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Performance & Sustainability Drive the Newest Makeup Ingredients
Natural/Sustainable
Turning CO₂ into Beauty: The Palm Oil Alternative Designed to Save Rainforests
Anti-aging/Face
The Rise of Face-Grade Body Care: a Skin Care Transformation
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Skin Care
'Waterless' Product Spotlight: Olay Cleansing Melts
The waterless and low-water personal care product market in the U.S. is projected to reach US $4.11 billion by 2032. Olay's Cleansing Melts provide a perfect example.
Tech/Equipment/Production
AI Beauty Tech Booms: L'Oréal, Haut.AI and Paula's Choice Taiwan Roll Out New Consumer Experiences
Virtual assistants, AI-powered skin analyzers, generative AI simulations and more are reshaping how consumers engage with products and understand their own beauty needs, as shown by launches from L’Oréal Paris, Haut.AI and Paula’s Choice Taiwan × Revieve.
Methods/Tools
Editor's Note: The New Science of Skin, Brain and Beauty — From AI to Health and Emotion
Our September issue explores how neuroscience, biotech, AI and wellness are transforming personal care — shifting it from surface-level solutions to predictive, personalized and biologically attuned innovations that connect skin, brain and self.
Sponsored
Hallmarks of Ageing and Their Role in Longevity Skin Care
Recently updated to 12, the hallmarks of ageing describe the biochemical changes associated with biological ageing. Learn more on the primary causes of ageing and antagonistic answers to damage to build the best strategy for your product developments.
Tech/Equipment
Expert Opinions: How Digital Tech and Platforms Advance Cosmetic Product Development
From smart packaging and exosome design to conversational AI and predictive diagnostics, digital tech and platforms are reshaping cosmetics R&D. Here, expert insights reveal how tech is driving adaptive, personalized, biologically aware beauty innovation.
Balancing/Soothing
Expert Opinions on Compromised and Sensitive Skin Care: Barrier Resilience, Dermocosmetics, Biomimetic, Multifunctional and More
Sensitive skin care is now mainstream, driving a market projected to exceed $68B by 2029. Here, we explore how biomimetic, barrier-boosting ingredients are reshaping the category with insights from Core Biogenesis, Lucas Meyer Cosmetics and Nagase Viita.
Skin Care
[interview] Empowering Personalized Care with Instant Microbiome Test + Derm-trained AI Advisor — Byome Labs Cosmetic Victories Profile
Personalized beauty continues to grow as innovations emerge to make it possible. For example, Byome Labs, a 2025 Cosmetic Victories finalist, developed a point-of-sale skin microbiome test with derm-trained AI to make product suggestions. Learn more here.
Hair Care
Purvala's Hair-binding Proteins Define Olaplex's Next Innovation Chapter
Purvala's ingredient solutions include what it calls "products based on novel hair-binding proteins" that have applications in hair repair, hair shaping and straightening, and hair coloring.
Anti-aging/Face
Debut Secures $20M to Revolutionize Longevity Skin Care with AI, Expands into Asia
The AI discovery platform will use the funding to develop ingredients that target the 14 hallmarks of aging.
Actives
How Cosmetics Impact Mental Well-Being: The Neurocosmetic Frontier — Plus Free Webcast
As science continues to uncover beauty-brain connections, product developers are leveraging these connections for aesthetic and health benefits. A free webcast, sponsored by Lucas Meyer Cosmetics by Clariant, explains. Register now to watch; it's free.
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.
!['We believe [Byome Derma] will redefine how products are tested, recommended and marketed, moving the industry away from intuition or influence, toward evidence-based personalization.' Pictured: Byome Labs Team](https://img.cosmeticsandtoiletries.com/mindful/allured/workspaces/default/uploads/2025/08/byome-labs-group-photo.AKivj2669s.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.49&fp-y=0.5&fp-z=1&h=191&q=70&w=340)
!['[W]e can predict better ingredients, faster, with our best-in-class models that we have invested in over several years,' says Joshua Britton, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Debut.](https://img.cosmeticsandtoiletries.com/mindful/allured/workspaces/default/uploads/2025/08/debut-biotechnology.c4slA2p7t3.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&fit=crop&h=191&q=70&w=340)
