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The Hair Repair Dream Team: Next-Gen Ingredients Are Here

Consumers increasingly seek out products to counteract hair damage resulting from heat styling, chemical treatments, UV exposure and environmental pollutants.

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Beauty’s New Class of Anti-Aging Ingredient Tech

As the industry prepares for a new year of innovation, we looked at the latest batch of novel materials poised to shape product development in 2026 and beyond.

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Next in Skin: Self-care, Agency and the Skin-brain Conversation – Opportunities for Cosmetics Grounded in Science

Skin care bridges self-care and science, offering autonomy through rituals like photoprotection and moisturization. This article reviews examples from the literature and emphasizes the opportunity for beauty, so long as it is grounded in solid evidence.

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Redefining Skin Barrier Support with Bioactive Silk Peptides

A silk peptide upcycled via biotech was developed to support the skin barrier by enhancing claudin-1 in tight junctions. Clinical studies demonstrate benefits for skin hydration, signs of aging, eczema and more from both leave-on and rinse-off formulas.

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Optimizing Bigels for Sensoriality and Efficacy: DoE Insights on Aqueous and Oil Phase Components

DoE methods examined component interactions in bigels to optimize sensoriality, performance and stability. Tests using HEC and tucuma oil revealed effects on mechanics, rheology and stability, underscoring the need to balance internal/external phases.

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Rethinking Body Odor Control: Enzyme Targeting, Biotics and Microenvironment Conditions

The AP/Deo market is evolving, shifting toward skin homeostasis solutions. This article proposes emerging approaches to manage body odor, including enzyme inhibition, pH and temperature modulation, and biotics for microbiome-friendly control.

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DolCas Biotech Marine Collagen Boosts the Morning Coffee Break

Leading nutraceutical developer DolCas Biotech, LLC is expanding Morikol, its marine collagen into the functional beverage space, particularly popular hot favorites such as coffee, cocoa and tea.

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Hair x Skin: Beauty's Next Power Couple

Skin's not going to have the monopoly on minimalism for much longer.

[interview] Unlocking the Power of Wellbeauty: Insights on Oriflame's Revealing Report

Beauty consumers have taken an introspective turn into emotional well-being, as Oriflame's new Beauty and Well-being Report highlights. To delve deeper into these findings, Nicola Robertson, who led the study for Oriflame, shares her insights.

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Unispheres: Visual Ingredients that Awaken Emotion and Elevate Perception

Givaudan Active Beauty augments the power of Unispheres®. Rooted in Swiss engineering excellence, this high-precision visualization system goes beyond aesthetics to become a true performance perception amplifier, deepening consumer engagement.

[interview] How Protein Instability Serves as a Biomarker of Aging — Cosmetic Victories Profile with IBGC/CNRS

"...The rationale is to measure the acceleration of natural protein aging in response to various endpoints of the exposome..."

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Strengthen Your Skin, Lift Your Mood with Epionine Bio

Epionine® Bio is a liposoluble active ingredient acting on the skin-mind connection with clinically proven dual action: soothing skin while reducing stress and its impact, improving well-being, and meeting growing demand for holistic beauty solutions.

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Exploring the Impact of Climate on Formulations

Ever wondered why skincare can feel different in one place compared to another? It's all about the weather, specifically temperature and humidity. Here, Gattefossé explores the climate variation and sensory perception of cosmetic emulsions.

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What Women (and Men) Really Want from Their Facial and Body Skin Care Products

While a product’s ability to deliver multi-use benefits is important to 18% of women, only 9% of male respondents found multi-use to be important.

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Problem-solving Beauty Ingredients

From dandruff-causing yeast to clean beauty preservation to summer hair stressors, new ingredients resolve challenges for consumers and formulators.

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The Longevity Race to Slow Aging

Emerging ingredient technologies are building resilience for lifelong wellness and beauty.

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Formulating Forum: Antioxidant Strategies for Balancing Acne-prone Skin

Vitamins C, E and niacinamide combat oxidative stress and inflammation in acne, improving scars, redness and sebum control. Other skin repair compounds from plants also continue to emerge. Formulating strategies for these materials are described here.

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Carotenoids as Nutricosmetics to Slow Aging – and Raman Spectroscopy to Validate Wellness Effects

This article describes the skin health benefits of carotenoids and their impact on perceived beauty. Raman spectroscopy also is proposed to non-invasively measure skin carotenoid levels, offering quantifiable metrics to engage wellness consumers.