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Section: Testing > Tech/Equipment/Services
Event Coverage
What Beauty Innovations Qualify for the 2025
C&T Allēs
? What Are the Requirements?
What entries compete in the
C&T Allēs
? From ingredients, blends and prototype/finished formulas, to test methods/tools, devices and digital tech, entries span the cosmetic R&D process. Read on for more and enter now - the deadline is Sept. 13!
Methods/Tools
How AI is Transforming Beauty Innovation: Now Available On Demand
This exclusive exploration of AI uncovers clever applications to transform your product development.
Tech/Equipment/Services
Is Your Microbiology Lab FDA-compliant? Part I: Personnel, Facilities and Equipment
This two-part article provides an overview of areas relevant to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) inspection of cosmetic microbiology laboratories. Part II will appear in our July 2018 edition.
Hair Care
Can Hair Follicles Be Printed?
A new partnership between L'Oréal and Poietis is giving it a shot.
Event Coverage
2026
C&T Allē Awards
Portal is Open — Beauty Innovation Abounds: Show Us Your Stuff
With beauty innovation abuzz, especially around spring trade shows,
Cosmetics & Toiletries
is excited to open the 2026
Allē Awards
submission portal. Show us what you've got!
Tech/Equipment/Services
Is Your Microbiology Lab FDA-compliant? Part II: Cultures, Growth Media, Reagents and Testing
This two-part article provides an overview of areas relevant to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) inspection of cosmetic microbiology laboratories. Part 1 covered personnel, facilities and equipment, test materials and procedures, and documentation. Part 2 addresses microbial cultures and growth media, biochemical reagents, test procedures and more.
Tech/Equipment/Services
Testing Trending Hair Care and Skinification Claims
Various test methods, some borrowed from skin care, can be used to validate hair product claims. This article reviews several, including conditioning, anti-breakage, hydration, skinification-related, damage repair, anti-dandruff, anti-hair loss and more.
Literature/Data
Defying Damage: Understanding Breakage in Afro-textured Hair
This peer-reviewed article digs into the research to answer these questions and suggests routes to mitigate this consumer stressor. Why is Afro-textured hair prone to breakage? What can experts do about it?
Methods/Tools
[video] Architecture of Hair and Living-Dead Connection
During the TRI-Princeton 8th International Conference on Applied Hair Science, Crisan Popescu, Ph.D., of Kao, revealed some of the latest exciting areas of hair research stirring scientific interest. Learn more from our exclusive video interview.
Tech/Equipment/Services
Testing Tactics in Hair: Equipment—A 'Buyer's Guide'
This article is focused on these approaches and specifically looks at the relevant scientific instrumentation to provide guidance. There are no “standard” test methods for hair in our industry but the widespread use of several approaches has established them as “best practices."
Methods/Tools
3D Bioprinted Hydrogel Enables Hair Follicle Regeneration
A recent paper published in
Acta Biomaterialia
describes a 3D bioprinted scaffold that enables dermal papilla cells to regenerate entire follicles. The substrate could aid in hair loss treatment and may have broader applications for skin.
Methods/Tools
UPDATED: How Smart Devices are Changing Hair and Skin Care Routines
With products ranging from smart hairbrushes to wearable UV skin patches it is safe to say that technology is slowly but surely shaping the beauty industry.
Tech/Equipment/Services
[video] Student Poster: The Use of a Spectrophotometer in Hair Color
According to Elvia Iniguez, who presented a poster at the latest Midwest SCC TeamWorks, "Our job as formulators is to always produce reproducible batches." Her poster explained how to do just that in hair color. Learn more from her video interview.
Efficacy
Targeting Texture: Adapted Combing Test to Assess Curly Hair Product Efficacy
Changes in hair styling practices have increased the demand for hair products to maintain naturally textured hair condition and health. In relation, the current work aimed to develop test methods using naturally textured hair to assess products and ingredients specified for these hair types.
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