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Water-saving Grace: Glutamate and Alaninate Surfactants to Reduce Rinsing

Glutamate and alaninate surfactants offer superior ease of rinsing and water-saving properties for both sulfate and sulfate-free systems. Experimental methods were developed to demonstrate and quantity these properties in various formulas, as are shown here.

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Opposing Forces: Water Resistance vs. Rheology Control: An Exploration*

Water resistance is desired across a range of cosmetic categories. Two materials used to impart this property, however—the emulsifier system and film-forming polymer—are known to change the rheology of formulas. This study assessed the impact of these ingredients on rheological and texture profiles.

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Targeting Texture: Adapted Combing Test to Assess Curly Hair Product Efficacy

Changes in hair styling practices have increased the demand for hair products to maintain naturally textured hair condition and health. In relation, the current work aimed to develop test methods using naturally textured hair to assess products and ingredients specified for these hair types.

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Expert Opinions: Making Waves in Hair

Featuring insights on genomics, Big Data, personalization, consumer gaps, wellness, waterless forms, scalp care and more, this crowd-sourced collection of "Expert Opinions" is all about advances in hair care. Click through to the digital magazine for the complete article.

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Industry Insight: Pollution, Microbiome and Consumer Behavior in Hair Research

Presented here is an excerpt adapted from our podcast series on new directions in hair research, featuring Gill Westgate, Ph.D., and Marta Bertolini, Ph.D.

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Evoking Emotion: The Impact of Hair

Following is a brief review of recent hair aging research and emotional connections with consumers. Premature graying and other changes in hair with age are a significant cause of low-self esteem.

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Editor’s Note: New Frontiers in Hair Follicles

Could the exosome be a new frontier for healthy hair? What about “growing” benefits within the fiber itself? These advances suggest hair is not as “dead” as we thought; or at the very least, the living portion can be influenced. This issue is focused on textured hair treatments and biology, emotional ties to hair, low-water surfactants, water resistance vs. rheology and more.

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Broad Spectrum Antimicrobial Protection with 100% Natural Spectrastat™ Technology

Effective preservation is important in formulation and new innovations must deliver broad spectrum antimicrobial control and originate from natural sources to truly meet consumer expectations. Spectrastat™ technologies ease the burden in this challenging environment by delivering broad spectrum efficacy from consumer-friendly ingredients at easy-to-formulate neutral pH.

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Formulating on Trend: Waterless Cosmetics

In this installment of our "Formulating On Trend" series, Kelly Dobos, of Sun Chemical, shares insights about the rising trend of water scarcity and waterless cosmetic formulating to provide a solution.

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Croda Constantly Innovates for a More Sustainable Future

Croda innovation keeps sustainability top of mind with new natural and bio-based ingredients.

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Beautifying by nature - Amaze® Nordic Barley

Nouryon introduces Amaze™ Nordic Barley, a 100% natural, unmodified, COSMOS approved starch to address the growing consumer demand for natural, biodegradable and clean label ingredients used in personal care formulations.

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Editor's Note: Clean Beauty Means Trust

In the end, regardless of the tangibles you deliver, what makes a clean beauty product different from any other is: the consumer. It’s worth bearing in mind as you peruse this, our “clean beauty” issue.

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A Soft Touch—Concepts in Hair Softness

Softness technically seems the opposite of stiffness but measuring properties related to fiber stiffness is difficult due to hair’s anisotropic structure. And while hair is technically “softened” at elevated humidity, this is the definition of a “bad hair day.” Improving fiber flexibility without adversely impacting breakage seems a sound technical strategy... Click through to read more in the digital magazine.

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'Clean' Beauty, Decoded*

While the specifics may vary, most appear to agree that key pillars of clean beauty include: safety, sustainability, ethics and transparency. How are current retailers supporting these pillars? And how do they translate technically from the label to the lab? This report takes a closer look. Click through to read the full article in the digital magazine.

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Simple and Safe: Formulating ‘Clean Beauty’

A clean beauty product seems imply its development with a heightened sense of safety as well as unnecessary ingredients. For the formulator, this article explores how to follow the clean beauty profile with approaches to match various interpretations.

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Clean cleansing is socially responsible — and in high demand

Try five hair and skin cleansing formulations designed for a greener, cleaner beauty routine.

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Who helps defy gray hair? We do

Chromafend™ biofunctional is a golden flax seed extract with exciting new data that demonstrates how it can promote hair darkening and reduce the appearance of gray hair.

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Strong, Smooth, and Defined Hair with 100% Natural Amino Lipid Technology--Download Formulations!

AminoSensyl™ HC provides a 2X increase in hair strength¬, inhibits the formation of flyaways, conditions hair, and contains 100% USDA certified biobased content. New performance demo videos show consumer-perceivable benefits on straight, curly, and textured hair.

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