Search Global Cosmetic Industry

22 Results

Type: Article

Section: Ingredients > Hair Care

Beauty beyond H2O offers a line of products that aim to reduce water use. With the UN predicting that two-thirds of the world will be in water-stressed conditions by 2025, water reduction is in high demand for consumers.

Lubrizol's Beauty Beyond H2O Formulas Aim to Reduce Water Use

Beauty Beyond H2O is Lubrizol's line of products that aim to reduce water use. This responds to the U.N.'s prediction that two-thirds of the world will be in water-stressed conditions by 2025, making water reduction a high demand from consumers.

Klk Oleo Weightless Beauty Lead Image 800px 450px

Weightless Beauty: Unveil the Light Within

Looking for a sustainable beauty experience beyond the ordinary? Our lightweight emollient is designed to elevate your skincare experience. Dive deeper and unveil the full potential of PALMESTER 5305 (Propylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate).

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.

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 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.

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.

Three of the top 10 most cited confidence boosters are hair related, including good hair days and new hairstyles, as well as successful covering of gray hairs.

Hair Care 2025: Scalp Health & Category Blur

Pro and pro-inspired hair care is increasingly going mainstream. Salon-grade brands now make up about 10% of Target's hair assortment, while Sephora offers more than 1,000 products from professional and salon brands.

In 2022, Lignopure commissioned the first GMP-compliant plant for lignin conversion, reportedly achieving the ability to recycle 90,000 kg of lignin annually.

Beauty Alternatives: Ingredient Trends

From upcycled technologies to improved oil-in water formulations, emerging ingredients are taking beauty to the next level.

Brands providing care for underserved shoppers will be increasingly tasked with delivering proven claims; at the same time, industry research and ingredient development will need to take into account the needs of every skin and hair type, as well as life stage.

7 Beauty Predictions for 2025

From clinical inclusivity to sustainable packaging scrutiny to novel biotech, the year to come will be pivotal for the industry's trajectory.

BASF’s Euperlan NL Pearl, created for hair care needs, features naturally derived ingredients such as hydrogenated vegetable oil, cocamidopropyl betaine and glycerol oleate.

3 Hair Care Ingredient Trends

Hair care products continue to reflect the evolving market.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

Damage from heat styling is a key product claims sought by today's hair care shoppers; new ingredients reinforce these benefits.

Hair Care's Newest Wellness Ingredients

Top prestige hair care growth sectors outpacing the market include heat protectants and scalp care, which are both part of the broader hair wellness and skinification trends.

Sustainability is driving packaging for beauty, meanwhile scalp care tops the hair care trends.

May Insider Insights: Packaging for Beauty Launches + Hair Care Ingredient Launches

Industry experts share what trends they are seeing in these spaces.

General Trade Show Imagery In Cosmetics Asia 2024 Adobe Stock 92863685

8 Ingredients You'll Find This November at in-cosmetics Asia 2024

Passport/visa? Check. Power adapter? Check. In-cos Asia badge? ... Don't forget! You'll be "wheels up" for Bangkok before you know it — and we can't wait. Here's a sneak preview of 8 ingredients you'll find there.

Page 1 of 2