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Consumers Demand Eco, Individualized and Efficacious

Ingredient suppliers share insights into consumer wants, the ingredients created in response and how brand owners can leverage ingredient stories in product and branding efforts.

2011 Ingredient Launches

A roundup of the ingredient launches published in GCI, January–November.

Controversial Ingredients: One Brand’s Perspective

A number of ingredients have been vilified, and ingredient myths have perpetuated. Scientific evidence suggests that some should be eliminated from formulations; the use of others, while safe according to the available scientific data, should be considered for commercial reasons related to consumer perception.

The Product Development Team

The product development group functions as the swing activity between product marketing and research and development. It is involved with the selection of product(s) that will satisfy marketing needs for the new product launch.

Of Bacon, The Cloud and Connections

Katie Anderson, the associate editor for GCI sister publication Cosmetics & Toiletries, has a little whiteboard in her cube where she adds her “word of the day.” Recently, it’s become the odd idiom of the day—both marveling and celebrating those phrases that, when given real thought, don’t make a whole lot of sense to modern speakers/writers...

The Intensifying Regulatory Investigation of Formaldehyde and Its Implications

A recent report on formaldehyde will not only impact consumer confidence, and what can and can’t be used in products, it may also open the door for toxic tort cases. Understanding the background, challenges and methods of addressing this chemical and its use is a lesson that may be applicable across regulations and regulatory environments.

The Importance of Efficacy in Cosmeceutical Beauty

Ongoing ingredient innovations and consumers’ constant desire to maintain youthful skin has this beauty segment continuing to develop.

INCI Name: Fragrance

Today’s consumers hate secrets, especially when it involves something they smell or put on their skin. Columnist Steve Herman shares his opinions on transparency.

From left, Carlotta Jacobson, president, CEW; Andrea Jung, chairman and CEO, Avon; and Jill Scalamandre, CEW chairwoman and CMO, Chrysallis.

CEW Welcomes Andrea Jung

Avon's CEO shares insights on consumer relationships, specificity of channels, marketing through trust and the leadership required in expanding into new markets, saying "the vehicle and the pride is the brand."

The addition of Croda's Cutissential Behenyl 18-MEA and Cutissential 18-MEA 40 to hair care helps to restore damaged hair back to its initial healthy state.

Managing Hair: A Unique Selling Proposition

Croda’s Cutisssential series offers the power to replenish an essential hair lipid and correct damaged hair's propensity for water, thereby facilitating the creation of products that restore the look, feel and manageability of healthy hair.

schülke’s sensiva® PA 20 is based on “nature-identical” phenethyl alcohol, which occurs widely in nature and can be found in many essential oils—including rose, carnation and hyacinth.

Better Than Natural

Consumers are clearly drawn to natural ingredients, but ensuring yield and properties are consistent year after year is a challenge. It's all up to nature. “Nature-identical” materials harness the best of nature without relying on Mother Nature.

Sustainable Fragrances 2011: the Age of Transparency

From field to store shelf, the fragrance industry faces ongoing ingredient sourcing and disclosure challenges, leading to ramifications for the scented components of beauty brands, and particularly those seeking more green aspects.

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.

A Deeper Shade of Green

Eco-conscious suppliers help brands deliver a life cycle of sustainably sourced beauty.

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.

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.

Exclusive Interview: Ted Lapidus Brand in Latin America

Jean-Marc Daviaud, regional director for Parfums Jacques Bogart in Latin America, shared the company’s perspective for this emerging market, stressed the importance of Brazilian consumers for the global beauty industry and spoke about the latest Ted Lapidus fragrances.

Retro Beauty

Cosmetic trends go in cycles—from a 2,000-year-old Greek recipe, through 21st century chemical additions back to a yearn for natural ingredients.

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