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Hyaluronic Acid – everything you need to know

Hyaluronic acid is a hero ingredient; while incredibly common today, it is actually quite complex! As a result, it can be a big challenge for formulators and product developers to navigate various hyaluronic acid offerings to best appeal to the consumers.

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Nostalgia with a Twist Leads Packaging Trends [free sample kit]

Covid has consumers yearning for happier times, which explains current fashion, beauty, and packaging trends. Updated vintage vibes with a twist merge the past with the present for packaging that stands out and proves that retro feels right again.

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Blue Ingredients: how to develop cosmetics with these trendy ingredients?

Discover the Blue Ingredients Trend Book by Seppic: an inspiring toolbox to develop cosmetic products with marine ingredients designed for marketing, creative and technical cosmetic product development teams of all companies.

The best way for brands to raise prices without alienating customers is to understand their needs while demonstrating transparency and authenticity.

3 Tips for Implementing a Price Hike Without Losing Beauty Customers

Raising prices is always a risky move, but understanding customer needs while demonstrating transparency and authenticity goes a long way in helping customers accept price hikes.

Beauty ingredients are shifting to become simpler and more natural.

What’s Trending: Beauty Ingredients

Brands are responding to the beauty landscape’s trend of multiple benefits in products.

Scalp care continues its momentum in 2022 as a trending hair topic.

2022 Hair Care Ingredient Trends

Consumers are seeking out hair care products that are natural and silicone-free.

Interestingly, although body care issues weren’t consumers’ top skin concern, body lotion/butter was the most purchased product in the first half of 2022.

2022 Skin Care & Makeup: A Mid-Year Check In

4,700 U.S. beauty consumers share their behaviors so far for 2022.

Packaging concepts are being steered toward popular formats, including refillables and monomaterials; photo by Carlos Rodríguez at Unsplash.

Beauty & Personal Care Packaging in Uncertain Times

Whether responding to macroeconomics, climate change or other issues, suppliers are stepping up to meet the needs of the industry.

Delavie Sciences has obtained a Bacillus lysate from the exterior of the International Space Station that developed resistance to UV radiation due to prolonged exposure.

Envelope-pushing Beauty Ingredients

The latest launches offer unique functionality and claims for brands seeking to advance product innovation.

In Q2 2022, prestige hair care sales totaled $781 million, representing a growth rate of 24%.

Hair & Scalp Care: Targeted and Premiumized

What’s behind the dynamic growth of beauty’s fastest-expanding sector?

The best anti-pollution skin care products are rich in active ingredients and give a deep cleanse.

Innovating Anti-Pollution Skin Care Products

The anti-pollution skin care products market is mostly consumer-centric and innovation-driven. As a result, the development of pollution-proof products is increasing, and many brands are creating ways and products to do so.

Silab further commits to its CSR plan with a higher EcoVadis score, yet, due to an increase in the strict rating system of EvoVadis, Silab will fall one point short of being declared platinum status.

Silab Achieves Higher EcoVadis Rating in Commitment to CSR

Due to an increase in the strict rating system of EvoVadis, Silab will fall one point short of being declared platinum status.

Danessa Myricks, founder of Danessa Myricks Beauty (at left), and Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye, founder and CEO of Ami Colé (at right), have tapped into beauty's inclusivity movement with brands that deliver quality, fun and beauty.

Next-level Color Cosmetics: Danessa Myricks and Ami Colé

Danessa Myricks, founder of Danessa Myricks Beauty, and Ami Colé founder, Diarrha N’Diaye-Mbaye created beauty brands built on the foundation of inclusivity and diversity. They will both share their insights at Beauty Accelerate 2022.

SilcSkin manufactures medical-grade silicone patches as a noninvasive method of reducing the appearance of wrinkles, fine lines, scars and burns.

The Reinvention of Wrinkle Removal Patches

Once only available to the Hollywood elite and medical profession, wrinkle removal patches have gone mainstream, evolving over the last few decades as an innovative, noninvasive way of treating wrinkles and fine lines for the masses.

Expert Focus: Charlotte Watson, CMO of Olaplex

During Beauty Accelerate 2022, CMO of Olaplex, Charlotte Watson will speak on her secrets behind her success alongside Danessa Myricks.

Solvaderm launches The Blackstone Collection, a line of skin care products designed for men. The launch aligns with a projected CAGR of 6.2% for the market from 2019-2027.

Solvaderm Launches Men's Line: The Blackstone Collection

Solvaderm launches The Blackstone Collection, a line of skin care products designed for men. The company's focus on male skin care aligns with projected growth for this market, estimated at a CAGR of 6.2% from 2019 through 2027.

Body positivity is a major trend in the body care sector, and considering the pressures of modern life, consumers are looking for more ways to look and feel confident. ... Effective body care products are a valuable tool in this journey to greater positivity.

Expert Opinions on Body Care: Sustainability, Positivity, Biotech and More

From clean label, anti-cellulite and breast enhancement, to stretch marks, sustainability, biotech, body positivity and more, sales in the collective body care segment are on the rise. Following is a brief market survey plus expert industry insights.

An article highlights the potential dangers of UV VIS and infrared light and a need to further test natural products, while suggesting methods to further strengthen current sunscreen and anti-aging products.

How Natural Antioxidants, Iron Chelators Boost Sunscreens and Anti-aging Products

A recent article reviews the mechanisms of aging caused by excess ROS production due to UV, visible and infrared light exposure. Natural antioxidants with specific properties are proposed to strengthen sunscreens and anti-aging products.