Kolmar BNH, an ODM specialist in health functional foods and cosmetics, has successfully developed new whitening materials that can be applied to cosmetics in cooperation with Sungkyunkwan University' s industry-academia cooperation team. Kolmar BNH and Sungkyunkwan University' s research team have discovered a new whitening composition containing 'Beauvericin' as an active ingredient. This research has drawn attention from the industry when published in the October 2018 edition of Scientific Reports, a subsidiary of Nature Publishing Group, an international SCI* scientific journal.
Previous whitening cosmetics mainly use a whitening material called ' Arbutin' . It has been reported that its color can change when exposed to light and high temperature. As such, Kolmar BNH has been investing in Research and Development for a long time in order to invent a differentiated whitening ingredient that can replace arbutin. As a result, they discovered ' Beauvericin' with excellent safety and functionality. It is anticipated that beauvericin be a better whitening material than arbutin and synergistic effects can be also achieved by combining this with arbutin. In addition, Beauvericin helps to make skin tissue dense, and can therefore help with wrinkle improvement and skin elasticity.
The new whitening material will be developed and stabilized for functional cosmetics by Kolmar Korea Co., Ltd., a company specialized in ODM cosmetics. These new materials will help the cosmetics industry to develop differentiated cosmetics, therefore broadening consumer choice.
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