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Consumers/Market
Illuminating, Glowing Skin and Deep Oiling for Hair: Google and TikTok Trends
What's on beauty consumers' minds? Our social media video report, Consumer Pulse, highlights top Google and TikTok trends; this time including illuminating and glowing skin, discoloration serum, deep oiling and more. Here's an overview.
Literature/Data
Enhancing Hair Health: Effects of Oiling, Inside and Out—Part I
Hair oiling has been practiced since ancient times and has more recently piqued market interest. Its effects on physical, chemical and sensorial properties have been reported, which the authors review herein. This first of two articles views oiling for hair health from the surface; a follow-up piece will review internal structural benefits.
Literature/Data
Enhancing Hair Health: Effects of Oiling, Inside and Out—Part II
This second installment in a two-part series reviews the literature for research analyzing the benefits of hair oiling at the corticular level; part one examined surface modifications in hair. Here, oil penetration is critically analyzed, along with its internal effects in terms of hair softness, flexibility and strength. These benefits are illustrated in both single fiber and bulk research.
Skin Care
What is a Superceutical?
Priori Biogengineered Skincare, a line that features idebenone, is being launched in the United States.
Efficacy
Words from Wiechers: What You Say is What You Get
This installment of "Words from Wiechers" explores what we see and say about cosmetic products, and cautions to not make “conclusions” that are simply that—conclusions, without underlying science.
Literature/Data
Patent Pick: What L'Oréal is Hiding
L'Oréal has a lot to hide—a lot of skin imperfections, that is. In a recent patent application, the company describes a cosmetic that camouflages wrinkles without compromising a natural look and feel.
Hair Care
This is What Normal Looks Like
"With 'What's Normal?' we are confronting the mental walls that encourage us to force-fit ourselves and others into falsely constructed beauty and 'good hair' ideals."
Regional
What is Palm Oil Doing to the Forests?
Greenpeace has reported that some personal care companies are sacrificing the environment to produce a commonly-used ingredient.
Efficacy
Words from Wiechers: What is 'Normal' Skin Care?
This article series considers the many lessons the cosmetics R&D industry can learn from the late Johann Wiechers, Ph.D. The present installment addresses where to draw the line between a cosmetic and drug.
Consumers/Market
This is What Your Zodiac Sign Smells Like...
On average, 80% of people prefer their zodiac sign’s perfume over the other 11.
Bath/Shower
What is Skin Care-based Hand Sanitizer All About?
“As a skin care company, we knew that protecting the skin barrier is just as important as purifying it of bacteria and germs."
Polls
[poll results] What is Your Primary Formulating Category?
Formulations in both categories often overlap in ingredients, offering benefits that cater to each category in unique ways.
Claims/Labeling
Making Hair (Claims) Do What You Want
Following in the footsteps of skin care claims, hair care claims are growing bolder as manufacturers try to get an edge on their competition. But no matter how bold the claim, the need for scientific data to substantiate it remains.
Event Coverage
The Breaking Point: What Makes Hair Weak
Trefor A. Evans, Ph.D., institute fellow at TRI Princeton, spoke about a unifying theory for visualizing the causes of hair breakage during day three of the IFSCC Congress.
Hair Care
What Drives U.S. Consumers' Hair Care Choices?
A new YouGov poll reveals the personal factors that shape U.S. consumers hair care choices.
Methods/Tools
What is Light? A Brief History of Light and Its Behavior
This primer provides cosmetic scientists, engineers and physicists with an understanding of light. The quantum mechanics of history continue today as a guiding paradigm for computers, satellites and mobile communications, in addition to the cosmetically related fields of photoprotection and visual effects imparted through makeup to change appearance.
Polls
[poll results] What is Your Preferred Method of Product Stability Testing?
There are a number of ways to measure the stability of formulas. Last week, we asked which is your favorite way: Real-time, accelerated or both? Here's how you responded.
Polls
[poll results] What is Your Primary Concern When Conducting Preservative Efficacy Testing?
Last week, we asked you what your primary concern is when conducting preservative testing. Here's how you responded. Be sure to check back for our latest poll!
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