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2024 Beauty Leaders Summit: Paris Event Alert!

Christian Herold, Director of Business Development at Cosnova, and Bernardin Florence, owner of Asia Cosme Lab, will explore the significant strides their companies are making in sustainable product development and ethical sourcing.

As we rethink acne across generations, the most successful brands will be the ones who can not only create skin relief but who offer excitement, nourishing self-care rituals and even bring joy.

Rethinking Acne: Unveiling the Unseen and the Unmet

In the last two decades, consumers’ expectations towards skin and acne care have evolved. Old solutions no longer resonate.

Haut.AI's feature 'anonymizes facial images by removing all personal identifiers,' including backgrounds, eyes, mouths and hair, as well as any other non-skin related data before any analyses are conducted.

Haut.AI's Newly Patented Skin Atlas Delivers Anonymous Skin Analyses

"Consumers are becoming more cautious about their privacy, and they will only trust a brand’s personalized services if they know their data is being handled securely."

From elevated efficacy to pro beauty inspiration to preventative care, Mintel has issued its annual beauty trends, alongside its 2025 consumer trend report.

2025’s Top 7 Beauty Trends

Mintel notes, “To build credibility, companies will highlight the efficacy of their products through scientific testing and innovative ingredients.”

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.

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11 Trends in Beauty: Skinification of Sun, Collagen Everything, Biomimic Foundation and More

C&T's "Consumer Pulse" series on the socials highlights the latest emerging searches and hashtags related to cosmetics. Here, we expand on those themes. This edition includes: Princess Cosmetics and the skinification of sun care, collagen everything, etc.

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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9 Trends in Beauty: AI Perfume, Turmeric Face Scrub, Swiss Beauty Makeup Base and More

C&T's "Consumer Pulse" series on the socials highlights the latest emerging searches/hashtags related to cosmetics. Here, we expand on those themes. This edition includes: Swiss Beauty Makeup Base, AI perfume, rosemary shampoo, turmeric face scrub, etc.

Under the new research project, the Estée Lauder Companies seeks to decode the neurological connections between fragrance and emotion to drive fragrance product development, packaging innovation, the development of consumer experiences and marketing claims, and more.

The Estée Lauder Companies' New Research Project to Decode the Scent-Emotion Connection

The Estée Lauder Companies seeks to decode the neurological connections between fragrance and emotion to drive fragrance product development, packaging innovation, the development of consumer experiences and marketing claims, and more.

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.

From Gen Alpha to longevity and (p)rejuvenation to elevated efficacy and obsession-worthy packaging, Beauty Accelerate 2025 will deliver insights from beauty's leading R&D, marketing and innovation voices.

Beauty Accelerate 2025: Future-proofing Beauty [Join the Waitlist!]

Returning to the East Coast, 2025's edition will highlight the technologies, trends and strategies propelling the most innovative brands.

Why Selfmade is Going into 'Rest Mode'

The psychodermatology brand is taking a cue from Simone Biles and conserving energy and mental space for what's next for the business.

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Bubble's Tell All Juicy Secret Lip Balm & the Accessorization of Beauty: Founder Shai Eisenman Talks Gen Z, Lifestyle & More

"For our community, this is about more than looking and feeling good; it’s about self-expression."

“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.

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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8 Trends in Beauty: 'Hyperreal' BIAB Nails/Orly, Made It Cosmetics, Krishna Makeup for Kids and More

Each week, C&T uncovers emerging trends in searches/hashtags related to cosmetics. Now on our radar: Made It Cosmetics; Radha and Krishna makeup for kids; hyperreal manicures, BIAB and Orly; Cosmetic Connection; Demure Makeup; Mari Maria makeup, ... etc.

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Hair Microneedling, Scalp Spas & the Rise of Scalp Wellness: New Spate Data

Hair microneedling creates minor scalp injuries using a skin roller in the service of encouraging healthier scalp skin and hair, similar to how the technique is used in skin care.