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SPF Boosters Essential Selection Guide
Powering up sunscreen formulations with SPF boosters
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Resources
Our resources section has everything you need, from technical data sheets and product guides, to webinars and tools, to support you and your product and formulation development needs.
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Formulating beauty and personal care products for indies
Our guide for indie beauty brands
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Everything you need to know about lab created and natural ingredients
Our guide for indie beauty brands
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How to incorporate sustainability into your indie beauty brand
A one page guide to mastering sustainability claims
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Transparency the essential guide
Our guide for indie beauty brands
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How the wellness trend is impacting beauty formulation: Top tips for personal care innovation
Beauty has expanded to encompass both external appearance and health and wellness. We explore the factors driving the trend, its impact on beauty innovation and provide our top tips for personal care wellness formulating.
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Powering Up Protection
Join us for an inside look at the science shaping the future of sun protection, from high performance film formers and SPF boosting technologies to advanced functional ingredients that optimise efficacy and sensory appeal.
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Solaveil™ SPF calculator
Our Solaveil Calculator helps formulators to meet a range of SPF and UVA labelling requirements by providing data on inclusion levels and achievable SPF
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What's hot in sustainability? Insights from the beauty market for 2026 and beyond
Discover the sustainability movements informing the future of beauty. Explore the opportunities presented by the rise of data, join the transition towards truly circular beauty, and gain insights into the climate adaptive skin care trend.
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Climate adaptive beauty: Our top 5 hair care formulations
Meet today’s demand for climate adaptive hair care solutions with our top five hair care formulation concepts.
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Preventative hair care: protecting from environmental aggressors
Hair care has long been about reactive solutions. For years, the primary focus was on addressing mechanical, chemical, and thermal damage and often overlooking other crucial factors that influence hair health, including environmental aggressors. We wait for damage to appear, and then we try to fix it. But what if we could shift our approach? What if we focused on prevention rather than repair?
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Hair Care trends 2026: the best way to respond to consumers' contradictions
An in-depth look at hair care trends for 2026, uncovering key consumer contradictions and the solutions shaping the future of beauty and hair care.
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Holistic Beauty and Trending Polarities: Our Top 5 Hair Care Formulations for 2026
Meet today’s demand for holistic beauty solutions with our top five hair care formulation concepts inspired by hair care trends for 2026.
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Biomimetics
The concept of biomimetics, seeking to replicate processes found in nature, is nothing new to the beauty industry, but the term biomimetic has recently escaped the labs and is now on the lips of consumers everywhere.
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Mastering protein selection: Unlocking the secrets to optimal hair care solutions
In the fiercely competitive landscape of hair care product development, selecting the right protein is paramount to success. When choosing the perfect protein for a formulation, knowledge of the diverse sources of proteins that exist, how to differentiate between proteins based on various factors including molecular weight, amino acid composition and different derivatization methods that can be employed in developing different types of proteins to impart certain functionalities, are all crucial pieces of information when making an informed decision.
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Protein myths, debunked: The truth about proteins in hair care
Proteins are a cornerstone of hair health and repair, yet they’re often misunderstood. From concerns about build-up to doubts about vegan keratin, myths about proteins can get in the way of great formulations
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Textured Hair
With more people choosing to keep their textured hair natural, avoiding straightening and relaxing products, we’ve pulled together some key insights on this trend for embracing textured hair.
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Trending in hair care: the rise of repair
Following an increased awareness of – and fascination with – hair health, demand has accelerated for products that strengthen and repair hair damage. This blog explores the elements driving the trend, including social media and changing consumer routines and demands.
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Croda’s textured hair routine formulation kit
An answer to the specific needs of people with textured hair