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Skin Care Gets Smarter: Exploring Advanced Ingredient Technologies

Skin care is evolving, and advanced ingredient technologies are leading the way. From smart formulas that adapt to the skin's needs to cutting-edge innovations like encapsulated actives, the future of skin care is all about precision and effectiveness.

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From Weight Loss to Whole-Person Beauty

As the definition of successful obesity treatment expands, a transformation-care market may emerge across pharma, beauty and consumer health.

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Regenerative Skin Care: the Anti-aging Killer

Brands are embracing the new longevity paradigm amid a boom in ingredient advancements.

High Performance, Good Business

GCI magazine recently spoke with skin care marketers about their businesses. Although their products target different, specifically defined segments of the market, there are caveats across the board—notably that today’s hyper-aware consumers expect products to perform at a high level and that the partnership between R&D and marketing is paramount in meeting this expectation.

Where Beauty Manufacturing is Going Next

From biotech without the research overhead to AI-driven product authentication, cosmetic manufacturing is moving into new territory.

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?

The line offers a range of solutions for all skin needs, from a Clay Color-changing Mask and Nightly Clarifying Serum to a Milk-to-Foam Cleanser and Prebiotic Gel Moisturizer.

Brooklyn + Bailey McKnight Launch Skin Care Brand itk at Walmart

The cruelty-free skin care line, inclusive of 15 SKUs for a wide range of skin types and needs, is available in 3,800 Walmart stores nationwide and online on walmart.com.

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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.

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.

Skin Lightening Challenges

A number of skin lightening ingredients are on the market, but many of them are burdened by safety or efficacy baggage. Some do not inhibit melanin in vivo, while others may be toxic or face penetration issues. Additional research is required to develop a truly effective and safe OTC skin lightener.

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.

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Anti-aging for the Well-aging Generation

Expectations related to chronological age are slowly giving way to a more holistic, lifestyle-focused consumer mindset; is the beauty industry ready?

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.

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.