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• Energetic Cosmetic Products
  
  The term energy previously reserved to food and beverage is becoming more and more of an investment in the cosmetic area. Every day cream, shower gel, and even foundations are now sold as energetic products or products that can wake–up your skin, give its vitality, power...
• Make-Up: How to Play with Color?
  
  Make-up is a story of color. Whatever can help to catch the consumer eye or change the way of proposing color is welcomed by the manufacturer. A lot of different ideas are now arriving on the market...
• MUSHROOMS in COSMETICS
  
  In Asia, mushrooms have been used and venerated since millions years now. In old China and Japan, their goodness was appreciated so much that they were reserved for royal families...
• Latest lipstick developments
  
  After a few years spent formulating extra long wearing products, often proposed as dual ended products, lipstick formulators have returned to using highly comfortable formulas...
• "Green chemistry": a new way to fight against age
  
  The population is getting older and all available strategies to retain youth are proposed, particularly on the cosmetic market. Following consumers' insistent demands - the skin care market is showing an explosion of anti-aging products...
• For your eyes only
  
  Because the first signs of age appear around the eyes, cosmetic companies propose different specialist treatment products for this specific area of the face. Eye products propose different actions: reduction of dark circles, and/or reduction of bags under the eyes, and/or reduction of fine expression wrinkles around the eyes, and/or rejuvenating the sparkle in the eyes…
• Make up and skin care: sophistication as a key development
  
  In the last "In Cosmetics" meetings in April, in Barcelona, MINTEL pointed out the "increasing number of products that offer the salon experience at home".
• Plumping the lips
  
  One of the first signs of age affects the lips. With age, lips loose their initial volume, they become thinner, loose colour and fine vertical lines appear around them...
• Water in Cosmetics
  
  During the summer season, water is omnipresent in all cosmetic products. This water can come from different origins such as the sea, thermal sources, and flower or plants waters...
• Wax Substitution in Cosmetic Products and New Oily Gelling Agents
  
  Solid or semi solid color cosmetics such as lipsticks, mascaras and many foundations are usually structured with waxes. Cosmetic chemistry uses different types of waxes...
• The multi-functionality of UV products
  
  The protection against UV damage is now common knowledge to consumers.For many years now, sun products have been made to offer an efficient screen against UV rays and for specific sun exposure (summer beach, winter ski...) during holidays. Afterwards, daily skin care creams started to include certain UV protection...
• Formulation of anti-aging foundations
  
  According to Happi Magazine’s latest article, ("Revlon Targets Older Women for Sales Boost", Apr 11, 2006), "the age group -of women over the age of 50- has been neglected by cosmetic companies focusing on age-defying beauty products for women in their 30s and 40s, this segment is now becoming very beneficial to the growth in cosmetics...
• Lisptick formulations: The fight for wear
  
  A lipstick is usually an anhydrous formulation with oils, waxes and dispersed pigments. There is no reason why this kind of mixture should remain on the lips a long time after application. The lipstick formulators’ dream is to achieve a lipstick formulation combining long wearing properties, comfort, no-transfer and shine. With the discovery of new raw materials the fight for long wearing lipstick has now been declared...
• Self tanning products for the body
  
  Consumers are aware that exposure to sun rays can induce skin cancer. Nevertheless, a radiant tanned skin remains to be the healthy look for most western people when the sunny days return. That's why the self tanning market is nowadays so successful...
• Hyaluronic acid in latest skin care and make-up developments
  
  Hyaluronic acid is a kind of muccopolysaccharide naturally present in the human body, in synovial fluid (present in joints), the umbilical cord, the eyes' vitrous humor, fetal skin and in the deeper layers of skin. Hyaluronic acid is a polyanionic polysaccharide that consists of N-acetyl-d-glucosamine and beta-glucoronic acid. It is also known under the name glycosaminoglycan...
• Use of nutritional ingredients in cosmetic products
  
  The secrets and goodness from foods are starting to play an essential role in cosmetic products. Textures, flavours and nutritional ingredients have not only found a place in skin care products but also in hair care, body care and color cosmetic.
• Use of fibers in cosmetic products
  
  Natural fibers are often used in washable products like shower gels or facial or body scrubs...

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