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Oh, Oh Organic Teams Up with Evolved By Nature to Bring Natural Peptides to Personal Care

Oh, Oh Organic has partnered with Evolved By Nature to offer natural, upcycled bioactive peptides for skin and hair care.

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Syensqo Debuts AI-Driven Upcycled Coffee Peptide to Lead Scalp Care Skinification

The active is designed as a single-solution for brands to address a broad array of scalp health claims.

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Symrise Introduces Cellexora MD to Care & Wellness Portfolio

This ingredient is made from upcycled organic apple side streams in Italy, making it a natural-origin ingredient with exceptional stability and traceability.

Tony Jaillot, CEO of Sweetch, says, “The desire from consumers to use beauty brands built on nature-derived ingredients is now unstoppable and is shaping the present and future of the industry.'

Ekkio Capital Launches Sweetch to Accelerate Beauty's Nature-derived Ingredient Revolution

Sweetch's portfolio highlights plant-based and biotech natural ingredients, as well as upcycled feedstocks, microbiome-oriented functional and active ingredients, and low-energy formulations.

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Expanscience Upcycles Passion Fruit to Protect Hair from UV and Pollution

Expanscience Laboratoires has extended its Ormesia ingredient from skin to hair care. The upcycled passion fruit extract is said to help preserve color, strengthen fibers and boost shine under UV and pollution stress.

In 2022, Lignopure commissioned the first GMP-compliant plant for lignin conversion, reportedly achieving the ability to recycle 90,000 kg of lignin annually.

Beauty Alternatives: Ingredient Trends

From upcycled technologies to improved oil-in water formulations, emerging ingredients are taking beauty to the next level.

Crodarom’s Phytofoam reportedly increased the height of foam by 13% and 61% with SLES and sodium lauroyl sarcosinate, respectively—leading to a denser and creamier foam.

What’s Trending: Beauty Ingredients

Upcycled apple, a unique brand-supplier partnership, and new research for existing technologies top this month’s trends in beauty ingredients.

A changing global climate means the skin is increasingly exposed to more extreme weather conditions, including sun exposure; new innovations are coming to the fore to address this escalating challenge.

6 Beauty Ingredient Trends from in-cosmetics Global

From climate-ready beauty to upcycled technologies and emotionally driven functionality, suppliers are delivering a new level of innovation for future beauty and personal care product development.

The Up! line contains three personal care products: Fresh Up! Icy Eye Stick, Cheer Up! Clay Mask Stick and Keep Up! Scalp Mask.

IFF Elevates Beauty with 3 'Up!'cycled Formulations

The Up! line contains three personal care products: Fresh Up! Icy Eye Stick; Cheer Up! Clay Mask Stick; and Keep Up! Scalp Mask.

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Ecoffea Citrus: Redefining Neck and Décolleté Care

Kline + Company argues that the application of emollients and other sensory technologies 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.

Roelmi HPC EMotion Emollients Boost Functionality & Sensorial Effects Sustainably

The EMotion Silky, also obtained by green chemistry processes, features a velvet touch and high spreadability while also offering strong solubility for organic UV filters. In makeup, it reportedly imparts a soft and silky after-feel.

Chemyunion's Iselight reduces the appearance of age-related spots for more even skin tone on the face and hands.

[video] Awakening Skin Radiance: Chemyunion's Iselight

A new skin care technology acts at the root of blemishes for more even skin tone and improved elasticity and texture.

Full Circle’s Barley TONIQ utilizes an enzymatic extraction to ferment barley in order to create a skin-soothing active that rebalances irritated skin.

Full Circle Upcycles Barley for Skin-soothing Action

Barley TONIQ comprises 8 of the 9 essential amino acids that are known to help reduce the appearance of irritated skin and boost the skin’s barrier function.

By preventing the hair's moisture porosity, PinoPlex can lock in hydration to smooth out damaged hair fibers.

How Mibelle Biochemistry's PinoPlex Locks in Moisture for Shinier, Healthier Hair

By preventing the hair's moisture porosity PinoPlex can lock in moisture to smooth damaged hair fibers.

EpiCalsome is a calcium delivery system that protects and renews the skin.

Mibelle Biochemistry's EpiCalsome Delivers Calcium for Skin Barrier Repair

EpiCalsome is a calcium delivery system that protects and renews the skin.

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Givaudan's SensoTrue DM5 Reimagines Silicone Substitutes for Professional Hair Care

Leveraging biotechnology to redefine silicone substitutes through
professional performance, naturality and formulation versatility.

In vivo efficacy tests demonstrated that Sculpup increases bust and buttock circumference.

Provital Sculpts the Body with Sculpup

Sculpup is made from "smart" proadipogenic blackberry that is said to broaden the capabilities of body volumizers.

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Carbios Enzyme Furthers Recycling, Draws Industry Giant Interest

PepsiCo., L'Oréal and Nestle have partnered with French startup company Carbios, which has developed an enzyme that could significantly advance plastics recycling.