April 2024

Our latest edition offers trends and insights to elevate traditional and hybridized (i.e., color + care) makeup. It also highlights regulations impacting color; biotech for future innovation; defining biodegradability; and answers to skin radiance.

Cosmetics & Toiletries April 2024

April 2024

A new report from Kline argues that the application of emollients and moisturizers, delivery systems, fragrances and essential oils, texture modifiers, and exfoliants can boost sensorial experiences to elevate everyday products and create “indulgent rituals that engage the senses” and emotions while also differentiating products in a crowded and dupe-riddled beauty market.

Clinical Eclipses Clean: Ingredient Trend Tracker

Active color cosmetics with functions extending beyond coverage, e.g., moisturizing, sun protection, anti-aging, etc., are expected to grow the color segment to nearly US $87.92 billion by 2034, according to Future Market Insights. The firm also notes that increasing demand for personalized products creates significant opportunity.

Hybridized Beauty Innovation

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Expert Opinions on Color Cosmetic Solutions: Hybridized, Relaxing, Sophisticated, Effective and Sensitive Skin/Gray Beauty-focused

Cyclic silicones and microplastics face bans under REACH but both contribute to the aesthetics and performance of color cosmetics.

How Cyclic Silicone and Microplastic Bans Impact Color Cosmetic Formulating

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Next in Skin: Facial Cleansing for Acne Control, Health and Radiance

Biotechnology has allowed for innovation and the availability, both now and in the future, of beneficial ingredients derived from microalgae – a regenerative and highly productive efficient source of many high-value ingredients.

How Advances in Biotech Empower Natural and Blue Beauty

What does biodegradable actually mean? There are many misconceptions around biodegradability, even among those involved in the development, substantiation and communication of a biodegradable product. This stretches from R&D and regulatory affairs experts to marketeers, all of whom have a different degree of understanding of the term.

Peeling Back the ‘Biodegradable’ Label

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Prometheus’ Fire: The Rise of Biotech in Beauty

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Formulating Forum: Long-lasting Color with Treatment Efficacy

Attendees of the awards dinner toasted all the finalists, celebrating beauty innovation. Read on to see who came out on top.

And the Winners Are … C&T Presents the 2024 Allē Awards and Merits