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The home spa product market is shifting to include medspa-level solutions that mimic everything from Botox to eye lifts; image by Sofiia Bakh.

Skin Care’s Medspa-ration Renaissance

A growing number of ingredients and product formats mimic professional treatment results, providing minimally invasive at-home beauty care.

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Can Beauty Bridge the Gap Between Women and Wellness?

As the gap between wellness and beauty shrinks, women are demanding products that speak to their specific needs and lifecycles.

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Beauty's What's On the Inside: Ingestible Beauty Takeaways for 2026

Beauty is turning outside in with the rise of ingestible beauty collagens in new forms and flavors.

The uptick in prestige skin care sales comes at a time when brands are tapping clinically effective ingredients, holistic wellness concepts and more.

What’s Driving the Prestige Skin Care Boom and How Can Brands Get in on the Growth?

A potent blend of wellness, Gen Alpha shopping habits, emerging high-efficacy ingredients and professionally inspired beauty are creating significant growth opportunities.

For athletes who face intense sun exposure and sweat conditions, sunscreen development requires careful formulation to achieve effective protection, durability, and a cosmetically elegant feel.

SPF Sunscreen: A Run Towards Healthier Sunscreen by Sun Deep Cosmetics

Nikita Gill and Jocelyn Manfut from Sun Deep Cosmetics explain the difference in sun protection ingredients and emphasize the importance of using the right formulas for athletic consumers.

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Ingredients & Ethical Beauty: New Innovation Roundup

New and award-winning technologies from the latest global events.

Controversial Ingredients: One Brand’s Perspective

A number of ingredients have been vilified, and ingredient myths have perpetuated. Scientific evidence suggests that some should be eliminated from formulations; the use of others, while safe according to the available scientific data, should be considered for commercial reasons related to consumer perception.

Bioactive Ingredients for Inside Out Anti-aging

As multifunctional products continue their rise in beauty, nutricosmetics are again getting a chance to shine, including in anti-aging products.

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Sun Care Gets Personal

From sunscreen hybrids to SPF made for specific lifestyles, sun care is getting personal.

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Beauty in Two Worlds: K-shaped Strategies to Capture Both Premium and Value Consumers

Across tiers, transparency, multifunctionality, and demonstrable performance are non-negotiable.

“As we get older, there are biological changes that being to happen to our hair,” says Michelle Chavez, vice president of innovation, Accupac/Cobalt Labs. “The scalp gets dehydrated faster, oil glands slow down sebum production and the skin has trouble holding on to moisture, leading to thinner, flatter skin on the scalp. Simultaneously, the length of the hair growth cycle gets shorter, and the follicle diameter gets smaller, resulting in hair thinning and loss.”

Consumers’ Top Hair Care Concerns Point to Brands’ Next Innovation Opportunities

Emerging claims associated with hormonal shifts, aging, styling stressors and more point to growth ahead for hair health brands.

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2026 Beauty Preview: from Neuro Skin Aging to Cautious Shoppers

Specialists in ingredients, packaging, marketing and more speak out on what's ahead for the industry.

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Hairspan: Defining the Next Frontier of Hair Longevity

A new movement is emerging as a defining structure for formulation strategy, functional claims and consumer education, and positions the hair and scalp as a biological system designed to be preserved over time.

All latest innovations in longevity, radiance, and sustainable beauty solutions - all in one place.

How These Star Ingredients Are Setting New Standards in Beauty

This report highlights star ingredients driving the skin longevity phenomenon, among others, and redefining standards for beauty.