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Marketdefense releases a report that explores U.S. consumers shopping behavior specifically when looking for beauty and personal care products on Amazon.

Breaking Down Amazon Prime’s Big Deal Days 2024 Beauty Sales Trends

A recent analysis report was released from MarketDefense, exploring consumer shopping behavior within the beauty sector from Amazon Prime Big Deal Days, which took place October 8-9.

Chemical Reaction: Skin Care: The Importance of Feel

It is necessary to formulate a product with pleasing sensory attributes and to confirm the results with meaningful tests. Using systematic methods to create the proper feel and appearance is a prerequisite for a new formulation.

Starting Point: Technology’s Bad Rap?

Trends in Hair Care, Sun Care Appear on the Verge

According to beauty industry consultant Imogen Matthews, these two beauty categories have “massive growth opportunities,” and she points a few options she came up with while on the floor of in-cosmetics 2014.

Didemnun sp. ascidia, a target species of Apoena Biotech’s Blue Amazon bioprospecting program.

Apoena Biotech Bioprospects Microorganisms from the Blue Amazon for Personal Care

Apoena Biotech is using the collected samples to develop a marine bacteria bank.

Earlier this year, Apoena Biotech held its second bioprospecting expedition for sustainable biological actives, this time in the Tapajós National Forest of Pará in Brazil's Amazon.

Integrity Ingredients Adds Apoena Brazilian Biotech Ingredients to Its Portfolio Under New Deal

Apoena's ingredients offer hydration, protection, anti-aging benefits, cleansing functionality and more.

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Read the Label: Starskin Pro Platinum Peel Mask Pack

After use, the product claims to make the user's complexion bright, balanced and infused with a youthful glow. The present column reviews the ingredient listing for claims substantiation and functionality.

French FDA to Finance Studies on Exposure to Cosmetics

The coming year will see new studies, as well as regulatory changes, for the beauty industry in France and Europe.

Project Development, New Airless Opportunities, and More Beauty Packaging News and Launches for Mid December 2013

Follow award winners from the NJPEC Package of the Year Awards and a new innovation project from Clariant, as well as launches from Yonwoo/Quadpack, Aptar Beauty + Home, Lumson, Tullis Russell, Mega Airless, Pujolasos and more.

Innovation—Made in New Jersey

Although its not often the first place that leaps to mind, New Jersey is a hotbed of innovation, and the beauty industry is no exception.

In Depth and In Focus at in-cosmetics

Although the aisles of the New Munich Trade Fair Centre in Munich, Germany, were less crowded for in-cosmetics 2009, attendees were more focused, driven and dedicated to their goal of absorbing information about cosmetic formulating in the 21st century.

Clean beauty approaches for foundation products may not always deliver the functionality and texture the consumer expects.

The Reality of Free-from Beauty

Simple “clean” swaps are easier said than done.

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Read the Label: Verso No. 4 Hydration Boost Serum

This product highlights a high concentration of niacinamide combined with proprietary colloidal oat extracts and oils to keep skin hydrated, smooth and beautiful. Do the ingredients match? Read on to find out.

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L’Oréal’s Hair Fix: Total Repair 5 Damage Erasing Balm

L’Oréal Paris’ Total Repair 5 Damage Erasing Balm was designed to treat five different types of hair damage.

Walmart U.S., Sam's Club Set Full Ingredient Disclosure Goals

The plan includes full disclosure of all ingredients including those typically protected under trade secrets such as fragrances.

Water and Oil

In product development, brand owners utilize both the technical and the marketing brains charged with creating products that will resonate with consumers—and utilizing the right tools allows greater and earlier insight into what is possible in a formula.

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Patent Pick: Kao Device Puts a Spin on Topical Delivery

Kao inventors have put a novel spin on topical product application with a patent describing a reusable means to refill handheld electrospinning devices.

Takasago, ISP Collaborate on Oral Care Product Development

Partnership involves encapsulation of flavors and sensory ingredients intended to elevate consumers' experience in oral care products; product outcome expected to create opportunities in mature markets and provide incentives for consumers to trade up in developing markets.