March 2024

This issue explores mind-body connections; from perceived age, health and beauty, and psychological shift in "anti-aging," to emotional product desires and plant stem cells for skin revival. As a bonus, it looks to solutions for hair and scalp health.

Cosmetics & Toiletries March 2024
March 2024
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This article delves into the emotions and feelings of product experiences and explores how they impact purchasing decisions. In addition, it considers how to measure emotional responses to design products that meet consumers’ emotional desires.
Building Product Experiences that Deliver on Consumers’ Emotional Desires
Mar 1st, 2024
The full potential of these concepts could be tapped into by integrating mindfulness practices into daily skin care routines. This might involve combining mindfulness exercises with skin care rituals to enhance both mental well-being and skin health.
Industry Insight: Mindful Beauty and AI to Enable It
Mar 1st, 2024
The apparent discrepancy with self-ratings is difficult to interpret but may be grounded in ethnic differences in perceptions of facial signs of aging. For example, compared with other ethnic groups, South African women may be less self-critical about signs of aging.
Self Versus Third-party Perceptions of Female Age, Health and Attractiveness — Plus the Role of Facial Skin Features Across Five Ethnic Groups
Mar 1st, 2024
Hair damage is often driven by multiple sources that act in synergy, such as coloring, UV, heat, physical damage, etc. This combined damage is described here, along with what can address it.
Mitigating Multi-Source Hair Damage
Mar 1st, 2024
Plant stem cells have the ability to self-renew, which means they can create new stem cells to replace those that have been lost or damaged.
Plant Stem Cells for Anti-aging and Skin Rejuvenation: A Review
Mar 1st, 2024
This article discusses concerns over sunscreen labeling and actions to address them. It also describes regulatory changes, primarily in the UK, in terms of REACH and its involvement with DEFRA, the upcoming CMR process, UK product safety reviews and more.
Sunscreen Labeling, REACH and DEFRA, CMR Process, Product Safety and More
Mar 1st, 2024