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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.

From stress to environmental conditions to congenital issues, sensitive skin is a multi-dimensional condition that affects large swaths of consumers across the globe.

The Gentle Skin Care Revolution

How sensitive skin is reshaping beauty R&D.

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Read the Label: Bioderma's Sensibio DS+ Crème

This gel-cream formula is touted as a soothing treatment for sensitive skin that helps to combat redness and dry, flaky patches. This column reviews the ingredient listing for claims substantiation.

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Comparatively Speaking: Inflammation vs. Allergy

Are you formulating for sensitive skin? Or is it really normal skin undergoing a typical inflammatory response? Where do allergic reactions fit in? In this edition of "Comparatively Speaking," Nava Dayan, Ph.D., explains.

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Read the Label: Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Body Lotion for Dry Skin

"I would recommend this [Aveeno Daily Moisturizing Body Lotion] to anyone with sensitive or dry skin as it’s affordable and works. . . after two weeks of daily application, any visible signs of dryness, redness or itching had significantly reduced–even after stopping use of the product."

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Read the Label: SVR Laboratoires Sensifine Crème

This hydrating gel-cream is specially developed to help soothe and comfort allergic and hypersensitive skin. This column will review the ingredient listing for claims substantiation and functionality.

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Read the Label: CeraVe Foaming Facial Cleanser

This gel transforms into a weightless foam to sweep away dirt, excess oil and impurities while maintaining skin's natural barrier function. This column reviews the ingredients for claims substantiation and functionality. In particular, three essential ceramides and hyaluronic acid to replenish hydration, while niacinamide soothes irritation.

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Read the Label: Shiseido Waso Quick Gentle Cleanser

Shiseido's Waso Quick Gentle Cleanser is an alcohol-free, oil-free, honey-gel cleanser that claims to foam without water to remove makeup, dirt and excess oil. This column reviews the ingredient list for claims substantiation and functionality.

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Read the Label: Filorga Foam Cleanser

Fortified with hyaluronic acid, this cleanser is said to address the premature signs of aging. This column will review the ingredient listing for claims substantiation and functionality.

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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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Read the Label: NuFace Prep-N-Glow Cloths

These dual-sided face wipes are said to effortlessly remove makeup and leave skin feeling smooth and supple. The present column reviews the ingredient listing for functionality and claims substantiation.

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Read the Label: BAKEL Malic Lightening and Renewing Serum

To address non-uniform or dark spots on the skin, consumers can utilize this product to recover skin uniformity, compactness and luminosity.

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Read the Label: La Roche-Posay Effaclar Purifying Cleansing Gel

The product is designed to eliminate impurities and excess sebum, leaving the skin feeling clean and fresh.

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Read the Label: Estelle & Thild Biocleanse 3-in-1 Cleansing Foam

Many consumers prefer an effective yet lighter face wash for hot, summer months. With this in mind, we turn to Estelle & Thild's Biocleanse 3-in-1 Cleansing Foam to see if its ingredients and claims align with these expectations.

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Read the Label: Cult Beauty's Indie Lee Brightening Cleanser

This product is designed to gently dissolve traces of makeup while renewing and revitalizing skin with its free radical-fighting lycopene and hydrolyzed wheat protein ingredients.

Among the trends emerging in 2024, increasing numbers of firms are leveraging plants as bio-factories for new beauty ingredients.

Top 2024 Beauty Ingredient Trends

This is just a fragment of the trends we witnessed at the shows this year.

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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Read the Label: Drunk Elephant Beste No. 9 Jelly Cleanser

This innovative jelly formula removes all traces of makeup, excess oil, pollution and any other grime from the day. Katerina Steventon, Ph.D., reviews the ingredient label for claims substantiation and functionality.