for rinse-off products

Check out the products: Texapon® SFA UP Powder and Plantapon® SFA

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Pragati – the world’s first sustainable castor bean program Castor beans are a popular raw material for cosmetics. 80% of the world’s supply of castor seed is produced annually in India, providing steady incomes for smallholders and family farms.

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Antioxidants and light stabilizers are ingredients added to formulations at rather small concentrations but they play an important role to ensure the stability of cosmetics. BASF offers a range of antioxidants and light stabilizers under the Tinogard® and Cibafast® brands.

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Our vegetable-based Protein Condensate is a bio-based surfactant with excellent mildness, and which perfectly meets conscious consumers expectations.

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BASF launches its new natural polymer line. This star lineup of biopolymers stands for biodegradable and biobased performance solutions, designed to help you create even the most demanding cosmetic applications

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People the world over are longing to reconnect with each other, nature and the senses. Social distancing has also created a deeper personal need for what’s important. BASF Personal Care has an array of solutions that speak directly to these deeply human needs, and enable you to develop products that serve these growing global trends.

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Smart Digi service through scientific models to replace silicones, mineral oils and multiple benchmarks.

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The growing trend for dermocosmetics opens exciting potentials for growth, especially in the skin care segment. We describe the characteristics of this market, and propose efficient active ingredients that help meet consumer expectations suffering from a specific skin condition. Newly available is Castaline®, a natural solution targeting atopic prone skin.

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The new ingredient offers an effective alternative to cosmetic-grade petrolatum based on renewable ingredients, rather than petroleum. Answering rapidly growing consumer demand for sustainable ingredients, Cetiol SoftFeel provides personal care brands with an eco-friendly alternative to traditional solutions.

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Consumers want to feel connected to their environment. They want to protect the planet and for that every little step they can do in their daily life is important: from a more conscious lifestyle to the specific and unique choice of products coming from ethical companies. Let’s have a deeper look on this mega trend, and discover together how to create the future of beauty in a more ethical way.

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Beauty tech and the consumer wish for personalized beauty offerings are shaping the future of cosmetics. We joined forces with best-of-class start-ups and their front runner technologies in beauty tech to bundle interdisciplinary know-how, enabling smart and effective B2B offerings to meet this trend. Join our webinar to learn more about the novel ecosystem we created.

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Roundtable discussion on the business situation in the personal care market with Agustin Sanchez Valdivia (Vice President Business Management Standard Surfactants EMEA) and Jason McAlpine (Vice President Personal Care EMEA).

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Formulators can easily be lost in information. EJ is combining all this tools and helps you to find the right information for Emollients.

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Probiotics or prebiotics to improve the health and beauty of our skin.

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EcoSun Pass by @BASF evaluates the environmental impact of UVfilters.

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Learn more about our multifunctional moisturizing active ingredients Hydagen® Aquaporin and Hydrasensyl® Glucan. 

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Start your day right with BASF’s Inolixir™, our chaga mushroom extract that boosts tired skin. 

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The new detox ritual to make your hair & scalp healthy Ever since, hair care products have mainly focused on managing dandruffs with anti-fungal ingredients.

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Formulating with ultra-mild, innovative naturally derived anionic surfactant. Meet Texapon® SFA! This very mild, innovative anionic surfactant is based on sustainable, RSPO-certified renewable resources.

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"With Neutrol® MGDA, BASF Personal Care creates a highly stable, eco-friendly complexing agent (also called: chelating agent) for personal applications. 

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"With Neutrol® MGDA, BASF Personal Care creates a highly stable, eco-friendly complexing agent (also called: chelating agent) for personal applications. 

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BASF offers its 100 percent plant-based APG line for personal care under the tradename Plantacare®.

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BASF offers its 100 percent plant-based APG line for personal care under the tradename Plantacare®.

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Our experts provided its expertise to develop a highly efficient and safe sunscreen adapted to the needs and sensory preferences of people with albinism. 

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The Digital Lab makes work easier for formulators.

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By formulating diversity in skin care, hair care and sun protection, BASF Personal Care Inclusive Beauty Concept fit your customers’ way of life.

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BASF will introduce D’lite, a digital solution that enables customers to speed up their product development and time-to-market. 

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Our “Intimate Hygiene & Care” Concept has been designed to inspire cosmetic manufacturers with modern formats and carefully selected ingredients as a response to this rising market trend and need. 

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BASF Personal Care: Race is on – EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability.

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Dr. Myriam Sohn (BASF) presents how to create efficient and photostable sunscreens without cinnamates and octocrylene, two filters under debate, using lipophilic triazine-based filters as an effective alternative. 

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Our Journey Towards Sustainable Oil Palm Products Check out our video

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Our Journey Towards Sustainable Oil Palm Products Check out our video

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A comforting hug for your sensitive skin. Inspired by ancestral Japanese beauty rituals, Sacred Patch™ is based on a molecular patch technology to harness the power of the valuable algal polysaccharide Sacran. Check out our product video

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Dr. Myriam Sohn (BASF) presents how to create efficient and photostable sunscreens without cinnamates and octocrylene, two filters under debate, using lipophilic triazine-based filters as an effective alternative. Check out our Event Recordings

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BASF Personal Care: Race is on – EU Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability Check out our Event Recordings

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