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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.

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.

New AR technology from Shiseido is designed to teach consumers how to best apply skin care.

Can Machines Teach Beauty Routines? (Tech Tracker Report)

From improving hair care product discovery to optimizing skin care routines, emerging platforms are solving consumers' challenges in the digital age.

According to Euromonitor International’s Voice of Consumer, Beauty Survey 2023, Chinese beauty consumers embrace beauty devices at a higher rate than the global average. Electric facial toners, for example, were used at home by almost 17% of Chinese beauty consumers—up from 13% in 2020.

Lessons from China’s Beauty Tech Market

Overall market competition will gradually shift from marketing and price competition to product innovation and scientific validation.

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.

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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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.

About 56% of beauty and personal care industry professionals expect 2024 performance to improve slightly from 2023, while 46% expect 2028 performance to improve greatly from 2023.

The Next 5 Years in Beauty: AI, Hero Ingredients, Pricing & More

Highlights from Euromonitor’s Voice of the Industry beauty professional survey point to emerging investments, trends and more.

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.

Beauty and technology are increasingly inseparable. From R&D and product development to marketing and logistics, digital innovation is central to the industry’s next phase.

Beauty Tech Trend Tracker: AI is Everywhere

From virtual try-ons to AI-driven trend tracking, tech is enabling brands to move more nimbly.

CES 2024 unveiled the future as the industry steps into a new era of technological marvels. In the beauty and cosmetics space specifically, self-tech plays a significant role in driving innovation and transforming the way people approach skin care, makeup, grooming and shopping.

Beauty Tech Highlights from CES 2024

While many have become accustomed to the convenience of two-dimensional shopping from the comfort of their homes, the emergence of 3D virtual shopping at CES introduces an entirely new dimension to the consumer web.

Everyone scrutinizes themselves, but not every consumer wants to undergo professional/aesthetic treatments or procedures. New data points to consumers' desire for professionally inspired at-home beauty innovation.

Lift & Tuck: Consumer Attitudes Toward Aesthetic Procedures

How emerging consumer attitudes point to at-home and topical solutions inspired by professional procedures.

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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.