Revieve shares its ingredients for a successful AI beauty advisor tool

With the Tropic AI Skincare Quiz, customers can upload a selfie and answer a few questions to clarify details about routine, skin reactivity and areas of concern. The quiz then produces a...

November in Review: Holiday shopping trends and numbers, dsm-firmenich sells all of its Robertet shares

Business moves this month include Givaudan doubling the production capacity of its Mexico facility, dsm-firmenich selling all its shares of fragrance and aroma manufacturer Robertet and E.L.F. Beauty...

Scientists develop a commercial culture that mimics skin for microbiome testing

A person’s skin microbiome is as personal as their fingerprint. Factors like environment, genetics, ethnicity, age and career can influence the balance of bacteria on a person’s skin. As a result,...

Record number of consumers intending to shop this Black Friday

“Even though holiday shopping continues to pull forward, some of the busiest shopping days of the year are during the five-day Thanksgiving weekend,” says Katherine Cullen, NRF VP of Industry and...

Debut manufacturer will bring biotech formulations to skin care boutique

Debut develops and produces bioactive cosmetic ingredients, specializing in biomanufacturing scarce ingredients that otherwise require significant resources to process through traditional...

Update on potential EU PFAS ban looks into socio-economic impacts

The initial Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) dossier aimed to ban or limit PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” due to their inability to degrade in...

Italian skin care brand Borghese enters “luxury renaissance”

Named after late founder Princess Marcella Borghese, the 67-year-old beauty brand initially brought customers Italian spa treatment into their homes with its mud masks. The new partnership with...

Sasol Chemicals unveils plant-based cosmetic ingredient as palm oil alternative

Sasol’s new ingredient, NACOL 18-98, is a stearyl alcohol that can be used as a conditioning agent, stabilizer and consistency regulator. It is designed as a replacement for palm oil-based stearyl...