Aleksandra Zmiric, EMEA Marketing Development Manager for Personal Care within the BU Industrial&Consumer Specialties, joined Clariant in April 2016. Prior to this, she held different roles in cosmetic industry such as Product Manager for cosmetic and active ingredients and R&D Manager – Cosmetic formulator. Aleksandra holds MSc in Chemistry from the University of Belgrade.

We are facing the era of Sustainable Living with the objective to reduce an individual’s and society’s use of Earth’s natural resources. It includes reduction of carbon footprint by altering methods of transportation, energy consumption, water saving, product recycle and diet. This translated to cosmetic industry, brings us inevitably to create intelligent formulations and innovative types of products. Specifically referring to shower & bath products, we can expect refillable bottles, solid and pasty formulations with low water content, small formats – less packaging, concentrated formulations and non-rinse products or quick-rinsing products.

The theory and practice is conducted by Tatyana Plakatina, Specialist of Technical Support CLARIANT, Special Chemistry Division, Cosmetics and Household Chemistry from 09.2014.
Prior to this, she worked in the leading Russian companies of the industry for 15 years as a technologist developer, chief technology officer, head of the laboratory.
Education – RCTU them. D.I. Mendeleev, Ph.D. on specialty “Colloidal chemistry”.