This year’s In-Cosmetics exhibition was hosted in Barcelona, Spain. This show is essential to our industry in terms of staying ahead with new concepts and innovation.
We, as your local distributor attended the show and have many exciting ideas, products, formulations and innovations to share with you. Our agencies were busier than ever and have turned out some truly innovative new products.
We are also pleased to announce that we have added a new agency to our portfolio, Phenbiox. We can now proudly admit that our portfolio is diverse and filled with high-tech ingredients for those customers who want to stretch the imagination. From stem cells to hydrolysed plant extracts, we have it all.

National Environmental Management Biodiversity Act

The CTFA is currently in negotiation with the Department of Environmental Affairs proposing pertinent input from key users and suppliers of Indigenous ingredients.

They are appealing for amendment to the current act which would take volumes utilized by end users into consideration, instead of a blanket fee being applicable.
Smaller role players within the industry would thus hopefully be offered a lower (as yet undecided) permit application fee.

Manufacturers should not view this act as an enemy but rather as a need to protect our rich diverse flora and fauna.

We would like to encourage all relevant players within the industry to apply for their permits (without making any payment) and to continue business as usual until these matters have been addressed.

It must be noted that this is not an act simply for South Africa, but it forms part of a Global affiliation - the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to which South Africa is a signatory.

All African raw materials, will at some stage in the future form part of this act.

To view the indigenous materials which we can offer click here

     Myth to Muthi to Monograph

We have partnered in a synergistic venture with a local company, Parceval. Offering indigenous botanicals, Parceval supplies exclusively to the herbal and homoeopathic industries. Through their partnership with Incosmetics, these efficacious indigenous extracts are now offered to the cosmetic industry.