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Building Collagen, Boosting Immunity and Returning to Nature: In-Cosmetics Paris

Black pepper berries, anyone? How about bitter greens, manilkara leaf, corn, or a little stevia? These are among the numerous resources into which raw material suppliers have tapped to design new solutions for finished cosmetic and personal care manufacturers.

Diet for Better Skin Health

Paula Simpson, executive director of Isocell North America, firmly believes in “feeding the skin from within.” As a nutritionist, Simpson has made a career of advising consumers to follow a healthy diet and supplement it with nutraceuticals; more recently, she became involved where nutraceuticals and cosmetics meet—in nutricosmetics.

Nutritional Supplements to Treat Skin and Hair Aging: A Review of Current Information

New research regarding the relationship between diet and skin and hair health has led to nutritional supplements developed for dermocosmetic and/or dermatological applications. However, obvious uncertainties exist in regard to the cosmetic capabilities of such preparations. This review provides an overview of existing data to examine the potential for nutritionals to treat skin and hair aging.

C&T With Honey

This issue takes wellness cosmetics to heart. Steep some hot tea with honey, sit back, relax and enjoy an interesting read—it’s good for you, and will surely provide you healthy food for thought. I know I feel better.

Anti-wrinkle Collagen for the Nutricosmetic Market

The ingredient is a marine-based ingredient composed of marine collagen and elastin peptides in the same ratio found naturally in skin.

Challenges, Opportunities in Clinical Evaluations of Oral Beauty Supplements

This article discusses oral skin beauty supplements that are being researched and formulated for skin health. The authors present consumer demands and expectations, scientific considerations, clinical challenges, and clinical opportunities for these skin care products.

Nutricosmetics on the Rise

In an attempt to slow the aging process without invasive surgery, the personal care industry is seeing the emergence of nutricosmetic products.

Nutricosmetics Gains Ground

The cosmetics industry's latest hybrid, nutricosmetics, is seeing growth.

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Lip Gloss That Provides Nutritional Benefit

Tarte Cosmetics is set you launch a lip gloss that is actually good to eat.

Jamaica Entering New Market

Jamaica is drawing ingredients from local producers to enter the market of cosmeceuticals and nutraceuticals.

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Phytonutrient: The New Word for Natural?

Phytonutrients are generating interest globally because of their potential health benefits; they are also making their way into cosmetics.

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Danish Duo Enter Drinkable Skin Care Market

Eurogran and Chr. Hansen have teamed up to create a hot chocolate drink that is said to benefit the skin.

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Anheuser-Busch to Market and Distribute Skin Balance Water

Distribution and marketing of BORBA Skin Balance Waters and drinkable skin care line allows beer company to participate in the emerging nutraceutical beverage category; provides expansion opportunity.

Nu Skin, Toyo Bio-Pharma Join Forces

Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. announced plans for a joint research and development relationship with Toyo Bio-Pharma Inc. to develop nutraceutical and cosmeceutical products.

Nutricosmetic Launch to Utilize Nano-sized Plant Sterols

Eugene Science Inc. has agreed to team up with Kokumin Pharmaceuticals to incorporate its nano-sized plant sterols in a new cosmetic launch.

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Nu Skin Partners with Pharma Company

Nu Skin and Toyo Bio-Pharma have collaborated for a new R&D relationship.

Beauty Foods Head West

Beauty foods, originating in Asia, are migrating west, according to Mintel. From 2006-07, their marketshare in Europe more than doubled, while in North America they registered a modest increase from 3.9% to 4.66%...

Macroalgae in Nutricosmetics

Ingested macroalgae and its extracts can provide antiaging benefits such as inhibition of matrix enzymes, glycation, inflammatory activity and elastin calcification. Here, the authors investigated macroalgal extracts on insulin levels of test subjects to determine whether they could control glucose levels.