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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.
Nov 4th, 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.
Jun 28th, 2024
The desire for skin care-makeup hybrids has been gaining steam in recent years, with SPF claims no exception
Beautifying Sun Protection in 2025: Top Innovation Targets
From emerging ingredient technologies and testing methods to unique formats, SPF-powered beauty is leveling up.
May 6th, 2025
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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.
Oct 1st, 2025
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.
Sep 3rd, 2024
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.
Jan 2nd, 2024
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Beauty’s New Class of Anti-Aging Ingredient Tech
As the industry prepares for a new year of innovation, we looked at the latest batch of novel materials poised to shape product development in 2026 and beyond.
Nov 3rd, 2025
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.
Oct 1st, 2024
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Ultrafine Bubbles to Transform Water for the Sustainable Topical Delivery of Actives
This work examines the potential of water, treated via an ultrafine bubble technology, to deliver actives into skin. The penetration of niacinamide and carnosine (peptide) from a cosmetic formula is evaluated. Additional applications are proposed.
Jan 3rd, 2025
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The Innovations Tackling the SPF Confidence Gap
May 15th, 2026