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Kojic acid has become increasingly popular, as seen in Peace Out Skincare's Dark Spots Serum, featuring kojic acid alongside 3% tranexamic acid and alpha-arbutin.

2025 Beauty Ingredient Trend Preview: What’s Next?

From silk-derived biotech to microbiome sexual wellness and beyond, new ingredients point to future innovation opportunities.

Vytrus’ plant biotechnology-derived Baolift skin care technology reportedly simulates the facial rejuvenating impacts of a fitness workout.

New Beauty Ingredient Trends: from Functional Water to Fit Skin

From Amazonian biotech to ultra-fine bubble technology, emerging cosmetic ingredients are pushing the boundaries of functions and claims.

Formulations are becoming simpler, driven by a desire for simplicity, as well as the introduction of many multifunctional materials.

Beauty’s Multifunctional Moment: Less is So Much More

Multifunctional technologies have the capacity to simplify formulations while enhancing performance across a wide range of functions and claims.

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.

The transition toward 'clean,' sustainable and vegan formulations hasn't been linear; despite this, high-functioning alternatives continue to proliferate.

'Clean' Beauty Swaps: New Ingredients & Headwinds

The transition toward “clean,” sustainable and vegan formulations hasn’t been linear; despite this, high-functioning alternatives continue to proliferate.

By solving common solubility issues (i.e., the re-crystallization of crystalline UV filters), SymSol ProSun supports product efficacy and duration of SPF defense as well as improved sensory experiences.

Symrise's SymSol ProSun Solves Crystalline UV Filter Solubility & Stability Problems for Enhanced SPF Defense & Skin Sensory Benefits

By solving common solubility issues (i.e., the re-crystallization of crystalline UV filters), SymSol ProSun supports product efficacy and duration of SPF defense as well as improved sensory experiences.

Among the trends emerging in 2024, increasing numbers of firms are leveraging plants as bio-factories for new beauty ingredients.

Top 2024 Beauty Ingredient Trends

This is just a fragment of the trends we witnessed at the shows this year.

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.

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.

This crystal clear, odorless liquid is derived from succinic acid and 2-octyl dodecanol features a molecular structure that delivers a unique skin feel and enhanced spreadability, per Sharon Personal Care.

Sharon Personal Care's Sharofeel DS Emollient Delivers Unique Skin Feel & Thermal Hair Protection

This crystal clear, odorless liquid is derived from succinic acid and 2-octyl dodecanol features a molecular structure that delivers a unique skin feel and enhanced spreadability, per Sharon Personal Care.

SunPuro Natural Carotene O N70-2317 (INCI: Not Provided) and SunPURO Natural Carotene BTO N70-2527 (INCI: Not Provided) are globally approved natural colorants with orange-red hues derived from algae and fermented mushrooms, per Sun Chemical.

Sun Chemical to Expand Natural Pigments, Sacranex Anti-pollution Skin Care Actives at in-cos Global

SunPuro Natural Carotene O N70-2317 and SunPURO Natural Carotene BTO N70-2527 are globally approved natural colorants with orange-red hues derived from algae and fermented mushrooms, per Sun Chemical.

Naturecel 793 (INCI: Not Provided) is a micro-plastic free talc replacement that functions as filler and creates a natural look with PMMA-like aesthetics.

Micro Powders to Debut Skin Care, Exfoliant-focused Ingredients at in-cos Global

Naturecel 793 (INCI: Not Provided) is a micro-plastic free talc replacement that functions as filler and creates a natural look with PMMA-like aesthetics.

The 'beautyspan' refers to the duration of one’s skin and hair health/wellness, centering the discussion on holistic, preventive and regenerative strategies, rather than solely aesthetic solutions.

The Beautyspan: Biohacking Longevity (Ingredient Trend Tracker)

“Today’s longevity-boosting ingredients are designed to tackle the root causes of aging at a cellular level.”

The connection between diet and the skin has long been known, but new research points to the connections between skin and gut health for a range of issues, including acne, atopic dermatitis, eczema and psoriasis.

Gut Health as Skin Health: Ingredient Trend Tracker

Holistic wellness trends and emerging science are intersecting, providing new innovation targets for beauty products and claims.

By boosting NAD+, called the skin’s “longevity molecule,” RejuveNAD is able to to optimize cellular processes to simultaneously address “at least” five of the 12 hallmarks of aging, including mitochondrial dysfunction, cellular senescence, loss of proteostasis, epigenetic alteration and genomic instability.

The Beauty Ingredient Agenda: Longevity x Anti-aging

The recently decoded 12 hallmarks of aging provide exciting new anti-aging targets for R&D and new claims for marketing.

The technologies are available in three shades for tinted creams and makeup products for consumers of various skin tones.

Eckart's LignoBase Range Battles Skin Aging & Boosts SPF

LignoBase materials' lignin particles reportedly sink when exposed to water and therefore "do not have a negative effect on the water or the environment," per Eckart.

All participants in an efficacy stated in a questionnaire that their skin texture was improved when using a formulation comprising the new ingredient, while 90% reported that their skin felt smoother and 88% said that their pores appeared to be tightened.

BASF's Epispot Sustainably Reduces Skin Shine & Boosts Complexion

90% of study participants said their skin appeared healthier at the end of the application period.

Composed of candelilla, rice bran and jojoba waxes, this sensitive skin shield creates a skin-compatible shield to protect surface lipids from environmental stress, which can negatively impact barrier function and thereby increase transepidermal water loss (TEWL).

Gattefossé’s Emulium Dermolea MB Shields Sensitive Skin from Environmental Aggressors

Available in pellet form, Emulium Dermolea MB's plant lipid composition is similar to that of the skin's surface and is reportedly rich in anti-inflammatory pentacyclic triterpenes and sterols.

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