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The line between medical and cosmetic can be thin when it comes to skin conditions, and some botanicals maybe mean a topical answer to atopic dermatitis.
A research team out of Malaysia, Vanessa et al., recently published a review in Cosmetics of moisturizing additives for atopic dermatitis treatment.
Among the ingredients were a number of botanicals and natural extracts which may show promise in treating the most common form of eczema.
“The modern use of moisturizers to improve barrier repair and function is of great value,” Vanessa et al. said. “One of the approaches includes incorporating bioactive ingredients with clinically proven therapeutic benefits into dermocosmetics emollient.”
The United Nations has set 17 goals to improve the world, and every industry including fragrance can contribute to achieving them.
The Sustainable Development Goals cover a broad range of environmental, social, economic and health goals. These include ending poverty and hunger, peace, clean water, gender equality, clean energy and economic growth, among others.
While many of the goals are broad, fragrance and personal care companies can have a hand in accomplishing them as a category that interacts directly with consumers in areas like hygiene, Global Director of Fragrance and Sensory Enrichment for Reckitt, Pamela Asplund, said during a session at the World Perfumery Congress.
“One might ask how all these topics relate to our world of fragrance,” Asplund said, “FMCG brands have an elevated responsibility to ensure that products not only answered fundamental consumer needs within their development but also play a vital role in solving real societal issues.”
Q&A
As economies around the world are struggling, a finance expert believes cosmetics companies will have a harder time securing funds.
CosmeticsDesign spoke with Jennifer Palmer, CEO of eCapital Assets Based Lending about what cosmetics and personal care financing may look like going into a tumultuous economic climate.
The interview originally focused on the natural personal care market but branched out to the industry more broadly.
To start out, can you give me a rundown on what the cosmetics personal care financing market looks like in 2022?
We certainly should talk about the trends that are affecting the market first. This industry is obviously not immune to all of the challenges that so many companies are facing. The industry is facing inflation, higher cost to produce and ship goods, labor shortages, supply chain issues and the ongoing pandemic, which all effects the world of financing.
Q&A
Gillette Venus has just launched the latest partnership of its #SayPube campaign, centered around the pubic care product line and how women talk about body hair.
CosmeticsDesign spoke with Dana Malcolm, senior brand director of North America Shave Care at Gillette Venus, about the campaign and how it fits into the shave category overall.
This interview was conducted via email.
Tell me a bit about this campaign and what inspired it.
Nearly half of US women agree that it feels more accurate to use anatomical terms, like pubic, to describe their bodies, but only 18% of women are actually using these types of terms. So, Venus set out on a mission to get rid of outdated, censored, and sometimes downright silly terms like “bikini” or “down there” for the pubic area.
During a recent webinar focused on ingestible beauty, our panelists weighed in during a trendwatching segment.
Inclusivity
“Something important I think we should keep our eye on in ingestible beauty is how it's filling in inclusive beauty gaps in topical beauty spaces. Obviously, anti-aging is an area where there's a lot of missing research in the US for people with darker skin tones and I've heard a lot of people from researchers to brands talk about using ingestible beauty to fill in those gaps,” noted Ravyn Cullor, Editor, CosmeticsDesign-USA.
Indeed, Lycored, manufacturer of carotenoid ingredients for ingestible skincare, surveyed 1,285 consumers in the US and UK and asked them to define their skin tone in one of five categories (dark brown or black; brown; light brown; white – darker; and white – pale or fair).
