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What's The Deal With Cortisol Face?

Clients are hearing this term and thinking that stress is making their face puffy. We break down here what you need to know.

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Bio-inspired Beauty: Replacing What's Lost

Biomaterials evolved from material science focused on biocompatibility, in terms of chemical and mechanical reactivity. Some materials interact with and bind to tissues in the human body, providing strength and elasticity for tissue replacement and repair.

Bite Beauty opened a Lip Lab in Las Vegas in 2020, offering personalized experiences and products for consumers.

Personalized Beauty: What the Data Tells Us

Surfacing consumer needs in real time.

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Future-forward Sustainable Beauty Ingredients: What's Next?

New innovation is merging performance and eco-friendly credentials to generate consumer-winning claims across categories.

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What’s the secret to true inclusion in the beauty industry?

Consumers looking for the right products for curly hair or deep skin tones are settling for combinations of products to achieve the definition, hydration and look that they want. BASF aims to change that by enabling inclusive beauty solutions for all.

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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.

What Tata Harper and others have to say about where wellness and beauty are going.

SLIDESHOW: Perfection Is Out and Balance Is In: Beauty & Wellness

Lessons from FounderMade’s NYC Wellness Summit: what Tata Harper and the founder of Mother Dirt have to say about where beauty is headed.

The uptick in prestige skin care sales comes at a time when brands are tapping clinically effective ingredients, holistic wellness concepts and more.

What’s Driving the Prestige Skin Care Boom and How Can Brands Get in on the Growth?

A potent blend of wellness, Gen Alpha shopping habits, emerging high-efficacy ingredients and professionally inspired beauty are creating significant growth opportunities.

Celebrity's recent flaunting of their cosmetic treatments is potentially credited to the introduction of GLP-1 medications. Transformations suddenly became accessible, empowering and personalized. It introduced control over the way many wish to present themselves.

Perfect Is Out, Personal Is In: Celebrity Transparency Shaping Aesthetics—But Body Image Pressures Still Linger

Khloe Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Megan Fox, and other celebrities are now openly discussing their cosmetic treatments, breaking the long-held taboo around transparency in beauty. Their influence has helped normalize aesthetic procedures, shaping consumer decisions.

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Global Hair Care: Are the Bad Hair Days Over?

Healthier consumer priorities have strengthened the desire for milder, sustainable hair care formulations. Claims such as probiotic and gluten-free, are making their way from food labels to skin care jars, and eventually to hair care bottles.

#simplifiedbeauty posts are not what one with a scientific lens on the cosmetic industry would expect. TikTok posts surrounding the hashtag describe not simplified cosmetics, but simplifying the beauty routine by cutting out unecessary products

Is 'Simplified Beauty' 2025's 'Clean Beauty' Trend?

#Simplifiedbeauty posts are not what one with a scientific lens on the cosmetic industry would expect. TikTok posts surrounding the hashtag describe not simplified cosmetics, but simplifying the beauty routine by cutting out unnecessary products.

Hair replenishment products are on the rise – those that help restore hair to its original or most perfect state.

Expert Opinions on Hair/Scalp Care — Health, Repair, Holistic Focus, Microbiome, AI and Transparency

Vogue reported five hair trends to look for in 2024: natural colors, midi cuts, minimal styling, holistic hair health and “fresh” accessories. Many of these are reflected in the latest research literature and industry accounts of advances in this market.

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Beauty’s Multifunctional Moment: Less is So Much More

Multifunctional technologies have the capacity to simplify formulations while enhancing performance across a wide range of functions and claims.

Emerging AI technologies will allow small brands to operate leaner teams than in previous indie beauty eras; at the same time, the rapid gathering of customer insights can help brands quickly migrate from direct-to-consumer to wholesale/physical retail.

Beauty's Innovation Slowdown is Poised to Drastically Reverse

"Personal care brands embracing innovation ... are 2.5 times more likely to see overall sales growth compared to those with stagnant or declining innovation sales," claims a recent NIQ report.

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Expert Opinions on Hair Conditioning/Care: Emossome, Health, Sustainability, Minimalist, 'Inner Hair' Repair and More

In all segments of beauty, sustainability has become the status quo. In addition, the focus on health and wellness has extended to the hair and scalp, ascending to a holistic, emotional plane. Following are expert insights on these and other dynamics.

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Is the Fear of Aging Polluting the Fountain of Youth?

California is proposing to ban the sale of certain anti-aging products to children 13 and under. This follows a global flurry of tweens storming retailers to get their hands on potent anti-aging products. Why? And what's the risk? One derm weighs in.

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Advances in Hair: Deeper Delivery, Scalp 'Interabiome,' Lasting Effects, Biotech Powered, Function Led, Senolytics, Climate Adaptable, Textured Hair

For insider perspectives on hair care innovation, we asked industry experts for their observations on current and future trends and directions. Following are their insights.

The adoption of clean beauty by lower-income shoppers is having a significant impact on the category.

Clean Beauty is Being Reshaped by Democratization & Demands for Proven Efficacy

Looking ahead, brands that wish to succeed in the clean beauty space with high-, mid- and low-income shoppers will need to: deliver clear efficacy, adopt clinically effective actives and price according to shopper expectations.

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