Companies from just about every country in the region were represented at what is the biggest event for the cosmetics and personal care industry in the Americas region.
Argentina was particularly well represented at the event, thanks to the dedicated country pavilion that showcased six interesting brands with the help of the Argentine Investment and Trade Promotion Agency.
Interesting Argentine brands
The Cosmetics Design spoke to a number of the Argentine brands at the event, including Exel, a company specialising in sustainable skin care and hair care that uses nanoscale liposomes to make it effective, as well as Dandy Buenos Aires, a sustainable line of men's grooming products.
In the gallery you will also see information about the husband and wife team behind La Pasionara, a company specializing in gourmet soaps, as well as well as An Ame, a Buenos Aires-based company offering luxury natural-based skin care products.
For more information about a selection of Latin American companies exhibiting at Cosmoprof North America, please click on the photo gallery.
And also look out for another photo gallery that will be published tomorrow featuring the rest of the highlights from this year's show.
The Argentina Pavilion was small but platformed six very interesting brands that were brought together by the Argentine Investment and Trade Promotion Agency. Those brands included Aname Vio, Dandy Buenos Aires, EXEL, La Pasionaria, Plumari and Primont
Anime Vio is an organic line of skin care products developed by Daina Gerardi Ceballos, who has been running the business since 2006. The company already has an online business that targets the US, providing luxury anti-aging, repairing, toning, cleansing and skin nourishing products.
This is a new men's grooming brand that specialized in natural and sustainable beard, hair, shaving and skin care products. Pictured is the founder, Lucia Naselo, who with her husband has put together an interesting product line that includes combs made from locally sourced wood, a shaving brush made from horse hair, completely sustainable packaging and a line of products that is formulated to be vegetarian and cruetly-free.
This husband and wife team, Mario Gerosa and Carina Cavazza, are the couple behind La Pasionara, which features a line of gourmet soaps that include over 70 different fragrances. The Buenos Aires-based company also includes a number of other high-end brands that target the baby care, shower and body, perfume and home scent categories.
Pictured is Aurora Acevedo, who is the business development manager for Argentine brand Exel, a professional hair and skin care line that combines nanotechnology with liposomes to create effective products. The company also uses PET recycled material for its packaging and develops its own active ingredients for the product lines.
This is a Brazilian cosmetics and household company that owns a number of hair care brands targeting the professional hair care market. The products are natural-based and many feature ingredients from the Amazon and other parts of Brazil. Brands include Blue Tox, Argan Morocco Golden Plus and Desembucha.
Khiron has been making a big splash since the launch of its CBD skin care range called Kuida, which was promoted at the Belleza Y Salud event in Bogota last year. Since the launch the range has been included to now include seven SKUs and the company says it is readying for major launch news in the coming months. Watch this space.
Yama is a Japanese-Brazilian hair care company that was established in 1967 and is currently looking to expand its footprint in North America. It carries a number of brands, including Yamasterol functional and treatment products, its Cachos line based on coconut and a number of products and treatments for colored hair.