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Section: Formulas/Products > Formulating Basics
Event Coverage
Supplier Innovations Wanted: Enter the 2026
C&T Allēs
to Showcase Your Beauty Breakthroughs
Calling all beauty and personal care suppliers! Enter the 2026
C&T Allē Awards
to spotlight your latest innovation. From actives to prototypes, test methods to ingredient blends — show the industry how you're shaping the future. Submissions now open!
Companies
Innovating Beauty Amid Global Trade Uncertainties
The key to resilience lies in understanding and responding to the impacts of tariffs on costs, demand and competitive positioning. Learn more here.
Sun Care
Mastering Zinc Oxide Formulation: A Primer on Overcoming Challenges for Superior Sun Protection
This primer outlines tips and tricks to help product developers master formulating with ZnO. Topics range from the impact of formula formats, importance of processing and influence of particle choice, to pH optimization and stability.
Methods/Tools
Technical Theories and Tools to Leverage Polyol Properties for Smarter Makeup Remover Design
This article describes tools such as organic conceptual diagrams, Hansen solubility parameters and alcohol classes to study polyol dynamics for smarter makeup remover design. Effects on CMC, cloud point and other functional benefits are also considered.
Formulating Basics
Grant Design Gallery: Revolutionizing Personal Care Product Development
Grant Industries' Grant Design Gallery is an innovation hub that streamlines personal care product development by combining science and creativity in a collaborative environment.
People
In Memoriam: Karl Laden, Ph.D.
We sadly announce the passing of Karl Laden, Ph.D., a veteran of the cosmetics and personal care industry for 65+ years. He worked in R&D for numerous companies, won several industry awards and was a columnist and advisor to
Cosmetics & Toiletries
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Color Cosmetics
Product Spotlight: Wet N' Wild Megaglo Makeup Stick with Vitamin E
Blended with soothing and antioxidant-rich vitamin E, the product is designed to leave skin looking and feeling beautiful and radiant while concealing, highlighting, contouring and adding color.
Formulating Basics
Formulating Forum: Anti-Stress and Well-Aging Cosmetics
The well-aging trend is reshaping beauty, emphasizing the need to care for and maintain vitality, appearance and overall health at any age. Effective anti-stress and well-aging cosmetics are fundamental to supporting this wave; examples are provided here.
Sun Care
Formulating Forum: ‘Retrofitting’ Sunscreens to Market Demands
This article briefly reviews sunscreens raising recent concern and related regulatory actions. It also proposes approaches to adapt formulas to the limitations imposed by both regulations and market demand.
Consumers/Market
Formulating Demographic Beauty – From Boomers to Generation Alpha
This article is an overview of the unique characteristics, key focus and specific needs of given beauty consumer generations. It highlights biological variations as well as relevant ingredients, preferred product forms and select commercial examples.
Formulating Basics
The New Beauty Innovation Playbook: Rewriting the Rules
What can be done to overcome beauty's trend fatigue? Our experts have some answers.
Companies
Sharon Personal Care Debuts Emulsifier Selector Tool with Texture-first Focus
Mainly emulsifiers determine the sensory profile of emulsions; especially appearance, pick-up and rub-out. To make their selection easier, the tool takes a top-down approach to guide formulators, starting with the desired texture.
Companies
Lucas Meyer Cosmetics by Clariant Establishes Beauty ColLABoration House Near L.A., Seeks to Engage Indies
Per the company, it's not just about showcasing ingredients, but working alongside customers and key players such as consultants and contract manufacturers, to establish direct connections with them and emerging brands.
Event Coverage
How Dynamic Streaming Potential Can Take Formulation Science to the Next Level — Free Webcast
Analyzing the physico-chemical properties of formulas helps to optimize them so they ultimately deliver on consumer expectations. Dynamic streaming potential takes this to a new level, as a free webcast from Anton Paar explains. Register now.
Formulating Basics
Article Download: Effect of Perfumes on the Viscosity of Surfactant Systems
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Color Cosmetics
Read the Label: Glossier Balm Dotcom Reformulation — Before/After Comparison
The iconic Glossier Balm Dotcom launched ten years ago, drawing a cult following. In 2023, the brand reformulated its classic to meet vegan and cruelty-free specifications but this caused a backlash from fans. This article compares these formulations.
Formulating Basics
Article Download: Particle-Stabilized Emulsions, A Brief Overview
Download the complete article from our August 2004 archives.
Consumers/Market
Secrets to Shaping Beauty into Body Care: How Claims, Ingredients and Challenges Translate
What's driving the body care boom? How do beauty trends translate? Here, we explore new launches and insights from Anushka Nadkarni, Bentley Labs; Ron Robinson, BeautyStat; Rita Silva, DECIEM; and Jean-Christophe Choulot, Caudalíe, to find out.
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