Global Cosmetic Industry October 2022 Issue - Overview | Global Cosmetic Industry

Weightless Beauty: Unveil the Light Within

Weightless Beauty: Unveil the Light Within

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A recent Kline report notes that retailers like Target have responded with “Tween Skin Care” sections to direct shoppers to age-appropriate products.

Pro-aging: Gen Alpha to Boomers

Every age cohort of consumer is seeking something slightly different from anti-aging skin care.

New ingredient technologies are improving the spreadability and transparency of sun care products.

SPF Everything

Sun care's skinification has led to a boom in multifunctional SPF products, even as sunscreen formulations become better than ever.

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.

Addressing the growth in the false lash market, Lady Burd has developed its own Lash Glue.

Beauty Manufacturing Trend Tracker: February 2024

From sustainable production upgrades to trends in packaging, manufacturers open up on the state of the beauty production landscape.

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.