In her Indie Beauty Profile, Rachel Roff, founder of Urban Skin Rx, has delightfully practical advice for her fellow beauty entrepreneurs. And, she shares sales figures, distribution data, and brand strategy notes that give real insight into how she’s...
Fruit d’ Or has announced approval by Health Canada for the omega-3 and omega-6 content of its multifunctional cranberry seed oil ingredient. The approved claim wording includes “for the maintenance of good health.”
A beauty marketer's dream, the day is on track to be full of lip product launches, brand celebrations, and social media posts appended with the hastag #nationalipstickday.
The wellness and natural trends are getting more nuanced. As a result, both brands and consumers can be more selective about such products. And, it’s in this market climate that there is space for systems of practice like Ayurveda to gain traction in...
The leading independent cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance event returns to New York City this August for its third annual show. IBE 2017 promises to be even bigger and better than years past, a measure of just how much the indie beauty category...
Researchers at Binghamton University, a State University of New York, and The University of Rhode Island published an article today that suggests topically applied product formulated with DNA could be more effective and long lasting than current sun care...
The cosmetics, fragrance, and personal care industry professional organization’s career development event late last week in New York City featured insights from Maxwell Luthy of Trend Watching and Larissa Jensen of the NPD Group. And Jennifer Barckley,...
The Discover Beauty section at this month’s Cosmoprof North America event in Las Vegas, Nevada, featured some very trendsetting and innovative cosmetics and personal care brands. Part 2 of Cosmetics Design’s Discover Beauty coverage looks at what happing...
The specialty chemical company and ingredients distributor have worked together here in the eastern States for 10 years, and now that relationship covers even more territory.
Again this year Cosmoprof North America featured a Discover Beauty section where brands eager for distributor partnerships, press attention, investor dollars, or retail deals set up booths and tables to showcase their latest and greatest cosmetics and...
The direct sales beauty company debuted its new blend-it-yourself vitamin C product late last week at the annual Mary Kay beauty consultant seminar in Dallas, Texas.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Kimberly Heathman of MyChelle Dermaceuticals talks through the brand’s DNA, so to speak, summarizing the natural skin care maker’s focus and function in the marketplace.
At the recent Cosmoprof North America event we caught up with a spokesperson for the Taiwanese brand Reise. What is different is that not only is the Taiwanese hair and skin care line formulated using rice bran, the material has also been incorporated...
The Cosmoprof North America Discover Green section highlighted some of the most innovative new product launches at the show. This year there was a distinct move towards simple yet effective products, highlighted by Feather & Bone's Face Gems...
In its half-year results, Unilever has revealed that it is enjoying profitable growth, keeping it ahead of its market with its profits jumping by a fifth.
Rau Hotu Tahiti is a family-run beauty oils business with a tradition for the craft that goes back generations. Well known in both France and its native Tahiti for some of the finest quality products, its owners are now looking to expand their reach.
At Cosmoprof North America this month, SSI CEO Romina Brown launched her company’s newest research platform, a cloud-based interface that provides not only the usual cosmetics and personal care figures but also data from the independent beauty supply...
Courtney Adeleye, CEO of The Mane Choice, spoke with Cosmetics Design senior correspondent Deanna Utroske at Cosmoprof North America this month about how the wellness movement is influencing hair care, how her company is changing the way retailers think...
The brand protection company has released a new report indicating that at least 25% of consumers surveyed have unknowingly bought fake cosmetics and personal care products. And the MarkMonitor data suggests that ecommerce may be helping facilitate the...
Skin care, hair care, color cosmetics—the list goes on. Even as inventive beauty entrepreneurs develop new products, tools, and technologies that are changing consumer beauty routines and spending habits, ingredient-driven cosmetics and personal care...
During last week's Cosmoprof North America we combed the Discover Scent aisle, where we spoke to Scott Morgan, founder of Skunk Mandarina, a cannabis-inspired fragrance, as well as Jennifer McKay Newton, founder of Defineme Fragrance, which has just...
The drugstore chain announced this week that it's bringing color cosmetics brand Sleek MakeUP to the US market, not only at Walgreens locations but also at Ulta Beauty.
The Cosmetics Design team caught up with Cosmoprof North America marketing director Daniela Ciocan to find out more about what was new at the show this year and to learn a bit more about the event's focus on cosmetic and personal care packaging.
The personal care products company runs a global business from its headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut, and supporting offices in Buena Park, California; Slough, UK; and Shenzhen, China. As of this month, Lopez is leading the company and its roster...
At Cosmoprof North America in Las Vegas, Nevada, Cosmetics Design senior correspondent Deanna Utroske caught up with beauty entrepreneur Indie Lee. Here, Lee talks about her recent investment deal with Ancora, the beauty industry’s shift toward ingredient...
In his Indie Beauty Profile, Joshua Gordon, founder of noyah Natural Cosmetics, shares insight into how he created a simple, functional cosmetics and personal care brand. And, he succinctly describes that brand's target customer in just four words!
The company, which incorporated in March, bought Blenheim apricot producer B & R Farms in April and is moving swiftly forward to consolidate stone fruit farming and commercialize the fruits, oils, extracts, pits, etc. for a full spectrum of industries.
The genetic testing laboratory has served hospitals, government agencies, lawyers, and individuals for 20 years. And now the company is putting a line of DNA testing kits on retail shelves.
One week from Monday, Jurevics will take on her new role, according to an announcement from Shiseido Americas, which owns the Bare Escentuals brand. And if her executive track record is any indication, the color cosmetics and skin care brand will set...
The natural personal care and cosmetics brand was previously owned by private equity firm North Castle Partners. That firm often partners with beauty and currently owns the Palladio Beauty Group and Red Door Spas.
A new study by Northwestern University highlights how the number of complaints to the FDA relating to cosmetic and personal care products more than doubled between 2015 and 2016.
Ever apparently on the lookout for new ways to maximise on digital beauty, L’Oréal has announced a new partnership to integrate its makeup collections across worldwide brands into YouCam Makeup, an augmented reality app.
With sustainability now demanded right through the supply chain, ingredients manufacturers are becoming increasingly quick to herald their portfolios’ green credentials.
Leading fashion and cosmetics brand, H&M, prepares to launch its beauty range in the Malaysian marketplace, after making a successful impact in Singapore.
The direst-sales cosmetics and personal care company announced late last week the addition of another Latin American country to its territory. As competitor brands in the channel leverage various strategies to gain new relevance in the global market place,...
The annual award, given by Ernst & Young Global Limited, is one of several such awards the firm’s growth markets network gives regionally, nationally, and globally. Holland’s recognition comes in the manufacturing and distribution category in Los...
In his Indie Beauty Profile, Chris Hobson, founder of Patchology, shares his candid thoughts on the worth of industry trends and suggests that a startup skin care brand can find allies where they might be least expected, like on a legacy department store’s...
Researchers have created a particle emulsifier that can stabilize both oil-in-water emulsions and water-in-oil emulsions. The work suggests the possibility of a truly universal particle-based emulsifier and that similarly effective particles can now be...
BASF, Cargill, Procter & Gamble (P&G), and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) have collaborated to create and push production of a sustainable certified coconut oil (SCNO) and transparent supply chain of coconut...
Not long after news broke of the new beauty company’s partnership with L’Occitane International, Cosmetics Design dropped in on CEO Michele Gay to learn about that deal and about how LimeLight is reinventing cosmetics and personal care direct sales for...
The company recently announced advanced plans to build a biorefinery in conjunction with the government of Queensland Australia. As part of that state’s Biofutures Acceleration Program, Amyris is set to provide bioproducts for the Asian personal care...
The shimmering shifting hues of insects come not from pigment but from carefully arranged particles. And new scientific research, documented in an article published by the American Chemical Society, suggests that the nanotech to recreate such color is...
