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23 Mar 2011

Fragrance and flavour to cost more money

When the F&F companies catch a cold, you and I will get the flu.

We can all expect to pay more for our beauty products, perfumes and even household cleaners from next year.

International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF), one of the world's biggest suppliers of fragrances and flavours, has said that rises in input costs have been worse than predicted, which will probably mean it has to put its prices up. And where IFF goes, the other F&F companies will follow.

This news is important for consumers because fragrances and flavours from those half-dozen companies are in virtually every processed food we eat - biscuits, sauces, ready meals, tinned food - and the fragrances are in everything we smell, from scented candles to incense sticks to toilet cleaner to wash powder. Every day you and I use dozens of products containing ingredients from these companies.

Price increases will be in the region of low single digits to strong double digits depending on the ingredient in question, said the firm's chief financial officer. Watch this space - or your supermarket receipts - to see what difference it makes to your weekly shop.

 

 

By Trish

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Re: Fragrance and flavour to cost more money
Reply #2 on : Thu March 24, 2011, 11:18:09
I couldn't find out from a quick look on the web. Do you know if they make artificial and / or petroleum based flavors and fragrances? Because i can only hope that the prices of those rise enough to encourage the use of more natural flavors and fragrances.
trish
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Natural versus synthetic
Reply #1 on : Thu March 24, 2011, 12:40:36
You can find a complete listing of IFF's ingredients, both flavours and fragrances here:
http://www.iff.com/internet.nsf/ProdIngredients!OpenForm
I would like to see more natural ingredients such as European herbs and lemon in common usage. However, I think we need to be very careful about the idea that natural=good, synthetic=bad. Many petroleum byproducts have been in common use since the 1870s (virtually NO perfume uses only natural ingredients), and there are natural ingredients that are highly toxic, particularly the extraction processes. Some processes are even cruel, and I'm sure no-one would want to return to the days of slaughtering civet cats and musk deer to extract their perfumes. Many natural fragrances are also not stable in certain media, so the whole situation is very complicated.