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Section: Cosmetic Ingredients
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The Latest in Whitening Agents
In recent years, new agents, especially from plants, have been discovered and extracted to test for their depigmenting effects in vitro and in vivo. This article reviews these most recent skin whitening agents of interest, whose efficacy, mechanism and safety have been tested.
Literature/Data
Lipsticks: How They Have Changed and Where They Are Going
The composition of lipstick formulations and means of manufacturing and filling them have progressed significantly in the last 100 years. This article reviews the most notable developments in methods of production, innovations in both functional and active ingredients, and breakthroughs in processing. In addition, it explores what the future could hold for lipsticks.
Color Cosmetics
Get the Perfect Lipstick: Boost Oil-binding Capacity with Natural Waxes
With lipsticks being front and center to the human face, it's important to get their balance right not only for the perception of the product, but of the consumer.
Skin Care
Experience the Latest Sensations from Lubrizol Skin Care
The quest for beauty involves offering new textures and colors to suit the ever changing needs and expectations of consumers.
Color Cosmetics
Delivering High Moisturization from Lipstick
To improve the appearance of dry and wrinkled lips, it is necessary to hydrate them. Here, the author describes a lipstick concept to meet this need and a formulation process to achieve it. The product was then tested for immediate and long-lasting moisturization using a corneometer, and a quantitative study was conducted to rate its usability.
Color Cosmetics
Natural Challenges: Formulating Vegan Lipstick
Natural and sustainable products are as popular as ever, which for formulators poses the challenge of balancing a precise ratio of waxes and oils for natural lipsticks. This article describes how to properly formulate natural and vegan lipsticks. Specific waxes and oils are analyzed and their correct ratios are examined to achieve proper functionality.
Color Cosmetics
Delivering High Moisturization from Lipstick
To improve the appearance of dry and wrinkled lips, it is necessary to hydrate them. Here, the author describes a lipstick concept to meet this need and a formulation process to achieve it. The product was then tested for immediate and long-lasting moisturization using a corneometer, and a quantitative study was conducted to rate its usability.
Literature/Data
Two Decades of Transfer-resistant Lipstick
It has been two decades since Revlon revolutionized the color cosmetic market by debuting transfer-resistant lipstick. Innovations in transfer resistance and long wear makeup have continued apace, and it certainly appears that advances in this field will continue for the foreseeable future. This article reviews the literature to show the evolution of chemistries and concepts in this prominent market.
Color Cosmetics
Copolymer to Improve Pigment Dispersion in Lipsticks
Lipstick is formulated with pigments for the obvious reason of color, but formulators always face the same technical difficulties of pigment dispersion and final shade matching. The present article explores solving these two lipstick dilemmas with an amphiphilic copolymer to improve pigment dispersion and texture of lipsticks.
Skin Care
Introducing Argassential™: Sustainable Argan for Plumper, Firmer Skin and Lips
The newest ingredient from BASF’s Sustainable Argan Program is clinically proven to plump and firm the skin through collagen production and optimized adipogenesis.
Color Cosmetics
Lipstick Lowdown: How Pigment Dispersions Change Sensory Traits
Pigment dispersions play a key role in cosmetic lip products from both a functional and sensorial perspective. This article explores various carrier oils in pigment dispersions and investigates their behavioral traits, overall impact and influence on the final texture of a lipstick.
People
Going Green: One Entrepreneur’s Affect on the Cosmetic Industry--Anita Roddick
“… the kind of shop I’m thinking of opening is one that sells natural cosmetics in different sizes and in cheap, refillable containers,” Anita Roddick told her husband Gordon in the mid-1970s. When The Body Shop’s first branch opened in March 1976 with 25 products, that is what she did...
People
Going Green: One Entrepreneur’s Affect on the Cosmetic Industry—Anita Roddick
“… the kind of shop I’m thinking of opening is one that sells natural cosmetics in different sizes and in cheap, refillable containers,” Anita Roddick told her husband Gordon in the mid-1970s. When The Body Shop’s first branch opened in March 1976 with 25 products, that is what she did...
Color Cosmetics
Lip-smacking Results: Mixture Design ‘Pays Off’ to Optimize Wax/Oil Lipstick Ratio
This article explores Mixture Design for lipstick development. The approach models the blending surface with a suitable mathematical equation to identify ideal ingredient ratios. As is shown here, Mixture Design can effectively optimize lipstick formulations, saving development time and costs.
Sun Protection
The Best Sunscreen? The One People Will Use.
This guest advisor commentary comes from regular
Cosmetics & Toiletries
contributor and photochemistry expert Craig Bonda, president of Inception Partners, LLC, and technical consultant to the sunscreen industry.
Skin Care
Counteracting the Impact Preservatives Have on the Microbiota
Research shows that preservatives can impact the microbiota. There is a prebiotic that supports the microbiota against the skin’s disturbance from preservative exposure.
Skin Care
Facial Sheet Masks on the Go: Reviving the Face
Facial sheet masks have numerous benefits, such as delivering active materials to the skin and leaving the face feeling moisturized. Innovations in sheet masks are on the rise, and formulators are searching for new materials that are safer, friendlier for the skin and environment, and sensorially pleasing.
Bath/Shower
Compass—Bring on the Bubbly!
Bubbles are an integral part of this issue of Cosmetics & Toiletries magazine—in the form of cleansing products and the ingredients employed therein.
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