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Safety/Stability
When the Dust Settles: Keratinocyte Differentiation is the Anti-pollution Solution
This article describes in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo models to examine the effects of PM in skin, with particular interest in a botanical extract to mitigate the described effects. Urban pollution including particulate matter (PM) can affect the skin barrier by inducing numerous cell stresses.
Safety/Stability
Getting the Breakdown: Testing the Biodegradation and Styling Performance of Polyurethane Film Formers
Personal care products end their life cycles in water, where poor biodegradability can be concerning. This study compares the biodegradability and hair-styling performance of polyurethane, polyacrylates and polyvinylpyrrolidone film formers.
Efficacy
The Dirty Truth About Pollution-induced Skin Aging: The AhR Pathway Tells All
Studies have shown that exposure to airborne, traffic-related particulate matter (PM) is associated with increased signs of extrinsic skin aging.1-3 Using model particles as surrogates, these researchers developed an in vitro model to evaluate premature aging induced via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) pathway. They found a new AhR antagonist could inhibit the up-regulation of genes indicative for premature aging.
Method/Process
In the Land of the Blind: Applying a Single-blind Study to Finished Products
Following positive feedback from a previous column on the placebo effect, Wiechers readdresses clinical study design in relation to cosmetic claim substantiation—this time discussing when to perform double-blind studies and when to perform single-blind studies.
Skin Care
A New Code for Skin Care, Part II: Breakthroughs in the Delivery of RNAi Therapeutics
As described in Part I, the cosmetics industry has been developing RNAi technologies for skin care applications. However, a major stumbling block has been their delivery into skin. This second installment briefly reviews new delivery methods for the implementation and commercialization of RNAi-based products.
Hair Care
It's All in the Perception
Thinking about products, consumer happiness is an outcome of consumer perception. And as the industry knows, consumer perception is crucial to product success. It’s the difference between skepticism and trust, like and dislike, and, ultimately, the sale or no sale
Organic/COSMOS
The Nagoya Protocol in Action
The Nagoya Protocol is led by three main objectives: the conservation of diversity, the sustainable use of materials, and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from use of these genetic resources. This overview provides greater detail.
Method/Process
Peeling Back the ‘Biodegradable’ Label
Industry experts have varying degrees of understanding of biodegradability. This article aims to close the gaps by presenting the science, explaining terminology and clarifying calculations and testing to help those vested better understand it.
Tech Transfer
Touchscreen Skin: The Next Wearable?
Are we closer to an e-Skin reality? The market may be ready. But is the technology?
Sensory
Symrise’s Thermolat Reveals Warming Test Results
“Thanks to its safe and gentle effect, Thermolat can be used in a very wide range of care and beauty products and gives them the ability to create a cozy warm feeling.”
Tech Transfer
The New Bionic Reality: Imprinted Wearables
New dimensions in 3D printing are now possible thanks to a novel process developed at the University of Minnesota. Not only could this give surgical robots the sense of touch, it could embed the human skin with biometric monitoring capabilities.
Method/Process
Preservative Efficacy Testing: Accelerating the Process
A preservative efficacy testing method, called accelerated double challenge, rapidly—in 14 days—assesses the ability of a product or material to resist microbial contamination. It also maintains a high degree of correlation with longer-term preservative challenge protocols.
Efficacy
Words from Wiechers: Off the Scales?
In this installment of our Words from Wiechers series, the late author reviews three types of lies in the cosmetics industry: "lies, damn lies and statistics," keeping our statistical honor in check.
Consumers/Market
Packaging: The ‘Silent Salesman’ of Cosmetics
Product packaging is nearly as important, if not more so, than the ingredients in it. This article examines a brief history, classes and properties of various types of packaging, and provides examples of the latest pack advances.
Preservation
The Preservative Challenge: Free Ebook
Contaminants, stability, product spoilage and microbial growth are real threats to consumer safety, a company’s reputation and the bottom line. As such,
Cosmetics & Toiletries
offers this free ebook, sponsored by schülke, for formulation guidance. Download it today!
Anti-aging/Face
[podcast] The Next-generation Retinoid
Retinol has proven anti-aging benefits, but also drawbacks. However, according to Tom Mammone, Ph.D., of The Estée Lauder Cos. and Clinique Labs, a new retinoid ester could bridge this divide. Listen now!
Tech Transfer
Personalized Cosmetics: Has the Time Come?*
Personalized medicine, aided by advances including pharmacogenomics, is ready for mainstream clinical adoption. These authors suspect such techniques could be applicable for personalized cosmetics, complete with tolerance and efficacy considerations. Click through to the digital magazine to read more.
Efficacy
[video] Natural Preservatives and the Microbiome
How might topical cosmetic preservatives influence one's microbiome? Here, Anna Crovetto, of Active Microtechnologies, describes research on this subject, presented during the latest IFSCC Congress.
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