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While smaller suppliers have been able to jump on the CBD wagon quickly, multinational giant BASF took its time developing an effective and compliant ingredient.
CosmeticsDesign spoke with BASF Head of Marketing for Personal Care in North America Kate Drummond about the launch of the supplier's new ComfortBD ingredient, what went into bringing an ingredient into the highly regulated CBD space and what the beauty industry more broadly can take away from the development of the product.
Will you just give me an overview of this product?
We have launched a product called ComfortBD. It's a high-quality, fully traceable CBD ingredient grown in the United States. It's extracted using subcritical CO2. We've supported that launch with extensive in vitro and in vivo studies and demonstrated impressive results on the appearance of shiny, oily skin, as well as red and irritated skin while also bolstering the skin barrier.
Technology has played a big roll in getting the beauty sector through the pandemic, and now companies are looking inwards to see how it can streamline the industry.
The Honest Company announced it will move into the Chinese market with SuperOrdinary and it's a good time to learn more about the companies and the move the new market.
The announcement was made at the end of August that the beauty brand founded by actress Jessica Alba had partnered with accelerator SuperOrdinary to launch into the Chinese market with an exclusive store in Alibaba Group's Tmall Global e-commerce platform.
According to the release The Honest Company has been working on entering the Chinese market since 2019.
“Launching in China is a key component of our international strategy,” said Nick Vlahos, Chief Executive Officer of The Honest Company, in the release. “As one of the fastest growing beauty markets in the world, there is an incredibly high demand for clean and highly effective skincare and color innovation and we are thrilled to partner with SuperOrdinary to bring our products to consumers across this market.”
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States across the US are enacting sustainable packaging laws, but Ameripen is also clocking increased dialog and stagnant action at the federal level.
CosmeticsDesign spoke with Dan Felton, executive director of packaging trade association Ameripen, about what's happening at the federal level and what the cosmetics industry can expect to see in sustainable packaging regulation next.
Before reading this article, readers can brush up on what sustainable packaging regulation is happening at the state level in this CosmeticsDesign article.
Tell me about the kind of transition from state-based regulation into federal regulation.
There's a lot more conversation happening at the federal level, but right now, there's nothing moving at the federal level. As typical, the states are the incubator for ideas, and then at some point, they may gain critical mass.
While some packaging suppliers rely on offsets to claim to remove ocean plastic, Seacliff Beauty is doing it quite literally.
Seacliff Beauty became the exclusive beauty supplier for the #tide ocean material plastic resin earlier this year and the company has spent the time since at trade shows and online promoting the new packaging option.
Brian Saputo, executive vice president of Seacliff, told CosmeticsDesign the partnership is part of broader efforts to curb the flow of plastic packaging into the world's landfills and oceans. For Seacliff and #tide specifically, that means pulling plastic out of waters near Malaysia to be turned back into packaging.
“If you go up 40,000 feet, the problem that we're trying to solve is how to close the loop,” Saputo said. “It is finding a solution for an ongoing problem and trying to, no pun intended, stem the tide of all this plastic going into the ocean, how we collect it and bring it back into the consumer world.”
