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Beauty and Personal Care Blog
Bringing you the latest industry insights and specialty chemical and ingredient innovations

Luxury redefined: Navigating affordability challenges in the beauty and personal care market
Beauty brands are redefining luxury, paving the way for a new era of affordable, efficient, and sustainable beauty.
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The Revival Webinar Series
There’s something transformative in the air. After one of the most challenging periods in modern history, there’s a whisper in the wind that’s telling us to get ready for something great—a renaissance is coming.
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Reviving the Power of Bold
There’s something transformative in the air. After one of the most challenging periods in modern history, there’s a whisper in the wind that’s telling us to get ready for something great—a renaissance is coming.
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Nature Inspired Ingredients for Long-Lasting Make-up and Effective Make-up Remover
All-in-one ingredient solutions for make-up applications to start your morning and mild remover to wash the day away – inspired through natural products.
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Sustainability in Beauty & Personal Care
Beauty consumers are savvier than ever, scrutinizing ingredient labels, holding brands to the highest standards for their ESG efforts, and demanding transparency and traceability as they are trying to be more sustainable.
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Ingredient Solutions for Bio-based Hair Conditioners
Hair Care Trends—the evolution of Shampoos and Conditioners
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Solid Hair Conditioner & Cleanser
Hair Care Trends—the evolution of Shampoos and Conditioners
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It’s time to experience the new glow up with better, sustainable products
“It’s a new dawn, a new day, and a new life” for you, and you’re feeling good! Welcome to a renewed age of self-love and positivity, and the arrival of a healthier, soaring, beautiful spirit called YOU as you reconnect with the world.
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Curl Power – Every Hair Type Needs a Hero
Why do we typically see claims “for dry and damaged hair” on curly haircare product labels? While curly and textured hair may need an extra touch of care to invigorate health and vitality, the same maintenance is needed for all hair types.
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How to Boost Indoor Makeup Use with Our Sustainable Solutions
Laptop camera definitions require light coverage, achieved with concealer and tinted moisturizers or classical foundations. This supports the acceleration of convenient, multi-functional hybrid products and the resurgence of make up with sustainable solutions.
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Metaverse is the new universe
For beauty, the metaverse has become the next go-to destination where brands can take the latest innovative ingredients virtual and vivify their visual identities.
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No Boundaries: How inclusive beauty presents opportunities for brands, formulators, and innovation
No Boundaries: How inclusive beauty presents opportunities for brands, formulators, and innovation
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Supplier Sustainability Initiatives and Practices
Our Clean by Design Formulations help to demonstrate the broad range of technologies in our portfolio that can help you better tell your brand's clean beauty story.
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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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The New Now Webinar Series
Join us for a 3-part webinar series as we explore The New Now, including the consumer behavioral trends, and the various roles beauty & personal…
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Interview with the Expert on Cargill's Texturizers
Monika Ruiz Golcher is a beauty and peronsal care technical specialist at Univar Solutions, with strong expertise formulating with naturally…
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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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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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Beauty Trends – Hair Remedy Regimens
Recently, our lab experts have been taking note of the growing trend of consumers desiring a multi-step hair care regimen that focuses on hair…
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Beauty Trends - Helping You Stay Current with New Year’s Resolutions
As we venture into the new year, many will embark on new beginnings and optimistic resolutions—that we seldom manage to keep. Some of the top…
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Improved Formula for Manufacturer of Skincare Products
A manufacturer of specialty skincare products wanted to develop a biphasic makeup remover that would provide consumers with a gentle but effective…
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A New Chapter: Bringing the Latest Beauty Trends to You
At the Univar Solutions Lab our entire team is committed to bringing the latest trends and technologies to the forefront. And, we find excitement…
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Oxybenzone-free Sun Protection: Five of the Safest and Most Effective SPFs
Oxybenzone, or benzonephenone-3, is one of the most common chemical filters found in commercial sunscreens. It forms colorless crystals that…
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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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