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Beauty and Personal Care Blog
Bringing you the latest industry insights and specialty chemical and ingredient innovations
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Navigating Affordable Luxury in Beauty & Personal Care Market
Learn how personal care brands are redefining luxury with quality ingredients, paving the way for a new beauty era that is affordable and sustainable.
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Tried and True: Innovating with Silicone Technology
What beauty and personal care formulators need to know about this essential chemistry. Download our essential guide featuring Dow silicone ingredient solutions.
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Ageless Skincare: Benefits & Ingredients for Anti-Aging
Anti-aging skincare products are aimed at helping the consumer achieve youthful-looking skin by using ingredients that prevent or reduce the signs of skin aging.
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Vegan Beauty: Benefits, Trends, Ingredients & Leading Brands
A beauty product is vegan when its formula is completely devoid of ingredients of animal origin. The elements are replaced by plant, active ingredients derived from biotechnology.
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UV Protection Skincare: Benefits & Best Ingredients
Suncare is seeing advanced formulas that offer lightweight textures, skin-friendly formulations, tinted coverage, and issue-specific ingredients to produce sunscreens that work.
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Upcycling: Benefits, Ingredients & Leading Brands
Upcycled beauty describes products made from by-products or waste, typically derived from plant-based food waste streams and can range from discarded fruit seeds to upcycled tree bark.
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Skin Smoothing Skincare: Benefits, Routines, & Best Ingredients
If you’ve ever experienced uneven texture, dryness, flakes, bumps, or dullness, then a skin-smoothing skincare regimen may be the answer you’re searching for.
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8 Best Ingredients for Sensitive Skin (& 5 To Avoid)
Natural ingredients are always a safe bet for calm, soothed skin. Here are our eight favorite natural ingredients for sensitive skin.
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Skin Revitalizing Skincare: Benefits & Ingredients
Revitalizing skincare can help treat and reduce signs of aging caused by sun damage, acne scars, wrinkles.
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Repairing Damaged Hair: Benefits & Best Ingredients To Use
Haircare consumers no longer have to put up with damaged hair, as brands are creating desirable and effective formulations that shoppers use, love, and trust.
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Plant-Based Skincare: Benefits & Best Ingredients To Use
Plant-based skincare is different from other beauty products due to its use of botanical ingredients. Natural skincare products are worthy of that coveted place on your bathroom counter.
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Hair Conditioning: Benefits & 8 Best Ingredients To Use
At-home hair conditioning products are enjoying a wave of newly-envisioned formulas and leave-in hair treatments boasting exciting formats and novel ingredient.
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Face Oils: Trends, Benefits & Best Products By Skin Type
Face oils are one of the most effective ways to moisturize skin. They are perfect for all skin types, including sensitive, irritated, combination and oily skin.
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What Is Blue Light Skincare (And Is It Necessary)
Blue is the shortest wavelength and is also the closest to ultraviolet (UV) light which we know causes skin aging.
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The “Bees-ness” of Personal Care: Vegan Beeswax Alternatives
Natural Vegan Beeswax is a blend of carefully selected waxes to mimic the characteristics of Beeswax. Made from a blend of ingredients that are both renewable and upcycled.
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Moisturizing Skincare: Benefits, Types, & Ingredients
Moisturizers with a thicker formula create a physical barrier that locks in hydration and prevents skin from drying out.
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How the metaverse will change the world of beauty
Virtual beauty is blurring the lines between digital and physical spaces.
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YOU Beauty Formula Wins in Color Cosmetics
Irresistible Satin Lip Cream Places First at Cosmetics & Toiletries 2022 Allē Awards.
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Breaking barriers on the standards of beauty-future formulas
Beauty brands are looking to historic products and ideas to revive in modern, sustainable ways. Break barriers with Forever Impressions, a formula…
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The Essentials Heroes
Over the course of 2020, the word “Essentials” took on a new meaning. Around the globe, we now know essentials to be the products that we…
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Welcome to The New Now
As early as March, we saw consumers in the USA reporting they were spending less time applying makeup (36%), spending less time styling their…
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MaizeCare™ Style Polymer Formulation Benefits
MaizeCare™ Style Polymer was designed as the ideal solution for formulators seeking to develop clean and natural hair styling formulations.
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MaizeCare™ Style Polymer Application Testing Results
STYLED with MaizeCare™ Style Polymer offers you 5 products designed to address the key curly hair concerns. We put each product to the test…
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Get to Know the MaizeCare™ Style Polymer
MaizeCare™ Style Polymer is derived entirely from corn and provides a variety of styling benefits in haircare formulations. Primarily, MaizeCare™…
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Just Buzz Words? Or Much More?
Biobased, biodegradable, non-bioaccumulative and non-toxic, what does it mean, and why should I care? Because environmentally friendly ingredients…
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Minimalist Challenge: a Multi-functional Cosmetic Stick
Beginning in 2017, multiuse stick products took over the category, outpacing single-function stick products. According to Mintel GNPD, 7% of…
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What is Beauty with a Clean Slate?
Clean beauty is much more than a trend or marketing tactic—it's becoming an industry-standard tied to the authenticity of a brand.
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Clean Beauty Principles
We’ve developed 6 Clean Beauty Principles to help guide your formulation process, help you with ingredient selection and more...
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Let's Not Forget About Sun Protection
Univar Solutions has one of the most comprehensive personal care portfolios for the suncare industry and are proud to offer a wide range of organic…
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A Little Luxe Moisture to Brighten Your Day
If you’re looking to develop a truly nourishing cream that can offer your consumers a bit of indulgent luxurious self-care, start with our…
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Urban Defense Beauty Solutions: Protect Your Skin from Hidden Aggressors
With the skin being the first barrier against external attacks, it’s only natural it is susceptible to damage. On a daily basis, our skin is…
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Boost Your Hair Products to Defend Against Urban Stress
When juggling the demands of a busy lifestyle, it’s easy to see how city life and daily activities can take a toll on the look and feel of…
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