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Color Cosmetics
Lip-smacking Results: Mixture Design ‘Pays Off’ to Optimize Wax/Oil Lipstick Ratio
This article explores Mixture Design for lipstick development. The approach models the blending surface with a suitable mathematical equation to identify ideal ingredient ratios. As is shown here, Mixture Design can effectively optimize lipstick formulations, saving development time and costs.
Formulas/Products
Color, Corrected: Perfectly Tuning to Black Skin Tones
Color-matching foundations that are true to skin tones is a challenge, especially for darker skin. Here, the authors describe a process using L*C*h* measurements to guide the formulator with iterative adjustments to pigments and levels, to successfully match black skin tones. Researchers noted further research is necessary to improve coverage without impacting overall skin color.
Method/Process
Soft-focus for the Selfie-obsessed: Eye Tracking to Improve Color Formula Development
In cosmetics, soft focus refers to the blurring of light to immediately correct the appearance of wrinkles and skin imperfections. This parameter can be affected by the refractive index of the emollients used, as well as formula volatility and the dispersion of fillers. The use of eye tracking, described here, can help the formulator quickly select the best-performing formulas.
Event Coverage
Editor's Note: Vivid Possibilities
Let your cosmetic imagination run wild. Envision spectacular, glowing, even holographic color effects. Here, hypothetical illusions of perfection are mirrored by magical pigments—and FDA-approved, no less.
Consumers/Market
Cues and Hues: Top 5 Highlights in the Color Sector
The color cosmetics market will expand with a CAGR of 3.4% from 2016 through 2020. Products leading this charge impart skin sensations such as texture and illumination.
Consumers/Market
The Future of Color? Creative Layering
The color industry has done very well and continues to grow. Color cosmetics are fun, and consumers enjoy the effects they create. For the most part, the major trends we see fall into two categories: the natural look and the bold, dramatic look.
Literature/Data
Manipulating Light in 3D
Researchers from the Australian National University don't take light lightly. In fact, they have mastered the art of manipulating it in what appears to be the best-yet holographic representation in three dimensions. This technology has potential for applications in imaging and augmented reality.
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.
Claims/Labeling
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."
Literature/Data
How Cephalopods Became Nature’s Master of Cosmetics
Cephalopods possess reflectin proteins, which is unique in the animal kingdom. Roger Hanlon, Ph.D., of Brown University spoke during the biomimicry session at the IFSCC Congress on inspirations like these from nature to inspire the development of color cosmetics.
Color Cosmetics
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Color Cosmetics
Get the Perfect Lipstick: Boost Oil-binding Capacity with Natural Waxes
With lipsticks being front and center to the human face, it's important to get their balance right not only for the perception of the product, but of the consumer.
Tech/Equipment/Services
Tools of the Trade for Sensory Testing
One challenge in manufacturing is the variance in quality of raw materials; another is the mixing process. Mechanical tests, described here in brief, will quickly identify cosmetics and lotions that should be rejected or reworked.
Color Cosmetics
The Case for Mass Vs. Class
How beauty channels really work, and where your brand belongs.
Formulas/Products
Selling Lipstick to Your Dad
The pitfalls of one-size-fits-all marketing.
Color Cosmetics
Influencing the Influencers
Sway Group has harnessed 75% of the top beauty bloggers in a bid to increase the effectiveness of influencer marketing.
Hair Care
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.
Colorant
Brightness, High Chroma Effects Focus for New High-Performance Pigments
Providing luminosity and gold reflection, these pigments will brighten up your product.
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