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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 developed a sunscreen...
How Epigenetics are Influencing Skin Care Formulation
Skin care product formulation is more and more linked to our understanding of human biology. The formulators behind anti-aging product innovation are increasingly concerned with how products interact with human biology, and scientists are paying more attention than ever to epigenetics as a major factor in that equation. “Epigenetics” involve...
It’s a Premium-Powered Future in Beauty and Personal Care
We’ve looked at some of the factors driving global growth in cosmetic, beauty and perosnal care products before. New research into how these segments shaped up in 2016 just confirms it: while there was respectable 5% growth across the entire sector, there was also strong evidence that premium and personalized products...
Best Practices in Sunscreen Formulation, Part II
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 for reaching an optimum outcome: a sunscreen product that meets functional, aesthetic and marketability mandates. We then...
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 time for formulators to be...
Anti-Aging? It’s More and More a Man’s World
Has is really been over two decades since the portmanteau “metrosexual” was coined? Just how did its originator, British writer Mark Simpson, describe this archtype when he launched it upon an unsuspecting world? Metrosexual man, the single young man with a high disposable income, living or working in the city...