28^th October 2011

New! Lipolami^® Milk Thistle
To formulate silky, smooth textures with no silicones

Our expertise in natural formulation has enabled us to develop the ‘sensorial’ ingredient you need for all your beauty products: Lipolami^®.

Obtained from milk thistle, an original plant for cosmetics, Lipolami^® can be used to formulate finished products with a smooth, silky and non-sticky texture with no silicones.

You will also be surprised by its exceptional dispersing and solubilising properties which make it an interesting ingredient in sun care, make-up, perfumery…

Lipolami^® is an active ingredient source of omega-6 fatty acids contributing to reinforce the skin barrier.

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29^th August 2011

Meet us at Beyond Beauty Paris

We will meet you at the new edition of Beyond Beauty Paris, from 12^th to 14^th September!

Come and discover our new services offer AMIPIE which will enable you to lead your R&D projects, in collaboration with our experts. You can thus create your exclusive products while making the most of our latest technological advances and of all the advantages of teaming up with an eco-responsible partner.

We invite you to make an appointment straight away to discuss it with one of our advisers at our booth.

On the occasion of this event, we are expecting a great number of you to attend both our conferences:
- Eco-design and natural "sensorial" formulation, on Tuesday 13^th September at 3PM by Alban Muller (room Asie 1)
- Launch of the network of The Herboretum and inauguration in French Polynesia, on Wednesday 14^th September at 12AM with Eric Vaxelaire from the Monoï Institute (room Asie 2)

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18^th May 2011

Alban Muller's ongoing approach to achieve excellence

Committed to ongoing improvements in order to achieve full customer satisfaction, Alban Muller Group has just obtained ISO 22716 certification.

Increasingly focused on “turnkey” services including the development of exclusive active ingredients, development and production of innovative cosmetic formulas, Alban Muller wished to have its Good Manufacturing Practices certified for its cosmetic products.

This requirement level guarantees quality products and maximum safety for our customers, bringing us in line, well in advance, with European regulations (to be introduced in July 2013) since cosmetic GMP are a crucial part of these.

Our efforts to maintain our Quality Management System were also recently rewarded with the renewal of the ISO 9001 standard.

This outcome is a reward for our overall eco-responsible approach and consolidates our position more than ever as a key service provider in the industry. On the strength of our three Cosmetic Valley peonies, we are already working towards the application of the ISO 26000 standard in order to bring new depth to our ESR policy, with as our creed: ever more services and guarantees preserving Humankind and our Planet!

28^th March 2011

New! Cytokalmine^®, the rescue solution for sensitive skin
thanks to a synergetic action of polyphenols

Discover our new high-tech extract with tested activity
for the specific care of sensitive and reactive skin: Cytokalmine^®. This active reduces the secretion of inflammatory cytokines and the overproduction of free radicals which are exacerbated in sensitive skin type. Cytokalmine^® is a dry extract of Carthaginian berry (Punica granatum), concentrated in polyphenols, particularly in tannins (punicalagin) and ellagic derivative, and stabilised in a maltitol carrier.

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25^th March 2011

New! Ami-caps^®, natural cosmetic actives
for your make-up powders

Our laboratories have developed an original technique to adapt liquid cosmetic active ingredients, in particular plant extracts, to the specific formulation of make-up powders. This service allows you to create your personalised Ami-caps^® from one of our numerous Phytamis^® or high-tech actives. Thanks to this innovative ingredient, your make-up powders can claim a cosmetic activity (moisturising, anti-ageing, antioxidant, etc.)!

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4^th March 2011

Aristeo Sandoval (A.M.I. USA) ready to conquer the Midwest

We are pleased to announce that Mr Aristeo Sandoval, A.M.I. USA Account Manager, has extended his responsibilities and will be now taking charge of new accounts in the Midwest of the United States, in addition to his current position as West Coast Account Manager.
His main task will be to develop and increase the sales of our products and services in this new territory. Please do not hesitate to contact him to set up a meeting and help you develop your future cosmetic projects!

Aristeo Sandoval

Email: aristeo.sandoval@albanmuller.com
Tel: +1 305 860 4088
Mobile: 786-210-548

17^th January 2011

Our Partners Commit to Sustainable Development

PMA 28 awarded the Trophy of the Performance 2010
in the Sustainable Development category

In September 2010, PMA 28, our main plants supplier, received the Trophy of the performance 2010 in the sustainable development category. This award particularly highlights its reflection on the energy consumption, an important item concerning the plant drying.

Two hours South-West of Paris, PMA 28 grows aromatic and medicinal plants in the biggest respect for the GMPs. Its production is dedicated to the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industry.

We work with this partner for more than 20 years with the advantage to have our production site located near its farm: a favourable point for the carbon balance of our products!

Couleurs de plantes awarded the Green Growth - Innovation Trophy 2010
in the Innovative Products category

Last November, at the Salon de la croissance verte et des Eco-Industries (green growthand eco-indutries exhibition) organised in the Charente region of France, Ségolène Royal, Regional President, and Jacques Barbier, President of the Region's eco-industries presented the 'Green Growth - Innovation Trophy' 2010. Our partner, Couleurs de plantes, received an award in the Innovative Products category.

Couleurs de plantes offers dyes made from vegetable extracts, natural dyes, pigments, pigment pastes and coloured media. These products include a large range of colours and allow innovations to be introduced in many colouring applications.

The company was responsible for developing the tincture plant extracts in our Tinctamis^® range!

 

1^st January 2011

Alban Muller International sets up its head office
at the heart of the Cosmetic Valley

The Alban Muller Group merges three of its entities Alban Muller International, Alban Muller Industrie and Adonis to form a single one company under the name of Alban Muller International.

While keeping its sites of Vincennes and Montreuil, near Paris, Alban Muller International has decided to set up its head office in Fontenay-sur-Eure, near Chartres, France, where the manufacturing site of the Group is already based. This step highlights its involvement in the Cosmetic Valley and reinforces its eco-responsible commitment.

9^th December 2010

Alban Muller International awarded three "peonies"
for compliance with Cosmetic Valley's eco-responsible charter

Further to an independent audit by AB certification,
we received three peonies in reward for compliance
with Cosmetic Valley's eco-responsible charter.

These peonies come as official recognition of our ongoing efforts to improve our environmental footprint and impact on society, tangible proof of our eco-responsible approach. The charter comprises four peonies, catering to stringent criteria (of which there are increasing numbers, from first to last peony) and these are valid for one year once they have been awarded.

The initiatives leading to this distinction include the eco-friendly management of our effluents by the Filtering Gardens, use of eco-friendly manufacturing processes, the monitoring and reduction of our energy consumption and our stalwart support for the Herboretum Association over the past six years.

Official certificate
More information on our eco-responsible approach

3^th December 2010

New! Ami-feels, a faster alternative for tailor-made formulas

You want to develop your own personalised range of cosmetic finished products, while monitoring your investment, and you want to design natural products (with no parabens, no silicones, etc.) to meet the growing market demand. We offer to develop your products from our Ami-feels: a fast and cost-efficient solution as they are already developed textures, ready to be customised according to your claims with our eco-responsible ingredients.

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18^th November 2010

Alban Muller: Growing Tomorrow's Cosmetics in the Botanical Garden

Alban Muller heads the gardens, and has loads of gardening ideas in his head. In his firm dealing in raw materials for cosmetics, in Cosmetic Valley, the business competence cluster he presides, in the ideas he cultivates and disseminates as in his experimental Herboretum in Saint-Ay where he played host to journalists from the Observatoire des Cosmétiques website...

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8^th November 2010

Find out AMIPIE,
our new complete services offer to serve your innovation

Because the innovation is in the heart of the competitiveness of companies, A.M.I. presents today a global services offer providing you with all its resources and its know-how to serve your innovation. Thanks to the AMIPIE, alongside our experts, you can easily create your personalised ingredients and finished products which comply with the various regulations while taking advantage of last technological breakthroughs. This offer enables you to outsource your R&D projects with complete confidence. Our laboratories were recently approved by the French Research Ministry, guaranteeing a recognized quality service.

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1^st October 2010

Quiz: The A.M.I. Plant Encyclopedia

A.M.I. is lauching a quiz dedicated to its Plant Encyclopedia. Try your luck at answering 4 questions correctly to participate in the drawing from 1^st to 12^th October 2010. You might win an annual subscription to the A.M.I. Plant Encyclopedia!

12^th April 2010

Alban Muller International is launching its new Internet website!

It has been entirely revisited ergonomically and technically, and will help you efficiently and rapidly find the information you require with its cosmetic ingredient search engine by criteria, by plant, or by keyword.

1^st March 2010

A New "Business Development Manager" for A.M.I. USA

We are pleased to announce the arrival of Evelyne Bismuth, our new Business Development manager for A.M.I. USA.

Evelyne has just joined us in March 2010 and her main task will be to develop sales in the USA by managing existing accounts while prospecting new ones and exploring areas of potential to increase current sales of our products and services. She will be coordinating efforts with the assistance of the US Sales Force, Customer Service Support, Management and the strategic team from the Technical and Sales/Marketing Divisions.

24^th December 2009

Short Movie on the Cosmetic Valley Manufacturing Site

We are pleased to present a report shot last summer on our manufacturing site by the journalists of the French Blog 'Enjeux' (dedicated to Quality processes).

Discover the interviews of Alban Muller and Noémie Pouzol, the Site Director. It is a good opportunity to show our infrastructures and give a more concrete idea of our manufacturing processes.

See the movie

10^th December 2009

Pharmaceutical GMP: a new certification for our laboratories!

Our laboratories, based at the heart of the Cosmetic Valley, have received the GMP certificate for pharmaceutical raw materials and pharmaceutical active substances, precisely:

- Dried plant extracts
We offer a large choice of atomised or zeodrated dried extracts: mate, ginseng, sweet clover, blackcurrant, sour cherry, anise, wild pansy, cinchona, etc.
- Hydroalcoholic plant extracts
Our offer includes tinctures, liquid extracts and hydro-glycerine extracts: mountain arnica tincture, witch hazel liquid extract, etc.
- Dried or hydroalcoholic plant blends

We can also meet all your demands in tailor-made developments, and help elaborate your regulatory files (DMF).

5^th November 2009

A.M.I. Launches New Eco-Designed, Oil-Soluble Plant Complexes: Lipidamix^®

The A.M.I. laboratories have developed new plant complexes which are ideal to formulate all your products which have an oily phase (emulsions, serum emulsions, care oils, etc.).

They are obtained by macerating several plants in Sunflower seed oil. The selected plants have specific cosmetic properties and act in synergy, claiming targeted and optimised efficacy for the beauty of skin and hair. Read more

2^nd November 2009

The Alban Muller Group has signed the Charter for an Eco-Responsible Cosmetic Valley

The Alban Muller Group signed the Charter for an eco-responsible Cosmetic Valley on 16^th October 2009 in Rambouillet, in the presence of Gérard Larcher, President of the Senate, and the French State Secretary for Ecology.

The charter has 4 points: the environment (energy, waste, transport, etc.), product offer (safety, eco-toxicity, bioaccumulation, etc.), the philosophy of continued progress, and social relations (fair trade, developing human resources, sponsorship, etc.). By signing the charter, the Cosmetic Valley companies undertake to ensure the quality and safety of their products and services, respecting man and our planet.

• Text of the Charter for an Eco-Responsible Cosmetic Valley
• Alban Muller's Speech
• Photo Gallery of the Event
• List of the signatories on 16^th October 2009