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Section: Ingredients > Regulatory

Lipochroman Molecule from Lipotec USA, Inc.

Luxury and Prestige Packaging, Ingredients and New Actives

New innovations in packaging, ingredients and actives.

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Essential Oils – More Than Just Aromatherapy

Essential oils serve a variety of purposes in the health and beauty industries. Beyond aromatherapy benefits, some of the most interesting essential oils are used as antiseptics, astringents, rheumatics or diuretics.

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Meet Hyaluronic Acid’s B.F.F. for Fuller, Firmer Skin

Hyaluronic Acid is one of the most sought-after cosmetic ingredients globally. Thanks to its use as a highly effective injectable filler in cosmetic dermatology, consumers have come to seek it out even in cosmetics, due to the belief that hyaluronic acid is the go-to ingredient for plump and moisturized skin.

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Meet Hyaluronic Acid’s B.F.F. for Fuller, Firmer Skin

Thanks to its use as a highly effective injectable filler in cosmetic dermatology, consumers have come to seek it out even in cosmetics, due to the belief that hyaluronic acid is the go-to ingredient for plump and moisturized skin.

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Retinol & retinoic acid plant-based alternative following the A-beauty

Discover Reneseed™, the seed of youth to wake up your dormant beauty & rejuvenate your skin. A retinol & retinoic acid plant-based alternative following the A-beauty trend.

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Elevate Hair Care Claims with Glycolic Acid from DuPont™ Glypure®

Glycolic acid can deliver important benefits for hair care products, enhancing the protection and manageability of hair by conditioning, moisturizing, strengthening and preventing breakage.

Spice up Your Formulation: Addressing Issues Caused by Acids in Skin Care Products

Introduction of Luvigel(TM) Star as an effective thickener in anti-aging preparations

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Jar Deconstructed: Bakuchiol

Bakuchiol is a chemical entity that can be naturally found in Psoralea corylifolia, and it has many amazing benefits to the skin that is excellent for spa treatments.

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Confounding Labels: One ‘Natural’ = 100+ ‘Chemicals’

As most formulators are aware, creating a product with three or more botanicals in it means a final formula containing more than 200 chemicals. How is this better for skin? It's not, according to this commentary.

Hydroquinone: Is the Cure Worse Than the Problem?

Though there are various theories about how hydroquinone works, there is little doubt that its safety profile is of concern. Fortunately, alternatives, addressing a range of skin concerns, are available.

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Does Beauty Desperately Need a New Hero Ingredient?

What's old is new again, according to cosmetic industry expert Akshay Talati. While this puts a creative spin on tried-and-true ingredients, are we stick in a chemistry loop? Talati explores this further in the following commentary.

Inflammaging: Changing the Face of Skin Care

The concept of inflammaging may result in a widespread change in the professional skin care industry.

The Mysteries of R&D, Part I

For those just beginning their marketing career in the beauty industry, learning the basics of ingredient types will facilitate working with an R&D team.

Opportunities and Advantages in Green

Finding innovative approaches to make the same products with fewer resources is best for consumers, companies and the environment.

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.

Givaudan Active Beauty's Illuminyl 388 is an augmented green tea polyphenol (EGCG; epigallocatechin gallate) prebiotic skin brightening active with universal efficacy against skin pigmentation for all skin types.

Skin Pigmentation 2.0: May 2024 Beauty Trend Tracker

With hyperpigmentation concerns on the rise, ingredient suppliers have launched technologies to address issues related to acne, psoriasis and more.

Current scientific literature points to “growing evidence that cellular senescence may be an essential mechanism that drives organismal aging,” including in the skin, leading to common issues such as “wrinkling, sagging, dryness or age spots.”

Beauty’s War on Senescence: Ingredient Trend Tracker

Regenerative technologies that clear the skin of zombie cells are reshaping beauty claims possibilities. PLUS: in-cosmetics Global 2024 ingredient highlights.

U.S. prestige skin care sales in 2020 declined 11%

Skin Care 2021

New ingredients, packaging formats and market-driven brand positioning are elevating beauty’s self-care leader.

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