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Bath/Shower
Editor's Note: Health and 'Swell'ness
The consumer driver for health and wellness will no doubt flow into the New Year and beyond. As such, this issue takes inspiration from the spa world.
Skin Care
Gone in a ‘Flash’: Night Sweats Subside with a Novel Astringent Peptide Spray
Certain peptides have been shown to reduce perspiration. Here, the authors explore their use to develop a spray to treat menopause night sweats. To complicate formulation work, salt-based astringents were desired to provide immediate sensory benefits. The authors address this formulation challenge as well.
Literature/Data
Comparatively Speaking: Inflammation vs. Allergy
Are you formulating for sensitive skin? Or is it really normal skin undergoing a typical inflammatory response? Where do allergic reactions fit in? In this edition of "Comparatively Speaking," Nava Dayan, Ph.D., explains.
Sensory
Patent Pick: Witch Hazel and More to Exothermally Heat Up Spa Care
The hot consumer market for spa treatments and their at-home spin-offs is about to get hotter. This patent application from Forever Young explores the use of witch hazel, for example, with other exothermic actives in products and an apparatus to impart heat during use.
Literature/Data
Patent Pick: In the Heat of Pleasurable Cosmetic Delivery
According to Estée Lauder inventors, personal care manufacturers are heating up the competition for consumer dollars by using heat in cosmetics and personal care experiences. But one particularly chilling roadblock to their development is the need for a portable energy source; as is described here.
Method/Process
New Ideas on Hair Breakage: Mending Existing Flaws
Our historical beliefs as to the causes of hair breakage have been largely shaped by findings from testing approaches. More recently, an alternate mechanical testing technique, fatigue testing, has been changing our perspective on this topic.
Consumers/Market
Opportunity in Diversity: Formulating for the Multiethnic Market
The expanding multicultural beauty market provides opportunity to formulate products specifically to the needs of ethnic skin types. Pigmentation is not the only difference between black and Caucasian skin, the skin barrier and other factors come into play.
Sensory
Patent Pick: Isopulegol Arousal
We consumers take things too seriously. This is evident from the growing demand for products that boost our morale or relax us. While marketers offer numerous (profitable) solutions, perhaps good, old-fashioned fragrance is the answer; that's what a new patent application suggests.
Cosmetic Ingredients
Patent Pick: Super Absorbent Matrix Extends Fragrance Release
Inventors at fashion and fragrance company PUIG have delayed the inevitable—in a good and cross-linked way. A new European patent application explains.
Sensory
A Sense of Sensory Analysis: Testing for the Non-test Expert
Sensory analysis is an important tool that can be successfully applied to all products that impact our senses. This article provides an overview of the means with which formulators can become acquainted with the sensory properties of a cosmetic formula. By doing so, developers can ensure products fulfill consumer needs.
Consumers/Market
Sex Lubricant Market on the Rise
Abstaining from many (not all) of the dirty puns we could slide into this report, here we describe what's behind the growing and virile personal lubricants market.
Hair Care
[podcast] The Smell of Success: P&G's Wilkerson on Consumer-acceptable Scalp Care
What's that smell? Not the infamous selenium. In this exclusive podcast, Rolanda Wilkerson, Ph.D., principal scientist at P&G, shares how the Head & Shoulders brand was re-formulated for consumer-acceptance, among other insights. Listen now!
Sensory
Belle Aire Creations Launches Total Malodor Management for Fragrance and Flavor
Applications include oral care, beauty and personal care, home care, detergents, pet care and more.
Sensory
Reaching a Zen-like State in Skin: Biomimetic Peptide to Balance Sensitivity
Inspired by nature, biomimetic peptides are potent allies in skin care. This paper identifies palmitoyl tripeptide-8 as an effective modulator of neurogenic inflammation and provides clinical evidence of its protective and soothing activities in sensitized skin.
Skin Care
More Than Skin Deep
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and Karl Laden, Ph.D.,
Cosmetics & Toiletries
advisor, throughout a number of years has developed an ode to individuals and formulators working in the industry.
Sensory
How Damaged is Hair? Part I: Surface Damage
This article is the first of two that explores ways of capturing and quantifying the different forms of hair damage. Here, we begin with damage to the hair surface, or cuticle, while also exploring the implications of this occurrence. A second article will focus on damage to the internal cortex structure.
Methods/Tools
Editor's Note: Secret Sauce for Beauty
When panelists were asked what they wanted in a tomato sauce, no one ever said “extra chunky.” They had to discover they liked it. This is a critically important step in understanding consumer desires and tastes.
Literature/Data
Patent Pick: Straighten Up, Smooth It Out
Hair care is getting bossy. In this patent application, Unilever explores a sericin-based treatment that straightens and smooths hair, reducing volume to make it behave.
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