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According to Mintel data, 39% of U.S. skin care consumers Gen X or older feel it’s important for skin care products to be recommended by a doctor or dermatologist.

Beauty Enters Its Dermatological Skin Care Era

Expert-backed brands and clinically proven formulations are driving growth while building consumer trust.

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.

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Target Unveils Its Largest-Ever Spring Beauty Reset, Doubling Down on Prestige-at-Mass, K-Beauty and Skin Health

Target is reinforcing its role as a volume-driven beauty incubator—scaling prestige cues, dermatologist credibility and global trends at mass prices, while investing heavily in physical retail as a discovery engine.

From Silab’s Longevicell, which harnesses the rejuvenating power of myrtle leaves to target cellular mechanisms for longevity, to Evolved By Nature's Activated Silk KDF-β peptide, designed to combat modern environmental stressors, these advancements are setting new standards in skin care ingredients.

Revolutionizing Skin Care: Innovative Ingredients Transforming Anti-Aging and Skin Health

Exploring the science, benefits, and sustainability behind these advanced ingredients, offering a closer look at how they address key skin concerns like aging, oxidative stress, and damage repair.

The Pollution Solution

Pollutants are a decisive cause of skin problems; therefore, evolving technological advancement in antipollutants must address skin protection and pre-emptively alleviate signs of aging.

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Offering Mildness For Sensitive Skin

Sensitive skin can affect the quality of life, leading many consumers to look for simple, effective solutions of healthier skin. With increased exposure to environmental factors, like pollution, UV radiation, extreme climate change and more, individuals report exaggerated skin reactions.

Olay Asks: What is an Ageless Woman?

The Multi-Decade and Ethnicity (MDE) study reveals biological commonalities among a subset of women who look exceptionally younger than their age.

Pictured: Earthbound Night Cream, Celestial C Serum, Watermelon Moon Oil Serum and Moon Glow Daily Reparative Botanical Dry Oil.

Moon Beings Offers Retinol Alternative Skin Care

The Moon Beings collection features an oil-based serum, night cream, vitamin C seurm, dry oil and foaming face wash.

'Not only did we acknowledge that the younger user searches for vegan skin care, we recognized that goat milk is so rich in fatty acids and researched how to create lighter textures with the same composition of nutrients,' said Jill Scalamandre, CEO at Beekman 1802. 'This is the beauty of biotechnology.'

Beekman 1802 Reverse Engineers Goat Milk for Vegan Shine-Free Range

The brand duped its own core technology, generating a vegan "goat milk."

In formulations, 'Malassezin dramatically reduces the appearance of dark spots, and also delivers powerful results for smoothing skin texture, minimizing the look of lines and wrinkles, supporting the skin barrier and protecting against free radical damage,' per Mother Science.

Mother Science Gains New Funding, Launches Retinol Synergist

Because retinol and Malassezin operate via different pathways, their benefits are complementary, rather than redundant, according to the brand.

'My entire career I've been looking for products that are engineered for performance and built for me as a professional athlete, but that are not detrimental to my body or the planet,' said Slater. 'With Freaks of Nature, we've finally cracked that code, enabling athletes to go harder at their sport for longer.'

Surfer Kelly Slater's Freaks of Nature Lands on Amazon

The new brand is designed for "outdoor enthusiasts + athletes," per Freaks of Nature, and preserving the environment.

“The benefit of listening to 10 years of customers' desires and skin concerns compelled us to create this line,' says Credo co-founder and CEO Annie Jackson.

Credo Skincare Pushes the Limits of Beauty Sustainability

The collection centers on shoppers' hydration concerns via clean and sustainable formulations.

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Urban Outfitters Bets Big on Gen Alpha Beauty with Exclusive Yes Day Rollout to 60 U.S. Stores

According to the retailer's UO Insiders community, 96% of members incorporate skin care into their routines.

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Meet the 2026 C&T Allē Awards Finalists – Trailblazers in Beauty Innovation

The 2026 C&T Allē Awards are just around the corner, celebrating the trailblazers of beauty innovation on May 18, 2026, in NYC. This year’s finalists represent the pinnacle of creativity, science and vision. Meet this year's contenders.

Biomimetics: Beauty Ingredients That Mimic Bio Functions

Tell a story for your brand’s beauty products that is rooted in both nature and science when you use biomimetic ingredients.

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With Sincerely Yours and Pour Tous, the Gen Alpha Beauty Blitz Reaches Sephora and Amazon

Two recent brand launches turn up the heat on the competition in responsible skin care.

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A Comprehensive Strategy to Pacify Sensitive Skin

Sensitive skin is a global reality, creating a sizable demand for products designed to minimize skin sensitivity. Pacifeel™ is a natural plant extract that offers a holistic approach to treat both the symptoms and causes of sensitive skin

Everyday Humans Ease Up PHA Watery Oil Cleanser removes SPF and fights against photoaging symptoms caused by sun damage.

Everyday Humans Debuts First Post-Sun Skin Care Product

Ease Up PHA Watery Oil Cleanser removes SPF and fights against photoaging symptoms caused by sun damage.