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Looking ahead, Circana is forecasting 10% growth for the U.S. prestige beauty market, with expansion slowing in 2025 and 2026 to 8% and 7%, respectively.

Beauty Growth to Continue Through 2026

The rise of India, emerging shopper trends and the rise of masstige are reshaping the industry.

New AR technology from Shiseido is designed to teach consumers how to best apply skin care.

Can Machines Teach Beauty Routines? (Tech Tracker Report)

From improving hair care product discovery to optimizing skin care routines, emerging platforms are solving consumers' challenges in the digital age.

Unlocking the Plant Internal Microbiome: Natural Beauty Actives

Unlocking the Plant Internal Microbiome: Natural Beauty Actives

Provital’s new Triplobiome™ Technology and production platform delivers natural, sustainable and efficacious ingredients based on botanical symbiotic endophytes.

To better understand the dynamics in the hair wellness category, Global Cosmetic Industry has analyzed recent consumer and market data, cross-referenced with emerging ingredient and product launches, to outline key concerns driving the greatest interest among shoppers.

Unraveling Consumers’ Top 6 Hair & Scalp Concerns

Across every concern area, ingredients and claims are increasingly centered on skin care-inspired innovations.

The connection between diet and the skin has long been known, but new research points to the connections between skin and gut health for a range of issues, including acne, atopic dermatitis, eczema and psoriasis.

Gut Health as Skin Health: Ingredient Trend Tracker

Holistic wellness trends and emerging science are intersecting, providing new innovation targets for beauty products and claims.

Blurring, soft-focus, light-scattering: a wide range of ingredients are delivering effects that smooth out imperfections and impart additional benefits.

Blurry Beauty

From makeup to skin care, brands and ingredient firms are delivering soft-focus effects.

Beauty and technology are increasingly inseparable. From R&D and product development to marketing and logistics, digital innovation is central to the industry’s next phase.

Beauty Tech Trend Tracker: AI is Everywhere

From virtual try-ons to AI-driven trend tracking, tech is enabling brands to move more nimbly.

By boosting NAD+, called the skin’s “longevity molecule,” RejuveNAD is able to to optimize cellular processes to simultaneously address “at least” five of the 12 hallmarks of aging, including mitochondrial dysfunction, cellular senescence, loss of proteostasis, epigenetic alteration and genomic instability.

The Beauty Ingredient Agenda: Longevity x Anti-aging

The recently decoded 12 hallmarks of aging provide exciting new anti-aging targets for R&D and new claims for marketing.

AI apps that enable virtual make-up try-on are most popular with Gen Z, with 31% saying they’ve experimented with this type of application.

Beauty Tech’s Impact on Consumer Purchasing

New survey data points to how AI, apps, virtual filters, digital assistants and more are shaping how buyers discover and interact with makeup and other products.

Hair care prestige and mass sales grew 13% and 8%, respectively, in the first half of 2023.

7 Hair Health Themes for 2024

The skinification boom is revolutionizing scalp care, styling, bond-building and more, providing new innovation opportunities for brands.

To better understand the cross-category dynamics underway, Global Cosmetic Industry reviewed a range of recent launches to decode future innovation opportunities for brands.

Color Cosmetics’ Skin-Forward Revolution

From lip and cheek stains to brow liners and foundation, brands and suppliers are creating a new generation of innovative hybrid products.