International launches in natural cosmetics
Product development | This month Michelle Strutton from Mintel looks at innovative natural cosmetics products and features a selection of interesting products recently highlighted on the company’s GNPD*.
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Beautiful by nature
Ingredients | Dr Nora Schiemann from IMCD looks at the latest trends in natural cosmetics and what broad choice of ingredients there is to create successful product concepts.
Homeopathy for skin care?
Interview | Trend watcher Helga Hertsig-Lavocah has spotted some intriguing new developments at London’s Natural & Organics Product Expo (NOPE): homeopathic skin care and exciting ingredients and concepts such as magnesium and “circular” products.
Beauty from Asian-Pacific plants
Ingredients | Extracts from Asia-Pacific such as artemisia, lemon myrtle and spikenard can provide antimicrobial protection, soothe skin inflammation and bring brightening benefits to the skin respectively.
Ethical luxury – environment, local sourcing, social enterprises
Interview | Camilla Marcus-Dew explains how the luxury brand The Soap Co., which employs people with varying degrees of disability, also focuses on the environment, local sourcing and supporting other small social enterprises.
Urban Beauty
Our skin is exposed to a large variety of pollutants in an ever more urbanised world. These include nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, hydrocarbons and other toxic compounds every day. Throughout the day, these pollutants accumulate on the skin’s surface and create oxidative stress that weakens the skin barrier. The consequence is dehydration, redness, imperfections, a grey and dull complexion, and, in the long term, accelerated skin ageing as well as increasingly visible dark spots.
Kits for DIY’ers & more
Interview | Jo Chidley, Founder of Beauty Kitchen, shows that making people create their own customised beauty products is not only about fun but also about sustainability.
Go Future: Hair Care
How to create hair protection products that really work!
International Launches in Hair Care
Product development | This month Michelle Strutton from Mintel looks at innovative hair care products and features a selection of interesting products recently highlighted on the company’s GNPD*.
To combat oxidative stress and pollution
Ingredients | KeraGuard is a natural ingredient from Mibelle Biochemistry that offers proven protection from pollution for hair repair and protection from colour fading in leave-on and rinse-off products.
An individual & natural approach
Ingredients| What hair care ingredients are an ideal option when it comes to creating products with a natural touch for personalised consumer needs?
Ease the stress
Ingredients | DSM’s latest hair care solutions help busy consumers create styles and turn styling into something fun to do.
Youthfulness from within
Ingredients | DN-Age, an anti-ageing active for hair care, protects the scalp and hair follicles from ageing. It decreases oxidative stress and markers of ageing in human hair follicle cells, slows down hair fibre greying and reduces hair thinning.
Creating efficient hair protection
Product development | A case study shows the step-by-step development of a protective spray for hair and what main parameters influence the product’s performance to protect hair from oxidative damage due to excessive UV exposure.
Key global trends
Events | Find details on fresh insights and data for the global beauty industry from the Marketing Trends Presentations of this year’s In-Cosmetics Global in Amsterdam compiled by Imogen Matthews.
Sparkling sensations & more
Formulations | Kim-Davy Hoeu from KDH Concepts explains what makes texture so important in skin care, to what extent texture can drive functionality and what to expect from cosmetic textures in future.
Protective cuticle regeneration
Ingredients | Anna Crovetto from Active Concepts presents a solution for protective cuticle regeneration and beyond the bond solutions for damaged hair: In line with synthetic biology, a self-assembling biomimetic neo-cuticle forms on the hair which protects from thermal styling and everyday stressors.
Market development: Aerosols
Aerosols | Our article looks at the market development, new developments in spraying technology, actuators, award-winning solutions, materials and testing.
A Snapshot of the beauty market
Markets | Rubab Abdoolla from Euromonitor provides a comprehensive snapshot of South Africa’s beauty and personal care market.
Trend spotting Cosmoprof
Interview | What were the most impressive innovations at this year’s Cosmoprof? Trend Watcher Helga Hertsig-Lavocah gives us her take. The brand doesn’t play up the environmental benefit of not transporting water, this is the real USP.