Sizzling Innovation in Sunscreen Formulations
As the summer sun rises, so does the inventiveness of formulators and their latest sunscreen innovations!
Innovating Around Hawaii’s Sunscreen Ban
A potential sunscreen ban in Hawaii? Here's how agile formulators are already taking advantage of the situation!
How Do Beauty Products Help Cancer Patients?
How Do Beauty Products Help Cancer Patients? When a person receives a cancer diagnosis, it's profoundly unsettling and depressing. Oncologists, palliative care specialists and other medical advisors will point out that a chemotherapy regimen will impact a patient in multiple ways; we're all familiar with the hair loss that accompanies chemo, but there are other side effects where beauty and [...]
“Eco-friendly” Innovation: A Sunscreen to Help Save Coral Reefs
"Eco-friendly" Innovation: A Sunscreen to Help Save Coral Reefs Formulators, product planners and marketers alike have to deal with a mushrooming number of considerations when they're developing new personal care products. Sunscreens, as we've noted, are one of the most complex segments they need to deal with thanks to the growth in regional and national [...]
Is There Really Now An “Ultimate Sunscreen?
Is There Really Now An "Ultimate" Sunscreen? Hot on the heels of a recent announcement about how DNA may be the secret to a more effective, longer-lasting sunscreen comes word out of the University of California San Diego about yet another innovation that may produce an "ultimate" natural defense against UV. How does this [...]
Your Next Sunscreen? It Might Be DNA
Your Next Sunscreen? It Might Be DNA Imagine you're headed for the beach, and you search the medicine chest for sunscreen. When you find a bottle and inspect the label, though, you're not checking for its SPF. You're making sure it contains DNA. That's because medical researchers at Binghamton University in New York have [...]
Best Practices in Sunscreen Formulation, Part II
Best Practices in Sunscreen Formulation, Part II A review of critical requirements involved in creating effective sun protection products. By Amit Patel In Part I of this series, we explored how the rapid growth in global demand for sunscreen products has spawned many opportunities for formulators and marketers. To exploit them, however, requires following [...]
Best Practices in Sunscreen Formulation, Part I
Best Practices in Sunscreen Formulation, Part I A review of critical requirements involved in creating effective sun protection products. By Amit Patel Complex challenges for formulators As we've mentioned previously, sunscreen and sun care products are in increasing demand, and the more protection they offer, the better they're selling. This means it's an advantageous [...]
As Sunscreen Demand Grows, So Does Its Ingredients Market
As Sunscreen Demand Grows, So Does Its Ingredients Market We've previously mentioned how consumers worldwide are showing their desire for stronger sunscreen products, driving a growing global market for higher-SPF protection. Now there's even more research to show the effects that demand is having, and how it will continue into the next decade, by [...]
Consumers Are Singing the Praises of Sun Care
Consumers are Singing the Praises of Sun Care Way back in 1998, the Internet was scorching, so to speak, as people emailed each other the text of a "commencement speech" attributed by many to novelist/curmudgeon Kurt Vonnegut. Who seemed to be endorsing...sun care products? It certainly read like something he might have written, but it was [...]