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Literature/Data
Patent Picks—Copper-bound Botanicals, Skin Pigment Regulation, Antioxidants and More
Chosen biweekly by Rachel Grabenhofer, editor, for their relevance to personal care, Patent Picks are taken from publicly available sources. This edition features recently issued patents relevant to skin care and health.
Literature/Data
Instant/Gradual Self Tanning and Other Topics: Literature Findings
This month’s survey of recent patent and research literature describes money-making ideas for personal care product development, including whitening with vitamin C and Opuntia ficus indica, a pulverulent for hair shaping and shine, an amino functional silicone treatment to use post-relaxing, and instant/gradual self tanning, among others.
Methods/Tools
Does Beauty Desperately Need a New Hero Ingredient?
What's old is new again, according to cosmetic industry expert Akshay Talati. While this puts a creative spin on tried-and-true ingredients, are we stick in a chemistry loop? Talati explores this further in the following commentary.
Event Coverage
in-cosmetics Asia Announces Shortlist for Innovation Zone Awards
Twenty ingredients have been shortlisted for the awards. The winners of in-cosmetics Asia will be announced on Nov. 2, 2022.
Literature/Data
Anti-pollution Cosmetics: In the Face of a Changing Environment
Pollution in different forms and media can cause skin distress of various types. In response, leading global cosmetic companies are turning to a full spectrum of anti-pollution ingredients for answers. Both the negative effects of pollution on skin, and ingredients and products to protect against this damage are reviewed here.
Consumers/Market
Expert Opinions on Well Aging and Radiance: Pearl Skin, Fermented, Mood Enhancing, Longevity Focused, Bio-targeted, etc.
Innovators will have to dig deep to respond to consumers' longing for that youthful, radiant glow; whether through supplements, biological targets, mental wellness, etc. Beauty has been elevated beyond skin deep; perhaps even further than ever imagined.
Efficacy
The New Stir in Anti-aging: Small-chain Algal Peptides to Regulate Sulfur
Sulfur regulators such as small chain peptides (SCPs) and sulfide donors are an untapped sector for cosmetic science. The present work explores a natural compound to up-regulate cellular sulfur, affect the cell cycle and reduce signs of aging.
Event Coverage
Stem Cells, Wellness and Claims Substantiation Take Center Stage at IFSCC Congress
The 2012 IFSCC Congress opened with a frenzy; the "African Frenzy" dancers, that is, and enlightened attendees over three days with 65+ presentations and more than 150 posters.
Skin Care
Cooking Chemistry and the Formulator: Sugar and Grains
This article is the third in a four-part series that highlights connections between cooking chemistry and personal care product development, including reactions that occur and why, and how to best utilize these reactions, for the benefit of formulators.
Bath/Shower
Formulating Aftershave
Besides soothing and calming irritated skin, aftershaves are expected to refresh the skin, provide emolliency, reduce blood flow, tone skin, impart scent and antibacterial benefits, and prevent folliculitis, among others. Relevant ingredients for these functions are discussed here in terms of three categories of aftershaves: fluid transparent solutions, thick gels and fluid emulsion lotions.
Anti-aging/Face
Microalgal Bio-retinoid: A Retinol Alternative to Gently Rewind Signs of Photoaging
This article compares the efficacy of a bio-retinoid from microalga with that of retinol and bakuchiol to reverse signs of photoaging in vitro. Its efficacy, safety and skin-soothing effects vs. retinol and bakuchiol are also explored in clinical trials.
Consumers/Market
Secrets to Shaping Beauty into Body Care: How Claims, Ingredients and Challenges Translate
What's driving the body care boom? How do beauty trends translate? Here, we explore new launches and insights from Anushka Nadkarni, Bentley Labs; Ron Robinson, BeautyStat; Rita Silva, DECIEM; and Jean-Christophe Choulot, Caudalíe, to find out.
Colorant
Solid Polyethylene Microspheres for Effects in Color Cosmetics
Advances in manufacturing solid polyethylene microspheres have enabled their development in various colors as well as controlled traits such as opacity, specific gravity, particle size distribution and electrostatic charge. These traits can be leveraged by formulators to create new effects in color cosmetics, described here.
Literature/Data
Diethanolamine Esterquats for Hair and Skin and Other Topics: Literature Findings
This month’s survey of recent patent and research literature describes moneymaking ideas for personal care product development including water-induced thickening of hair, surfactant/biopolymer mixures, a foam/aerosol hair conditioner, and yeast glucan carriers, among others.
Cleansing
Sodium Laurylglucosides Hydroxypropyl Sulfonate for Sulfate-free Formulations
The use of sulfonated alkyl polyglucosides (SAPG) to replace lauryl sulfates and lauryl ether sulfates in sulfate-free formulations has previously been discussed. These primary surfactants were created with environmental and human safety in mind. The current paper describes more recent work with this material, specifically focusing on the lauryl version of SAPG.
Natural/Sustainable
Startup Solutions: A Survey of Green and Sustainable Innovations
Today is perhaps the most active time in decades for startup firms focused on natural (non-synthetic) and sustainable materials, replacement ingredients, green chemistry and fermentation technologies. This paper surveys several of them.
Literature/Data
Diethanolamine Esterquats for Hair and Skin and Other Topics: Literature Findings
This month’s survey of recent patent and research literature describes moneymaking ideas for personal care product development including water-induced thickening of hair, surfactant/biopolymer mixures, a foam/aerosol hair conditioner, and yeast glucan carriers, among others.
Methods/Tools
The Harvest of Marine-derived Cosmetic Ingredients: A Case Study of
Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae
This paper reviews the knowledge and nature of the harvest practices for the octocoral
Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae
.
P. elisabethae
extract has been used for nearly two decades in cosmetics and preparations for skin benefits, and a review of the harvest provides product developers with an interesting case study of the harvest of a marine resource.
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