Cosmetics & Toiletries Issue Archive

Cosmetics & Toiletries April 2024
April 2024
Our latest edition offers trends and insights to elevate traditional and hybridized (i.e., color + care) makeup. It also highlights regulations impacting color; biotech for future innovation; defining biodegradability; and answers to skin radiance.
Cosmetics & Toiletries March 2024
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 February 2024
February 2024
Cosmetics & Toiletries January 2024
January 2024
When it comes to the skin and microflora, it is difficult to detangle human vs. third party activities to maintain skin health. Reflecting this, our latest issue merges ideas around the skin microbiome and skin health, among others.
Cosmetics & Toiletries November/December 2023
November/December 2023
In the past year (and longer), our industry has successfully innovated its way into new hyper-cosmetic territories — the sneak preview of entries for the 2024 C&T Allē Awards in this issue are evidence of this. No doubt this progress will flow forward, making ripples and eventually waves of its own.
Cosmetics & Toiletries October 2023
October 2023
In our latest issue, female intimate care and V-beauty are featured front and center, including articles on: the dynamics and trends in this market; the skinification of intimate area care and ideas for new products; the vaginal microbiome and female health; and Expert Opinions on current and future directions for wellness and femcare. Additional themes include: remediating hair damage through formulation architectures; how dissolving HA microneedles change before/after application; ideas for product labeling inspired by gefilte fish; and an update of Asia-Pacific cosmetic regulations.
Cosmetics & Toiletries September 2023
September 2023
This month’s issue of C&T goes "back to the basics." It deviates from our typical content by including advice, opinion and tips for product development – in addition to our well-respected technical articles. Themes range from preservation, texture and structure, to emotion and perception, adapting to future market directions, fostering disciplined creativity and more. We hope this month’s flashback to the basics "schools" you in ways to rethink and reinvent your product development efforts.
Cosmetics & Toiletries July/August 2023 CT2307_08
July/August 2023 CT2307_08
Some experts believe the next adaptation of sustainability will be circularity; the challenge is determining how to build circular business models (CBMs) successfully into a company’s larger strategies. From a technical standpoint, this means optimizing specific aspects within CBMs - e.g., promoting renewable options, extending resource value and product life (enabling multiple cycles, re-using, etc.), recovering resources (creating value from waste, industrial symbiosis, recycling, etc.) and others. Examples of such are featured in this month’s C&T. We hope this edition provides inspiration and closes the circle for your sustainable beauty formulating challenges.
Cosmetics & Toiletries June 2023
June 2023
The June 2023 issue of C&T magazine intertwines facets of holistic beauty in several ways. It spans the categories of hair, skin, color and sun; it aims to both improve and protect hair, skin and formulations in general; it also seeks to reduce mental stress and appeal to green tenets for beauty benefits.
Cosmetics & Toiletries May 2023
May 2023
This issue of C&T responds to several trends in the "pro-youth" space. Ezure probes biology for answers to sagging, identifying shrinking sweat glands as a novel target. Prajammuang, et al., explore detachable microneedles to deliver retinol and other actives into skin for youthful effects without accumulation or irritation. Biotech and fermentation-derived ingredients with skin brightening, antioxidant, hydrating, probiotic, … etc., benefits are described by Johnson, while Deola and Lionetti take a skin health approach, explaining how to formulate for compromised skin. This month’s Expert Opinions is also rich with ideas for the anti-aging category; e.g., stress management, precision targeting, the holobiont, senescence, the medicalization of products and more. As a bonus this month we also address scalp care, which continues to draw consumer interest.
Cosmetics & Toiletries April 2023
April 2023
Most readers will have heard of the lipstick effect—but dopamine beauty is a newer concept. C&T touched on this dynamic a few years ago in an interview with board-certified dermatologist and psychiatrist John Koo, M.D., about stress, strain and cosmetics to improve mental wellness. The bottom line? Color cosmetics have a place in self-care and wellness, both of which are reflected in our latest edition.
Cosmetics & Toiletries March 2023
March 2023
This issue of Cosmetics & Toiletries explores symbiotic relationships in cosmetics R&D. From synthetic biology (sybio) to build cosmetic ingredient solutions, and fermented bio-identical palm alternatives, to activating our own cellular biology to stimulate hair/eyelash growth, and concepts at the hair/skin interface (bond builders, skinification and more). We hope our latest issue symbiotically benefits your product development work and drives innovation as the industry explores this "biobeauty" space.