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AI guidance tools now essential to drive higher beauty spending

A recent report has found that guided digital tools, such as selfie diagnostics and virtual try-ons, are becoming central to how consumers shop for beauty products. According to Revieve’s Beauty & Wellness Index 2025, digital tools on beauty e-commerce sites drive stronger consumer engagement, foster education, and help justify higher product pricing, resulting in higher checkout values. The report analyzed millions of AI-driven beauty interactions across e-commerce sites to understand how consumers discover and buy skin care and makeup online. The data shows that in guided beauty journeys, around 72% of users complete the diagnostic experience, 14% add products to their cart, and overall conversion rates range from 2% to 5%.
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Side streams to scalable solutions: Upcycled ingredients fuel beauty R&D
Cosmetic and beauty formulators are increasingly recognizing the functional benefits that upcycled ingredients deliver in personal care innovation. Among these benefits are more robust supply chains and clearer quality frameworks, leading to more appealing products. As the industry demonstrates that upcycled materials can meet beauty buyers’ expectations, products made with upcycled ingredients are progressively used.Personal Care Insights speaks with Tate & Lyle, Ingredients + Specialties from Univar Solutions, and The Upcycled Beauty Company to discuss how cosmetic upcycled ingredients are gaining attention due to consumer expectations, brand strategy, and ingredient supplier innovation.
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Dove discusses why emotional care matters in men’s grooming
Men’s approach to personal care is shifting alongside attitudes and expectations of masculinity. Once rigid and hyper-masculine, the messaging of men’s personal care products has evolved to embrace a more nuanced, emotional, and self-expressive approach. Augusto Garzon, global brand VP Axe & Dove Men+Care, sits down with Personal Care Insights to discuss the market changes in men’s grooming — from the rise of multi-step skin care routines to more inclusive and authentic brand messaging. 
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A Patented Breakthrough in Scalp Health — Learn more from the clinical study results
Purakan™ is a patented breakthrough in natural scalp care, proven to outperform market leaders on pruritus, dandruff, itching, and flaking. It replaces synthetic options like ZPT and piroctone olamine. Clinical studies show 89.7% of participants experienced reduced dandruff and itching within just seven days.This technical paper is brought to you by Mane Kancor.
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Formulating texture in skincare: a data-driven approach to replacing synthetic thickeners
Consumers are actively seeking natural ingredients in their skincare products, and the pressure is on formulators to deliver clean-label solutions without compromising product look and feel. In this webinar, Tate & Lyle and Innova Market Insights experts discuss how this trend is shaping innovation and how brands can tackle formulation challenges. We explore how nature-based, readily biodegradable ingredients combined with a proprietary methodology can replace synthetics, while maintaining the desired physical and sensorial properties. Through individual product variables mapped against our ingredient data repository, we can reduce reformulation complexity and minimize the need for panel testing. Our model simplifies multivariable measurements into easy-to-interpret results — accelerating development and enabling brands to meet consumer demand for naturally derived skincare products.  Join us to say goodbye to synthetics, fast!
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IFF: Tapping robotics for faster fragrance development
Beauty companies are under growing pressure to shorten cosmetics development cycles. To keep pace, fragrance houses are investing in automation that can cut sampling and formulation timelines while also improving precision. International Flavors and Fragrances’ (IFF) installation of its Colibri smart-dosing robot in Singapore reflects the wider industry shift toward modernized operations. The company tells us how its high-tech intervention can accelerate time-to-market in Asia’s fast-moving beauty landscape.

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Amorepacific’s AI-powered app brings K-beauty shopping to ChatGPT
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Amorepacific has launched an AI-powered retail app, Amore Mall, powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The South Korean cosmetics and beauty conglomerate says it is the first of the K-beauty industry to launch an app on ChatGPT.The ChatGPT app brings Amorepacific’s products to 900 million global ChatGPT users through tailored recommendations based on the company’s data. The interface allows consumers to input their information, needs, and desires through conversational AI and compare prices, efficacy, and ingredients across products.
Medicos equips La Roche-Posay with dropper and roll-on applicator for eye serum
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Medicos has supplied La Roche-Posay with a bottle and dropper for the skin care brand’s Hyalu B5 anti-wrinkle eye serum, for precise dosing and targeted application. The 15 mL bottle features a polypropylene (PP) roll-on pipette with a stainless steel ball, a nitrile bulb, a PP collar, and a protective cap. “The originality of the system lies in the functional combination of the dropper’s precise dosing gesture with the roll-on’s targeted application, specifically adapted to the eye contour area,” says the company. 
Leaked Labs: Accelerating beauty development by skipping traditional launches
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Leaked Labs is allowing beauty lovers to take a peek behind the curtain of cosmetic innovation. The direct-from-lab brand says that most beauty innovation exists years before consumers ever see it. By removing the fourth wall, it aims to give consumers a look inside and a chance to participate while product creation is happening. Leaked Labs says the beauty industry takes too long to bring new solutions to people. 
PCHi 2026: Evonik to showcase biotech innovations for skin care and household
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At the upcoming PCHi (Personal Care and Homecare Ingredients) tradeshow in Hangzhou, China (March 18–20), Evonik will showcase its portfolio featuring targeted active and functional ingredients for skin care, sun care, color cosmetics, and hair care. It will also reveal specialized delivery systems and solutions for household cleaning. Evonik will present its latest biotechnological solutions for skin and household care around its theme: “The Soul and Science of Beauty.” 
IFF accelerates innovation in Latin America with new enzyme facility and...
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Fragrances ingredient company International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) is expanding its Latin American footprint by opening an enzyme facility in Argentina and a laboratory in Brazil. The moves are aimed at elevating regional production and innovation capacities in Latin America, one of IFF’s fastest-growing markets.In Argentina, the company is transforming its Arroyito site into its first full fermentation-based enzyme production hub in Latin America, while the lab opening at IFF’s Innovation Center in Brazil is focused on household care applications.
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Vitamin B12 is moving beyond deficiency management to new potentials in active nutrition and cognitive performance, according to HTBA (HealthTech BioActives). The ingredient manufacturer says the vitamin plays a crucial role in energy metabolism, nervous system function, and red blood cell formation, making it a foundational nutrient for supporting lifelong energy and brain health.
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Henkel acquires Not Your Mother’s to expand in world’s...
Henkel has agreed to buy DeMert Brands, the parent company of Not Your Mother’s (NYM), to boost its US hair care portfolio. NYM was launched in 2010 and is based in the US. It creates everyday hair solutions that aim to deliver high-performance, targeted benefits. The brand addresses hair needs, including curl definition, texture, and volume. 
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L Catterton builds Brazil’s largest beauty retail platform
LVMH-backed equity firm L Catterton has announced it is creating the “largest multibrand specialty beauty retail platform” in Brazil with over 130 stores nationwide. The deal brings together two long-standing Brazilian beauty retailers, Bel Cosméticos and Mundo do Cabeleireiro. Each chain offers curated assortments of beauty products at accessible prices and claims to have built a strong consumer base and a portfolio of regional brands.
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Estée Lauder acquires Forest Essentials as Indian beauty...
The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) has announced it will acquire the remaining stakes in Forest Essentials, an Indian beauty brand focused on Ayurvedic cosmetics. The acquisition will expand ELC’s current minority stake in the brand, giving it full ownership. The move reflects Estée Lauder’s strategy to strengthen its presence in India and expand the global reach of luxury Ayurvedic beauty products. According to ELC, Forest Essentials ranks as the top prestige skin care brand in India.

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The Future of FragranceMar2026

Innova Market Insights data indicates that global fragrance launches are increasing, with an average annual growth rate of +51 % from 2021 to 2025. Consumers globally prefer light fragrances, and thei...

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Home care innovation Mar 2026

According to Innova Market Insights, Household Care products are gaining ground, with an average annual growth rate of 18% from 2021 to 2025. Consumers globally say they have mostly purchased cleaning products (81%) and dishwashing & washing-up products (75%). New product launches emphasize sustainability and functionality.

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Sustainable personal care packaging solutionsMar 2026

Innova Market Insights data indicates that the use of sustainable packaging in personal care product launches grew 20% year-over-year from 2024 to 2025, reflecting a strong demand for more eco-friendly products, inside and out.

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