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A cosmetic chemists guide to clean beauty

by cyb2025
P. Romanowski
Clean Beauty
cruelty free
Green Beauty
natural cosmetics
Product safety
toxicology

PERRY ROMANOWSKI
Element 44 Inc, Chicago, USA

ABSTRACT

Creating formulas in the cosmetic industry requires more than just finding the best ingredients and ratios to make the most effective and safe products you can. It also requires you to create formulas that give your marketing department good stories that resonate with consumers. That means it’s important for chemists to keep on top of trends in the industry and right now there is no bigger trend in cosmetics than Clean Beauty.

RISE OF CLEAN BEAUTY
Clean beauty is a vague trend but to understand it, it’s helpful to go back to its origins, natural beauty. The natural beauty trend took hold in the cosmetic industry during the mid 1990’s. At that time numerous brands discovered that if they told consumers a personal care product was natural, they would sell more. Consumers believed natural products were safer and they worked better. This was great news for brands that showed flat to slow growth. Embracing a natural story was effective marketing.

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