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Patent Pick: What L'Oréal is Hiding

L'Oréal has a lot to hide—a lot of skin imperfections, that is. In a recent patent application, the company describes a cosmetic that camouflages wrinkles without compromising a natural look and feel.

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VIDEO: P&G on What's Changed in Hair Care

According to P&G scientist James Schwartz, Ph.D., if the surrounding scalp tissue is unhealthy, it’s affecting the quality of the hair fiber. This video explains.

What’s Happening in Hair Damage, Protection and Repair

Hair damage from environmental and cosmetic treatments is a continuing concern. Efforts are under way to understand hair degradation and devise means to protect and repair hair from the damage. This short review is an attempt to summarize recent advances toward protecting and repairing human hair.

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SCCS Concludes DHA is Safe for Hair Dyes

The SCCS released its opinion on dihydroxyacetone (DHA; 1,3-dihydroxy-2-propanone) at a plenary meeting held on March 4, 2020: the ingredient is safe for use as a hair coloring ingredient in leave-on treatments, and in self-tanning lotions and face creams.

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How Damaged is Hair? Part I: Surface Damage

This article is the first of two that explores ways of capturing and quantifying the different forms of hair damage. Here, we begin with damage to the hair surface, or cuticle, while also exploring the implications of this occurrence. A second article will focus on damage to the internal cortex structure.

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Beauty is Universal: Multicultural Conditioning of Damaged Hair

Understanding the consumer hair care needs of diverse populations is increasingly critical. As consumers around the world continue to damage their hair by using thermal styling tools, chemical processes or colorants, restoring hair to a healthy state is a primary consumer need that appears to be universal.

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How a Kudzu Isoflavone Tonic Mitigates Female Hair Loss

Kudzu isoflavones were explored in vitro for the potential to signal the hair growth cycle in dermal papilla. Promising results led to the development of an anti-hair loss tonic using kudzu root extract, which was tested in vivo in 40 Chinese women.

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[podcast] Is Anti-pollution Care Really Relevant in Hair?

Some experts are skeptical over the prospects of anti-pollution care for hair, but not Erik Schulze zur Wiesche, Ph.D., of Henkel. As he describes in this exclusive podcast, the damage is real, measurable—and rectifiable. Listen now!

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Is the Damage Done? Reduce and Repair Hair Color Damage

This article explores the main changes to hair after regular use of permanent hair colorants and how these changes impact noticeable hair properties such as feel, styling, breakage, etc. It then considers several strategies to reduce the damage caused during hair coloring, or to minimize the impact of damage post-coloring.

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Clinging to Color: Isopentyldiol Boosts Brightness in Dyed and Damaged Hair

Keeping up natural hair color or making a bold statement are of utmost importance to hair color consumers, and isopentyldiol is structured to deeply saturate hair and achieve these effects. This ingredient was put to the test, as described here, in different dye products to study its influence on immediate color performance.

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Hair Trio Triumph: Isopentyldiol for Color Care, Strength and Anti-frizz

The hair market moves fast, continuously demanding new concepts for changing trends, with the latest demand being for multitasking benefits. Isopentyldiol is presented as a multitasking tool for color-retention, strengthening and anti-frizz.

The Cosmetics & Toiletries (C&T) Allē Awards bring behind-the-scenes beauty innovation into the spotlight. Learn more at AlleAwards.com.

What Beauty Innovations Qualify for the 2025 C&T Allēs? What Are the Requirements?

What entries compete in the C&T Allēs? From ingredients, blends and prototype/finished formulas, to test methods/tools, devices and digital tech, entries span the cosmetic R&D process. Read on for more and enter now - the deadline is Sept. 13!

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Patent Pick: What the 'Gel'?

If you follow our Patent Picks column, you might be thinking "What the gel?" At least that's what I though when yet another gel-based patent application, this time UV protection from L'Oréal, came up in my search.

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That's What 'Shea' Said

Sonneborn will "smooth things over" during in-cosmetics North America with the launch of its Shea XP emollient for skin care.

What it Means to be 'Green'

Formulators of natural personal care products have the same lament as Kermit the Frog—i.e., “It’s not easy being green.” So before proceeding into the ever-unpredictable product development process, claims must be established as to what the final product aims to fulfill—especially in order to direct efforts toward the desired “green” claim for sustainable, natural, organic, etc.

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Campo Research Details What’s Next in Beauty

Campo offers natural paraben alternatives, as well as a skin brightener derived from mushroom.

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Bio-inspired Beauty: Replacing What's Lost

Biomaterials evolved from material science focused on biocompatibility, in terms of chemical and mechanical reactivity. Some materials interact with and bind to tissues in the human body, providing strength and elasticity for tissue replacement and repair.

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Whatever Happened to Halal Cosmetics?

While analysts are left to sort through the question of "why" the halal segment is growing, cosmetic companies are moving forward with the "how."

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