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Innovations in Sustainable Beauty: Exploring Eco-friendly Ingredients and Solutions
Discover the latest in sustainable beauty, including biodegradable ingredients, bio-based alternatives and eco-friendly solutions for skin care, hair care and cosmetics. Explore how brands are leading the way in clean, conscious formulations.
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Futureproof Skin’s Longevity with the Next Generation of Peptides
To help brands meet new industry standards and take advantage of the widening market for well-aging solutions, dsm-firmenich has launched SYN®-COLL CB – a new, clean beauty version of its proven, collagen-boosting patented tripeptide.
Natural/Sustainable
Macro Oceans Launches Big Kelp Flex to Eliminate Microplastics
California-based biotech company Macro Oceans launched Big Kelp Flex, its new seaweed cellulose ingredient.
Natural/Sustainable
From Trash to Treasure: How Upcycled Beauty Ingredients are Transforming Cosmetics
Upcycling is the art of transforming discarded or overlooked materials into something new and valuable. The growing interest in upcycling is closely linked to the urgent need for more circular economic models.
Hair Care
Product Spotlight: Head & Shoulders BARE Dandruff Shampoo
Hair/scalp care is predicted to climb at a 6.4% CAGR (2025 to 2030), with anti-dandruff holding the largest share (37.8%). Clean beauty is also expected to expand at a 13.2% CAGR (2024-2029). Crossing the two is Head & Shoulders' BARE dandruff shampoo.
Natural/Sustainable
Targeting Zero Waste: How Beauty is Transitioning to a Circular Economy
The growing waste crisis is prompting changes across the beauty industry. Following are examples in ingredients, product forms, packaging and processing, with added insights from two waterless brands making waves in hair and skin care: AROVE and Onélogy.
Natural/Sustainable
Taking Hair and Scalp Care to New Heights
This issue of
C&T
is at the forefront of hair/scalp science, exploring test methods, trends and innovations. It also revisits the fundamentals of formulating with ZnO, for mineral sunscreens, and presents an upcycled tea extract to counteract photodamage.
Tech/Equipment/Services
Testing Trending Hair Care and Skinification Claims
Various test methods, some borrowed from skin care, can be used to validate hair product claims. This article reviews several, including conditioning, anti-breakage, hydration, skinification-related, damage repair, anti-dandruff, anti-hair loss and more.
Hair Care
Advances in Hair: Deeper Delivery, Scalp 'Interabiome,' Lasting Effects, Biotech Powered, Function Led, Senolytics, Climate Adaptable, Textured Hair
For insider perspectives on hair care innovation, we asked industry experts for their observations on current and future trends and directions. Following are their insights.
Actives
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.
Hair Care
Transformations in Hair and Scalp Science: Breakthrough or Bust?
Transformations in scalp and strand science are redefining hair care. But do they live up to consumer expectations? Here, industry experts Perry Romanowski, Jennifer Marsh, Ph.D., of P&G, and Fraser Bell, Ph.D., of K18 Hair, guide our discussion.
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[podcast] Formulating Generational Beauty: Uncovering Needs, Aligning Ingredients and Creating Products for Gen X to Alpha
In this sponsored podcast, Becky Stiles, Ph.D, and Allison Garlet, of BASF, explore the needs and preferences of generations X through alpha. They also explain how BASF identifies these needs, aligns them with ingredients and formulates relevant products.
