Today the family-owned brand, known for its bar soaps, announced a collection of hair and scalp care products. The line extension incorporates several of the brand’s signature soap ingredients, like pine tar, buttermilk, and rose clay.
The skin care brand has signed a deal with Olympic skater Tessa Virtue to help promote Nivea products and to foreground qualities that the brand, the country, and the woman all ostensibly have in common.
SenzaGen announced today that is has licensed the chemical safety testing method to BRT. The contract researcher will now be offering the tests to its cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical clients here in the US.
Brand leaders like Avonda Urben and Keech Combe Shetty believe there ought to be specialized skin care products for the bikini area and vagina—in much the same way that women have specialized skin care for the face, the eye area, the décolleté; oral care...
Research scientists from the company’s facilities in Calgary, Alberta, and Lambertville, New Jersey, published data on their work with spectrophotometric screening in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology last year and continue efforts to build industry...
The company’s joint venture, Beauty Personalization Domination, has set an opening bid of $500 million for the full portfolio of 75 patents and anticipates bids well above that figure coming from top multinational cosmetics and personal care companies...
The K-beauty skin care line signed an exclusive deal with Ulta Beauty that not only has the brand on select store shelves across the US but also has Mamonde creating products expressly for sale at Ulta.
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.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Michelle Houp, founder of Prep U (personal care brand for “stinky boys”), describes how she has democratized the onus of hygiene and refinement that befalls adolescents; and, she shares a few smart, simple tips for founders....
Global personal and home care provider Henkel has reported strong growth for its 2017 results, with gains driven by its exposure to new markets, including Latin America.
At this week’s annual meeting event in Palm Beach, Florida, the trade organization held a dedicated session for press in an effort to better mitigate the proliferation of misinformation about personal care, cosmetics, and fragrance ingredients.
The industry disrupting hair color brand has stepped forward as a pacesetter among beauty makers, changing its own ad strategy and inviting other personal care, cosmetics, and fragrance brands to commit to authenticity in advertising as well.
The popular skin care brand has undertaken a complete refresh and will be launching online this month and in thousands of doors in the coming weeks. If all goes according to plan, the turnaround will stand as a case study in how to simultaneously respond...
Late last week Revlon announced a global licensing deal with the London fashion brand, adding AllSaints to an impressive perfume and fragrance portfolio that already includes brands like Juicy Couture, Elizabeth Taylor, and Christina Aguilera.
This month, the New Jersey – based nail lacquer and nail care treatment product maker announced a full online refresh that foregrounds the company’s place in the modern beauty industry.
Holobiome Corporation and J&J are collaborating on the new project; and in a recent exchange with Cosmetics Design, Stefanie Dhanda, senior director of consumer scientific innovation at the health and beauty company’s Innovation Center, affirms, “there...
Last Thursday evening at an awards event hosted at the LVMH Magic Room in New York City, The Fragrance Foundation honored The Notables of 2018, exceptional rising leaders in the perfume and fragrance industry.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Dara Levy, the inventor and founder of DermaFlash, explains how she grew her signature spa treatment into a full-fledged beauty brand and why the best business experience is hard won.
The Cosmetics Design team is thrilled by the tremendous response we have had for all ten of our Beauty Industry Award categories, but we are responding to numerous requests to extend the deadline by doing just that.
Plant-based beauty and skin care brands seem to be cropping up everywhere; presumably because nature-based formulations that deliver results are in high demand. With 15 years of global business behind it, Kamedis hopes to meet that demand for US beauty...
After decades of relying heavily on word-of-mouth here in the US and globally, the natural skin care brand has created its first-ever beauty and lifestyle campaign for the region. And that’s just step one of this year’s complete Weleda brand refresh....
Last year the skin care maker introduced its Differin brand of acne treatment gel to the OTC market, after receiving FDA approval to do so in early 2016. Now the brand is adding two new products to the Differin line.
Already a big player in the Latin American market, fine chemicals player Chemyunion is rolling out its North American expansion in a bid to become a dominant force in the Americas.
Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Chile are the most dynamic and robust beauty markets in the Latin America, which is why Cosmetics Design is taking a closer look at the key trends and market data.
We are bringing you some of the highlights from our recent Latin American beauty market coverage, which includes interesting moves from brands and suppliers, industry expos and market trends.
As a major force in the Latin American cosmetics and personal care market, Natura is firing up its strategy for domination in the Americas by turning its attention to North America.
The dates for the FCE Cosmetique event are set for May 22 – 24 at the Sao Paulo Expo space and organizers NürnbergMesse Brazil is aiming to build on the success of last year.
The Cosmetics Design team is dedicating itself to providing the most cutting edge and informative news for the cosmetics and personal care industry throughout Latin America, so, naturally, we want to hear about all the news from your business in the region!
We have always been swift to report on what is happening in the fast-moving Latin American cosmetics and personal care market, but now we are offering more targeted and in-depth coverage.
In a paper published just this month, Sibani Lisa Biswal and Elaa Hilou share data on what they believe to be “the first study to measure the tunable interfacial stiffness of a 2D colloidal cluster by controlling particle interactions using external fields.”...
Interested creative professionals and technology starts-ups have under one month to submit brand-specific pitches to Coty for consideration in the competition, which is an extension of the Digital Accelerator program that Coty launched last year.
The color expert has teamed up with high-performance sensor maker ams to create new color management technology for mobile devices. The sensor is expected to change the way beauty brands showcase product and how makeup consumers use apps and mobile sites...
The epigenCare platform cross-references personal care product ingredient lists with consumer genomics to generate personalized recommendations. And the New York – based biotech company behind the technology believes it has created a new marketing channel...
The Clorox-owned beauty and personal care brand shared clinical data at this week’s American Academy of Dermatology Annual Meeting comparing the benefits of Burt’s Bees sensitive skin care products to those of a “dermatologist-recommended synthetic control...
The developers of sciadonic acid—a new to the market anti-inflammatory fatty acid—have pivoted to topical products as they search for partners to more fully develop the substance as a dietary ingredient.
The global flavors and fragrance company announced its new Delight collection this month, bringing to market fragrance molecules and bases developed in tandem with Givaudan flavorists. It’s a project that’s novel for both this cross-division collaboration...
On Friday, State Senator Cathleen Galgiani introduced legislation that would prohibit the import and sale of any beauty product tested on animals—the ban would apply to both ingredients and finished goods.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Laura Burget, co-founder of Niu Body, demonstrates the candor and strength of a self-possessed entrepreneur and describes what a millennial-made personal care brand looks like from the inside.
Bell Flavors & Fragrance has released its new trends forecast as part of its 2018 Spark program, with nature, memories, American life and urban living all playing an important part in the fragrance forecast.
The Florida-based private label company has just announced a newly formulated product that promises to provide both skin lightening and skin hydration benefits.
The SVP of Talent Acquisition at L’Oréal spoke to the organization’s membership during yesterday’s event in New York City. The professional group for Cosmetic Industry Buyers and Suppliers has a number of these luncheon events and networking outings scheduled...
The global ready-to-wear brand has just signed a deal with TPR Holdings, giving the consumer products investor the worldwide fragrance license for the brand. It’s the second such deal TPR has signed in as many months.
Cosmoprof North America is stepping up its game by forming an exclusive collaboration with Los Angeles Fashion Week, Fall 2018, a city known as the nerve center for West Coast fashion and a growing hub for beauty.
The list of 250 direct-to-consumer brands was compiled by the Interactive Advertising Bureau in partnership with business insights company Dun & Bradstreet. Some 30 cosmetics, fragrance, hair, and personal care brands are included in the list of brands...
The indie hair care brand out of Canada would like to be that country’s leading beauty company and a bigger contender in the global cosmetics and personal care business too. This week’s deal with Cake Beauty is a next step on that journey.
With the deadline drawing closer for the Beauty Industry Awards and the Cosmetics Design team would love to see more submissions from ingredient players.
The company’s net revenue is up nearly 15% for the quarter, coming in at $2,637.6m. Coty is striving to improve in-store sales and reports that e-commerce is “ahead of the market.”
