The second TRI Talk in the series is by Dr. Martin Zorde, a postdoctoral researcher at TRI, and will consider the use of plant extracts in the development of insect repellent products.  His talk will be titled, ‘Bioprospecting of Catmints and Sages: The Cat’s Meow of Natural Insect Repellents’.

The 79th Annual Scientific Meeting & Showcase is the must-attend event for anyone involved in the cosmetic industry.  TRI will be there both days in the showcase area at Booth 407.

TRI’s Dr Paul Cornwell (Director, Business Development) was awarded UK SCS Contributor of the Year 2025 Award at the SCS Dinner on Tuesday November 11th.

How many of us sit on piles of historical data, and never look at it again?  At TRI we decided to try and mine our old data, and to use it to create useful information for us and our member companies.  A Notes on Research covering this work has just been uploaded to the TRI library and is available exclusively to TRI Library Member Companies.  It is titled ‘Evaluation of Correlations between Wet Comb, Dry Comb, and Repeated Grooming Measurements on European Medium Brown Tress

The annual TRI ‘Principles of Skin Measurements & Claims Course’ was, once again, a great success. Over 127 delegates attended, with a good mix of online and in-person attendees from a range of companies. As always, those who were from member companies were offered free places as part of their membership benefits. Engagement was excellent with many questions, igniting debate and conversation. 

The TRI Talks are 60-minute on-line seminars on a wide range of topics designed to both inform and to inspire new ways of thinking.  This new Series will include five talks from experts at TRI and will run from November 2025 to February 2026.  The Series kicks off with a presentation on Wednesday 19th November (1pm Eastern Time) from Murielle Mason (Senior Research Associate) titled ‘Pin Straight to Ringlet Coil and Every Frizz In Between'

Single fiber fatigue testing often yields substantially larger differences between samples, in terms of breakage tendences, than those obtained by traditional tensile testing. It also highlights the sizable contribution of previously unrecognized factors and considerations to the breakage process, which can be used to derive potential new strategies for breakage avoidance.

Dr Marcella Gabarra A. Leite went to the FLSCC Sunscreen Symposium in Florida to present both a poster entitled Evaluation of different formulation technologies to improve sunscreen efficacy and safety profiles using vibrational spectroscopy and a talk, The impact of external temperature on sunscreen efficacy and safety.

TRI presented at two posters, Impact of Ozone exposure on the skin: new method to monitor in-vivo oxidative damages related to skin barrier alteration, and Relevant technologies to develop future sunscreen products with onger and safer photoprotection.  

Our blogs cover a range of topics relating to skin and hair, including claims substantiation for specific products or product classes and how the key techniques used at TRI work.

The Principles of Skin Measurement Science & Claims course at TRI is designed for anyone involved in the development of new skin care products.  The intensive two-day programme is designed for anyone who needs to build their knowledge rapidly in the measurement techniques used in the development of new skin products and to support skin claims.

In this bite-size review we use our specialist knowledge to provide a general background understanding of sunscreen testing methods.  TRI does not offer SPF testing, but, as you will see, we can assist formulators with other very useful tests.

North America’s premier ingredients & formulation event, Suppliers’ Day, took place on Tuesday 3rd June and Wednesday 4th June. Members of the TRI team were present at Booth 243 talking about the services, educational activities and research activities that TRI provides. There was also a chance for visitors to the booth to test their hair quality using our portable infra-red spectrometer, and to look at their scalp health with a portable microscope.

Most procedures for achieving glass hair recommended use of a heat protection spray before styling, as well as applying hair serum conditioning products and a hold spray afterwards. While the efficacy of heat protection sprays is a contested area, the use of conditioning products prior to straightening and a hold spray straight afterwards are likely to be significant contributors to the ‘glassiness’ of the hair after treatment. 

The TRI ‘Fundamentals of Hair Science & Hair Claims Course 2025’, took place on May 13th and 14th, 2025. The hybrid event attracted 130 attendees, most of whom attended on-line, and 20 of whom attended both days in person.

Hair fatigue testing has rapidly grown, from a niche topic, into a mainstream technique for hair claims testing. With this fast rise in popularity has come a demand for better, consumer validated protocols, and a need to understand, more fully, what the data are telling us about hair breakage.

Registrations will soon close for the popular TRI ‘Fundamentals of Hair Science & Hair Claims Course 2025’, which will take place on...

The ‘ Symposium on the Fatigue Testing of Hair ’ will take place on Thursday 15th May .  Today we are pleased to announce that Dr Nawel...

Dr Lynsey McColl, Managing Director of Select Statistics (UK) will be speaking about Survival Analysis with Applications in Fatigue Testing.

This short article will outline what UV light is, how it causes hair damage, technologies available for mitigating this damage, and the test