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Industry Insight: Bugs and Beauty Sleep

We all know “beauty sleep” is the real deal. What we don’t know is how our gut microbiome impacts it. J&J is interested in this connection, as Stefanie Dhanda explained in a recent podcast. Following is an excerpt.

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Editor's Note: Diversity, Fashion and Function

Mashing up movements in diversity, fashion and function, this month’s issue of Cosmetics & Toiletries first advocates for inclusive beauty. While the topics themselves may seem loosely connected, they are all near and dear to today’s consumers—and they all converge in your product innovations. We hope our latest edition inspires the formulas you fashion to meet evolving consumer expectations.

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Simple and Safe: Formulating ‘Clean Beauty’

A clean beauty product seems imply its development with a heightened sense of safety as well as unnecessary ingredients. For the formulator, this article explores how to follow the clean beauty profile with approaches to match various interpretations.

Innovations in color are one of two topics featured in this issue of C&T. In contrast to color, the second key theme this month is skinimalism. We hope our latest issue delivers bright and bold ideas to minimize your product development dilemmas.

Editor's Note: Contrasting Color and Skinimalism

Innovations in color are one of two topics featured in this issue of C&T. In contrast to color, the second key theme this month is skinimalism. We hope our latest issue delivers bright and bold ideas to minimize your product development dilemmas.

Sun Protection and Early Detection

According to the 2014 American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (ASDS) Survey on Dermatologic Procedures, ASDS members performed an estimated 3.08 million skin cancer treatments last year.

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'Tunable' UV Absorption and Color

A new study published in Science could have product developers humming a new tune. In it, changes to a tyrosine-containing tripeptide acting as a melanin precursor were found capable of tuning melanin properties.

Where Fragrance and Fashion Collide

Collaboration occurs everywhere in personal care--amongst cosmetic companies, between cosmetic and peripheral industries, now outside industries are venturing together into the cosmetic realm.

Raw Material and Vehicle Patents

The awareness of existing patents and intellectual property is vital to cosmetics R&D. To assist in your research, Cosmetics & Toiletries magazine regularly reports on recently issued patents by category; in this case, raw materials and vehicles.

Topical Vitamins and Other Topics

Care Sunless tanning with dihydroxyacetone: Nguyen et al. have studied the factors influencing sunless tanning with dihydroxyacetone. Sunless tanning preparations have been used for more than 50 years and are still very popular because they provide temporary pigmentation resembling an ultraviolet-induced tan. The pigment is the product of reactions between dihy-droxy-acetone (DHA) and amino acids in the stratum corneum.

Ethnic Hair and Scalp Disorders

This article surveys the racial differences of hair, and then focuses on African-Americans, their hair grooming practices and how these practices relate to the common hair and scalp disorders unique to this population.

Copyrights Copyrights and the Law

How are copyrights administered? Intellectual property encompasses ideas or creative works in a form that can enable others to produce or recreate them. Protection of these properties is through patents, trademarks, trade secrets or copyrights. All of these protection instruments allow the owner to prohibit others from using the covered discovery or expression, except with their permission, as in a license. The United States Patent and Trademark Office is responsible for processing patent and trademark applications and disseminating patent and trademark information. Unlike patents and trademarks, copyrights are administered by the Library of Congress, through its Copyright Office.

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Anti-fatigue Cosmetics to Rise and Shine

Topical creams and gels to reverse the effects of unhealthy lifestyles on skin and counteract the visible effects of insomnia are in demand, according to a recent report by Fact.MR.

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Urbanization, Wellness Boost Flavor and Fragrance Market

According to a report from Research and Markets, the flavors and fragrances market is anticipated to grow, driven by the consumer product segment.

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Peach is for Pies and Anti-aging

Peach may plump up a hearty, southern pie but new research suggests it has a new place—on your face. Or, at least, its floral extract does. A recent paper from Seoul National University explains.

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[video] Skin Diversity, SPF, Dryness and Whitening

During in-cosmetics Global, Beverley Summers, Ph.D., of the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in South Africa, gave observations from her experience of overseeing a clinical skin testing facility.

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[podcast] Next Steps and Future Psoriasis Care

"Right now, I'm sure CeraVe will use these results to take a look at what market forces are driving [patient] choices," explained Neal Bhatia, M.D., in this last in a three-part podcast series exploring psoriasis care.

Sensitive Skin Syndrome: Sensory Response and Classification

Although a complete analysis of sensitive skin syndrome was recently published, research on said syndrome faces several difficulties. There is a lack of consensus in the medical and scientific communities for classifying sensory responses to irritants.

Recent Advances in Biopolymers and Biomedical Materials

This overview of recent literature provides a snapshot of research trends in biopolymers and biomedical polymers. To improve product efficacy, the personal care industry often looks to other sectors for innovative materials and ideas. Here, the authors encourage readers to innovate by technology transfer and by gaining a better understanding of biopolymers.

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