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Ocean Microplastics: Are Biodegradable Materials the Answer?

Microplastics are going away and consumers are looking even more closely at product labels for clean solutions. Does your formula stand up to the challenge? Learn about a biodegradable and gentle alternative to microplastics.

Big Kelp Flex harnesses the regenerative properties of seaweed instead to create a superabsorbent ingredient that efficiently suspends particles in mineral sunscreens.

Goodbye, Microplastics: Beauty’s Glow-Up for a Greener Future

From silicone-based alternatives to seaweed-derived cellulose, these newly launched innovations aim to deliver luxury and ethics.

Microplastics are sometimes used in mineral-based sunscreens to get high-density particles to disperse evenly.

Macro Oceans Launches Big Kelp Flex to Eliminate Microplastics

California-based biotech company Macro Oceans launched Big Kelp Flex, its new seaweed cellulose ingredient.

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Acrylates are out, natural polyesters are in: A case study of greener chemistry

Conscious consumers are concerned with microplastics, nano-plastics, and persistent and non-biodegradable materials. Polymers based on acrylate or other vinyl monomers (e.g. VP) fall under this bucket and are targets for reformulation.

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For enhanced biodegradability: Dive into the Baycusan® portfolio

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Color. As nature intended. DayGlo Elara Luxe™ – Showcased Formulation

Elara Luxe™ embodies clean beauty standards and defines a new class of cosmetic colorants manufactured from all-natural rice protein; a powerful fusion of nature and technology. The first of its kind, anywhere in the world.

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5 Macro Ingredient Trends of the 2020s

Five sweeping changes will affect your formulation chassis and functional ingredients selection by 2030. From consumers to environmental concerns, INOLEX breaks down the many factors contributing to these shifts. Will your products be ready?

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Circular beauty through upcycling

Cosun Biobased Experts, believe that the future is biobased and the Circular economy. We use of plant-based materials for upcycling. We create value to the side stream and no part of the crop goes to waste, this make us a leader of sustainable world.

Libo Cosmetics recently launched the Como Beauty Stick made with 100% aluminum, that can be recycled.

2021 Packaging Launches for Beauty & Personal Care

New introductions include circular concepts, recyclables and UV defense.

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Eco Smart® Containers Change Your Sustainability Footprint

Eco Smart® by Federal Package®, a sustainability solution for personal care products. Containers can be made with PCR, PIR or Bio-Resins, are recyclable and break down in biologically active environments.

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Waste-free Beauty

Side-stream valorization can reduce costs, prevent waste and create marketable stories for brands.

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.

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The INCI Name Game: A Commentary

When misinformed groups play in a technical space, nontechnically trained regulators make irrelevant rules, and INCI names are generalized and misused, you have the perfect storm for consumer confusion.

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Ocean-safe Beauty

Impacting ingredients, product formats and packaging, the notion of clean is expanding from consumer safety to environmental defense.

In 2022, Lignopure commissioned the first GMP-compliant plant for lignin conversion, reportedly achieving the ability to recycle 90,000 kg of lignin annually.

Beauty Alternatives: Ingredient Trends

From upcycled technologies to improved oil-in water formulations, emerging ingredients are taking beauty to the next level.

Beauty Ingredients 2020

The latest launches, new research, in-cosmetics Global debuts and more.

Roelmi HPC’s SelectSIEVE Zen (INCI: Ocimum tenuiflorum (holy basil) (and) Melissa officinalis (lemon balm) (and) Sambucus nigra (elderberry extracts) is an eco-sustainable phytochemical complex designed to promote mental relaxation and mood improvement. The technology is thereby ideal for beauty supplements that offer additional wellness benefits.

The Beauty Ingredient Agenda: Sept. 2023

From mood-enhancing ingredients to collagen-boosting technologies to new encapsulation techniques, beauty innovation is set for continuous innovation.

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.

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