February 2024

Cosmetics & Toiletries February 2024

February 2024

This article revisits the roles of formulators and process engineers in product scale up. It demonstrates where issues may arise to help anticipate them and speed their resolution – or prevent them. It also provides tips to assist in the scale-up process.

Formulating Forum: Scale-up Considerations for Innovative Cosmetics

A majority of consumers seek products that provide both sun protection and additional skin care benefits such as hydration and anti-aging properties. The development of antioxidants and infrared protection also contributes to the appeal of sun care products.

Expert Opinions: Sun/Skin Protection – Longevity, Bio- and SPF-Boosted, Microbiome and More

Exposure to the elements and psychological stress, combined with the lowered levels of collagen, elastin, HA and moisture that occur naturally over time, demonstrate that skin aging is a multi-layered, multifaceted process. This reinforces the need for a combined approach for truly effective anti-aging results.

Layering Efficacies to Reverse Photoaging: A Multifunctional Serum Case Study

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Formulating Forum: Scale-up Considerations for Innovative Cosmetics

The process of creating a winning formulation in the lab and translating it to a larger scale requires a combination of empirical data, hands-on experience and practical wisdom.

Gearing Up for Personal Care Production Success: Dynamics and Equipment

Industry Insight: Holistic Beauty – Where Psychodermatology and Ayurveda Meet

The future of production, to Schlecht, lies in AI and extensive data processing. 'With the steady rise in automation, product quality and safety can be enhanced by minimizing human errors, boosting productivity and cutting costs.'

Expert Opinions: Innovations in Equipment and Devices — QC, Safety, Eco Replacements, FDA Standards, AI and More

Dermatologists view sensitive skin as characteristic of all skin diseases. Common conditions that embody sensitive skin include eczema, atopic dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis, rosacea, cosmetic intolerance syndrome and psoriasis.

Characterizing and Interpreting Sensitive Skin — Plus 9 Tips to Formulate for It

The connection between diet and the skin has long been known, but new research points to the connections between skin and gut health for a range of issues, including acne, atopic dermatitis, eczema and psoriasis.

Gut Health as Skin Health: Ingredient Trend Tracker

Notable changes in the Asia-Pacific region include adjustments to cosmetic ingredient technical standard and cosmetic pre-market management.

Asia-Pacific Regulatory Update: Children’s Cosmetics, Toothpaste, Personalized Products, Ingredients, E-commerce and More

Sensitive and compromised skin (tattooed, photoaged, etc.) are a major focus of this issue, as well as their holistic care and protection. This month also uncovers hidden innovation in scale-up and production for cosmetic manufacturing.

Editor's Note: Sensitive Skin and Hidden Innovation

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Boosting Moisturization for Tattooed Skin Care