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Derm skin care searches spiked 27% in 2023, while doctor-/dermatologist-backed skin care searches jumped 58%.

The 2024 Skin Care Agenda: Pro-aging & Sensitive Skin

Philosophies and technologies around aging, as well as a boom in sensitive skin approaches, is leading product and brand innovation.

The home spa product market is shifting to include medspa-level solutions that mimic everything from Botox to eye lifts; image by Sofiia Bakh.

Skin Care’s Medspa-ration Renaissance

A growing number of ingredients and product formats mimic professional treatment results, providing minimally invasive at-home beauty care.

As Anti-aging Market Booms, Consumers Look for Immediate Results

Grant Industries' Gransil EP-9 created to provide immediate soft focus, wrinkle correction and sensory feel that will allow brand owners to set their products apart.

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.

Trends in Holistic Beauty and Nutraceuticals

Trends in holistic beauty are spurring the nutricosmetic segment and recent product launches.

Anti-wrinkle Skin Care

Skin aging can be attributed to both physiological skin changes and photodegradation; anti-wrinkle products inspire physiological changes and tout certain benefits raise questions as to whether they are truly cosmetics or are more pharmaceutical in nature.

Everything Old is News Again

Although not always as sexy as new ingredients and technologies, proven ingredients get the job done and are embraced by consumers. It is the combined job of marketing and R&D to couple the proven with new and appropriate technology to launch a cutting-edge, winning finished product.

Defining Cosmeceuticals

As an unpoliced term, "cosmeceutical" can have myriad definitions. This makes ingredients and efficacy that much more important to brands targeting consumers seeking "cosmeceutical"-type products.

The Role of Stem Cells in Beauty—Today and Tomorrow

Consumers are prepared to learn about stem cells and their importance in the development of skin care products with even greater efficacy than those already available on the market. To be successful with stem cell use as an industry, it is important to understand what they are and their real potential.

Cosmeceuticals: Still Topical

A close look at cosmeceuticals as a category and the nature of ingredients defined as such sheds some light on the possibilities in creating a harmonious line in which topically applied products, along with those ingested, play an increasingly important role.

Plant Stem Cells: The Next Generation in Skin Care Technology

Plant stem cell technology can deliver antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and sebum-regulating activity to consumers.

The Pitfalls and Burdens of Claims

Is there a sizeable regulatory risk looming in the industry’s near future, or is the industry itself at risk?

Mark Prausnitz of Georgia Tech’s school of chemical and biomolecular engineering, one of the professors leading a U.S. team in finding a new mass delivery method for the flu vaccine, holds an array of polymer microneedles 1,000 microns tall. This photo, taken by Gary Meek and duplicated from the cover, is used with permission from Georgia Tech.

Skin Care Thinks Small to Deliver Big

High-tech delivery systems and active ingredients that slow signs of aging have prompted advanced marketing claims. Yet the future of skin care depends on further advancements in delivery methods, such as medical microneedles.

Chasing Tomorrow’s Beauty Trends

Track down some of the hottest niche beauty brands in hair and skin care, and learn the trends that are helping them get noticed.

Givaudan Active Beauty's Illuminyl 388 is an augmented green tea polyphenol (EGCG; epigallocatechin gallate) prebiotic skin brightening active with universal efficacy against skin pigmentation for all skin types.

Skin Pigmentation 2.0: May 2024 Beauty Trend Tracker

With hyperpigmentation concerns on the rise, ingredient suppliers have launched technologies to address issues related to acne, psoriasis and more.

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.”

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.

Current scientific literature points to “growing evidence that cellular senescence may be an essential mechanism that drives organismal aging,” including in the skin, leading to common issues such as “wrinkling, sagging, dryness or age spots.”

Beauty’s War on Senescence: Ingredient Trend Tracker

Regenerative technologies that clear the skin of zombie cells are reshaping beauty claims possibilities. PLUS: in-cosmetics Global 2024 ingredient highlights.

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