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Ultralight Face Fluid SPF 50 is ideal for individuals seeking high-performance sun protection without compromising on comfort or skin care benefits.

Byoma Launches Ultralight Face Fluid SPF50

Byoma's Ultralight Face Fluid offers advanced sun protection with skin care benefits, setting a new standard in the sun care industry.

From Silab’s Longevicell, which harnesses the rejuvenating power of myrtle leaves to target cellular mechanisms for longevity, to Evolved By Nature's Activated Silk KDF-β peptide, designed to combat modern environmental stressors, these advancements are setting new standards in skin care ingredients.

Revolutionizing Skin Care: Innovative Ingredients Transforming Anti-Aging and Skin Health

Exploring the science, benefits, and sustainability behind these advanced ingredients, offering a closer look at how they address key skin concerns like aging, oxidative stress, and damage repair.

Bold colors, striking designs and innovative concepts are taking center stage, making beauty packaging more than just a container—it's an experience.

Bold, Bright and Beautiful: Eye-Catching Design & Deco Trends in Beauty and Personal Care Packaging

Explore bold packaging trends reshaping beauty, including Unilever's innovative Dove Shower Sensor label that promotes skin-friendly habits and Fusion PKG's space-saving designs for retail efficiency.

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DSM-Firmenich Gears Up for In-cos Global with Skin/Hair Anti-aging, Sun Protection Solutions

Designed to meet the evolving needs of consumers, these sustainability-led, state-of-the-art ingredients aim to redefine the realms of UV protection, skin aging and hair health.

Charlotte Tilbury and Ultra Violette Expand Their Reach in the U.S. Market

Charlotte Tilbury, founded by British makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury, MBE, is now available in 35 Bluemercury stores nationwide and online.

Kids don't always understand what, exactly, they're putting on their faces. Brands can help with that.

Gen Alpha and Skin Care: Bubble's Mission to Protect Young Skin

With social media driving a surge in teen skin care, 70% of teens use products without understanding their ingredients or risks.

How can brands of every price point innovate to break through the skin care category’s malaise?

How Skin Care Can Escape Its Innovation Slump

The skin care market is undergoing a shift as consumers seek innovative and effective products that deliver long-term benefits. Brands must adapt to evolving consumer preferences by prioritizing longevity, medicalization and personalization.

Consumers expect products that deliver results. This demand is being met through the development of advanced delivery systems that target specific skin concerns, as well as the incorporation of potent ingredients such as peptides, proteins, and antioxidants.

New Beauty Ingredient Advances: Sustainability x Efficacy

This article examines novel ingredients and technologies available to cosmetic formulators, including a bioactivating hexapeptide derived from human skin to stimulate collagen production, fermented ingredients that inhibit glycation and more.

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7 Recent Recalls: Babygenics, Tom's of Maine, Amika, HiBAR and Others

From hair spray and repair cream, to tattoo ink, children's sunscreen, toothpaste and others, several products have been recalled in recent months due to safety hazards and regulatory non-compliance. Following is an overview.

The ingredient not only addresses the demand for eco-friendly solutions, but also enables the formulation of comfortable sunscreens suitable for daily use.

Imerys Introduces ImerCare SunTouch Perlite-based Sensory Agent for SPF Cosmetics

The natural alternative to synthetic sensory agents is designed to deliver a velvety, matte finish while maintaining SPF efficacy.

Sun care is no longer limited to standalone sunscreen products. Instead, it’s becoming an essential feature across categories like skin care, makeup and color cosmetics. This shift represents a significant opportunity for brands to meet evolving consumer needs while staying ahead of the competition.

Supergoop!, Amorepacific and Beiersdorf Experts Talk Beauty's Sunification

Sun care is no longer limited to standalone sunscreen products. Instead, it’s becoming an essential feature across categories like skin care, makeup and color cosmetics.

In the past year, interest in glass nails has skyrocketed ~290.8% across platforms, per Spate. The source also cites growth in high-shine beauty trends like glass hair (+70.1%) and the glass skin look (+112.4%), proving the widespread appeal of reflective aesthetics across beauty categories.

9 Emerging Beauty Trends: Ultra-reflective, Aime Derm Skin Care, Micronutrition, Wonderskin Lip Stain and More

This report expands on C&T's Consumer Pulse videos on social media, uncovering rising trends in beauty. This edition includes: Aime and derm skin care, micronutrition, Wonderskin peel-off lip stain, glass nails, reflective beauty, Canadian skin care, etc.

The news of the acquisition follows Biolie’s successful product launches showcased at Cosmet’Agora in January 2025, including an SPF-booster from pomelo.

Sensient Acquires White Biotech Expert Biolie to Expand Active Color Offerings

Sensient will apply Biolie's solvent-free enzymatic extraction to create novel sustainable ingredients. The deal follows two recent Biolie launches at Cosmet'Agora: Paradisyl, an antioxidant and SPF booster, and Garnet Red, a skin conditioning agent.

Consumers now demand more from their sunscreen, expecting it to provide additional benefits such as hydration, anti-aging, or even makeup compatibility. SPF is increasingly integrated into multifunctional products to offer better value.

Sunscreen Gets a Glow-Up: from Reef-safe to TikTok-approved

Consumers now demand more from their sunscreen, expecting it to provide additional benefits such as hydration, anti-aging, or even makeup compatibility.

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2025 Will See Faster, More Ethical and Accurate SPF Testing: ISO Approves Two New Methods

In December 2024, the ISO gave its long-awaited final approval of two SPF test methods that experts say are more ethical, economical and accurate than current approaches. One in particular is also reportedly faster, reducing analysis from weeks to days.

BASF has launched a new synthetic peptide for skin care that aligns with the slow aging trend.

New Beauty Ingredients: from Pro-aging to Ingestible Sun Defense

To keep beauty innovators up on the latest technologies, Global Cosmetic Industry and Cosmetics & Toiletries prepare ingredient trend bulletins breaking down the latest emerging technologies, clinicals and more.

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Top 14 Macro Trends for Beauty Innovation in 2025 and Beyond

The fourth quarter of 2024 was jam-packed with events — and ideas to spark beauty innovation. Here, we've grouped them into 14 macro trends we see for beauty innovation in 2025 and beyond. Brief notes, buzzwords and "honorable mentions" also are included.

The Henry Maso Keynote Lecture, moderated by COSA chair and vice chair Caryn Weiss, of Amway (left), and Paul Lawrence, Ph.D., of BioCogent (right), respectively, consisted of a conversation with Avantha Arachchi, of A Frame Brands (center) on the importance of inclusivity in products and internal teams.

DEI, Ethnic Hair, Adaptive Photoprotection, Temperature vs. Sunscreen Penetration, Post-procedural Care and More: SCC78 Day Three

Day three of the SCC78 Annual Scientific Meeting and Technology Showcase opened with the SCC Annual Awards Breakfast featuring the Henry Maso Keynote Lecture, which set the tone for one of the event's major themes: inclusivity. Here's a brief recap.