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Raman Imaging Produces Melanoma 'Snapshot'

Pheomelanin is the red/blond pigment. Its presence has been associated with an elevated risk of melanoma. However, a new technique has been developed to visualize it, which could serve as an early indicator.

Scale Up & Manufacturing Services You Can Count On

Working with Dymax Oligomers & Coatings allows you to focus on your core strengths while we focus on ours

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TRI-K Rewarded for Sustainability Efforts

Leaving a sustainable footprint is significant and TRI-K Industries recognizes this with its Baobab Tein NPNF ingredient for hair care and skin care. This ingredient is harvested in underprivileged communities to help locals make a living.

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Lipotec’s Peptide Regenerates Skin Using Epigenetics

Lipotec has launched PEPROAGETM peptide, which assists in leaving skin smoother, more radiant and visually rejuvenated. The peptide can be incorporated into any anti-aging formulation to help reduce skin regeneration taking place with age or in products designed to rejuvenate the skin.

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Corn-derived Biosurfactant Shows Lower Temp = Higher Hair Adsorption

Want faster hair adsorption? Lower the temperature. As least, that's what one study with a corn-derived biosurfactant, from the Royal Society of Chemistry, showed.

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J&J Points to Collaboration and 6 Areas for Future Growth

“We need to openly publish our scientific data and challenge each other to progress,” said J&J's Josh Ghaim, Ph.D., during the IFSCC 2016 Congress. “We can then align standards and simply let the competitive technologies and products speak for themselves.”

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The Perplexing Topic of Hair 'Type': How Do We Classify Hair?

Most hair-related properties and issues can be rationalized by fiber size and shape, and/or the consequences of extreme conditions. However, the varying reactivity of different hair types with chemical treatments suggests potential differences in structure.

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Testing the Fate (and Exposure) of Cosmetic Ingredients

Risk and exposure go hand-in-hand. So when researchers dared to publish a new method to assess the exposure and fate of cosmetic ingredients, we couldn't help but give them exposure, in this review.

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Hydration Detection as Simple as a Selfie?

What do you get when you cross the selfie with skin care research and a few brilliant engineers? The mobile turgor test.

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LVMH Proves: Age Really is a State of Mind

During the IFSCC 2016 Congress, LVMH researcher Héloise Vergnaud presented her company's work on skin sagging and panelist reactions and emotional associations to it. Her results show how age really is a mindset.

Acne or Aging? Pick Your Poison

Researchers at King's College London are onto something: the silver lining to acne—no really, there is one. In a recent study, individuals afflicted by acne were found to have longer telomeres, which can protect skin from aging.

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Quantifying Wellness: Anti-aging Benefits Beyond Wrinkle Reduction

Rather than anti-aging claims, these authors sought to quantify well-being as it relates to the effects of a new active: centcyamine. The authors confirmed a correlation between well-being scores, instrumental observations, self-assessment and, indirectly, in vitro mechanistic data.

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The Dirty Truth About Pollution-induced Skin Aging: The AhR Pathway Tells All

Studies have shown that exposure to airborne, traffic-related particulate matter (PM) is associated with increased signs of extrinsic skin aging.1-3 Using model particles as surrogates, these researchers developed an in vitro model to evaluate premature aging induced via the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) pathway. They found a new AhR antagonist could inhibit the up-regulation of genes indicative for premature aging.

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Ones to Watch: John Jiménez

New innovators will help shape our industry’s future, so it’s like being given a crystal ball. In this new series, "Ones to Watch," Cosmetics & Toiletries features up-and-comers in and around our industry who have limited experience but unlimited potential. This month, meet Belcorp's John Jiménez.

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Big Data with a Grain of Salt

Now that we’re tallying up results from intricate tests of genetic up- and down-regulation, alterations in our body’s microbiome and neuron response patterns for product likes/dislikes, we have to be careful.

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VIDEO: 3D Printing Takes Efficacy Tests to New Depths

3D-printed skin samples demonstrate the full potential of a product's efficacy, as AMA Labs explained during in-cosmetics North America.

Patients can take part in the research regardless of location, using medications and iPhones shipped personally to them.

Acne Meets Germ Theory Meets the iPhone in Telegermatology Study

Patients can take part in the research regardless of location, using medications and iPhones shipped personally to them.

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Package Design Research: Your Expression Says it All

A thesis study is under way at Clemson University to develop dynamic test methods that evaluate consumer facial expressions in reaction to packaging designs in a new way: in situ.