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Industry insiders shared how the various beauty categories are adapting to consumer needs

Insider Insights: 8 Ingredient Trends for 2021 & Packaging’s New Normal

The pandemic has shifted what consumers look for in their beauty products.

Consumers seek “clean” formulations, sustainability, functionality/efficacy and product experience.

Beauty Ingredient Trends 2021, Part 1

From sustainable rosewood oil to next-generation preservation and color effects, new innovations offer brands unique ways to stand out.

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MatriGold®: Re-engineering the Future of Anti-aging

Anti-wrinkle creams boast about matrikine-based peptides and the results they deliver, making them one of the most recognized ingredients in cosmetics. Almost unchanged as concept in the last two decades. So, we took a great idea, the loved and demanded peptide in the cosmetic field, fused it with cutting-edge innovation to create something innovative, superior. We are proud to introduce MatriGold®.

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Comparatively Speaking: Sun Care vs. Daily Proactive Skin Care

"The difference, in one sentence, is that sun care is only part of skin care. To be complete, skin care requires a need for daily proactive total skin care regimen."

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SantEnergy™ New energy for your hair! [sample request]

SantEnergy™ is a distinctive polyphenol-rich extract sustainably obtained from the aerial parts of the plant Yerba Santa. It optimally delays aging of hair follicles and increases both hair growth and hair density.

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Could Protein Folding Reshape Anti-aging Cosmetics?

"It is probable that helping the chaperone [proteins] and the unfolded protein response pathway in aged cells...turns out to be beneficial to the cell and subsequently to the skin....Further research would shed more light on this new approach."

Designing Inclusively: a How-to

Innovation in Universal Design comes not from narrowing down your “target audience,” but from broadening the scope of who your design serves.

With consumers and investors pushing companies for public statements related to ESG, new risk exposure emerges.

10 Beauty Regulatory & Litigation Concerns for 2021

Which issues should cosmetics and personal care professionals keep on their radars?

This 'Read the Label' looks at the ingredients and claims for BYBI’s Clean Hands Moisturizing Antibacterial Spray.

Read the Label: BYBI's Clean Hands Moisturizing Antibacterial Spray

This "Read the Label" looks at the ingredients and claims for BYBI’s Clean Hands Moisturizing Antibacterial Spray. The brand claims that this product is a 65% alcohol, vegan sanitizing spray to moisturize, soothe and calm dry hands while reducing levels of bacteria.

Product development success is dependent on artwork and label management

5 Beauty Product Development Considerations

Various factors contribute to how a product is viewed on the shelf.

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BIOCELL COLLAGEN® – THE NUTRICOSMETIC INGREDIENT OF CHOICE

The most innovative beauty brands are adding nutricosmetics to their product line at a pace never seen before. Consumers seek products that contain clinically proven ingredients.

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What Is This Special Combo of PET Plastic & Heavy-Wall Style?

If it must feel right in the customer’s hand. If it must look elegant on the shelf. If it must be a sustainable material with all the options and attachments… then this series of bottles may be for you.

Beauty's reemergence and recovery in 2021 is marked by staggering shifts in consumer values, retail channels, top-performing categories, ingredient and claims preferences, and much, much more.

The State of Beauty: 2021 & Beyond

Part 1: 2020—What Happened? | Part 2. Fewer Launches, More Growth | Part 3. New Retail Reality | Part 4. Skin Care: Targeted Growth | Part 5. Makeup: Nails Dominate | Part 6. Fragrance: Surprising Resilience | Part 7. Hair Care’s Self-care Moment | Part 8. Beauty’s Growth Drivers | Part 9. China’s Beauty Ascendancy | Part 10. What’s Next for Beauty?

Johann W. Wiechers, Ph.D.

Words from Wiechers: Let's Get Visual

In this installment of our Words from Wiechers series, the authors debate the impact on consumers of strikingly visual fashion advertisements versus cosmetic ads that are text-heavy.

The test-and-trial experience is still integral to beauty retail.

A New Era of the Test-and-Trial Experience

Beauty brick-and-mortar retailers need to get creative in an age of contactless experiences.

Having a conditioner that helps preclude additional breakage and increasing combability is vital to aid in the prevention of hair loss.

Formulating on Trend: Conditioner for Hair Loss

"Hair loss is a concern for not only mid-life to older women, but for women of all ages. ...Formulating a conditioner that hydrates the hair to preclude additional breakage and increase combability is imperative to help hinder hair loss."

In this 'Read the Label' column, the author focuses on moisturizers and in particular, Revolution Skincare’s Hydration Boost.

Read the Label: Revolution Skincare's Hydration Boost

This "Read the Label" looks at the ingredients and claims for Revolution Skincare's Hydration Boost. It contains moisturizing, preservative and anti-aging ingredients such as Borneo tallow nut seed butter, phenoxyethanol, sodium hyaluronate and more.

L’Oréal’s Water Saver system debuted at CES 2021.

What Do You Stand For?

In the last five years the beauty world and industry in general have come under increasing pressure by the public to put their values front-and-center.