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Hair loss and thinning remain pervasive concerns, impacting a significant portion of the global population and driving a robust, innovation-fueled market within the beauty industry.

The Hair Loss Innovation Boom

There’s new hope for consumers’ biggest fear.

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Retinol Reimagined: The Brands and Ingredients Gaining Market Momentum

Retinol or retinol alternatives: that is the question. Following is a breakdown of the recent retinol alternative products and ingredients on the market.

Beauty Ingredients with an Eco Edge

A recap of the ingredient offerings launched over the last year, in alphabetical order by supplier, that can help brands make more environmentally friendly claims.

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The Microbiome: Our Greatest Challenge or Best Opportunity?

Is the microbiome our greatest challenge, the best opportunity we've had, in a long time, to innovate and renew ourselves?

Caudalie’s skin-hydrating Grape Water is a fully organic formula certified by the USDA BioPreferred program, which is granted to products that are “derived from plants and other renewable agricultural, marine, and forestry materials.”

NYSCC 2017: Consumer-focused Cosmetic Ingredient Innovations

Selfie solutions, gentle formulation innovations and more from Croda, BASF, Vantave/Lipo Chemicals, Bio-Botanica, Ele Corp., Dow Corning, Evonik, Givaudan, Sensient, Spectra Colors, Gelest and Hallstar.

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How K-Beauty Conquered 2025 Through TikTok Shop and Product Innovation

K-Beauty has captured consumers' attention — and capital. While TikTok has accelerated brand discovery, product innovation has fostered consumer engagement. Here, TikTok's Ajay Salpekar helps us dig into what makes these products so successful.

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.

Conscious beauty, in particular color, has been a leading trend for 2020.

Ingredient Trends 2020-2021, Part 2

Part 2 of 2: From ingestible technology to clean and green materials, new breakthroughs abound.

U.S. prestige skin care sales in 2020 declined 11%

Skin Care 2021

New ingredients, packaging formats and market-driven brand positioning are elevating beauty’s self-care leader.

The New Age of Antiaging

According to Euromonitor International’s June 2009 State of the Industry report, consumers clearly prioritize age-prevention above all else—allowing antiaging, as a global subcategory of skin care, to remain relatively unscathed as consumers’ tightened their purse strings. Still, both marketers and suppliers have been forced to reevaluate how consumers spend and adjust game plans accordingly. The resounding universals of fact-based claims—staying true to a brand mission and capturing the consumer’s imagination—remain, and a panel of marketers and suppliers delve into the issues.

Anti-aging Solutions in Today's Marketplace

As the anti-aging skin care market continues to be one of beauty’s biggest opportunities, brands and suppliers are turning to science, nature and innovative new combinations of both to create products that are effective and engaging.

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Beyond Wrinkles: The Ingredients Rewriting Beauty’s Biological Playbook

The industry is moving toward a model where skin care is designed to modulate the skin’s internal intelligence, adaptability and long-term biological trajectory.

A Place in the Sun

With consumer awareness of the importance of sun protection on the rise, brands look to ingredient suppliers for solutions that combine key performance benefits in their desire to meet growing expectations.

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.

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Bioactives, Delivery Systems and Sustainable Innovation: What’s Next in Beauty

This report highlights notable new ingredients shaping the industry—from bioactives that mimic in-office aesthetic procedures to stress-fighting and neurobeauty compounds and beyond.

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Elements of Beauty

Inspiring ingredients and innovative claims drive new product innovation.

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The Innovations Tackling the SPF Confidence Gap

2011 People to Know

It takes a lot of creative, capable people to build and power the exciting and dynamic beauty industry. Presented here are those who captured our imaginations in 2010.