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Green beauty, clean beauty and conscious beauty all start at the bottom of the supply chain, and a biotech expert says fermentation could make that easier.
Humans have been harnessing biotechnology since the advent of fermented foods and drinks, but since the 1970s the process has been growing as a strategy to produce cosmetics ingredients.
Jasmina Aganovic, CEO of biotech company Arcaea told CosmeticsDesign that biotechnology could help the beauty industry reduce its need for extractive processes in ingredient production, including extraction of botanicals.
“We think to appreciate nature is to consume it,” Aganovic said. “Can we create a way to honor, but be very reciprocal, with our environment. That's what biotech presents, the ability to appreciate without the extractive relationship. That's actually a much healthier relationship for us to have with the world around us.”
Beauty supply chains stretch across the world and end wherever a given consumer decides to throw their product away, but Izzy has a different plan.
Izzy is a prestige makeup brand with three hero products, mascara, gloss and brow gel, but what sets the brand apart is the complete supply chain overhaul they have designed, starting with a local supply chain and ending with consumers returning their used packaging.
Shannon Goldberg, the founder of Izzy and a 17-year veteran of the beauty industry, told CosmeticsDesign she was inspired to start the brand when she read an article stating that the cosmetics industry produces 200 billion pieces of non-recyclable plastic annually.
After reading that article, she said she wanted to learn everything about sustainability in the beauty industry.
Inclusivity has been a market trend in cosmetics for a few years, but at NYSCC Supplier’s Day, inclusive ingredients were one of the dominant trends.
NYSCC returned for the second time since COVID shut down trade shows, and despite the short six-month gap between this and the last Supplier’s Day, there were distinctly different trends on the show floor.
While suppliers want to meet manufacturers and brands where they’re at in the market, they also showcase their trend forecasting innovations at Supplier’s Day. Below are three of the big trends CosmeticsDesign saw at the show.
Permanent makeup has been a growing trend in color cosmetics, but transparency around removers for these tattoos could be improved and infused with plants, researchers say.
Humans have tattooed themselves for millennia, and in recent years there has been an increasing trend in tattooing a permanent makeup look. If someone wants their permanent makeup tattoo removed, one option is a liquid-based remover.
A research team out of Greece, Andreou et al, published a paper in Cosmetics exploring the effectiveness of a plant-based liquid permanent makeup remover.
“Permanent makeup such as eyeliner, brow liner, and lip liner has become increasingly popular throughout the world,” Andreou et al said. “The popularity of permanent makeup has increased the number of permanent makeup artists all over the world and permanent makeup applications but has also led to an increased demand for its removal.”
The beauty industry is filled with products to counteract signs of skin aging and a research team out of Portugal wanted to know how self-esteem plays into the billion-dollar segment.
Anti-aging products are estimated to be a $60 billion market, and Precedence Research estimates it will double by 2030.
Evangelista et al published an article in Cosmetics studying the relationship between the use of anti-aging products and self-esteem in a sample group of Portuguese women.
“The relationship between usage patterns of anti-aging cosmetic products and women’s self-esteem has been seldom described in the literature,” Evangelista et al said. “This study aims to fill this knowledge gap.”
