• Ciba^® CALISHA™ Color Collection features a range of oil-dispersible pearls, inorganic oxides and organic lake pigments
• Easy-to-incorporate materials help speed manufacturing
• Innovative products offer superior color delivery, brighter, longer-lasting color and enhanced emollience

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The Ciba® CALISHA™ Color Collection of cosmetic grade pigments offers superior color delivery, brighter, longer-lasting color and enhanced emollience for a wide range of color cosmetics. Printable Version [JPG, 774 MB]

Ciba has entered the decorative cosmetic market with its launch of the Ciba^® CALISHA™ Color Collection, a full line of cosmetic grade pigments that features a selection of oil-dispersible (OD) pearls, inorganic oxides and organic lake pigments. OD pearl pigments disperse quickly in the oil phase and reduce dusting, thus minimizing cross-contamination of color. OD pearls compress easily in powders and enhance the deposition of color on the skin.

The CALISHA™ Color Collection includes three effect pigment lines:

• The CALISHA™ Romance Collection is made up of smooth, soft colors that offer excellent coverage and opacity. The collection is comprised of OD pearl pigments. These effect pigments offer soft, subtle tones, which are key to today’s radiant skin and makeup formulations.

• The CALISHA™ Contemporary Collection is made up of warm, brilliant effect pigments that offer excellent coverage and bright shades. The collection offers OD pearl pigments in a larger particle size, as well as a wide range of iron oxides and ultramarine pigments. This line of pigments creates warm, beautiful tones in today’s new shades of makeup, adding brilliance to the skin.

• The CALISHA™ Art Deco Collection is made up of bold effect pigments, offering a range of coverage options and exciting shades. The collection provides the largest particle OD pearl pigments, which have a sparkly effect. It also includes lakes and deep shades of chromium green pigments. The larger particle OD pearls allow light to pass through, lending less opacity and creating a more pronounced visual “pop” on the skin.

“The CALISHA™ Color Collection represents innovation, quality and consistency – characteristics that are valued by our customers and that represent what Ciba already provides to many areas of the personal care industry. Our OD pearl pigments, created by a unique Ciba process, provide opportunities for new formulation approaches and offer a wide range of transparency and coverage so that today’s color cosmetics can meet the demands of today’s consumer,” says Catherine Ehrenberger, Global Head of Home & Personal Care at Ciba.

For more information about the Ciba^® CALISHA™ Color Collection, visit Ciba at In-Cosmetics 2007 (Stand F121) in Paris, or go to the website www.cibasc.com/calisha.

Ciba (SWX: CIBN) is a leading global company dedicated to producing high‑value effects for its customers’ products. We strive to be the partner of choice for our customers, offering them innovative products and one‑stop expert service. We create effects that improve the quality of life – adding performance, protection, color and strength to plastics, paper, automobiles, buildings, home and personal care products and much more. Ciba is active in more than 120 countries around the world and is committed to be a leader in its chosen markets. In 2006, the Company’s continued operations generated sales of CHF 6.4 billion and invested CHF 270 million in R&D.

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