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Venue: Kama Bistro

Address: 9 South La Grange Road, La Grange, IL 60525

Guest Speaker:  Frank Wagner speaks about how personal Care brands face pressures from their consumers, competitors, and the industry in the demand for products with ever-shrinking INCI’s, greener solutions, and sustainable efforts.

Appetizer – Veggie Samosa, Lamb Meatballs, and Sweet Potato Chaat

Entree – Chicken Tikka, Saag Paneer, Chicken Byrani

Side – Aloo Gobi

Dessert – Gulab Jamun, Kulfi Vikram

Schedule:

4:00 pm – Board Meeting (Board Members Only)
5:30 pm – Cocktails & Networking
6:30 pm – Speaker Presentation
7:30 pm – Dinner

Venue:   Kama Bistro

Venue Website: https://www.kamabistro.com/

Guest Speaker:  Frank Wagner speaks about how personal Care brands face pressures from their consumers, competitors, and the industry in the demand for products with ever-shrinking INCI’s, greener solutions, and sustainable efforts. All the while, micellar cleansing systems have expectations of flowability, appearance, and foam performance: sensory cues that deliver on the consumer experience, which have been shaped by petro-derived chemically synthesized surfactants. Ingredients must be functional, consumer friendly, and sustainable. How do brands fulfill the need for new products in a new paradigm?  They innovate. Taking beauty beyond conventional chemistries, we have recently found functional viability in maltodextrin laurate, a hydrophobically modified polysaccharide. This bio-derived food ingredient technology has crossed over into personal care; a polymer-turned-amphiphile has surfactant-like behavior in its ability to solubilize oil and partition into water.

Beauty Beyond Conventional Chemistry: A Sustainable Ingredient with Market Meaning

Bio:

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Venue: Belvedere Events & Banquets

Address: 1170 W Devon Ave, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007

Schedule: Tuesday, February 14th

4:00 pm – Board Meeting (Board Members Only)
5:30 pm – Cocktails & Networking
6:30 pm – Speaker Presentation
7:30 pm – Dinner

Menu: Bread & Butter, Creamy Vodka Pasta, House Salad, Lemon Chicken, Pesto Roasted Red Skin Potato, Sautéed Green Beans and Carrots, Vanilla Bread Pudding and Vanilla Ice Cream

Spend your Valentine’s Day with Matt Zoeller, Applications Manager, Specialty Division at 3V Sigma USA with an exciting topic: “Strange Love: Learning to Love Polyglyceryl Fatty Acid Esters”

ABSTRACT:
Fatty acid esters of polyglycerides (PEFA) are a proven green offset to nonionic surfactants based on ethylene oxide adducts (PEG). Given the disapproval, regulatory scrutiny and non- renewable status of PEG surfactants, the PEFA chemistry provides us with useful formulator tools meeting green demand. Very little has been published about these versatile materials in personal care application even though food technologists began using them in the 1960’s. We examine the chemistry, history, application and utility of the PEFA in personal care formulation citing examples. We also examine their strengths and weaknesses while providing physical chemistry insight into both, granting the green formulator a better understanding and appreciation of the utility of these renewable, sustainable materials.

BIO:
Matt Zoeller is currently the Applications Manager for the Specialty Division of 3V Sigma USA based in Georgetown, South Carolina, part of 3V Group based in Bergamo, Italy. Before this venture Matt spent over 35 years in technical management positions in several contract manufacturing businesses in the Chicagoland area. During that time he was integral to the development and technology transfer of thousands of personal care products for hundreds of beauty brands. For several years he’s contributed knowledge to formulators around the world via Perry Romanowski’s Chemist Corner blogspot under the guise “chemicalmatt” and plans to keep mentoring younger scientists for as long as he can. He holds a B.S. Chemistry from Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he spent most of his life; and contributed to the Midwest Chapter of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists for many years, most notably as editor/publisher of the SCCoop for 40 issues over five years. Matt holds two patents, one for nanoemulsion drug delivery, another for novel topical delivery of Epsom salt. He is now the host and science writer&