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Articles by Joshua Britton
Beauty Needs a Higher Standard for Innovation
Key Takeaways: Beauty’s launch obsession rewards incremental improvements at the expense of scientific breakthroughs. Proprietary science creates a competitive advantage only when it can be commercialized at scale. More sophisticated scientific claims demand higher standards of proof. Somewhere along the way, we’ve confused newness with progress, launches with breakthroughs, and virality with impact. In an industry built on a nonstop launch cycle, we’ve lowered the bar for what we call innovation.
Skincare That Performs Like a Procedure
The $100 billion aesthetics industry has a new challenger – and it isn’t a high-tech gadget or device. High-performance, topical skincare is delivering results that rival in-office procedures. What once required a trip to a medspa or dermatologist can now be achieved at home – skin tightening, improved firmness and smoother texture. This marks a reset in expectations of what skincare can deliver.
Beauty Rewritten: Designing Ingredients Before They Exist
For decades, beauty product innovation relied on a narrow set of familiar ingredients discovered largely by chance and repurposed through reformulation, with innovative textures adding consumer appeal. The industry mined nature for what evolution provided, drawing on known ingredient libraries and the same iterative testing. Brands relied on one-size-fits-all ingredients. Development cycles stretched on for years–slow, resource-intensive, predictable and inherently limited.
PCA Skin Announces “Esthetician of the Year” Winners
Tuesday, March 10 was National Peel Day. Created by PCA SKIN in 2020 to help destigmatize chemical peel treatments, the skin health brand decided to celebrate the sixth annual celebration by honoring three 2025 Estheticians of the Year winners who have achieved exceptional outcomes through the mastery of PCA SKIN’s signature Peel + Correct Approach.
Inflated Active Ingredient Concentrations Aren’t More Effective
Inflation is for egg prices, not active ingredients. And yet, we are witnessing huge inflation in active ingredient concentration in skincare. Take vitamin C, once used at 10 percent, now commonly formulated at 20 percent. Niacinamide, whose recommendeduse level is 2 to 5 percent, is increasingly used at 10 percent. Even the concentration of the mighty (and mighty aggressive) retinol is inflated.
For Beauty Products, Natural Isn’t Always Better
Many people believe that natural ingredients are always preferable in beauty products. Natural must mean better, right? But what if that’s not entirely true: Those natural essential oils you love in your skincare? More than 90% of a plant is typically discarded during the oil extraction process, with the remains left to decompose in landfills where they emit carbon dioxide and methane. That perfume with a whiff of rose? It takes 250,000 petals to create five milliliters of rose oil.
Why Skincare Needs Hero Ingredients
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The Innovation Potential of Biotechnology
The cracks in the clean beauty movement have been in the making since the beginning. The absence of a universally accepted definition of clean beauty. The lack of regulation and certification. The opportunistic marketing. The scaremongering (“no nasties!”). The subjectivity of what constitutes “toxic.” The proliferation of “free from” ingredient lists that contradict each other. The demonization of certain ingredients that dermatologists deem benign and sometimes even necessary.
PC stuck shutting down
03-26-2020 12:48 PM Laptop has been working fine for the past few months now - however there is an issue that has cropped up recently in regards to shutdown. The operating system shuts down and the screen goes black as if it had finished. Had you not been paying attention, you wouldn't notice the power button is still lit and the fans are still spinning.
Continuous flow biocatalysis
The continuous flow synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients, value-added chemicals, and materials has grown tremendously over the past ten years. This revolution in chemical manufacturing has resulted from innovations in both new methodology and technology. This field, however, has been predominantly focused on synthetic organic chemistry, and the use of biocatalysts in continuous flow systems is only now becoming popular.
The assembly and use of continuous flow systems for chemical synthesis
This century has seen an overwhelming advancement in the understanding and synthesis of organic compounds. By contrast, laboratory technology has remained much the same; reactions are still labor-intensive and are performed in round-bottom flasks housing stir bars and reflux condensers.
Multi-step continuous-flow synthesis
Organic chemistry is continually evolving to improve the syntheses of value added and bioactive compounds. Through this progression, a concomitant advancement in laboratory technology has occurred. Many researchers now choose to mediate transformations in continuous-flow systems given the many benefits over round bottom flasks. Furthermore, reaction scale up is often less problematic as this is addressed at the inception of the science.
Rapid protein immobilization for thin film continuous flow biocatalysis
A versatile enzyme immobilization strategy for thin film continuous flow processing is reported. Here, non-covalent and glutaraldehyde bioconjugation are used to immobilize enzymes on the surfaces of borosilicate reactors. This approach requires only ng of protein per reactor tube, with the stock protein solution readily recycled to sequentially coat >10 reactors.
The synthesis of di-carboxylate esters using continuous flow vortex fluidics
A vortex fluidic device (VFD) is effective in mediating the synthesis of di-esters at room temperature. Processing under ambient conditions allows for a simple and efficient synthesis, whilst operating under continuous flow addresses scalability. The rotational speed of the sample tube and the flow rate were critical variables during reaction optimization, and this relates to the behaviour of the fluid flow at a molecular level.
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