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This article considers options to provide effective UV protection that checks all the boxes, including modern sunscreens restricted by regulations, ingredient mandates and texture preferences.

Formulating Forum: The Challenge of Trending Sunscreens

This article considers options to provide effective UV protection that checks all the boxes, including modern sunscreens restricted by regulations, ingredient mandates and texture preferences.

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The Hottest Beauty Trends of Summer 2018

Pinterest has announced the most popular summer beauty trends among its pinners.

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The Future of Beauty Tech Has Arrived

This new era is encouraging brands and artists to re-imagine beauty products—from 3D-printed face masks to AI makeup—for a fully digitized future.

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2019: The Year of the 'Adventurous Consumer'

Innova Market Insights points to "adventurous consumers" as the driver for food and beverage trends in 2019. Are these one in the same with cosmetic consumers? Read on to see.

'Consumer expectations around sustainability are higher than ever, pushing companies to prioritize eco-efficiency, especially in reducing food and plastic waste.'

The Top 5 Packaging Trends of 2020

"Consumer expectations around sustainability are higher than ever, pushing companies to prioritize eco-efficiency, especially in reducing food and plastic waste."

Hormesis and Cosmetic Dermatology

This review examines hormetic effects of various agents on skin biology. Recognition of this emerging biological phenomenon in dermatology could lead to markedly improved integrative assessments of animal/human skin responses to toxic substances and pharmacological agents, as well as endogenous agonists.

Defining and Controlling Frizz

There is likely a variety of causes and contributors to the nebulous consumer term “frizz.” This article attempts to craft a universal definition and then progresses to further examine impacting factors. These discussions focus on methods for quantifying hair properties and assessing the positive impact of commercial hair care products.

Nanotechnology and Polymer Brushes

Nanotechnology is one of the words that come to mind when we think about what’s new in the world of technology.

Sunscreens and Other Products

Modulation of zinc levels and tissue properties: Essentia Biosystems discloses the modulation of zinc levels to improve tissue properties. Methods of altering the properties of tissues were explored by modifying the amount of zinc, which may be in the form of zinc ions, through the use of topical compositions containing one or more zinc-containing components such as salts and/or other zinc compounds or in complexes, particularly zinc acetate. By altering the zinc levels, researchers found they were able to increase or decrease fatty tissue, increase or decrease epidermal thickness, increase elastin content, and prevent or treat gum regression or atrophy.

Ceramides and Other Topics

Schreiner et al. have investigated the barrier characteristics of different human skin types with X-ray diffraction, lipid analysis and electron microscopy imaging.

Study Confirms Anti-inflammatory Property of Pycnogenol

Researchers at the National Research Institute on Food and Nutrition have reported that Pycnogenol, an antioxidant plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, is effective for reducing inflammation and soothing pain associated with various health problems.

A Brief Review of Polymer/Surfactant Interaction

In this article, the significance of parameters such as correlation length (blob size), micelle structure, comicellization, polymer adsorption conformation and coacervate structure are introduced with relevance to the conceptual appreciation of polymer-surfactant interactions and its bearing on recent advances in conditioning shampoos.

IFSCC Probes into the Biology of Cosmetics

Parrot feathers, stem cells, melanin, cellulite and epidermal tight junctions were among the many biology-themed papers presented during the 25th IFSCC Congress, held Oct. 6–9, 2008, in Barcelona. This heavy focus on biology is indicative of the evolving actives arena and likely a direct response to the antiaging consumer trend.

Characterization of Multilamellar Vesicles for Cleansing Applications

In the present article, the authors characterize a multilamellar vesicle (MLV) system used in personal care and verify its structure via X-ray scattering, rheology and fluorescence microscopy. This enabled the study of MLV formation to investigate bulk rheology characteristics. The results are presented here as application-relevant properties.

Cosmetic Utilization of Micro Wound Healing Models

Superficial wounds may be evaluated and treated in the cosmetic field. However, with natural wounds it is difficult to evaluate the effects of therapy upon the repair process because natural wounds may vary according to several factors, such as wound induction (physical or chemical), depth (superficial or deep), size (regular or irregular), site-to-site variability, and environmental factors (infection or not).

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Tattoo-removal Patch Offers ‘Tat’-ilizing Results

A clear, silicone patch is changing the tattoo removal game—Research in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine found that removal treatments using the patch could be almost three times as fast at traditional methods.

Under eyeshadow and doe eyes are two of the top Google makeup trends.

Top Beauty Google Searches of 2022: Report

The top trending queries are searches with a high spike in traffic over a sustained period of time within the United States.

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Time to Shine: The Evolution of Nutricosmetics

While the numbers for nutricosmetics have seen modest growth, they continue to concentrate in specific regions. Considering a number of factors, described here, the time may finally be right for nutricosmetics to shine worldwide.

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