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Adapting to different skin tones and types is becoming essential to answering consumers’ needs.

Solving Melanated Skin’s Sebum Challenge

For the cosmetic industry, adapting to different skin tones and types is becoming essential to answering consumers’ needs from all communities, making them more comfortable and feeling included.

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Color’s Comeback: By The Numbers

Color cosmetics are expected to make a palpable rebound in 2021, followed by extended recovery.

There are emerging trends that brands can leverage to capture growth, as well as new innovations that will continue to reshape the industry.

Beauty 2022 & Beyond

From color’s comeback to sustainable packaging to digitized product innovation, our experts chime in on the industry’s next phase.

Common Heir’s Vitamin C Serum is dispensed via single-unit biodegradable, vegan capsules that protect the formula while offering precision dosing.

Survey: Single-dose Beauty & the Consumer

Safety, hygiene, mobility, precision and other benefits can draw consumers to this convenient beauty format.

There’s been a spike in new and emerging brands in the wellness category in nearly all areas.

3 Successful Wellness Brand Strategies

From directness to community-building, wellness brands are innovating beyond products and claims.

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JD Lusteris™ – The Power of Softness [sample request]

Jojoba Desert launches JD LusterisTM - a premium emollient with superior sensorial effect, inspired by Jojoba Oil benefits, creating a natural derived alternative to nonvolatile low viscosity silicones.

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ICS Makes Waves with Ocean Plastic Tubes!

To help combat plastic pollution and ensure cleaner environments and oceans, ICS launches sustainable tube packaging made with Ocean Plastic HDPE.

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Get Ahead of the Pack with Flexible Film Options

Covid 19, new sustainable options and container supply chain issues have contributed to huge growth in flexible packaging. To be successful, there are numerous factors to consider with this format.

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Words from Wiechers: Bad Hair Day

This Words from Wiechers highlights the lack of formulations for segments of the population that have specific needs based upon hair or skin type. Presenting Wiechers's insights is Tony O'Lenick; Ali Syed, Ph.D., of Avalon Industries, shares additional expertise.

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Boronia Absolute - The Remarkable Floral Extract with an Unexplained Disconnect

In this article, Berjé explores the history behind Boronia Absolute, how the botanical initially rose to prominence, and why it has become relatively obscure within modern perfumery.

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Joybliss™, a novel green active ingredient with a plumping efficacy

Discover how to increase positiveness in your mood and decrease your vocal stress markers by filling the wheel of plumping with Joybliss™

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Words from Wiechers: Is Cosmetic Science Really 'Bad'? Part II: Scum of the Earth

This edition of Words from Wiechers debates: Are claims on cosmetic products exaggerated? While Wiechers presents strong points, column editor Tony O'Lenick believes that by and large, cosmetic companies are very conscious not to alienate consumers by making wild claims.

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Biodegradable active ingredient for hair realignment and frizz control [sample request]

The hair straightening market has seen tremendous growth. There is also a demand for more cost-conscious and less aggressive temporary styling. Chemyunion is introducing ALLINEA for improving smoothness by reducing frizz and volume.

Holiday 2021 promises to be challenging, even as shoppers plan to spend more, compared to 2020.

6 Pandemic-era Holiday Beauty Marketing Realities

The entirety of Q4 2021 is being treated as a holiday shopping season due to supply chain challenges.

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CONCRETE ACTIONS THROUGHOUT THE VALUE CHAIN TO CREATE AND PRODUCE ECO-SOCIO-DESIGNED COSMETIC ACTIVE INGREDIENTS

Find out about concrete actions throughout the value chain to create and produce eco-socio-designed cosmetic active ingredients with Sederma.

Don Henig is the founder of AccrueMe, LLC.

[interview] AccrueMe’s Amazon Brand Investment Strategy

AccrueMe, LLC is an investment company with a focus on Amazon and the needs of Amazon merchants

From yoga skin to algae-derived eye care to microbiome-friendly preservation systems, new innovation is giving brands unique functions and claims for today’s consumers.

Beauty Ingredient Trends 2021, Part 3 of 3

The pace of ingredient launches for beauty and personal care have shown no sign of slowing.

CleanScreen Z60SF by Aprinnova provides smooth SPF protection in skin care and color cosmetics without petrochemical-derived ingredients or silicones.

2021 Ingredient Launches

Industry insiders share their most recent ingredient launches in the beauty space.