Format
7 stories
Skin
A source-led audit of Symrise’s new Lautier 1795 site, the EU’s expanded fragrance-allergen labels, and why natural does not automatically mean safer.
Ingredients
Salmon-DNA serums and injections are the skincare story of the moment. The best evidence is real, but it mostly concerns injected products and wound healing, not the serum on your shelf.
Skin
Clariant says Genadvance Revive uses styling heat as part of a hair-repair mechanism. We examine what its supplier tests measured, what independent hair-fibre studies establish, and why heat activation does not make high-temperature styling harmless.
Skin
Seppic’s Sepilife NEOS launch turns squalane into a formulation story. We separate verified launch facts from supplier performance claims, explain what ISO 16128 and EU microplastics rules do and do not establish, and list the evidence still missing.
Skin
Clariant’s new KanuFresh ingredient arrives with striking sweat, odour and irritation figures. LCY separates the verified launch facts from unpublished supplier evidence, regulation and real-world safety.
Science
A precise comparison of cyclized hexapeptide-9 and a very low-dose retinol comparator—without turning one 56-day company-authored study into a class-wide verdict.
Science
Why plant- or biotech-derived nucleotide materials need analytical equivalence and product-specific human evidence before inheriting clinical PDRN claims.
