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No needles necessary: Interest in Botox alternatives highlight consumers' desire for non-invasive (p)rejuvenation across age ranges, from Gen Z to boomers.

Argireline: Riding the 'Notox' Botox Alternative Wave

From viral products to novel ingredients, argireline is driving (p)rejuvenation innovation for consumers across the age spectrum.

Fewer trips to the medspa? Lubrizol's Argireline Amplified Peptide, when applied in combination with Botulinum toxin type-A injections like Botox, can 'keep wrinkles at bay for nearly 8 weeks longer than [the injections] alone.'

Lubrizol's Argireline Amplified Peptide Extends Botox-type Injection Results by 8 Weeks: New Study

Argireline Amplified Peptide, which is produced in accordance to green chemistry principles, has displayed "superior" in vitro activity and muscle relaxation effects compared to the company's original Argireline peptide.

The rise of exosome-based therapies also points to exciting advancements in personalized skin care, offering bespoke solutions for concerns like aging, pigmentation, and acne.

The Future of Beauty: How Exosomes Are Revolutionizing Skin Care

In 2024, exosome-based products started to generate buzz, but by 2025, they’ve become a game-changer in the market.

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.

The home spa product market is shifting to include medspa-level solutions that mimic everything from Botox to eye lifts; image by Sofiia Bakh.

Skin Care’s Medspa-ration Renaissance

A growing number of ingredients and product formats mimic professional treatment results, providing minimally invasive at-home beauty care.

As Anti-aging Market Booms, Consumers Look for Immediate Results

Grant Industries' Gransil EP-9 created to provide immediate soft focus, wrinkle correction and sensory feel that will allow brand owners to set their products apart.

Blurring, soft-focus, light-scattering: a wide range of ingredients are delivering effects that smooth out imperfections and impart additional benefits.

Blurry Beauty

From makeup to skin care, brands and ingredient firms are delivering soft-focus effects.

Deinde has launched a new Line-Smoothing Eye Cream, powered by 95% biobased ingredients, including the biotech ingredient naringenin.

Deinde’s New Line-Smoothing Eye Cream & Ultra-Cooling Eye Roller: Q&A with CEO Joshua Britton

Deinde has launched a new Line-Smoothing Eye Cream, powered by 95% biobased ingredients, including the biotech ingredient naringenin.

From elevated efficacy to pro beauty inspiration to preventative care, Mintel has issued its annual beauty trends, alongside its 2025 consumer trend report.

2025’s Top 7 Beauty Trends

Mintel notes, “To build credibility, companies will highlight the efficacy of their products through scientific testing and innovative ingredients.”

Trends in Holistic Beauty and Nutraceuticals

Trends in holistic beauty are spurring the nutricosmetic segment and recent product launches.

Anti-wrinkle Skin Care

Skin aging can be attributed to both physiological skin changes and photodegradation; anti-wrinkle products inspire physiological changes and tout certain benefits raise questions as to whether they are truly cosmetics or are more pharmaceutical in nature.

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.

Defining Cosmeceuticals

As an unpoliced term, "cosmeceutical" can have myriad definitions. This makes ingredients and efficacy that much more important to brands targeting consumers seeking "cosmeceutical"-type products.

The Role of Stem Cells in Beauty—Today and Tomorrow

Consumers are prepared to learn about stem cells and their importance in the development of skin care products with even greater efficacy than those already available on the market. To be successful with stem cell use as an industry, it is important to understand what they are and their real potential.

Cosmeceuticals: Still Topical

A close look at cosmeceuticals as a category and the nature of ingredients defined as such sheds some light on the possibilities in creating a harmonious line in which topically applied products, along with those ingested, play an increasingly important role.

Plant Stem Cells: The Next Generation in Skin Care Technology

Plant stem cell technology can deliver antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and sebum-regulating activity to consumers.

The Pitfalls and Burdens of Claims

Is there a sizeable regulatory risk looming in the industry’s near future, or is the industry itself at risk?

Mark Prausnitz of Georgia Tech’s school of chemical and biomolecular engineering, one of the professors leading a U.S. team in finding a new mass delivery method for the flu vaccine, holds an array of polymer microneedles 1,000 microns tall. This photo, taken by Gary Meek and duplicated from the cover, is used with permission from Georgia Tech.

Skin Care Thinks Small to Deliver Big

High-tech delivery systems and active ingredients that slow signs of aging have prompted advanced marketing claims. Yet the future of skin care depends on further advancements in delivery methods, such as medical microneedles.

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