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Section: Formulas/Products > Color Cosmetics
Color Cosmetics
Layered Color-travel Pigments for a V-shaped Facial Appearance
The present article discusses facial powder containing specific layered color-travel pigments that give a color-flop effect due to light reflectance at different angles. In particular, layering a bluish silver pigment with a sienna pigment is shown to highlight the forehead, cheek and nasal bridge while shading the jaw, chin and alar base of the nose, consequently imparting a slim-looking appearance.
Color Cosmetics
Layered Color-travel Pigments for a V-shaped Facial Appearance
The present article discusses facial powder containing specific layered color-travel pigments that give a color-flop effect due to light reflectance at different angles. In particular, layering a bluish silver pigment with a sienna pigment is shown to highlight the forehead, cheek and nasal bridge while shading the jaw, chin and alar base of the nose, consequently imparting a slim-looking appearance.
Literature/Data
Making Cosmetics Stick: Simplifying Skin Substantivity, Part III*
Higher substantivity can aid formulation efficacy by helping ingredients to better penetrate skin. This final column in a series dives into substantivity's role and uses when designing sun care, skin care and cosmetics.
Color Cosmetics
Read the Label: MAC Cosmetics Squirt Plumping Gloss Stick
More than half the colors in this product range are sold out on the brand's site thanks to its virality on TikTok — but not for the reason you might think. Influencers are over-twisting and breaking the stick.
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."
Consumers/Market
What’s Next for Bespoke Beauty: DNA, Bacteria and More
Bespoke beauty has moved into "must-have" territory for brands looking to stay in line with consumer demand. Click through for an exclusive Q&A on where the bespoke market is headed.
Color Cosmetics
Approaches and Issues in Powder Formulations
Powder cosmetic products (both pressed and loose) include foundations, eye shadows, primers, blushes, bronzers and all-over shimmer powders. Though the raw materials used in them often are similar, the processing, texture, packaging, applicators and application, along with color development, vary for each type. These variations are described here.
Color Cosmetics
Uncovering Stability Issues: The Obvious and Not So Obvious
Troubleshooting most stability concerns in cosmetic formulations typically starts at the usual raw material classes comprising the skin care and makeup ingredient list. In skin care systems, the emulsification system, thickening ingredients, actives and emollients are usually examined. In a makeup formulation, structural items such as waxes and fillers are usually reviewed, as well as film-formers and colorants.
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.
Color Cosmetics
Clinging to Color: Isopentyldiol Boosts Brightness in Dyed and Damaged Hair
Keeping up natural hair color or making a bold statement are of utmost importance to hair color consumers, and isopentyldiol is structured to deeply saturate hair and achieve these effects. This ingredient was put to the test, as described here, in different dye products to study its influence on immediate color performance.
Consumers/Market
Editor's Note: Menagerie of Inspiration
From trending claims and global demands to individual expression, consumers provide a menagerie of inspiration for product development.
Method/Process
In Vivo Quantitative Evaluation of Gloss
A real time polarization analysis technique is described that differentiates components of scattered light in video images and enables in vivo quantitative evaluation of gloss from hair and skin during quality control and claims substantiation.
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.
Color Cosmetics
The Biggest Makeup Trends of 2018
Though the trends themselves differ, the underlying themes are the same: Embrace who you are and flaunt it unapologetically.
Literature/Data
The Balancing Act of Multifunctional Cosmetics
The success of BB creams is undeniable, and it has launched an alphabet-heavy trend in both skin and hair care. However, what challenge does this pose for formulators? During the
C&T Summit
, Prithwiraj Maitra, PhD, will discuss the challenges of multifunctional products and their components from a material scientist's perspective.
Skin Care
Formulation and Evaluation of Self-tanners
Self-tanning preparations are becoming increasingly important for consumers desiring a tanned look without exposing themselves to undue harm. The present article reviews DHA and other self-tanning active ingredients and their mechanisms of action. Formulating hallenges such as stability and ingredient interactions are discussed, as well as the evaluation and regulation of self-tanning products.
Skin Care
Formulation and Evaluation of Self-tanners
Self-tanning preparations are becoming increasingly important for consumers desiring a tanned look without exposing themselves to undue harm. The present article reviews DHA and other self-tanning active ingredients and their mechanisms of action. Formulating hallenges such as stability and ingredient interactions are discussed, as well as the evaluation and regulation of self-tanning products.
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.
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