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[interview] How High-speed AFM Revolutionizes Precision Efficacy Testing: Cosmetic Victories Winner Profile
"Basically, an extremely small needle will glide on top of the sample, collecting topographic data in order to create a nanoscale 3D map of a single cell."
Actives
Does Your Product Belong Among the
C&T Allē Award
Elites? Enter the 2026 Program to Find Out
Event Coverage
Rising to the Occasion: What it Means to Win a
C&T Allē Award
— Earn Your Standing Ovation in 2026
Latest
Sensory
Neuroscents: Leveraging the Predictive Brain for Fragrances that ‘Biohack’ Emotion and Cognition
The predictive brain constructs rather than observes product benefits, and imaging can reveal stages of this construction. This understanding was employed to design fragranced products that influence mood, perception and cognition, as demonstrated here.
Event Coverage
Testing Innovators: Submit Now to Take Center Stage at the
2026 C&T Allē Awards
Do your methods and devices put cosmetic innovations to the test? The
Cosmetics & Toiletries
2026
Allē Awards
want to recognize you - enter now.
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.
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Tech/Equipment/Production
Anton Paar Celebrates 50 Years with Multiwave 5001 and 3001 Microwave Digestive Systems Roll-out
The Multiwave series is designed to enhance workflows, demonstrating good durability and resilience even with the most difficult samples, while improving operational efficiency and throughput.
Event Coverage
2026
C&T Allē Awards
Portal is Open — Beauty Innovation Abounds: Show Us Your Stuff
With beauty innovation abuzz, especially around spring trade shows,
Cosmetics & Toiletries
is excited to open the 2026
Allē Awards
submission portal. Show us what you've got!
Animal Alternatives
Researchers Develop 3D-Printed Synthetic Skin to Eliminate Animal Testing
When exposed to cosmetics or other substances, the artificial skin reportedly reacts exactly as real human skin would.
Event Coverage
Which Beauty Device, Digital Tech and Test Method/Tool Will Prevail in the 2025
C&T Allēs
?
Find out during our exclusive red carpet-style awards dinner, to be held on March 12, 2025, at the Ocean Place Resort & Spa in Long Branch, NJ. (Book your ticket now — space is limited.) Here are the finalists; check out their profiles.
Companies
LECO Corp.'s Pegasus BTX Benchtop GC-TOFMS Receives 2024 Innovation Award
The device features a reimagined detector with an increased lifetime, reportedly allowing LECO to be the first in the industry to offer a two-year warranty on a mass spectrometer detector.
Methods/Tools
Haut.AI Explores AI-Enhanced Fluorescence Photography for Non-Invasive Skin Diagnostics
Haut.AI explores the the benefits of using fluorescence photography to uncover skin issues earlier like acne, hyperpigmentation and photoaging. This would allow skin care experts to track treatment progress more effectively.
Event Coverage
How Dynamic Streaming Potential Can Take Formulation Science to the Next Level — Free Webcast
Analyzing the physico-chemical properties of formulas helps to optimize them so they ultimately deliver on consumer expectations. Dynamic streaming potential takes this to a new level, as a free webcast from Anton Paar explains. Register now.
