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SYMPARE Methyl Ester Sulphonates (MES): Curated for High Performance Care

SYMPARE MES is a sulphate-free anionic surfactant, made from plant source for use in the personal care categories. It delivers effective cleansing with gentle care and is listed in the CleanGredients database, meeting the EPA's Safer Choice Standard.

Consumers desire multi-benefit ingredients that are efficacious, but are also being educated on ingredients by brands.

What’s Trending in Skin Care Ingredients?

Consumers want skin care ingredients that tackle all facets of beauty.

Normalize Men's Skin Care: Galderma's Tara Loftis Talks Humor, Self Care and Efficacy

"Men seek various key benefits from their skin care routines–just as women do–that can range from improving their overall appearance, maintaining their skin health or indulging in self-care."

According to Euromonitor, 46% of U.S. consumers cite moderate or extreme concern over their skin health in 2024, up from 38% in 2023.

Skin Care Brands Are Racing to Join the Dermocosmetics Movement

U.S. consumers are becoming more sophisticated and savvier, increasingly searching for, and by, desired ingredients, claims and/or positioning to find the most efficacious, personalized, and safe beauty routine. What that means for skin care brands.

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Why Collagen Skin Care Masks are Seeing a Massive Boom: Trend Analysis Report

One genre of products within the facial skin care mask category that has seen notable growth within the last six months are collagen face masks.

Euromonitor International’s Voice of the Consumer: Beauty Survey shows that 20% of U.S. male consumers voted “skin care is an important priority for me” as a common reason for purchasing skin care products.

The 2024 US Male Skin Care Agenda

Digital engagement, targeted care, celebrity brands and emerging concerns are reshaping a vibrant category.

Seventy-six percent of survey respondents love products that do double duty–skin care benefits plus sun protection.

Consumers’ Sun Care Wish List: New Consumer Data

From no white cast to skin-friendly ingredients such as vitamin C and collagen, shoppers reveal their top needs.

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Skin & Hair Care’s Protein-Based Revolution

Emerging technologies are driving a biology-first wave of innovation; here’s what that means for beauty innovation.

As skin care brands seek to tap into the shifting needs of emerging and established shoppers across generations, marketers and product innovation teams need to ensure their solutions are meeting consumers where they are.

Generational Skin Care: from Future-proofing to Rejuvenation

By delivering targeted care based on life stages, brands have immense opportunities to address the needs of everyone from Gen Alpha to boomers.

The uptick in prestige skin care sales comes at a time when brands are tapping clinically effective ingredients, holistic wellness concepts and more.

What’s Driving the Prestige Skin Care Boom and How Can Brands Get in on the Growth?

A potent blend of wellness, Gen Alpha shopping habits, emerging high-efficacy ingredients and professionally inspired beauty are creating significant growth opportunities.

The home spa product market is shifting to include medspa-level solutions that mimic everything from Botox to eye lifts; image by Sofiia Bakh.

Skin Care’s Medspa-ration Renaissance

A growing number of ingredients and product formats mimic professional treatment results, providing minimally invasive at-home beauty care.

From stress to environmental conditions to congenital issues, sensitive skin is a multi-dimensional condition that affects large swaths of consumers across the globe.

The Gentle Skin Care Revolution

How sensitive skin is reshaping beauty R&D.

“Sunscreen is poised to see a sensorial shakeup,” says Michelle Chavez, vice president of innovation, Accupac. “Rather than traditional sunscreens, we will start to see the entrance of 'fun-screens,' UV protectants that drive engagement and that consumers want to use every day.”

The 2024 Sun Care Agenda

From fun-screen to multifuctional claims and enhanced performance, sun defense has entered a more dynamic era.

Knowing we have strains of C. acnes that are symbiotic in nature, companies and scientists can create products to target and help curate our skin biomes.

Is XYCM42 the Future of Probiotic Skin Care?

Specific strains of the skin microbiome could support the development of skin biome care.

Clariant and Plant Advanced Technologies have developed Rootness Mood+ (propanediol, Sanguisorba officinalis root extract), a technology that reportedly mimics sun-like effects.

The Skin Care & Beauty Ingredient Agenda: July/August 2023

From renewable sources to sun-mimicking extracts to ocean-derived technologies, suppliers are delivering cleaner label opportunities and unique claims.

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JD Lusteris™: Bridging Nature and Science for Sensorial Excellence

A sustainable, naturally derived alternative to silicones. Unmatched in efficacy and sensorial experience, it's the future of clean, green cosmetics.

Derm skin care searches spiked 27% in 2023, while doctor-/dermatologist-backed skin care searches jumped 58%.

The 2024 Skin Care Agenda: Pro-aging & Sensitive Skin

Philosophies and technologies around aging, as well as a boom in sensitive skin approaches, is leading product and brand innovation.

Prestige facial skin care is in a slump; medspa inspiration, microbiome balance and other strategies offer hope for the category.

7 Ways to Get Prestige Facial Skin Care Back on Track

From the microbiome to medspa inspiration, brands have more innovation opportunities today than ever before.

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