Deveraux Specialties

Inside Skin Biology — Part 1 🧬

Skin is always communicating. 📡

Keratinocytes, fibroblasts, immune cells, sensory neurons and other cell populations exchange biological signals that help coordinate everything from barrier function and renewal to sensitivity and tissue balance. 🛡️🔄

For formulators, this creates an interesting shift in perspective:

Instead of asking only “What benefit does this active provide?”, we can also ask “What biological pathway is behind that benefit?” 🔬

Understanding signaling pathways can help formulators build more intentional active systems—selecting ingredients based on complementary biological strategies rather than simply adding more actives to the formula. 🧪

This week, we're going Inside Skin Biology, beginning with the cellular conversations happening beneath the surface. 🧬✨

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✨ Formula Friday: Glow With the Flow

We’re closing out Stress Less — Glow More with a formulation that brings texture and radiance together.

Glow With the Flow is a highlighter jelly stick designed to deliver buildable golden luminosity in a playful, easy-to-apply format. Its gel structure supports smooth application, while gold effect pigments create a fresh, light-catching finish without relying on a heavy or greasy feel.

Featured formulation components include:

✨ SAFIC’ Care T CK 2 — supports gel structure and texture
✨ SAFIC’ Care T CI — provides thickening and body
✨ SAFIC’ Care T XCG — helps build the jelly-like texture
✨ Gold effect pigments — deliver adjustable luminous payoff

It’s a good example of how sensory experience, structure, and optical effects can work together in one formula.

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Stress Less — Glow More: Part 3 ✨

Looking good and feeling good often go hand in hand.

And when it comes to skin, “glow” is about more than shine.

Visible radiance can be influenced by:

✨ More even-looking tone
💧 Hydration
🎯 Pigmentation
🔬 Surface texture
💡 The way light interacts with skin

For formulators, that means glow can be approached from multiple directions—supporting tone uniformity, addressing visible discoloration, maintaining hydration and creating soft-focus finishes that enhance luminosity without adding a greasy look.

Because the goal isn't necessarily shinier skin.

It's balanced, even-looking, naturally radiant skin.

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📓 The Formulation Notebook: Sensory Is Part of the Formula

A formula can check every technical box and still miss the mark.

Why?
Because consumers experience the product before they experience the long-term benefit.

They notice:

✨ Spreadability
🤲 Slip and drag
💧 Absorption speed
🫧 Tack and residue
⚖️ Weight on skin
🌿 Afterfeel
🔄 How well it layers

Those sensory details can shape whether a product feels calming, hydrating, mattifying, lightweight or rich.

And in a morning routine, they matter even more. If one layer stays tacky or heavy, everything that follows can be affected.

The formulation takeaway: sensory performance is part of product performance.

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We’re at **SWSCC today!** 👋

If you’re attending, stop by **Booth 201** to connect with the Deveraux / Safic Life Sciences USA team and talk formulation ideas, ingredient solutions, and what’s new in personal care.

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Stress Less — Glow More: Part 2 🧠✨

Stressful week…and then you feel that blemish coming?

There may be more to that connection than coincidence.

Acne is multifactorial, but research continues to identify psychological stress as one factor that can influence inflammatory pathways and acne severity.

For formulators, that raises an important question:

Does blemish-prone skin really need to be dried out—or does it need better balance?

Modern formulation strategies can address:

🦠 Skin microbiota balance
⚖️ Excess sebum
✨ Unwanted shine
💧 Hydration
🌿 Skin comfort
🛡️ Barrier-conscious care

Because oily skin can still be dehydrated, and stronger isn't always smarter.

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Stress Less — Glow More: Part 1 ☀️🌿

What does your morning routine look like?

For many of us, the phone is the first stop—emails, messages, schedules and information before we've even made it through the first cup of coffee.

Skin is starting its day too.

Research continues to show a relationship between psychological stress and skin barrier function, giving formulators another reason to think about comfort, hydration and gentle first-step care.

A modern morning routine doesn't have to be complicated. Toners, essences, mists, serums and primers can help create an intentional transition into the day with:

💧 Lightweight hydration
🌿 Soothing support
✨ Comfortable sensory properties
🧴 Better preparation for the layers that follow

This week we're exploring why sometimes starting softer can be the smarter formulation strategy.

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🌙 Formula Friday: AGE, BUT BETTER

Nighttime is the perfect opportunity to give a richer skincare texture some time to shine.

AGE, BUT BETTER is a well-ageing face cream designed with an enveloping, comfortable texture and a combination of ingredients that support nourishment, renewal, radiance, and skin longevity.

✨ Eastman GEM™ Retinyl Linoleate — supports skin renewal and the appearance of fine lines

🌿 PhycoAge™ — helps support skin longevity and protection from oxidative stress

💧 BergaCare SB + Saboderm DISM — provide rich emolliency and nourishment

🧴 Sabocare® PGS + BergaMuls ET 1 — create the smooth, cushiony cream structure

✨ JD Phyto-Or 1%™ — supports a more radiant, even-looking complexion

A fitting way to close out our Beauty While You Sleep week: a formula designed to make the most of a rich, leave-on skincare experience.

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🌙 A nighttime routine is more than a night cream.

Every step changes the formulation conditions for the next one.

🫧 Cleansing removes the day
💧 Moisturization restores comfort
🧴 Texture shapes the experience
🌙 Leave-on care stays in place for hours
🧬 Body and hair care can extend the routine beyond the face

For formulators, that means nighttime beauty is best approached as a system.

The cleanser, moisturizer, treatment, and leave-on products all need to work within the same routine—and each one has a different job to do.

The opportunity is not simply to formulate for nighttime.

It is to formulate the entire nighttime sequence.

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🌙 Is “beauty sleep” actually backed by science?

There is more to it than the expression suggests.

Skin follows its own circadian rhythms, influencing functions such as barrier activity, water loss, cellular processes, and recovery throughout the 24-hour cycle. Research has also linked poor sleep quality with changes in barrier recovery and visible signs of skin aging.

For formulators, that creates an interesting opportunity to think beyond the traditional night cream.

⏰ Formulate around timing
💧 Support overnight hydration
🛡️ Consider changing barrier needs
🌿 Build sensoriality into the evening ritual
🧠 Explore the connection between skin, stress, and perception

Cosmetics cannot replace a good night’s sleep—but formulation can be designed around the biology and behaviors that make nighttime different.

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