🗞️SKINCARE NEWS

❄️ The Big Chill: Cryo Masks and Collagen Patches Lead 2026’s Skincare Trends

Driven by a fusion of wellness culture and K-beauty innovation, cryo masks and collagen eye patches have emerged as the year's fastest-growing skincare trends. Here’s a quick summary:

• Beauty enthusiasts are increasingly treating their skincare routines like a fitness regimen, prioritizing "skin health" and recovery over traditional vanity🧘🏾‍♀️

• Cryo masks, which simulate professional cold therapy at home, have seen a staggering 692.2% growth in popularity compared to last year❄️

• The cryo trend is dominated by TikTok, where it holds a nearly 85% popularity share and has grown by over 1,000% year-over-year📈

• Leading brands like Dr. Jart+ are the primary drivers of the cooling mask movement, emphasizing calming benefits for redness and irritation🌡️

• Collagen eye patches are also surging with 650.4% growth👁️

• Search data shows that shoppers are specifically looking for "hydrogel" textures and high-performance ingredients like PDRN to boost their clinical effectiveness🧪

• Unlike general moisturizers, these trends are being used as functional treatments for specific issues like "skin recovery," "inflammation," and "fatigue"💆🏽‍♀️

🌱 Animal-based skincare ingredients are on the rise: Is Vegan Beauty Out?

As we move through 2026, the once-dominant vegan beauty trend is giving way to a resurgence of animal-derived ingredients. Here’s a quick summary:

• The most viral skincare ingredients of 2026 are animal-derived, including salmon DNA (PDRN), beef tallow, and colostrum, which are praised for their intensive healing properties🧬

• General consumer interest in veganism is waning, with Americans eating 7% more meat in 2024 than they did before the pandemic🥩

• After fans complained about the texture of vegan updates, Glossier famously returned to its original non-vegan "Balm Dotcom" formula featuring lanolin and beeswax in 2024🐝

• Despite reaching a 100% vegan goal in late 2023, The Body Shop began re-introducing honey and beeswax to select products in 2025 to satisfy customer demands for "original" results🍯

• While the vegan niche remains, 100% vegan brands like Milk Makeup are reportedly facing declining sales as the "virtue" of being vegan loses its market capital📉

• Cosmetic experts explain that some synthetic vegan alternatives often fail to replicate the unique melting points and spreadability of natural animal fats like lanolin🐏

• With the rising cost of living, many consumers are opting for the path of least resistance, choosing high-performance products that work regardless of whether the ingredients are plant-based💸

📲SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS

🎤 The Threads Stage: "Live Chats" Are Coming to Your Feed

Meta is expanding the Threads experience with "Live Chats." Here’s a quick summary:

• Threads Chief Connor Hayes officially announced the "Live Chats" feature during a presentation at the 2026 Coachella music festival🎡

• The tool allows a creator to start a chat and add specific collaborators who are the only ones permitted to send messages in that stream👥

• Fans can subscribe and follow the conversation in real-time, but they cannot post their own messages, effectively acting as a digital "fly on the wall"👁️‍🗨️

• The feature is designed to stop creators from "flooding" the main feed with dozens of individual posts during a single hour-long event. Threads also hopes to avoid the scams and spam that historically cluttered hashtag-based conversations on platforms like X (Twitter)🛡️

• Because public contributions are locked out, the success of each Live Chat depends entirely on the hosts' ability to keep the information relevant and engaging🎤

• Although no specific launch date has been set, the feature is expected to begin appearing in the Threads app over the next few weeks🔜

🔥TRENDING TIKTOK & INSTAGRAM SOUNDS

Here are trending sounds that can be used for educational content🔥

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