Innovation in Action: Four Exciting Skincare Lines
Formulators are on a tear, as these four exciting new skincare lines demonstrate how they're creating sales success through innovation!
Purity – The Biggest Buzzword for Personal Care Product Ingredients in 2018
Purity - The Biggest Buzzword for Personal Care Product Ingredients in 2018 When considering a new personal and skincare product formulation or revamp, the purity of ingredients has to be of utmost important to the formulator. Why? Ingredient purity, quality and strength are now top consumer concerns, according to new research by experts [...]
Glycolic Acid, the Hottest New Addition to Haircare
Glycolic Acid, the Hottest New Addition to Haircare Glycolic acid has long been a favorite ingredient of cosmetic formulators and consumers alike for skincare products, due to its incredible ability to combat acne, reduce fine lines and wrinkles, and exfoliate effectively. But today, glycolic acid is being touted as the hottest, hippest ingredient to [...]
Beauty Brands Embrace New Attitudes About Anti-Aging
Beauty Brands Embrace New Attitudes About Anti-Aging As each generation ages, so do attitudes about how to regard aging, and what "anti-aging" products and treatments really represent. Cover Girl's brand and positioning "makeover" with a new campaign line, "I Am What I Make Up," is a sign of how this is playing out. "Easy, [...]
DNA Skincare & Anti-Aging: How Big is Big?
DNA Skincare: How Big is Big? The ultimate in personal care personalization will involve formulations practically tailored to each and every individual, if science keeps up its pace of discovery and advancement. How big a market will that be? Already, analysts are making lofty predictions about the overall direct-to-consumer "genomics market," which includes [...]
Innovation in Action: Lip Balm from…Fruit Waste?
Innovation in Action: Lip Balm from...Fruit Waste? When Terence Chung was a schoolteacher, he realized his students were on board with sustainability as a practice they should observe in and out of the classroom. He also saw, though, how sustainability didn't seem to be a concern of theirs when it came to the cosmetics [...]
When Less is More: How SharoMix AMPLIFY Solves Preservatives Problems
When Less is More: How SharoMix™ AMPLIFY Solves Preservatives Problems Now is a fascinating time to be involved in the world of ingredient technology. As the movement toward all-natural products picks up steam, researchers and formulators are being constantly tasked with applying their ingenuity to new challenges. Fortunately, they're equal to the task. We discovered [...]
Innovation as a jobs engine in the chemical industry.
Innovation as a jobs engine in the chemical industry Innovation begets jobs -- just ask anybody in Silicon Valley about that, or any of the numerous communities springing up around the world, where engineers and chemists and other scientific professionals are applying themselves daily to the task of making better products and breakthrough strides [...]
Packaging innovations of the future…ism?
"Retro-futurism" in pop culture is driving innovations and style in package design in health and beauty products.
Announcing Affordable Synthetic Mica-based Pigments from Impact Colors
Announcing Affordable Synthetic Mica-based Pigments from Impact Colors Impact Colors, Inc. of Newark, DE, announces Fiesta Color Effect Pigments, an innovative line of synthetic mica-based pigments that delivers energetic colors and effects, value, and advanced functionality without the risk of heavy metals. "There are currently forty-eight Fiesta pigments available. These Fiesta products are brighter [...]