From laboratory to the chemist’s – the 2nd Kosmotrend Scientific Conference at the Silesian University of Technology
How to flip tofu waste right into a dietary serum? Does nature encourage the chemistry of cosmetics? How to assess their effectiveness and what about it? These are some of the points mentioned throughout the 2nd National Scientific Conference Kosmotrend, which was organized by scientists of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Silesian University of Technology in cooperation with the cosmetics business. The occasion happened on March the 5th at the University’s Education and Congress Centre.
The convention is a platform for the trade of information between the world of science and leaders of the cosmetics business. The fashionable beauty business relies on superior chemical engineering and progressive applied sciences for buying energetic components. The occasion introduced collectively representatives of enterprise, universities, and analysis institutes, in addition to organizations coping with authorized laws.
– Today Poland is the fifth largest beauty market in Europe, so it’s protected to say that we’re a beauty powerhouse. This success is due, amongst others, to a powerful scientific background and a excessive stage of innovation, i.e. efficient cooperation between science and business, – mentioned Dr Anna Oborska, director of the Polish Association of Cosmetic and Detergent Industry, which actively participates in the creation of new legislative provisions. – The business is more and more utilizing the achievements of science, implementing them into new merchandise and applied sciences. In flip, the scientific group learns to higher perceive the wants of the market and cooperate extra flexibly with enterprise, each events really want one another.
The “Kosmotrend” Scientific Conference permits to current the results of scientific analysis, find out about the prospects of their sensible functions or set up business contacts. The matters of dialogue panels, speeches and poster session targeted on pure beauty uncooked supplies.
– One of the promising instructions of growth is uncooked supplies from the waste of the meals business. Many energetic components utilized in cosmetics may be obtained from vegetation, together with these which can be a by-product of different processes – emphasised Dr Eng. Daria Frączak, Director of the Institute of Renewable Raw Materials Chemistry of the Łukasiewicz Research Network. – In our institute we performed analysis on waste from grape urgent vegetation, which is usually a useful supply of energetic components with skincare and helpful properties. There are already applied sciences that enable processing even plastics into chemical substances that can be utilized in cosmetics – she added, stressing that the key challenge is the extremely purity of the components obtained.
One of the fascinating traits in acquiring energetic components in cosmetics is upcycling, i.e. acquiring increased high quality uncooked supplies from waste from one other business. Some of the most fascinating examples mentioned throughout the convention are cosmetics created on the foundation of components obtained from whey remaining after the manufacturing of tofu created by the Symbiosis Laboratory working in cooperation with scientists from the Poznań University of Technology.
– It is value emphasizing that from 1 kg of tofu, as a lot as 19 kg of bitter waste comes, strongly burdening the surroundings and actually contributing to the emission of greenhouse gases, which thus far haven’t been managed meaningfully. We have patented a know-how that has allowed us to create full-fledged and efficient beauty merchandise, together with physique serum, shampoo, and hair conditioner, that are already out there on the market and are extremely popular amongst prospects – mentioned Dr Ewa Kilian-Pięta, President and founder of the Symbiosis Laboratory sp. z o.o.
– The concept of this convention is primarily to join representatives of business with scientists, in order to create a community of efficient cooperation – emphasised Prof. Dr Hab. Eng. Wojciech Simka, Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry of the Silesian University of Technology, who organized the convention for the second time. Thanks to such occasions, we’ve got develop into extra recognizable in the beauty surroundings and have established fully new relationships and partnerships. This is vital each for our college, the place new applied sciences are created, and for the complete University – added the Dean.
The Faculty of Chemistry has efficiently cooperated with Melaleuca, amongst others, and in cooperation with which the know-how of acquiring spilantol, an energetic ingredient of plant origin, which is a contest for artificial botox, has already been patented.
– We are more than happy with the cooperation with the Silesian University of Technology, particularly with the Faculty of Chemistry, we’re finalizing one other venture as half of the implementation doctorate, we’ve got already developed recipes of new beauty merchandise, which will likely be examined in cooperation with the Silesian University of Technology and in the future will even be examined by unbiased institutes – enumerated Jarosław Bilik, President of Melaleuca Poland Sp. z o.o., emphasizing the University’s assist in submitting a patent utility.
The “Kosmotrend” convention has additionally been observed and is supported by the business media surroundings.
– Chemists and biotechnologists coping with plant uncooked supplies fairly often encourage massive beauty corporations, and our publications are sometimes a place to begin for popularizing particular components on a big scale. On a every day foundation, I’ve contact primarily with ready-made merchandise, which is why I’m all the extra comfortable to take part in such an occasion – mentioned Katarzyna Wilczyńska, editor-in-chief of Aesthetic Cosmetology. – Our position can be to seek for such ‘gems,’ promising uncooked supplies and progressive options, – she added.
The 2nd Kosmotrend Conference confirmed that the Silesian University of Technology is a crucial assembly place for specialists who create the future of the cosmetics business based mostly on science, sustainable growth, and progressive applied sciences. The subsequent version will happen in two years; the organizers don’t exclude that it’s going to develop its attain on the worldwide area.