Yesterday, the beauty maker announced its minority stake investment in Carbios, a green chemistry company working to solve environmental sustainability problems in manufacturing. The funds will help the company move its PET recycling technologies closer...
Colgate, the brand’s parent company, announced yesterday that a new tube design has been recognized for its recyclability by the APR. The company intends to update Tom’s toothpaste tubes next year and all Colgate owned brands’ toothpaste tubes with 100%...
The annual packaging awards event for fragrance, personal care, cosmetics, and aerosol products coincides with the ADF&PCD tradeshow. The show and awards celebration will take place in mid-September. And in preparation, the event organizers are accepting...
At Luxe Pack New York this month, Cosmetics Design caught up with Anne Echard, global product manager of fragrance at Silgan Dispensing, to learn how the manufacturer is helping customers get custom packaging to market more quickly and offer recyclable...
At this year’s Luxe Pack New York event it seemed as if everyone was showing some sort of greener, cleaner beauty packaging. To meet the growing demand for environmentally friendly packaging, HCT has begun making compacts in recyclable, recycled, and...
At this week’s Luxe Pack New York creative packaging tradeshow, Aptar is featuring newly acquired, next-gen cosmetics packaging technologies. In 2018 the company bought the French packaging business of Reboul—complete with its components, assemblies,...
The creative packaging tradeshow returns to New York City this week; and as part of the educational conference programing Cosmetics Design will moderate a panel of beauty and personal care brand innovators helping to define the new well beauty category.
Andrew Dent, EVP of Material ConneXion, has actionable ideas about finding quantifiably sustainable packaging, the realities of recycling, and how greener practices can mean increased value for consumers and companies. Ahead of this year’s Sustainable...
I was intrigued to see an article I recently wrote about a Guatemalan designer creating sustainable packaging becoming one of the highest hitting on Cosmetics Design USA.
Packaging designer Elena Amato has created bacterial cellulose sheets using a mixture of natural and sustainable materials that are said to provide a good alternative to plastic packaging for personal care products.
The packaging company launched its new site for startups and standalone cosmetics and personal care brands at this week’s Luxe Pack event in Los Angeles, California. It’s the next iteration of Aptar’s Indie Boutique offering.
The supplier’s new Itty Bitty Beauty offering is a platform meant to simplify the design and packaging selection process for brands looking to add mini sizes to their cosmetics and personal care product portfolio. Qosmedix will launch its new platform...
OLIKA believes it can. The design-driven consumer goods brand launched 2 years ago and still has essentially one product: hand sanitizer. In late January, OLIKA debuted the first of its Rare Bird Collection, a limited-edition series of OLIKA’s popular...
In mid-September, the North American edition of Easyfairs beauty packaging event will showcase the latest in aerosol, dispensing, perfume, and cosmetic packaging. The 2-day show will feature exhibitors, tours, awards, and educational presentations pertinent...
This week, the flexible packaging company announced a newly configured team that will work with beauty makers to design and develop packaging solutions that make sense for the modern marketplace.
At IBE LA last week, Āether Beauty founder Tiila Abbitt spoke with Cosmetics Design about environmentally sustainable beauty packaging, how international trade relationships affect recycling in the US, her brand’s approach to ingredient sourcing, and...
The long-trusted consumer magazine launched a Green Good Housekeeping Seal program in 2009, a Raising the Green Bar summit event in 2017 (in conjunction with Made Safe), and now has a sustainability awards program too. Submissions are open; and beauty...
Founded in 1998, the company expanded to Hong Kong in 2003; brought its design consultancy, tech development, and packaging engineering capabilities to the US in 2013; and in recent weeks has opened a showroom in New York City to develop the Metapack...
The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership, (SGP) has set its goals for the print manufacturing on how to acheive higher levels of responsibility and sustainability.
Call it Blue Beauty, Conscious Business, or a Circular Economy; in any case small beauty brands and multinational cosmetics and personal care corporations are rethinking the status quo and working to ensure that the industry won’t be undone by thoughtless...
Everyone knows now that it’s wise to watch indie brands and to pay careful enough attention to identify scalable ideas and innovations coming out of the indie space--ideas that have resonance with consumers and potential in the global market. Here Cosmetics...
The Procter & Gamble household brand becomes the very first mass hair care brand in the US to produce and market an inclusive bottle creation for people with low or no vision.
Brands, manufacturers, and suppliers all around the beauty industry are keen to use less energy, generate less waste, and reduce their overall carbon footprints. Here Cosmetics Design looks at a few of the packaging solutions that can help cosmetics and...
Next week, a joint event, bridging the Aerosol and Dispensing Forum with a show dedicated to the packaging of Perfume, Cosmetics, and Design, returns to New York City for the third time, and comprises exhibits, awards, and educational programing—programming...
Indie cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance brands (and their agency allies) have been speaking up about the packaging services they need for success. Industry suppliers are responding. At last week’s BeautyX Summit in New York City, Cosmetics Design...
At last month’s beauty and personal care industry tradeshow in Las Vegas, Nevada, Cosmetics Design sat down with Tony Kemeny, founder and inventor at LBK Nails to discuss his reinvention of the nail polish bottle cap—a version that lets consumers test...
The cosmeceuticals brand was showing both nail care and skin care kits at Cosmoprof North America this year. And a key feature of both kits is the imagery, icons, and text that Dermelect is using to share benefit, safety, and ingredient information with...
Luxury glass bottle manufacturer Saveglass Group has confirmed the opening of its new multi-service factory in Mexico, following a $120 million investment.
“Our customers are really demanding more environmentally friendly options,” Sari Sternschein, VP of Marketing at Qosmedix, tells Cosmetics Design in this video interview (filmed at Cosmoprof North America). She describes the recycled and recyclable solutions...
Last month in New York City, Pratt Institute held its 29th annual event honoring industry visionaries and celebrating the next generation of fragrance packaging designers.
The creative packaging trade show opened yesterday in New York City. And, Cosmetics Design was there to see what matters most is cosmetics, fragrance, and personal care packaging today.
Weener Plastics says it has achieved a significant expansion milestone with the acquisition of Colombian cosmetics and personal care packaging player Proenfar.
With several exciting key features, including guided R&D tours across the showfloor and an exciting new Formulation Challenge, this year’s in-cosmetics Global pointed the way for the industry in the coming period.
The event’s speaker lineup this year included Vogue’s former beauty editor Anna-Marie Solowij, Millie Kendall MBE, Holland & Barrett, Soil Association, Weleda, Beauty Kitchen, Allergy UK, and Ecovia Intelligence.
Primary packaging provider Neopac has solidified its emphasis on the US market with a move to open a US production facility and headquarters in Wilson, North Carolina.
The company is known in the region for commercial printing, kitting and fulfillment, direct mail, custom product packaging, creative services, and other marketing support. Now JKG has a new facility and is offering custom packaging to beauty makers in...
US-based flexible packaging provider Toray Plastics says it is targeting growth in the Mexico market for consumer product goods with a dedicated product range.
Beauty makers and brands have been updating the digital packaging experience for years to give consumers online the same information and tangibility they’ve grown accustomed to in store. But everyone is shopping online now, and industry suppliers like...
For a second year, Garnier is running a recycling program on college campuses. The company has partnered with not only the TerraCycle recycling company but also with the social change organization DoSomething.org for this year’s initiative.
Minis are essential for personal care and cosmetics brands today. Whether for sanitary sampling, convenient on-the go products, or to comply with TSA travel regulations, consumers expect and demand branded, easy-to-use mini sized beauty products.
The brand sees its packaging as a matter of design and home décor. Accordingly, this latest limited-edition of hand soap and dish liquid bottles all feature trendy metallic shades; and there’s a sort of influencer marketing campaign in the mix too.
At the start of this week, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation launched a new initiative to change the way plastic comes and goes in the world. The New Plastics Economy involves corporations, local government leaders, academics, NGOs, and other stakeholders...
Several recent packaging trends like travel-friendly beauty, active beauty, waste-not want-not brands, dose control, and beauty boxes have led package makers like Qosmedix to offer brands more options when it comes to tiny containers for cosmetics and...
Preservatives have left many formulation experts and ingredient developers with a huge dilemma: how to maintain product integrity and safety without using the conventional preservatives consumers are trying to avoid.
The 2017 edition of the annual New Jersey Packaging Executives Club awards event on Thursday, November 16, will be a celebration of this year’s winners—winners whose names have already been announced. And, several prominent beauty brands and esteemed...