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The Skin Care Toolbox: Next-Gen Ingredients and Concept Products for Longevity, Barrier Health & Beyond

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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Targeting Delivery to Areas of Concern

Products that increase skin elasticity, provide firming and toning, and add a smoothing effect to specific areas of the body are among the most popular being formulated today...

The transition toward 'clean,' sustainable and vegan formulations hasn't been linear; despite this, high-functioning alternatives continue to proliferate.

'Clean' Beauty Swaps: New Ingredients & Headwinds

The transition toward “clean,” sustainable and vegan formulations hasn’t been linear; despite this, high-functioning alternatives continue to proliferate.

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And the C&T Allē Award Goes To ... Unveiling the 2026 Winners

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[in-cosmetics Global] Anti-pollution Reigns Again for Skin Defense

Anti-pollution—also comprising blue light defense and even probiotic activity—was, once again, one of the hottest claims at in-cosmetics Global. Here are some highlights.

What’s in My Jar is an app that analyzes unsubsidized company claims and marketing language for skin care products based on their ingredients to educate consumers about how effective and potentially irritating products are.

What’s in My Jar Analyzes Product Efficacy and Irritant Potential

What’s in My Jar is an app that analyzes unsubsidized company claims and marketing language for skin care products to educate consumers about how effective or potentially irritating products are.

Liquid Crystals and the Skin

Liquid crystal technology has not had the dramatic marketing impact of other ingredient and technology breakthroughs, but the performance benefits warrant continued consideration.

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.

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Exclusive Look: 5 Emerging Functionals You'll See at In-cosmetics Asia 2024

In-cosmetics Asia 2024 marks a new milestone: 100 ingredients will be featured in this year's Innovation Zone. As the media sponsor, Cosmetics & Toiletries was given an exclusive preview; here are 5 innovations you'll find there.

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From Sunburn to Skin Peels: How Deinde's DHK-Powered Recovery Gel is Changing the Game

The biotech DHK is an antioxidant occurs naturally in prickly pear cactus, "which thrives in extremely harsh environments," per the company.

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Grant Industries Brings Real-Time Formulation to the West Coast

"Real-time co-creation environments allow for faster decision making, stronger partnerships, and more differentiated products."

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Next-Gen Ingredients Cutting Through the Noise in Clean Skin Care

A new wave of innovative ingredients is offering formulators solutions that are sustainable, safe and clinically effective.

How can brands of every price point innovate to break through the skin care category’s malaise?

How Skin Care Can Escape Its Innovation Slump

The skin care market is undergoing a shift as consumers seek innovative and effective products that deliver long-term benefits. Brands must adapt to evolving consumer preferences by prioritizing longevity, medicalization and personalization.

The 'beautyspan' refers to the duration of one’s skin and hair health/wellness, centering the discussion on holistic, preventive and regenerative strategies, rather than solely aesthetic solutions.

The Beautyspan: Biohacking Longevity (Ingredient Trend Tracker)

“Today’s longevity-boosting ingredients are designed to tackle the root causes of aging at a cellular level.”

From supplement-inspired ingredients to biodegradable materials, suppliers have stepped up their game for the beauty market.

Beauty Ingredient Trends 2021, Part 2

Sustainable and wellness-focused innovation are generating new opportunities for functions and claims.

This 'Read the Label' focuses on natural deodorant and reusable packaging, and the product under review is Wild’s Bergamot & Grapefruit Natural Deodorant. The product contains tapioca starch, zinc ricinoleate, shea and cocoa butter, and more.

Read the Label: Wild–Bergamot & Grapefruit Natural Deodorant

This "Read the Label" focuses on natural deodorant and reusable packaging, and the product under review is Wild’s Bergamot & Grapefruit Natural Deodorant. The product contains tapioca starch, zinc ricinoleate, shea and cocoa butters, and more.

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[updated] How Fragrance and Body Lotion Disarm OH Radicals Caused by the Human Oxidation Field

A new study in Science Advances examines how the natural human oxidation field can affect chemical exposures indoors – and how fragrances and personal care products such as body lotions alter these dynamics.