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The personal care business has benefitted from breakthrough innovation platforms, such as Dove’s product expansions and advertising campaigns, including its high-visibility Super Bowl activation.

Unilever Q1 2025 Sales Growth Analysis for Beauty & Personal Care

Unilever has released its Q1 2025 trading update, showcasing its strategic focus and growth momentum in its Beauty & Wellbeing and Personal Care categories.

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Wizard Wellness' Walmart Launch Marks Mass Market Leap for Microbiome-Driven Allergy Care

Doctor- and allergist-recommended, the system targets long-term allergy wellness while supporting broader benefits including improved sleep, mood and energy.

Cosmetics and the Chemistry of Life

Amino acids—the building blocks of life—are providing interesting new opportunities for beauty product development.

JSHealth's debut vitamin-based skin care line features a cleanser, serum, oil and moisturizer.

JSHealth Launches Skin Care Line

JSHealth's debut vitamin-based skin care line features a cleanser, serum, oil and moisturizer.

Telocytes are a relatively new cell type identified in the skin. They maintain proper architecture and can contribute to reparative and regenerative mechanisms.

Phenotyping and AI, 3D Inflammation Model, Stress and Skin Architecture at SCC National

"Skin Care at the Forefront" thematically led discussions on phenotyping and AI, 3D inflammation modeling, stress and skin architecture, and olfaction in skin's stress response during the SCC Annual Meeting.

As composting takes hold of beauty care, more and more brands are coming out of the woodwork with new and improved products.

Compostable Beauty

The industry seeks to offset its footprint with new compostable products.

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Deinde Unveils Radiance-Restoring Overnight Mask for a Morning Glow-Up

Clinically proven to improve skin texture, tone and brightness, this deeply moisturizing formula is said to melt effortlessly into the skin, delivering visible radiance by morning.

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Future-Ready Skin

Precision actives, sustainable performance, visible results—skincare engineered at its core.

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Color Cosmetics at a Crossroads: the Categories and Strategies Set to Restart Growth

Industry innovators are exploring new ways to bring energy back to the makeup aisle.

Olay subjected its Professional Pro-X line to multistage clinical trials to substantiate claims that the products reduced the appearance of facial fine lines and wrinkles.

Pushing Boundaries: Claims & Substantiation in Skin Care

Brand owners and suppliers discuss the latest science behind the ingredients they say offer solid clinical test results.

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3 Steps to Building Personalized Skin Care

A focus on consumers’ unique concerns, ethnic backgrounds and strategic use of ingredients build regimens that deliver customized results.

Paraben and Formaldehyde Removal, in-cosmetics 2014 Launches, and More Beauty Ingredient News and Launches for Late March 2014

Get the latest news from TRI-K Industries, BASF, Merck, Impact Colors and more, as well as in-cosmetics 2014 launches from Croda, Dow, CareSil, Corbion Purac and Momentive.

Cocokind has long been a favorite expo company and to see how they are measuring their carbon commitments is another reason to love them.

Innovations in Natural Beauty Unveiled at Natural Products Expo West 2022

“Natural products companies are making real, measurable climate commitments in addition to delivering products that are better for their consumers’ health,” said Jessica Rubino, executive director of content at New Hope Network.

The bigger impact is that concerns over the potential endocrine-disrupting effects of bisphenols will no doubt put other cosmetic ingredients with the same alleged effects front and center (again), drawing interest from regulators.

Endocrine Disruptors in the EU, SCCS Opinions and NGO Pressure to Crack Down

From November 2022–February 2023, organizations in seven European Union member states tested 121 products and found bisphenols of high concern in 47 of them, per Chemical Watch. NGOs are urging regulators to impose stricter regulation on all bisphenols.

Since December 2023, online searches for “whole body deodorant” have exploded, dwarfing traffic recorded over the last 20 years. Why is that?

The Whole-body Revolution

Simplicity, multifunctionality, gentleness, value and efficacy are driving exponential growth in launches promising all-over deodorizing benefits across multiple body sites.

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Herbivore Botanicals Revamps Its Bakuchiol Serum for an Evolving Millennial Consumer

"We are always on a mission to uplevel our formulas and introduce new powerful plant-based actives."

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Beyond Hybrids: the New Era of Skin-Care-First Makeup

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Tara Loftis on BYOMA’s Strategic Growth: Q&A on Innovation, Science and the Future of Skin Care

In 2025, the brand achieved 44% year-over-year sales growth, fueled by strong demand across retail and direct-to-consumer channels.