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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.

Dr. Squatch's Squatch Scrubber exfoliating grooming tool that pairs with the new Natural Body Wash. On its own, the scrubber is available for $19, or with the purchase of an 8 oz four-pack ($40) or 14 oz two-pack ($30) for $9.50.

Sydney Sweeney is Dr. Squatch's Body Wash Genie in Campaign Upending the Men's Body Wash Category

While the brand is focused on natural materials, the reality is that more than half of men have no clue what ingredients are in their current body wash.

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Halle Berry's Respin and Women’s Intimate Care Brand Joylux Join Forces to Advance The Intimate Health Industry and Raise Menopause Awareness

Vaginal wellness brand Joylux and Halle Berry’s menopause-focused platform Respin have collaborated on the launch of two intimacy wellness products.

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[updated] Secrets to Shaping Beauty into Body Care: How Claims, Ingredients and Challenges Translate

What's driving the body care boom? Here, we explore new launches and insights from Anushka Nadkarni, Bentley Labs; Ron Robinson, BeautyStat; Rita Silva, DECIEM; Jean-Christophe Choulot, Caudalíe, and Philip Durocher, Cetaphil U.S., to find out.

Double-digit growth has been seen for body creams, lotions and cleaners; and consumer spending on prestige body products has increased by 25%. What's going on?

2024's Fastest-growing Skin Care Category Goes Beyond the Face

Body skin care led the category's growth, in part by coopting ingredients and claims associated with facial skin care. Here’s what’s happening in the category and how brands can tap into the growth.

From Gen Alpha to longevity and (p)rejuvenation to elevated efficacy and obsession-worthy packaging, Beauty Accelerate 2025 will deliver insights from beauty's leading R&D, marketing and innovation voices.

Beauty Accelerate 2025: Future-proofing Beauty [Join the Waitlist!]

Returning to the East Coast, 2025's edition will highlight the technologies, trends and strategies propelling the most innovative brands.

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.

Consumers are testing the limits of beauty innovation like never before, demanding elevated value, efficacy, sustainability and experiences, from product to branding and packaging to marketing and social engagement.

Global Cosmetic Industry Reveals 2025 Beauty Themes

From skin and hair health to emerging technologies and manufacturing trends to the latest packaging and ingredient innovations, 2025's information agenda will equip brands to compete in a dynamic, competitive marketplace.

Need an ingredient supplier? Or a contract manufacturer? Cosmoprof North America has you covered.

16 Brands Coming to Cosmoprof North America | PLUS: Manufacturing & Supplier Partners

In addition to beauty brands, this year's edition will include a wide array of supply chain partners.

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Biopolax's BPX Gemini Surfactants Emulsify, Boost Other Eco-surfactants

BPX Gemini can form micelles in aqueous solutions at lower concentrations. It enhances the performance of eco-friendly surfactants such as APG and can act as a co-emulsifier. Its zwitterionic version also increases foam and foam stability.

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.

People are tired. Beauty brands have an opportunity to help.

Everyone's Sleep is a Mess: Beauty Brand Innovators Can Help

Tapping into scent, ingestibles and clinically effective topicals, brands have more and more opportunities to deliver multifunctional benefits that address one of the public's most persistent issues.

The pursuit of natural formulations has sometimes had unintended consequences, including mass deforestation and negative carbon impacts. What are responsible brands to do?

What's Next for Biobased Beauty? [on-demand presentation/data]

Bio-based innovations brands can tap to meet their eco-ethical goals and answer consumer demands.

The ingredient technology can be used as a co-surfactant to deliver synergistic mildness and cleanse-boosting benefits with no detrimental impact on foam production, per Croda.

Croda Launches Mild NatraFusion SL HA Biosurfactant

The ingredient technology can be used as a co-surfactant to deliver synergistic mildness and cleanse-boosting benefits with no detrimental impact on foam production, per Croda.

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.

Since December 2023, online searches for “whole body deodorant” have exploded, dwarfing traffic recorded over the last 20 years. Why is that?

The Whole-body Revolution

Simplicity, multifunctionality, gentleness, value and efficacy are driving exponential growth in launches promising all-over deodorizing benefits across multiple body sites.

A new report from Kline argues that the application of emollients and moisturizers, delivery systems, fragrances and essential oils, texture modifiers, and exfoliants can boost sensorial experiences to elevate everyday products and create “indulgent rituals that engage the senses” and emotions while also differentiating products in a crowded and dupe-riddled beauty market.

Clinical Eclipses Clean: Ingredient Trend Tracker

Efficacy, expert-backed claims and third-party certifications are the keys to beauty shopper engagement in 2024.