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Twenty-one percent of girls and 12% of boys expressed interest in beauty/personal care before they were 7 years old. While this may seem shocking compared to past generations, it shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Gen Z’s & Alpha’s Parents Tell All on their Kids’ Beauty Obsessions

A new survey delves into the early onset of product interest, the role of social media, parents’ expectations and more.

As skin care brands seek to tap into the shifting needs of emerging and established shoppers across generations, marketers and product innovation teams need to ensure their solutions are meeting consumers where they are.

Generational Skin Care: from Future-proofing to Rejuvenation

By delivering targeted care based on life stages, brands have immense opportunities to address the needs of everyone from Gen Alpha to boomers.

Emerging AI technologies will allow small brands to operate leaner teams than in previous indie beauty eras; at the same time, the rapid gathering of customer insights can help brands quickly migrate from direct-to-consumer to wholesale/physical retail.

Beauty's Innovation Slowdown is Poised to Drastically Reverse

"Personal care brands embracing innovation ... are 2.5 times more likely to see overall sales growth compared to those with stagnant or declining innovation sales," claims a recent NIQ report.

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Discover the Hydrating Power of MariMoist®: Clinically Proven Results

Introducing MariMoist®, clinically proven to boost skin hydration by 41% with just one application, and maintaining 76% hydration for 48 hours. Derived from red seaweed and sodium hyaluronate, it reduces TEWL by 27% while enhancing skin barrier and sensor

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Secrets to Shaping Beauty into Body Care: How Claims, Ingredients and Challenges Translate

What's driving the body care boom? How do beauty trends translate? Here, we explore new launches and insights from Anushka Nadkarni, Bentley Labs; Ron Robinson, BeautyStat; Rita Silva, DECIEM; and Jean-Christophe Choulot, Caudalíe, to find out.

Double-digit growth has been seen for body creams, lotions and cleaners; and consumer spending on prestige body products has increased by 25%. What's going on?

2024's Fastest-growing Skin Care Category Goes Beyond the Face

Body skin care led the category's growth, in part by coopting ingredients and claims associated with facial skin care. Here’s what’s happening in the category and how brands can tap into the growth.

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SymFeel Quat Green®: 100% naturally derived alternative to polyquats

SymFeel Quat Green® delivers well-known efficacy of Polyquaternium-7 and Polyquaternium-10 while embracing sustainability.

FD&C Blue 1 is trending in hair care, gummy supplements, pharma and food, according to Spectra Colors.

Top-trending Colors Across Categories: Insider Insights

“Color trends in marketing and product design, especially those utilizing FDA-approved dyes, shift seasonally to align with consumer expectations and functional performance needs,” explains Alexis Capik, president of Spectra Colors Corp.

“As we get older, there are biological changes that being to happen to our hair,” says Michelle Chavez, vice president of innovation, Accupac/Cobalt Labs. “The scalp gets dehydrated faster, oil glands slow down sebum production and the skin has trouble holding on to moisture, leading to thinner, flatter skin on the scalp. Simultaneously, the length of the hair growth cycle gets shorter, and the follicle diameter gets smaller, resulting in hair thinning and loss.”

Consumers’ Top Hair Care Concerns Point to Brands’ Next Innovation Opportunities

Emerging claims associated with hormonal shifts, aging, styling stressors and more point to growth ahead for hair health brands.

Formulations are becoming simpler, driven by a desire for simplicity, as well as the introduction of many multifunctional materials.

Beauty’s Multifunctional Moment: Less is So Much More

Multifunctional technologies have the capacity to simplify formulations while enhancing performance across a wide range of functions and claims.

“We’ve observed a shift in consumer behavior, where hair care practices are increasingly mimicking skin care routines,” says Pascal Yvon, PharmD, MBA, general manager Americas, Sharon Personal Care, USA. “The consumers recognize that hair, like skin, shows signs of natural aging. This phenomenon is exacerbated by various environmental and chemical stressors including color treatment, bleaching, heat styling, ultraviolet (UV) radiation and pollution. These factors collectively contribute to the degradation of hair fibers, resulting in increased dryness, brittleness, and susceptibility to breakage and split ends.”

Top Hair Health Trends: Insider Insights

We recently surveyed experts in hair care to surface the latest trends, which include marine ingredients, defense against external stressors and more.

Consumer demands for holistic SPF-infused beauty are shifting rapidly, encompassing new formats, emerging claims and much more. How can brands tap into these trends and capture market share?

The Sunification of Beauty: Top Innovation Opportunities for 2024-2025

New ingredients, claims and consumer preferences are shaping multifunctional product innovation for UV defense.

According to a May 2024 Exploding Topics Report, “Search volume for ‘sustainable beauty’ is up more than 200% since 2019.” At the same time, clinical beauty has begun to eclipse pure-play “clean” beauty.

Future-forward Sustainable Beauty Ingredients: What's Next?

New innovation is merging performance and eco-friendly credentials to generate consumer-winning claims across categories.

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SILAFILM®, a unique dry film for an intense release of active ingredients

SILAB presents SILAFILM®, a technology of natural, biodegradable dry film, highly concentrated in natural active ingredients, which can be used by brands in patches, strips, masks… Discover the two films available thanks to this unique technology!

“Consumers may find it difficult to understand and compare products when SPF labeling and regulations differ,” says Sundeep Gill, PharmD, co-founder of Sun Deep Inc. “For instance, what constitutes SPF 30 in one country might not be the same in another due to different testing criteria.'

Top Sun Care Trends: Insider Insights

“Consumers no longer want to choose between sun protection and skin care, and they demand ethical, sustainable and inclusive products,” says Margaret Sullivan, technical service scientist at Arcaea.

Seventy-two percent of Gen Z females take a hot bath or shower to alleviate stress, while 66% spend more time on their beauty and personal care routines.

How Beauty x Wellness Can Address Stressed-out Consumers: New Data

With consumers more stressed than ever, shoppers' quest for multifunctional feel-good products beyond supplements is on the rise.

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Skin & Hair Care’s Protein-Based Revolution

Emerging technologies are driving a biology-first wave of innovation; here’s what that means for beauty innovation.

Neutrogena, which is seeking to engage Gen Z shoppers, has now thrown its hat into the collagen banking ring with the launch of its Collagen Bank range.

Collagen Banking: Beauty’s Long Game

Neutrogena enters the chat with a new pair of collagen banking SKUs aimed at Gen Z shoppers' prejuvenation goals.

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