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Sun care is no longer limited to standalone sunscreen products. Instead, it’s becoming an essential feature across categories like skin care, makeup and color cosmetics. This shift represents a significant opportunity for brands to meet evolving consumer needs while staying ahead of the competition.

Supergoop!, Amorepacific and Beiersdorf Experts Talk Beauty's Sunification

Sun care is no longer limited to standalone sunscreen products. Instead, it’s becoming an essential feature across categories like skin care, makeup and color cosmetics.

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Category Shake-Up: C&T Allēs Spotlight Acne, Compromised Skin and Scalp Care Innovations in 2026

The new categories aim to better recognize targeted solutions addressing specific consumer needs such as skin conditions, post-procedural care and scalp health.

Beauty's thought leaders will be taking the Beauty Accelerate Los Angeles stage March 6-7, 2023, including marketing, R&D, data and retail experts from Goop, K18, Dermalogica/Unilever, Credo, Summer Fridays, Selfmade, Circana, AbbVie, Spate and more.

📢Goop, K18, Dermalogica, Credo, Summer Fridays, Selfmade, AbbVie & More Coming to Beauty Accelerate 2024

Hot topics include regenerative skin care, digitized product development, hair health breakthroughs, natural actives, beauty retail 2024-2025, inclusive innovation and much, much more. LIVE and in-person only!

According to the company, the aesthetic benefits unveiled through these formulations result from various Siltech ingredients including the flexible film-forming resin Silmer UR-5050 (INCI: Bis-Hydroxypropyl Dimethicone/SMDI Copolymer), offering durable staying power.

Siltech Rolls Out High-performance Silicone Formulas for in-cosmetics 2024

The premium functional and aesthetic benefits of the sunscreen, color, skin care, makeup remover and shampoo bar formulas result from multiple Siltech ingredients.

The Solésence Beauty Science program draws from white label, SPF-infused beauty products, including Solésence Beauty Science's Multi-Cultural Magic SPF 50+, Lip Oil SPF 40+, One & Done SPF 40+, and Clean Mineral UV SPF 50+.

Solésence Beauty Science Launches Beauty Now Accelerator Program

The program draws from white label, SPF-infused beauty products, including Solésence Beauty Science's Multi-Cultural Magic SPF 50+, Lip Oil SPF 40+, One & Done SPF 40+, and Clean Mineral UV SPF 50+.

Twenty-one percent of girls and 12% of boys expressed interest in beauty/personal care before they were 7 years old. While this may seem shocking compared to past generations, it shouldn’t come as a surprise.

Gen Z’s & Alpha’s Parents Tell All on their Kids’ Beauty Obsessions

A new survey delves into the early onset of product interest, the role of social media, parents’ expectations and more.

The ingredient meets the need for naturally derived, biodegradable rheology modifiers whose abilities to influence texture, viscosity, formulation stability and overall sensory experience approach that of synthetics.

Clariant Rolls Out Aristoflex Eco T Biodegradable Rheology Modifier

Aristoflex Eco T is based on tara gum and has a renewable carbon index of 71%. It is designed to combine the performance of synthetic polymers with the environmental profile of biopolymers.

By solving common solubility issues (i.e., the re-crystallization of crystalline UV filters), SymSol ProSun supports product efficacy and duration of SPF defense as well as improved sensory experiences.

Symrise's SymSol ProSun Solves Crystalline UV Filter Solubility & Stability Problems for Enhanced SPF Defense & Skin Sensory Benefits

By solving common solubility issues (i.e., the re-crystallization of crystalline UV filters), SymSol ProSun supports product efficacy and duration of SPF defense as well as improved sensory experiences.

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From Sunburn to Skin Peels: How Deinde's DHK-Powered Recovery Gel is Changing the Game

The biotech DHK is an antioxidant occurs naturally in prickly pear cactus, "which thrives in extremely harsh environments," per the company.

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When SPF Becomes a Lifestyle

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And the C&T Allē Award Goes To ... Unveiling the 2026 Winners

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Lubrizol Unveils Triple Innovation Push Across Sustainable Textures, AI-Driven Eye Care and Biodegradable Rheology

Beautiful Young Woman Healthy Skin And Hair In Sunlight

DSM-Firmenich Gears Up for In-cos Global with Skin/Hair Anti-aging, Sun Protection Solutions

Designed to meet the evolving needs of consumers, these sustainability-led, state-of-the-art ingredients aim to redefine the realms of UV protection, skin aging and hair health.

Carbopol BioSense polymer is Lubrizol's first readily biodegradable rheology modifier extracted from sustainably sourced eucalyptus forests.

Lubrizol Boosts Skin's Bioelectricity with Lectroglaze – Plus Three Polymers to Advance Sustainability

These novel ingredients showcase advances in biotechnology, the skin microbiome, polymer science and sustainability while addressing key trends in skin, hair and personal care formulations.

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Brenntag Expands Networks for Lactive, Glycasol, Glypure Skin/Hair Actives; UV Filters; and Fragrance

By leveraging exclusive partnerships, cutting-edge technology and global distribution expertise, Brenntag aims to empower formulators to create next-generation products that align with market trends and consumer demands.

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The Innovations Tackling the SPF Confidence Gap

Hostacerin CCT enables stable, low-viscosity skin care and wet wipes and can boost moisturization in formulas.

Clariant Enables Minimalism, SPF Efficacy with Hostacerin CCT, Eclipsogen CAP + Nanocon Series

During in-cosmetics Asia, Clariant debuted its Hostacerin CCT emulsifier with wide-ranging formulation capabilities in addition to the new Eclipsogen CAP series of encapsulated UV filters for high UV protection efficacy at low concentrations.

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Editor’s Notebook: the Beauty Ingredients Driving Newness in the Market

From mango derivatives to upcycled hydrocarbons, ingredient technologies are rapidly evolving.