Click through to discover some of the articles in the category, including suppliers, services and brands looking to the next steps in the cosmetics industry.
Johnson and Johnson announced Tuesday that the name of its new planned consumer health company will be Kenvue.
The company announced in late 2021 plans to split its personal care brands into a separate company to create more targeted growth strategies. A press release said the new company, which will include Aveeno, Band-Aid, Listerine, Neutrogena, Tylenol, Johnson’s and Dr.Ci:Labo, will separate from J&J in 2023.
According to the press release, the name comes from the work “ken,” meaning knowledge, and “vue” referencing the word view. The concept behind the company will be “Realize the Extraordinary Power of Everyday Care.”
“Today’s announcement is another milestone for the Consumer Health business,” Joaquin Duato, CEO of J&J said in the release. “Kenvue is poised to thrive as a standalone company with a leading portfolio of brands consumers love and trust. I’m confident in this team and excited to see what the future holds.”
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In the search for more sustainable packaging, suppliers like FusionPKG are trading in metal components for plastic to improve recyclability.
CosmeticsDesign spoke with Alexander Kwapis, vice president of product design and development at FusionPKG, about the new all-plastic airless pump and its sustainability impact.
Tell me a little bit about the packaging
For a long time now we've been developing polypropylene packages to work towards being more sustainable and recyclable. In July of this year, we launched this all-plastic spring. It’s sort of like a bellow, it uses a flexible spring, but instead of being in the product's path, where you can have compatibility issues, this is outside the product pathway.
It has all the normal airless components and this way, you're going to have a nice premium experience without having any formula interaction. We have flexibility so if there is some issue for some reason, we can go back and forth between metal and plastic.
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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.
With a new multimillion-dollar investment, startup The Good Face Project is hoping to change how cosmetics companies go about R&D.
Good Face Project announced Tuesday a $5.65 million investment from VMG Capital. The company has introduced an AI-powered platform for aiding R&D in any vertical which relies on chemistry, starting with cosmetics.
CEO and co-founder of Good Face Project Iva Teixeira told CosmeticsDesign that the platform is intended to allow R&D teams and brands to address mounting consumer demands at the start of product development.
While the development process used to include creating a product and then screening it against the relevant regulations, Teixeira said today’s market moves too quickly and includes too many demands to use the same model.
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Pact Collective started around a year ago with a mission to help beauty become more circular, and the non-profit has several plans to tackle the industry's biggest waste problems.
CosmeticsDesign spoke with Pact Collective about how they are working towards a circular economy, why they believe that transition matters and what the challenges are.
Tell me a bit about Pact Collective’s mission around circularity in personal care and cosmetics.
The beauty and wellness industries generate over 120 billion packages every year, with most ending up in landfills or incinerators. The packaging is often too small, too flexible, or made of too many materials to be mechanically recycled through curbside recycling programs. Pact is on a mission to change this.
