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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.

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Read the Label: Caudalíe Vinopure Skin Perfecting Serum

Caudalíe's Vinopure Skin Perfecting Serum claims include: tighter pores, smoother skin and a clear, radiant complexion. This column will review the ingredient listing for claims substantiation and functionality.

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Read the Label: Vichy Liftactiv Vitamin C Skin Brightening Corrector

After 10 days of product application, skin's complexion is said to look brighter and more even. This column will review the ingredient listing for claims substantiation and functionality.

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Read the Label: Oskia's Citylife I-Zone Balm

This product contains retinol and astaxanthin—an antioxidant touted to be 6,000 times more powerful than vitamin E—to improve skin tone and texture in pollution-compromised skin. Read on to learn more.

CBC and other cannabinoids, produced via fermentation, can push beauty into frontiers beyond CBD.

Cannabinoid Beauty: Beyond CBD

Purissima is a developer of natural ingredients via the application of fermentation to microalgae. The company is set to launch its first ingredient, cannabichromene (CBC), imminently.

New Paradigms

Not every method is good for every product type, but a tool box of new ideas can surely jump-start a sleepy development program. And innovation, often a risky proposition, has a higher likelihood of success if the underlying ideas are sound.

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Read the Label: Paula's Choice 10% Azelaic Acid Booster

This product promotes a more clarified skin tone overall, making dull, sallow complexions appear brighter and balanced. Here, Katerina Steventon, Ph.D., reviews the label to see if the ingredients match these claims.

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The Best of Science and Nature

With technology moving faster than ever before, the need to "unplug" and get back to nature has never been greater. This need for more natural solutions is particularly evident in cosmetics, and this challenge is expertly met by products from schülke.

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Cosmoprof Asia 2017 Awards Winners Revealed

Cosmoprof Awards consists of the Innovation Circle Awards and the Beauty Circle Awards. Each has announced a list of winners for various categories, which best showed off innovation.

Myramaze-Essence can elicit a more positive mood in users under stress by instantly lowering levels of stress hormones.

Rahn Debuts Myramaze-Essence Sensocosmetic, Radicare-Eco Pollution/UV Protectant

Rahn will debut two actives during in-cosmetics Global: Myramaze-Essence, a sensocosmetic designed to reinstate youthful glow via skin and nasal receptors; and Radocare-Eco, a pollution/UV protectant for hair/scalp inspired by vegetal leaves and husks.

Consumers increasingly demand proof of efficacy; here's what that means for beauty brands.

Elevated Efficacy: Science-driven, Clinically Proven Beauty

Symrise's Jennifer King will discuss how consumers are increasingly seeking personal care products that not only make them look and feel good but also have scientific evidence to support their claims.

Chemical Reaction: When Looking Back is Looking Forward

The beauty industry has an insatiable craving for innovation. Evaluating the foresight and acumen of the founders of the modern beauty business informs where the industry’s been, the methods of its advancement and where it can still advance.

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.

Hot and Cold

Examining the sensory elements in beauty ingredients shows how to impact consumers' feelings that products are "really doing something."

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A Sneak Peek at in-cos North America Innovations

During in-cosmetics North America, forward-thinking personal care ingredient suppliers will offer product insights and share new formulation techniques. Multifunctional beauty care, high performance polymers and surfactants are just three highlights, to be presented via a series of Innovation Seminars.

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Beauty Accelerate Virtual: Inclusive Design Means Better Beauty for All

Designing products to meet the unique needs of disabled consumers can translate to better product experiences for all. Hear more about this during our panel discussion at Beauty Accelerate Virtual—to be held Oct. 18-21, 2021.

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Shortlist Spotlight: in-cosmetics Global 2026 Awards Heat Up Ahead of Paris

This year’s lineup underscores a step-change in innovation, from cutting-edge actives and high-performance functional materials to sustainability-led solutions.

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.