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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).

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Inolex Highlights Natural Dispersing Solution for Ultra-light Mineral Sunscreens

The ingredient is said to support formulators aiming to meet clean and natural formulation goals while improving the sensory and visual profile of mineral-based sun care products.

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.

BASF has launched a new synthetic peptide for skin care that aligns with the slow aging trend.

New Beauty Ingredients: from Pro-aging to Ingestible Sun Defense

To keep beauty innovators up on the latest technologies, Global Cosmetic Industry and Cosmetics & Toiletries prepare ingredient trend bulletins breaking down the latest emerging technologies, clinicals and more.

Blurring, soft-focus, light-scattering: a wide range of ingredients are delivering effects that smooth out imperfections and impart additional benefits.

Blurry Beauty

From makeup to skin care, brands and ingredient firms are delivering soft-focus effects.

LignoGuard uses Fibenol’s Lignova raw material made from locally generated forestry and wood industry residues such as sawdust, woodchips and low-quality hardwood.

Lignovations Develops Multifunctional Ingredient LignoGuard

LignoGuard uses Fibenol’s Lignova raw material made from locally generated forestry and wood industry residues such as sawdust, woodchips and low-quality hardwood. The ingredient provides photoprotection and antioxidant properties.

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.

From AI-driven discoveries to plant-based ingredients and preservative-free solutions, the beauty industry is innovating sustainability and product performance.

Advanced Beauty Ingredients & Cutting Edge Claims

The beauty industry is at the forefront of innovation, advancing both sustainability and product performance through cutting-edge solutions. Key developments include AI-driven discoveries, plant-based ingredients, and preservative-free formulations.

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.

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'Sunburning' to Heal Acne is the Latest Terrifying TikTok Trend

You read right. Some TikTok influencers are claiming sunburning heals acne. Thankfully experts are warning against it. Here, we explore this claim with three industry experts to understand the rationale, uncover the truth and attempt to refute it.

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (ELC) has boosted its high-performance and sustainable technologies via new research partnerships and by bringing some production in-house.

Inside The Estée Lauder Companies' Ingredient Innovation Race

The MIT work has focused on the "development of biodegradable materials for cosmetic applications and [the exploration of] new solutions to combat the effects of visible light from the sun."

Innovative, eco-friendly ingredients are reshaping the cosmetics industry, offering sustainable alternatives without compromising performance.

Innovations in Sustainable Beauty: Exploring Eco-friendly Ingredients and Solutions

Discover the latest in sustainable beauty, including biodegradable ingredients, bio-based alternatives and eco-friendly solutions for skin care, hair care and cosmetics. Explore how brands are leading the way in clean, conscious formulations.

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