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Stick to It: Makeup’s Growth Agenda for 2025-2026

Convenience and skin-loving ingredients define many of makeup's top-performing categories.

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Molecular Longevity and the Neuro-Urban Shield: The 2026 Beauty Ingredient Agenda

Products must not only defend against the modern exposome—pollution, blue light, and climate stress—but also provide the sensorial comfort necessary to mitigate the physiological effects of emotional stress.

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.

The platform offers access to concept formulas such as the Work Harder SPF 50 Sport Spray, Clear & Bright Sunscreen Stick SPF 30, Invisible Defense Silicone Sunscreen Gel In Vitro SPF 30, Protect & Play Hybrid Priming Cream SPF 25, and many more.

Univar Solutions' BeautyLab Troubleshoots Product Development Challenges

Key areas of focus for BeautyLAB include eco-friendly, science-backed and high-performance formulas.

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.

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Elementis Unveils Next-Gen Texture Tech and Alchemy Integration at In-Cosmetics Global

The booth experience will extend beyond ingredients to immersive concept zones.

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Performance & Sustainability Drive the Newest Makeup Ingredients

Whether you're looking to improve product performance, meet growing demand for clean beauty or push the boundaries of formulation, these innovations are shaping the future of makeup and color cosmetics.

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Bioactives, Delivery Systems and Sustainable Innovation: What’s Next in Beauty

This report highlights notable new ingredients shaping the industry—from bioactives that mimic in-office aesthetic procedures to stress-fighting and neurobeauty compounds and beyond.

Annika Groenick, product and sales manager, Berg + Schmidt GmbH & Co. KG, says, “Sun care has traditionally been a category driven by seasonal sales. As UV radiation is known to be one of the major causes of skin cancer and premature skin aging, SPF is essential not only in traditional sunscreens but also in daily care products.'

Insider Insights: Sun Care & Color Cosmetics Trends + Launches | Packaging for Beauty | Ingestible Best Practices

Multi-functionality and sustainability are dominating these markets.

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Problem-solving Beauty Ingredients

From dandruff-causing yeast to clean beauty preservation to summer hair stressors, new ingredients resolve challenges for consumers and formulators.

Reflecks Dimensions Metallic Orange effect pigment is made using mica sourced from Sun Chemical’s mine in Hartwell, Ga.

Sun Chemical Launches Effects Pigments Flamenco Summit Orange, Reflecks Dimensions Metallic Orange

Flamenco Summit Orange and Reflecks Dimensions Metallic Orange complete the Flamenco Summit line of effect pigments, which are all made with mica sourced from Sun Chemical’s mine in Hartwell, Ga.

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Momentive Unveils Harmonie NatuVel 100% Biobased Elastomer Gel for Clean Skin, Sun and Color Formulas

“We aimed for a 100% naturally derived solution that could perform on par with silicone elastomer gels and that is what we are showcasing.”

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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.

Solésence's New CEO Details Mission to Revolutionize Skin Health

In early 2025, the company rebranded from Nanophase Technologies to reflect its focus on the Solésence Beauty Science platform.

The factory features a 2,300-square-meter greenhouse that houses stacked raceway ponds, creating 3,500+ square meters of algae cultivation capacity, with the potential to grow significantly further.

Swedish Algae Factory Scales Production of Revolutionary Diatom-Based Material for Beauty and Tech Industries

Diatom shells exhibit light-altering, absorptive, releasing and blocking properties, useful for various applications. Derived from the diatoms, Algica is an efficient moisturizer, cleanser, sensory modifier, anti-pollution agent and SPF booster.

The SunPURO Natural products line aims to strike a balance between responsibility and naturality, offering conscious color and purposeful products, per the company.

Sun Chemical Expands SunPURO Naturals product line with Two Colorants

The SunPURO Natural products line aims to strike a balance between responsibility and naturality, offering conscious color and purposeful products, per the company.

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Caribbean Natural Products Expands Sustainable Beauty Portfolio with Traceable Actives and Natural Performance Boosters

The company emphasizes fully traceable supply chains designed to deliver high-performance natural actives.

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.