Celebrate International Squalane Day with Squalane’s Little-Known, Big Benefit
A Toast to Squalane: Our Sustainable Sugarcane-Derived Hero Ingredient What do sugarcane and Squalane have in common? As it turns out, [...]
Our Inaugural International Squalane Day
Why We're Celebrating Squalane on Oct. 14 International Squalane Day was created in partnership with Amyris to celebrate the planet-positive change [...]
What Is Hemisqualane: A Quick Guide to Sustainable Emollients
How the Best-Performing Natural Silicone Replacement Stacks Up [A version of this article was published earlier on Amyris, our joint venture partner.] [...]
Safer Sunscreens: How to Formulate White Cast-Free and Benzene-Free SPF
Get the Benefits of Organic UV Filters with the Safety of Inorganic Today’s beauty consumers prioritize the safety of their ingredients. [...]
Bio-Fermentation Is Transforming the Beauty Industry Today
Sustainability Starts at the Source: Irrigation-Free Sugarcane If you look around the beauty industry, you’re likely to find the word “sustainability” [...]
Cutting-Edge Formulations Start with Cutting-Edge Science
Behind the Silicon Valley Technology Transforming the Beauty Industry Consumers today are expecting more and more from their beauty products. It [...]
Farm-to-Formulation: How to Use Sugarcane-Derived Ingredients
Have you heard of Saccharum officinarum before? It’s better known as sugarcane, AKA the sustainable and ethical feedstock for all our ingredients. [...]
Explore the Latest UV Protection Technology at the Society of Cosmetic Chemists’ Scientific Meeting & Showcase
Aprinnova Presents CleanScreen™ Z60SF: The Mineral UV Dispersion That Has It All The 75th Annual Society of Cosmetic Chemists’ Scientific Meeting & [...]
The Hero Ingredient Neossance™ Hemisqualane’s Newest Benefit: Microbiome-Friendly
Consumers are increasingly looking for science-backed results in their beauty and personal care products. One of the key scientific features consumers seek [...]
Three Ways Formulators Can Define “Hero Ingredients”
Hero Ingredients Are the Solution to Any Formulation Chances are the term “hero ingredient” is familiar to any cosmetic chemist. It’s an [...]
The Top 4 Ways Formulators Can Holistically Define “Clean”
Product Developers Are Leading the Industry to the Future of Clean Clean beauty is not a buzzword or a marketing ploy. In [...]
How to Support the Burgeoning “Cloud Hair” Trend
Brands Should Select Ingredients to Harmonize with Consumers’ Individual Hair Journeys The beauty industry has historically lacked diversity — from inadequate shades [...]
What Is the Bonsucro Difference?
A version of this post was previously published by Amyris, Aprinnova's joint venture partner. Sustainability starts at the source — [...]
5 Ways Neossance™ Hemisqualane Is Perfect for Formulating Natural Clean Beauty
It’s the Sustainable Ingredient that Revitalizes the Entire Hair Shaft for Improved Hair Health Consumers are becoming increasingly more aware and critical [...]
How to Choose Ingredients for More Inclusive Haircare: What JVN Hair Does Right
The beauty and personal care industry is finally reckoning with the lack of diversity and inclusion in both management composition and product [...]
Safe UV Filters for Formulations Consumers Will Love
As the Saying Goes, “The Best Sunscreen Is One You’ll Actually Use.” The first thought many people have when they hear the [...]
How to Make Sun Protection More Inclusive for BIPOC Consumers
Every person needs sunscreen, irrespective of skin color, age, or skin type. Yet, SPF products that give off white cast leave many [...]
Why This One Claim Will Win Over Any Modern Beauty Consumer
The world has embraced minimalism, sparked by Marie Kondo, as a means for easing mental health during the COVID-19 crisis. This skin [...]
Discover the Unseen Ingredient Every Skincare and Cosmetic Product Needs
Introducing CleanScreen™ Z60SF: The New Clean Standard for SPF without Compromise Millions of beauty consumers see sun protection as the most [...]
Navigating the SPF World with Clean Sunscreens
Conversations with Dr. Harry Sarkas of Soléscence On June 8, 2021, Aprinnova invited Dr. Harry Sarkas, Chief Scientific Officer at Solésence, [...]
Sustainable Takeaways from Cosmetics Business Live 2021
Innovations from By-Product Beauty to Circular Product Lifecycles to Sustainable Packaging Cosmetics Business Live offered one of the most thorough, informative, [...]
Developing SPF from a Clean Beauty Perspective
Consumers Want Reef-Safe, Non-Toxic, Non-Whitening SPF Formats. Current estimates show that one in five Americans will develop skin cancer in their [...]
Cosmetics Business Live: Aprinnova’s Session
How to Join the Sustainable Beauty Renaissance Cosmetics Business Live offered one of the most exciting online events of the season [...]
Microbiome Innovations Shaping Clean Beauty
Establishing a Healthy Microbiome Enables Healthy Skin The Beauty Renaissance represents a shift in consumer preferences. A new humanism from an [...]
Why Sugarcane Is Your Clean Beauty Hero
There’s No Need to Sacrifice Performance for Sustainability Anymore As consumer demographics become increasingly more aware and critical of ingredient lists, [...]
Join The Beauty Renaissance Series
How to Resonate with the Enlightened Clean Beauty ConsumerEarth Day on April 22 is a great reminder that sustainability and clean beauty are here [...]
Silica From Sand vs. Silica From Plants
Silica From Plants and Animals Silica is traditionally sourced as a byproduct of sand dredging or open pit mining leading to substantial [...]
Evaluation of C13-15 Alkane as a Replacement for D5 in Stick and Aerosol Antiperspirants
Introduction Over 35,000 personal care products were launched containing cyclomethicones or cyclopentasiloxane (D5) between 2014 and 2019 according to Mintel GNPD. D5 is [...]
Formulate for the Future Series
Four Premium Webcasts to Succeed With Clean Beauty Free 15 Minutes Webcast Covering: Skin Care Hair [...]
Q&A with EZSkin Dermatology’s Eloisa Ayres
THE FUTURE OF CLEAN CONVERSATION SERIES ELOISA AYRES Director, EZSkin Dermatology (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) We interviewed Eloisa about her background, practice, [...]