IFSCC News

For the first time, the presentation by IFSCC Featured Speaker at the New York State Society of Cosmetic Chemistry (NYSCC) Suppliers Day, Dr Kazutami Sakamoto, will be available to all our Members. Cl ...

Here's a brief video (4.5 minutes long) from The Society of Cosmetic Chemists of Japan welcoming you to attend the IFSCC 2020 Virtual Yokohama Congress. The speaker is Dr. Fuji Kanda, a long-time IFSC ...

We have a fantastic webinar for you on Wednesday 5 August. Sign up to hear 3 IFSCC Praesidium members – Prof Vania Leite, Katsunori Yoshida and Dr Frédéric Leroy – talk about how they came to ...

When coronavirus first appeared, the IFSCC was immediately concerned for the health and well-being of friends and colleagues in China and offered to send surgical masks to our Benefactors there. At th ...

Early bird registration has now opened for the virtual 31st IFSCC Congress 2020. The Congress was to have been held in held in Yokohama, Japan from 20-23 October but due to the global COVID-19 pandemi ...

Our free webinar series featuring experts from around the globe continues on Wednesday 8 July with an Introduction to Cosmetic Formulation from Perry Romanowski. Keep checking HERE for new events. ...

Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the the 31st IFSCC Congress 2020, due to be held in Yokohama, Japan from 20-23 October, will now be a virtual rather than an in-person event. The exhibition and so ...

Our free webinar series featuring experts from around the globe continues on Wednesday 24 June with Edith Filaire keeping you up to date with The Exoposome's Impact on Hair, Skin and the Aging Process ...

Our free webinar series featuring experts from around the globe continues on Wednesday 10 June with John Staton keeping you up to date with ISO Sunscreen Standards. Keep checking HERE for new events. ...

Free webinars will be offered to our 16,000+ individual members beginning 27 April 2020. Click on the Education tab for details. https://ifscc.org/education/ifscc-webinars   ...

“At this time, when our daily lives have been reduced to a minimum, we stay largely at home, working from there and also taking time to study publications that might fit our businesses or interests, ...

Booking is now open for accommodation and tours for the  2020 Congress, which takes place from 20-23 October in Yokohama, Japan. Whether it's a trip to Tokyo, shopping in Ginza or amazing views of M ...

The winner of the IFSCC 2016 Congress’ Applied Research Award Winner, Rainer Voegeli, donated the full amount of his award (CHF 7500) for travel grants for students or young scientists (35 years old ...

Dr Emer Duffy of Dublin City University (Ireland) spoke at the Royal Belgian Society for Cosmetic Chemists’(KBVCS/SRBCC) October Educational Seminar as part of the IFSCC International Speaker Progr ...

Next year’s IFSCC Congress will take place in Yokohama, Japan from 20-23 October 2020. The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 2020 Congress in Yokohama, Japan is 10 January. You’ll be notif ...

The 26th IFSCC Conference will take place in Mexico in Cancun from 25-27 October 2021. https://ifscc2021.org ...

The new IFSCC Praesidium for the year 2019-20 was appointed at a Council meeting during the 2019 25th IFSCC Conference in Milan. Emanuele Piras (Italy) is this year's President. Please welcome the ...

Congratulations to all our 2019 IFSCC Conference Award winners, presented at the 25th IFSCC Conference in Milan. 2019 IFSCC CONFERENCE POSTER AWARD Best Poster Awarded to Marisa Meloni & Fran ...

Every year the New Zealand Society of Cosmetic Chemists (NZSCC) holds a conference to educate, inform and provide a platform to network. This conference brings together suppliers, academics (Univers ...

Congratulations to Fandresena Arilala Sendrasoa, winner of our 2019 Rainer Voegeli Travel Grant. Fandresena works at the Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Joseph Raseta Befelatanana in Ma ...

The IFSCC sponsored Ecaterina Merica Cosmetic Education Programme (EMCEP) visited Portugal in May this year. Prof Dr Emeritus Vera Rogiers of Vrije Universiteit Brussel spoke to the Sociedade Portugue ...

All IFSCC Silver and Gold Benefactors receive a ‘Benefactor Subsidy’ of CHF 1,000 (for Silver) and CHF 2,000 (for Gold) to apply towards educational events. IFSCC Public Relations Chair Simon Chan ...

Peru’s Association of Cosmetic Chemists (APQC) won the 2017 Lester Conrad Educational Prize so has had an exciting couple of years. As part of this, from 5-6 July 2019, Dr Calomarde featured at ...

The Bulgarian Association of Cosmetologists has won the 2019 Lester Conrad Educational Prize and will be attending the IFSCC Milan Conference to accept their prize. They will be delivering two high-qu ...

We are delighted to announce Yan Liu of China’s Shanghai Pechoin Daily Chemical Company Ltd as the our 2019 Maison G de Navarre Young Scientist Prize winner. His award is a fully paid trip to the 20 ...

An IFSCC Zone 2 meeting was held during this year’s Cosmetics Ingredients & Technology Exhibition (CITE) in Japan. This year’s CITE took place in Yokohama from 15-17 May. The event was co-o ...

We had a good IFSCC Zone 3 meeting in Brazil during COLAMIQC last month. Represented were Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, Argentina, USA, Venezuela and Chile. Everybody welcomed the information ...

NYSCC Suppliers’ Day 2019 was held in New York City on 7-8 May. As Suppliers’ Day is an IFSCC Silver Benefactor, Dr Fuji Kanda of the Japanese Society was partially sponsored by the IFSCC to deliv ...

Dr Amir Szitenberg joined the Bulgarian Association of Cosmetologists at its General Assembly and Seminar on 2 May 2019 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria as part of the IFSCC Ecaterina Merica Cosmetic Education ...

The Chilean Society hosted the IFSCC 2019 Spring Praesidium Meeting, selecting the Cabaña del Lago in Puerto Varas as the event venue. A joint seminar was held with the Chilean Society, featuring ...

Longstanding IFSCC supporter Joseph (Joe) Peter Pavlichko, passed away peacefully on 28 March 28 2019 with his beloved wife by his side. Joe was 68. He was born in Jersey City, N.J. on 7 Novemb ...

You can still save around 20% if you register for this year’s IFSCC Conference in Milan (30 September - 2 October) and book any additional event before 20 June. Scientific Programme 39 Podiu ...

We continue to expand links to other sources of cosmetic science information and education for our members and now offer free Access to the Journal of Skin Pharmacology and Physiology thanks to Karge ...

We have agreed a two year advertising programme with Jala. The company’s logo will appear on the next eight editions of the IFSCC Magazine (eight editions) and the 2019 Golden Book. ...

The IFSCC was generously given a large booth at in-cosmetics in Paris so many thanks to Reed Exhibitions. The booth was shared by the local Society, the French Society, the Italian Society (to promote ...

The Ecaterina Cosmetic Education Programme (EMCEP) visited the Indian Society of Cosmetic Chemists (ISCC) from 28-29 November 2018 for two days on ‘Natural and Cosmetics Formulation and Developmen ...

After a decade, the IFSCC’s Ecaterina Merica Cosmetic Education Programme (EMCEP) returned to the Philippines from 4-5 December 2018. This time the Philippine Society for Cosmetic Science Inc (PSCS) ...

We’re inviting applications for the 2019 Rainer Voegeli Travel Grant, open to students or young scientists (< 35 years old) from Least Developed Countries as listed by the United Nations’ Comm ...

The then Peru Society President, Manuel Li, formally accepted the Lester Conrad Educational Prize from Carmina Casas at the IFSCC Congress in Munich. In a moving acceptance speech he said: "It is a ...

Congratulations to Dr Mandeep Dutta Joshi, winner of our 2018 Rainer Voegeli Travel Grant. We are delighted that the IFSCC will be funding Mandeep’s expenses to attend this year’s Congress in ...

Perry Romanowski of the US Society of Cosmetic Chemists and Cosmetics Corner fame spoke in Canberra, Australia recently to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Australian Society of Cosmetic Chemist ...

On Wednesday 9 May 2018 the Israeli Society of Cosmetic Chemists (ISCC) held a joint symposium with the IFSCC, the first ever IFSCC event in Israel. ISCC President Dr Arie (Yoki) Giniger a ...

Over 400 attendees gathered in Guangzhou, China for the 2nd Annual IFSCC Benefactors Day, 12-13 June 2018. After the successful 2017 Benefactors Day, the programme was expanded to two days this year. ...

The IFSCC Ecaterina Merica Cosmetic Education Programme (EMCEP) returned to its spiritual home this year as it visited Romania, home of Prof Ecaterina Merica after whom the programme is named and ...

Join your fellow scientists in Germany this 18-21 September for outstanding science, networking, and Bavarian food and culture. Over 80 podiums will be presented, and nearly 500 posters displayed, sel ...

The IFSCC’s unique database of cosmetic science papers, KOSMET, is undated monthly. Accessed by scientists, academics, patent attorneys, government patent offices, students, and others, KOSMET offer ...

Shown on stage at the IFSCC 2017 Conference in Seoul, South Korea, the 2017-18 IFSCC Praesidium Members are Amy Wyatt (USA), Juergen Lademann (Germany), Carmina Casas (Spain), Tony Gough (UK), Emanuel ...

The organising committees, together with Yanez Agency, are completely immersed in the organisation of the 15th IFSCC World Conference, which will take place from 30 September-2 October 2019 at the MiC ...