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Supplier Innovations Wanted: Enter the 2026
C&T Allēs
to Showcase Your Beauty Breakthroughs
Calling all beauty and personal care suppliers! Enter the 2026
C&T Allē Awards
to spotlight your latest innovation. From actives to prototypes, test methods to ingredient blends — show the industry how you're shaping the future. Submissions now open!
Hair Care
Cleverman: Revolutionizing Men's Grooming with Personalization and Confidence
Natural/Sustainable
From Trash to Treasure: How Upcycled Beauty Ingredients are Transforming Cosmetics
Latest
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.
Sponsored
A new collagen era for hair care with Col-Frag remastered™
Col-Frag remastered™ is a type I collagen fragment produced in Wild plants as biofactories through vertical farming, that provides volume, gloss and facilitates combing.
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.
Home
[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.
Sensory
Roquette Beauté Launches Corn-based Sustainable Powder Alternative to Synthetics
The new ingredient features a porous structure created through enzymatic hydrolysis that provides enhanced compaction properties and sensory performance.
Hair Care
Product Spotlight: Cake Lustrous Shine Conditioner
The market for hair and shine products is positioned for major growth from 2025 to 2035, expanding from US $2.1 billion to $3.85 billion. Cake's Lustrous Shine Conditioner provides an example of such a product.
Actives
Category Shake-Up:
C&T Allēs
Spotlight Acne, Compromised Skin and Scalp Care Innovations in 2026
The new categories aim to better recognize targeted solutions addressing specific consumer needs such as skin conditions, post-procedural care and scalp health.
