Skin Course 2024: Open for Registrations

Registrations have just opened for the TRI Principles of Skin Measurement Science and Claims course that will take place this year on 11th and 12th September. This year the course will run as a hybrid event. Attendees can join in person at TRI, or online. Book now if you wish to attend in person, as places are limited.

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The Principles of Skin Measurement Science & Claims course at TRI is designed for anyone involved in the development of new skin care products. The intensive two-day programme is designed for anyone who needs to build their knowledge rapidly in the measurement techniques used in the development of new skin products and to support skin claims. The course will include:

• Session 1 - An Introduction to Skin and Skin Testing

• Session 2 - Skin Testing Methods Available from the Skin & Biosubstrates Team at TRI

• Session 3 - The Latest Developments in Skin Testing Methods

• Laboratory demos (skin moisture testing, FTIR spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, facial imaging methods, microscopy of skin sections, and skin mechanical testing)

Registration for attending both days in-person costs $325.00, with an Early-Bird price of $300.00 up until Friday 9th August. In person attendees will be to able attend all the lectures in the TRI Seminar Room, join in an evening social event in the TRI, and participate in laboratory demos of skin testing methods. Places are strictly limited to 30 people, so please book early to secure your place.

Online registration costs $250, with an Early-Bird discount price of $225 up until Friday 9th August. Those online will be able to watch the lectures (live and on playback), participate in the Q&A after each lecture, and join Kahoot! quizzes to test their new skin testing knowledge.

TRI Member companies have free places on our courses as part of the membership benefits. Please take a look at the course registration website to see how to apply for your free places.

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Help Shape TRI's Future - TRI Research Forum

TRI Research Forum, will take place on Friday 12th April 2024 (9:00am – 12:40pm ET), and is a chance to discuss possible future directions for TRI.  Registration is free and exclusive to employees of TRI Member Companies. Research Forum will be streamed live, and available on playback.

Research Forum is a meeting where the TRI team give you an exclusive overview of the new research they have been doing and the new capabilities they have been developing.  It is also a chance for you to give us some guidance on the areas of research that will be of most benefit to your business.  It is, as the title suggests, a forum for discussion.  A chance for the TRI the listen to what you need from our work.

The format of the meeting will be quite simple.  We will have a series of short presentations from our technical Directors, giving you exclusive updates on our internal research programme and news about new equipment purchases.  These will be followed by a series of discussions about possible future directions.  We are proud the announce that the discussions on future directions will, on this occasion, be led by two independent, TRI Adjunct Fellows:  Dr Crisan Popescu, a hair and textiles sciences expert (link to website), and Dr Apostolos Pappas, a skin, nutrition and lipids sciences expert (link to website).

Anyone from our member companies is welcome to take part.  No question is too obvious, and no idea is too ridiculous.  Please come along and help us build our future research and testing capabilities.

Next Week! Free Lipsticks Testing and Claims Webinar

You are welcome to join a free webinar on Wednesday, March 20th (1:00 pm EST) titled Latest Developments in Lip Care Products Testing Methods and Claims. In this presentation, Dr Xuzi Kang from TRI Princeton will share her recent research studies on lipsticks testing and claims.

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A key part of TRI Princeton’s mission is to create new product performance and claims testing methods for industry, and we are always looking to increase the range of product categories that we cover. Recent years have seen the institute expanding into depilatory products, nail care products, fabrics, and lip care products, https://www.triprinceton.org/testing-head-to-toe

Dr Kangs’ work on lipsticks covers a wide range of areas. From understanding lip care products and ingredients on the market, to developing a wide range of new test protocols for TRI. Tests have been developed to look at lipstick performance (friction, transfer, payout etc), lipstick effects on skin moisture levels, and how lipstick colours are affected by your skin tone. In this free webinar Dr Kang will take attendees through all her work and suggest new claims areas and technologies that can be explored in the future. This should be of great interest to anyone working on Color Cosmetics, or Lip Care products. Staff of TRI Member Companies can review Dr Kang’s work in more detail in a Note on Research titled ‘Quantifying Lipstick Behaviours’, available in the TRI Library, https://library.triprinceton.org/213o6nr/