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The New Beauty Shelf Is AI. Is Your Brand Showing Up?

Ingredient transparency, clinical credibility and retail content are emerging as key drivers of AI visibility, according to 5W’s 2026 Beauty AI Visibility Index.

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Beauty Tech Takes A More Scientific Approach

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Leveraging Your Formulation With An AI-Powered Assistant

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The AI Gold Rush in Beauty R&D

Competing platforms vie to demonstrate their value in achieving speed, savings and efficiencies, and market triumph.

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Precision Systems: Closing the Efficacy Gap through Functional Packaging Architecture

Holding a portfolio of more than 800 patents, Nuon Medical provides B2B partners with the hardware and diagnostic sensors necessary to maximize formula efficacy. From calibrated microneedling and phototherapy to energy-assisted delivery, Nuon’s mission is to bridge the gap between clinical science and the consumer’s daily routine.

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2026: The Year AI Decides Beauty’s Winners and Losers

"Leaders must view AI as a core operating capability for managing trend volatility, not a digital innovation project."

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AI-Inspired Beauty: Accelerating Innovation Through Intelligence

Discover how AI is transforming cosmetic innovation. Grant Industries’ AI-Inspired Beauty Formulary explores data-driven formulation strategies, advanced ingredient technologies, and new pathways to accelerate product development.

SkinGPT: AI-Powered Skin Aging Simulation

Haut.Ai's newest model SkinGPT allows users to see how lifestyle factors contribute to skin-aging, giving brands a unique way to educate and promote healthly skin choices.

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Arbelle introduces a framework for profitable beauty personalization

Leading brands are already cashing in on personalization. Discover Arbelle’s step-by-step framework showing how beauty AI delivers loyalty, higher conversions, and data insights that fuel profitable brand growth.

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10 Realities of Beauty M&A in 2025: Sector Overlap, Portfolio Growth, Results-driven and More

Major players like L’Oreal and Unilever are expanding their portfolios through acquisitions of innovative beauty and personal care brands.

3 Ways AI is Reshaping Beauty: from Fragrance to Sun Care

Medical-grade skin care, fine fragrance ingredients and sunscreen usage are being disrupted by new AI-powered platforms.

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As Reports Highlight Growing Demand for Personalization, Alma Unveils AI-Driven Universkin Skin Care System

Alma has launched Universkin, an AI-powered skin care system that creates personalized treatments using skin data. This innovation responds to a growing demand among consumers for hyper-personalized beauty solutions.

NielsenIQ data shows that Gen Z is prone to shopping at Sephora, Ulta, Target and TikTok, but not at department stores, while millennials tend toward Sephora, Target and Amazon.

TikTok & Amazon Are Rapidly Reshaping Beauty Retail. Brands Need to Be Ready.

Within specialty stores, Ulta has been hit by growth at Sephora, including its Kohl’s shop-in-shops, per NielsenIQ data.

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Arbelle helps brands create foundation ranges that celebrate diversity

Arbelle’s Foundation Inclusivity Analysis offers brands a deeper understanding of how their foundation shade ranges align with diverse skin tones, providing insights to support inclusivity and representation in beauty.

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These Are the Top 15 TikTok Shops in Beauty

Revenue trends, top-selling products and more are revealed in Charm.IO's latest report.

Iqonic.AI’s new AI-based hair analysis platform allows hair salons, brands and retailers to offer assessments of common concerns such as hair loss or hair density.

3 Perspectives on Beauty x AI

From personalization to demand planning to product development, artificial intelligence is suddenly everywhere.

Three MaquillAR projects: 1. AR effect for Valde Beauty; 2. AR effect for Val Garland, model: Fallon Havanna; 3. AR effect for Submission Beauty, model and founder: Zenia Jaeger.

Beauty’s Augmented Reality Future

The AR renaissance is delivering real brand value and increasingly complex and imaginative projects.

As with the wider economy, beauty innovation seems poised to accelerate with new AI-powered tools that allow users to chat with a virtual consultant, reverse engineer products, build new products to a wide array of regulatory, sustainability and retailer requirements, anticipate consumer liking based on reviews of existing similar products, and much more.

AI is Already Reshaping Beauty

From product development to rapid ingredient discovery and accurate skin analysis, artificial intelligence has arrived.