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BASF Beauty Care Solutions
BASF Beauty Care Solutions (BCS) is a business unit of parent BASF. Beauty Care Solutions provides research, formulations and manufacturing services in support of the global cosmetic markets. They offer full-line of premium skin care active ingredients for skin care products. Primary sales offices are located in Paris, Tokyo and New York. Research facilities are located in Lyon, France and Stony Brook, Long Island, NY, USA. The Stony Brook organization is an anchor tenant of the Long Island High Technology Incubator located on the campus of Stony Brook University. Manufacturing facilities are located in Lyon, France and East Setauket,NY,USA.

History
Beauty Care Solutions was initially a product of the merger of the Collaborative Group (NY, USA) and Colletica (Lyon, France)as a business unit of Engelhard Corporation. These companies were originally acquired by Engelhard Corporation and combined to form Beauty Care Solutions. The 2006 aquisition of Engelhard by BASF SE led to the incorporation of BCS into BASF's Care Chemicals division. BASF continues to grow the business and bring its vast technical expertise to support the cosmetics industry.

Leadership
The business is led by the charismatic General Manager Frank Freiler, located at the regional headquarters in Florham Park, NJ, USA.