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Sun care is no longer limited to standalone sunscreen products. Instead, it’s becoming an essential feature across categories like skin care, makeup and color cosmetics. This shift represents a significant opportunity for brands to meet evolving consumer needs while staying ahead of the competition.

Supergoop!, Amorepacific and Beiersdorf Experts Talk Beauty's Sunification

Sun care is no longer limited to standalone sunscreen products. Instead, it’s becoming an essential feature across categories like skin care, makeup and color cosmetics.

The product was tested in controlled dermatological procedures, including 70% glycolic acid peels and non-ablative laser treatments, where it demonstrated superior post-procedure recovery compared to standard moisturizers.

Speeding Up Post-treatment Rebound: La Mer Research Confirms Skin Barrier Recovery Acceleration After Dermatological Procedures

As beauty and skin care continue to intersect with advanced scientific research, studies like these reinforce the industry’s potential to deliver products that not only enhance aesthetics but also improve skin health and recovery.

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AAK Enables Skinification, Glass Hair Concepts with Lipex SheaLuxe TR Silicone Replacement

The emollient ester is positioned as a sustainable alternative to non-volatile silicones in light skin and hair formulations; especially those for skinification of hair, anti-frizz and glass hair trends.

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Product Spotlight: Burt's Bees Hydrating Overnight Mask with Avocado Oil and Prebiotics

Growing awareness of the skin microbiome plus rising incidences of skin conditions are driving the growth of skin microbiome-focused products; although many questions remain. Burt's Bees Hydrating Overnight Mask with Prebiotics provides an example.

In the past year, interest in glass nails has skyrocketed ~290.8% across platforms, per Spate. The source also cites growth in high-shine beauty trends like glass hair (+70.1%) and the glass skin look (+112.4%), proving the widespread appeal of reflective aesthetics across beauty categories.

9 Emerging Beauty Trends: Ultra-reflective, Aime Derm Skin Care, Micronutrition, Wonderskin Lip Stain and More

This report expands on C&T's Consumer Pulse videos on social media, uncovering rising trends in beauty. This edition includes: Aime and derm skin care, micronutrition, Wonderskin peel-off lip stain, glass nails, reflective beauty, Canadian skin care, etc.

The collection includes four distinct products designed to stimulate the imagination with enhanced textures, and to awaken the senses as it unfolds like a four-course meal.

Gattefossé Cooks Up 'Guilty Pleasures' Sweets-inspired Beauty Concepts

The range reimagines indulgent sweets as luxurious beauty treatments, offering a sensory immersion that blends culinary inspiration with innovative skin and hair care formulations.

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Sequential Skin, AMILI Secure $1.8 M Grant to Uncover Gut-Skin Microbiome Connections

Per the companies, research indicates that imbalances in the gut microbiota play a substantial role in the progression of skin conditions, making this collaboration an essential step forward in understanding and potentially treating them holistically.

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PCHi Unveils 2025 Fountain Award Finalists

Some 258+ submissions were narrowed down to 58 finalists, spanning a wide range of categories and reflecting modern consumer demands and the depth of beauty industry innovation. Here they are...

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Formula Focus: Hallmarks of Aging Cell Youth Serum

This serum features 15 cell longevity technologies inspired by the hallmarks of aging. Its lightweight texture melts into the skin to activate, restore and protect the youthful nature of skin cells.

The Hydra C Stick Serum combines vitamin C with eco-friendly ingredients for hydration and brightening. It is ideal for on-the-go consumers.

FP Labs Debuts Advanced Skin Care Concepts at Cosmoprof Miami

Featured offerings include SPF solutions, hydrating serums and versatile skin care sticks, all tailored to varying consumer needs.

Activated Silk KDF-β addresses the skin damage, hyperpigmentation and accelerated aging associated with heightened UV exposure and oxidative stressors, which, according to the company, can overwhelm conventional skin care solutions like hyaluronic acid, retinol and vitamin C.

Activated Silk KDF-β: a Regenerative Peptide Designed for Today's Skin Aggressors

Notably, Activated Silk KDF-β is safe for sensitive skin, suitable for daily use and sun exposure and can be incorporated into any formulation. It can also reportedly reduce the appearance of symptoms associated with eczema-prone skin.

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Product Spotlight: Olay Collagen Peptide Firming & Hydrating Body Lotion

The Olay Collagen Peptide Firming & Hydrating Body Lotion is designed to fortify skin with collagen and a vitamin B3 complex. According to the brand, vitamin B3 helps skin hold onto water, "making it its own moisturizer."

The 5-in-1 formula comprises a biobased mucin alternative derived from 'Japanese roots and plants' (konjac is often used as a plant-based mucin alternative, for example).

Byoma’s New Phyto-Mucin Glow Serum Pairs K-Beauty & Plant-Based Innovation

The non-stick skin barrier repair serum can act as a primer for makeup application and imparts the ever-popular "glass skin" effect.

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[video] Impact of Daily Stress on Skin: Epinephrine Directly Affects Barrier Function

Eri Kawashima, of KOSÉ Corp., presented her poster, "Impact of Daily Stress on Skin: Epinephrine Directly Affects the Barrier Function," during IFSCC 2024 in Brazil — for which she was a poster award finalist. Watch her poster presentation in this video.

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Why The Ordinary Launched its GF 15% Solution with a Side of Science

The Ordinary launched its GF 15% Solution in January in an unprecedented way: with a website dedicated to cosmetic research to break through knowledge barriers — and misconceptions such as growth factors warranting a higher price point. Here's why.

The new lines of ingredients are intended to elevate the sensory and functional experiences of personal care products.

LBB Specialties Partners with Kerry Group

Kerry Group plans to enter the personal care industry with a new line of emollients, emulsifiers and fermentation-derived actives.

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Product Spotlight: TruSkin Vitamin C Facial Serum

The theory of "homology of cosmetic and food" connects the dots between the safety, efficacy and accessibility of food-derived skin care ingredients to treat skin aging. Vitamin C, featured in TruSkin's Vitamin C Facial Serum, is given as an example here.

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120 Hours of Hydration: Provital’s Hydrafence

Hydrafence was designed to provide 120 hours of consistent hydration, while strengthening the skin's barrier and accelerating recovery, per the brand.