Cosmetics & Toiletries May 2022 Issue | Cosmetics & Toiletries

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This article revisits the roles of formulators and process engineers in product scale up. It demonstrates where issues may arise to help anticipate them and speed their resolution – or prevent them. It also provides tips to assist in the scale-up process.

Formulating Forum: Scale-up Considerations for Innovative Cosmetics

This article revisits the roles of formulators and process engineers in product scale up. It demonstrates where issues may arise to help anticipate them and speed their resolution – or prevent them. It also provides tips to assist in the scale-up process.

New turnkey services and expanding lab capacity are offering brands more responsive partnerships in beauty manufacturing.

Beauty Manufacturing Trend Tracker: April 2024

New labs, ingredient supply chain trends, expanded turnkey offerings, AI-driven quality assurance for lipsticks and more top our leading beauty manufacturing trends this month.

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Next in Skin: Facial Cleansing for Acne Control, Health and Radiance

Hormonal influences, microscopic nuances and the skin microbiome are all considerations in skin cleansing for acne control; select examples are given here. Manipulating these can improve skin homogeneity, health and radiance for mind-body beauty.

From Nutricosmetics to Nutraceuticals: Inside TOSLA’s Next Chapter of Scalable Innovation

From Nutricosmetics to Nutraceuticals: Inside TOSLA’s Next Chapter of Scalable Innovation

TOSLA transforms scientific breakthroughs into consumer wellness rituals with unprecedented speed and precision.

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

Presented here are findings of self- and third-party ratings of female facial appearance for age, health and attractiveness across five ethnic groups. Implications of beliefs across the groups about the roles of given skin features are also discussed.

The published hair literature contains an abundance of information on sources of damage, including chemical treatments such as coloring, bleaching and perming; UV exposure; heated tool damage; and physical damage from combing and brushing. However, there is limited information on the impact of multiple sources of hair damage and the added damage of combining these sources, which is often what women experience. This article will discuss unhealthy hair and hair that is classified as having these higher levels of combined damage. It also will demonstrate how the appropriate choice of hair treatment products can help to reduce multi-source damage.

Mitigating Multi-Source Hair Damage

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 ways to address it.

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

This paper explores plant stem cells, their production and active constituents for anti-aging and rejuvenating skin care products. It also reviews the literature in terms of their benefits and provides several commercial examples.

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

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.

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Formulating Forum: Scale-up Considerations for Innovative Cosmetics

This article revisits the roles of formulators and process engineers in product scale-up. It demonstrates where issues may arise to help anticipate them and speed their resolution – or prevent them. It also provides tips to assist in the scale-up process.

Notable changes in the Asia-Pacific region include adjustments to cosmetic ingredient technical standard and cosmetic pre-market management.

Asia-Pacific Regulatory Update: Children’s Cosmetics, Toothpaste, Personalized Products, Ingredients, E-commerce and More

Notable changes in the Asia-Pacific region include adjustments to cosmetic ingredient technical standards and cosmetic pre-market management.

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Boosting Moisturization for Tattooed Skin Care

Tattooed skin requires different care than non-tattooed skin, including ingredients to repair damage inflicted by the tattooing process. This study explores the moisturizing properties and clinical efficacy of a vitamin-enriched formula on tattooed skin.