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Fragrance and joy (which are often interconnected) are driving growth in beauty in 2025.

What's Driving Resilience in the 2025 Beauty Market? Joy and Scent.

Circana's new "Eat Play Love" report highlights a desire for comforting and "nourishing" beauty products that offer "mini moments of bliss," as the company puts it.

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Skin Care Gets Smarter: Exploring Advanced Ingredient Technologies

Skin care is evolving, and advanced ingredient technologies are leading the way. From smart formulas that adapt to the skin's needs to cutting-edge innovations like encapsulated actives, the future of skin care is all about precision and effectiveness.

BiomeBlush Multi-Stick is priced at $38 and is currently available for purchase at biotechbeautyus.com.

BiotechBeauty Launches Microbiome-Friendly Makeup: Skin Care Meets High-Performance Color

BiotechBeauty has officially entered the beauty world with a new product that merges advanced biotechnology and high-performance makeup, the BiomeBlush MultiStick.

Multitasking beauty redefined: Color cosmetics infused with active ingredients for stronger lashes, smoother skin, and a calm complexion.

Powerhouse Ingredients Are Reshaping Multitasking Makeup

Discover the latest innovations in color cosmetics, from multitasking active ingredients to hybrid makeup that enhances both beauty and skin health. Learn about groundbreaking formulations, key actives, and the future of skincare-infused makeup.

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Alchimie Forever Launches Peptide Lip Booster, Expanding Beyond Skin Care

Alchimie Forever expands into lip care with its new Peptide Lip Booster, a dermatologist-developed product designed to hydrate, plump, and reduce fine lines.

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Salvona's MultiSal Menthol Triggers Cool, Refreshing Effects for Skin, Hair and Other Applications

This encapsulated form of pure menthol demonstrates enhanced stability, longevity and efficiency for cosmetics, skin care, hair care and many other applications.

How can brands of every price point innovate to break through the skin care category’s malaise?

How Skin Care Can Escape Its Innovation Slump

The skin care market is undergoing a shift as consumers seek innovative and effective products that deliver long-term benefits. Brands must adapt to evolving consumer preferences by prioritizing longevity, medicalization and personalization.

The Original 101 Ointment ($17) provides 101 uses, from soothing chapped lips to dry skin patches, while the Strawberry 101 Ointment ($13.50) adds a fruity twist with alpha-hydroxy acids for gentle exfoliation.

Lanolips Founder Kirsten Carriol Talks Target Nationwide Expansion, Lanolin's Appeal & More

Lip care, like skin care and hair care, is fusing back to the basics and integrating actives for skin care benefits.

Glow Recipe's Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dewy Flush Tints Are Skin Care-Makeup Hybrids ... but Don't Call Them Blush

Launched during the brand's Glow Global Conference (where Glow Recipe also unveiled its Glass Balm Collection), Dewy Flush is available in two color variants: Watermelon Flush, a soft, peachy-pink, and Berry Flush, a berry-plum.

Queries for mature skin makeup over the most recent 12-month September-September period revealed “medium volume,” per Spate. Notably, Laura Geller was one of only two brands to dominate these searches. Its eponymous founder (pictured here) will share her legacy of knowledge about Gen X's beauty journey during Beauty Accelerate 2025.

Laura Geller & All Golden Founder Sarah Kugelman Talk Gen X, Beauty and Shifting Attitudes Toward Aging (Live Discussion)

Gen X are heavily engaged across beauty, with higher penetration than the total population in 80% of beauty categories.

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BASF Unveils Climate-adaptive Formula Concepts at Cosmet'Agora

Driven by innovations in sustainability, transparency and science, the company presented formula concepts to address the impacts of climate change — i.e., varying humidity, temperature shifts and intensified UV exposure.

For the first six months of 2024, the U.S. lip makeup segment was a juggernaut, expanding by 21% in dollar terms and 23% in unit terms. But that's far from the full story for brands seeking innovation opportunities.

2025’s Makeup Trends Move Beyond Lips & Blush

Solutions for underserved mature and acne-prone consumers, as well as emerging trends in eye and brow products, offer innovation for brands beyond color cosmetics' superstar sectors.

BASF has launched a new synthetic peptide for skin care that aligns with the slow aging trend.

New Beauty Ingredients: from Pro-aging to Ingestible Sun Defense

To keep beauty innovators up on the latest technologies, Global Cosmetic Industry and Cosmetics & Toiletries prepare ingredient trend bulletins breaking down the latest emerging technologies, clinicals and more.

Mass makeup took a hit in 2024 through September, but the lip boom could not be stopped.

The State of Beauty, 2024-2025: Top Growth Sectors & Holiday/Q4 Forecast

“Prestige beauty epitomizes the indulgence in little luxuries and acts as an indicator of the consumer mindset for the beauty industry overall,” says Larissa Jensen, global beauty industry advisor at Circana.

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Read the Label: Glossier Balm Dotcom Reformulation — Before/After Comparison

The iconic Glossier Balm Dotcom launched ten years ago, drawing a cult following. In 2023, the brand reformulated its classic to meet vegan and cruelty-free specifications but this caused a backlash from fans. This article compares these formulations.

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.

Twenty-one percent of girls and 12% of boys expressed interest in beauty/personal care before they were 7 years old. While this may seem shocking compared to past generations, it shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Gen Z’s & Alpha’s Parents Tell All on their Kids’ Beauty Obsessions

A new survey delves into the early onset of product interest, the role of social media, parents’ expectations and more.

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Hydrinity Accelerated Skin Science is Tapping into the Dermatological Lip Care Market with New Luxe Lip Hydrator

Hydrinity is launching a new lip care product, the Luxe Lip Hydrator, formulated with dual-weight, 100% injectable-grade hyaluronic acid, peptides and botanical actives.

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