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Trust as an Invisible Asset: Four Keys to Building High-Impact Partnerships in Joint Development

This framework functions as a holistic trust-building system designed to convert relational capital into a high-performance business asset.

Preservation, Reimagined: Hybrid Antimicrobial Strategies for Safer, More Natural, Skin‑Protective Personal Care Products

Preservation, Reimagined: Hybrid Antimicrobial Strategies for Safer, More Natural, Skin‑Protective Personal Care Products

Nature-aligned boosters transform preservation from necessity into value-adding benefit.

For years, longevity in beauty has largely been framed around structural biology: collagen breakdown, elastin degradation, oxidative stress. These matter, but they’re not the full story.

Next in Skin: Skin Memory and Emotional Longevity

This article explores skin as a biological longevity organ and an emotional container. Steventon and guest Keira Barr, M.D., highlight formulating opportunities to integrate neuro-emotional science, targeting stress, inflammation and cognitive resilience.

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Recharge Skin in the Digital Age: Rethinking Longevity with SkinCharge CLR™

Recharge Skin in the Digital Age: Rethinking Longevity with SkinCharge CLR™

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How the Stem Cell Secretome Empowers Science-backed, Ultra-personalized Dermocosmetics

The technology combines prebiotics and probiotics in a bio-based matrix, designed to restore and regenerate the skin's microbiome. (Note: depiction only, not the actual product)

Wearable Microbiome Boost: HeiQ's Synbiotic Textile Tech Debuts in Coperni's C+ Clothing Line

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Does Your Product Belong Among the C&T Allē Award Elites? Enter the 2026 Program to Find Out

Senolytic evolution: clear – fill – revive

Senolytic evolution: clear – fill – revive

SenoCellTec™ is an advanced senolytic innovation designed to rejuvenate the skin by addressing fundamental biological causes of aging.

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Biotechnology in Beauty: The Future of Formulation – A Cosmetic Chemist’s Perspective

Cosmetics & Toiletries is delighted to welcome the latest addition to its regularly featured content lineup: Biotechnology in Beauty, by Krupa Koestline, chief formulator and owner of KKT Innovation Labs, and the 2024 recipient of the Florence Wall Women in Cosmetic Chemistry Award.

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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.

Aesthetic practices and physicians have begun offering treatments that focus on wellness and vitality that refelect aesthetically.

Vitality Meets Aesthetics: How Hormone and Stem Cell Therapies Are Influencing Regenerative Aging and Beauty Treatments

Aesthetic practices and physicians have begun offering treatments that focus on wellness and vitality—addressing health concerns at their core, intrinsically, while enhancing external appearance—working from the inside-out.

Breaking through the boredom of trend fatigue is no easy matter. But it can be done.

The New Beauty Innovation Playbook: Rewriting the Rules

What can be done to overcome beauty's trend fatigue? Our experts have some answers.

Phages selectively eliminate specific bacterial strains via targeted infection and lysis, reducing their abundance.

How WGS-driven Phage Therapy Targets Microbe Variations Underlying Facial Skin Conditions

Variations exist across the facial microbiome, as shown by whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and case studies. This highlights the need for site-specific testing. The present study used this approach to develop and test a phage therapy for compromised skin.

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Two Johns Hopkins 'Amino Artisans' Aim to Synthesize Snail Mucus Protein

Researchers at Johns Hopkins' Krieger and Whiting schools aim to synthetically produce they key protein in snail mucus known as epiphragmin. Once created, the material could be enhanced for given benefits and made available to skin care manufacturers.

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The Rise of Recombinant Proteins in Beauty - and Making them Scalable

Considering the momentum recombinant proteins are gaining in beauty, here C&T takes closer look at what they are, how they're used, market demand, future directions and their production, with Mindy Goldstein, Ph.D., and Johnny Cordiner, CEO, Phenotypeca.

Nearly 2/3 of U.S. employers believe emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and robotics will become a standard part of their business in the near future, per a Forbes report.

How AI is Transforming Beauty Innovation: Now Available On Demand

This exclusive exploration of AI uncovers clever applications to transform your product development.

NAD+ is involved in cellular energy production, DNA damage repair and cell signaling pathways, thereby contributing to delaying cellular aging and extending lifespan.

Why NAD+ is Causing a Buzz in Beauty: Insights from LG H&H's Byunghyun Kim

At PCHi, to be held March 20-22, 2024, in Shanghai, Byunghyun Kim, senior researcher and project leader from LG H&H, will present on the anti-aging efficacy of NAD+ in skin care. Following is a sneak preview on why NAD+ is causing buzz in beauty.

Taken together, brands of every size will leave this year's event with the knowledge and insights needed to innovate nimbly and mindfully and to elevate their brands to the next level.

Let's Connect the Dots Between Beauty Marketing and R&D: Beauty Accelerate Los Angeles 2024

Join Beauty Accelerate in Los Angeles to set the 2024-2025 innovation agenda!

Collectively, these experts will illustrate how new digital tools, changing workflows and much more can support rapid, consumer- and influencer-winning innovation, even among modestly sized brands.

Summer Fridays, Spate, Good Face Project & Bluebird on the Digitization of Beauty

From AI-driven trendspotting to rapid clean and sustainable product innovation, emerging tools are helping brands move nimbly and efficiently across marketing and R&D functions.