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Haus Labs by Lady Gaga’s Mini PhD Hybrid Hydrating Tinted Lip Oil, featuring vegan collagen and prickly pear oil, has joined the lip oil craze.

2024’s Fastest-growing Makeup Categories: Lips & Unique Formats

Lips and unique formats have driven this year’s sales and offer brands plenty of whitespace for growth.

For the first six months of 2024, the U.S. lip makeup segment was a juggernaut, expanding by 21% in dollar terms and 23% in unit terms. But that's far from the full story for brands seeking innovation opportunities.

2025’s Makeup Trends Move Beyond Lips & Blush

Solutions for underserved mature and acne-prone consumers, as well as emerging trends in eye and brow products, offer innovation for brands beyond color cosmetics' superstar sectors.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.

Top Cosmetic Packaging, Ingredient & Turnkey Trends for 2025

Recent beauty events offered a look at the ways in which suppliers and contract/turnkey manufacturers can deliver newness to the industry.

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 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.

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.

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.

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