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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.
Jun 3rd, 2024
The packaging features a luxurious pottery finish with gold connections that evoke the gold silk sericin.
SK-II's LXP Craftsmanship Series Superpowers its Pitera Tech for Rejuvenated Skin
The highly concentrated Pitera is developed via a condensing process that is said to involve no direct application of heat to preserve the material's key benefits.
Sep 3rd, 2024
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Caldic x AmphiStar Partner to Promote Upcycled, Footprint Friendly Biosurfactants Across Europe
Per the companies, this collaboration aims to make biosurfactants a mainstream choice for personal care formulations, offering a sustainable, mild and effective alternative to traditional surfactants.
Jan 8th, 2026
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[video] Cosmetic Victories 2021 Winner Profile: Sustainable Smart Delivery Capsules
Smart Delivery Capsules are based on green chemistry and carry active compounds to the stratum corneum. This innovation won the Industry Prize in the 2021 Cosmetic Victories competition. Read on to learn why.
Apr 13th, 2021
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Welcome to PDRN's Regenerative Gold Rush: 10 Ingredients Competing to Set the Innovation Agenda
Apr 27th, 2026
New Color Options, Hair Beauty and More Beauty Ingredient News and Launches for Late January 2014
Sustainability from Croda, acquisitions from TRI-K Industries, new locations for Silab and Wacker, and new launches from Impact Colors, Dow Corning, Rahn and much more.
Jan 28th, 2014
Vytrus’ plant biotechnology-derived Baolift skin care technology reportedly simulates the facial rejuvenating impacts of a fitness workout.
New Beauty Ingredient Trends: from Functional Water to Fit Skin
From Amazonian biotech to ultra-fine bubble technology, emerging cosmetic ingredients are pushing the boundaries of functions and claims.
Oct 1st, 2024
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Top 14 Macro Trends for Beauty Innovation in 2025 and Beyond
The fourth quarter of 2024 was jam-packed with events — and ideas to spark beauty innovation. Here, we've grouped them into 14 macro trends we see for beauty innovation in 2025 and beyond. Brief notes, buzzwords and "honorable mentions" also are included.
Dec 19th, 2024
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Meet the 2026 C&T Allē Awards Finalists – Trailblazers in Beauty Innovation
The 2026 C&T Allē Awards are just around the corner, celebrating the trailblazers of beauty innovation on May 18, 2026, in NYC. This year’s finalists represent the pinnacle of creativity, science and vision. Meet this year's contenders.
Feb 2nd, 2026
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Skin & Hair Care’s Protein-Based Revolution
Emerging technologies are driving a biology-first wave of innovation; here’s what that means for beauty innovation.
Aug 26th, 2024
Gransense+ is designed to give compatible options for creating high-performance natural formulations that can include SPF, blurring, long wear, and/or color cosmetics such as foundations and concealers.
Grant's Gransense+ Adds Sensory and Multifunctional Benefits Naturally
Gransense+ offers natural sensory and multifunctional capabilities such as SPF, blurring, long wear and/or color possibilities.
Mar 31st, 2022
With more than 2,700 business meetings and $1.2 million in deals closed during the event, plus $19.2 million projected in the coming year, Brazil’s impact on the global beauty market continues to grow.
Brazilian Beauty Brands Shine Globally with Innovation and Sustainability at in-cosmetics 2025
With more than 2,700 business meetings and $1.2 million in deals closed during the event, plus $19.2 million projected in the coming year, Brazil’s impact on the global beauty market continues to grow.
Apr 17th, 2025
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UPDATE: Solabia's OleoShine Racks Up More Awards
Pro-Longevia, Peptiskin and FucoLife GR are natural and eco-friendly solutions focused on healthy skin and well aging, while OleoShine Green imparts ultra glossy sensory effects sustainably and without plastics.
Apr 28th, 2025
A new report from Kline argues that the application of emollients and moisturizers, delivery systems, fragrances and essential oils, texture modifiers, and exfoliants can boost sensorial experiences to elevate everyday products and create “indulgent rituals that engage the senses” and emotions while also differentiating products in a crowded and dupe-riddled beauty market.
Clinical Eclipses Clean: Ingredient Trend Tracker
Efficacy, expert-backed claims and third-party certifications are the keys to beauty shopper engagement in 2024.
Apr 1st, 2024
The Value of Green Processing
As consumers’ quest for natural in every aspect of a product continues, a comprehensive story of overall ecological impact of product will be required—and green processing is part of that story.
Oct 9th, 2008
Finalists Announced for 2012 Cosmetics & Toiletries R&D Awards
The finalists for the 2012 Cosmetics & Toiletries® R&D Awards have been announced, which honor one new ingredient for its innovative design and/or method of development, and one finished product for the novelty and craft of its formulation and/or application of a technology.
Jan 24th, 2012
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Does Beauty Desperately Need a New Hero Ingredient?
What's old is new again, according to cosmetic industry expert Akshay Talati. While this puts a creative spin on tried-and-true ingredients, are we stick in a chemistry loop? Talati explores this further in the following commentary.
Jun 28th, 2021
Movement in Innovation, Notes from in-cosmetics Asia, and More Beauty Ingredient News and Launches for Early November 2013
Get the latest on the newest innovation centers and production facilities, collaborations and partnerships, and testing developments, as well as launches from Croda, TRI-K, Evonik and many more
Nov 5th, 2013
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