Clean and ethical beauty has evolved significantly in recent years, fuelled by various environmental, societal and business factors, but why does this burgeoning category matter more today? Scroll down to watch Episode 1.
Female shoppers worldwide want greater labelling transparency on clean beauty products, with many claiming brands do not provide sufficient ingredient information on-pack, a survey finds.
The ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has accelerated and morphed consumer trends, catapulting safety and hygiene to the fore and increasing the relevance of blockchain and biotech in beauty, says a trends expert.
Today, The Fragrance Foundation hosted a webinar event to honor finalists in 25 award categories, recognizing the industry’s most recent achievements in fragrance, packaging, and media.
Clean Beauty is here to stay. And every day there’s something new and exciting happening in this growing market sector. Here, Cosmetics Design considers a collection of noteworthy news from the Clean Beauty space.
The beauty retail landscape has morphed dramatically during the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, with brands forced online and cross-channel marketing more critical than ever in what will soon become the new normal, an online marketing expert says.
Latin America is now the epicenter of the Coronavirus pandemic. And cosmetics and personal care professionals have been stepping up to help in that region for weeks. Now, one grassroots campaign in Brazil is betting on the power of collaboration.
Colgate, Lifebuoy and Sunsilk are the most chosen beauty and personal care brands in the world, but Nivea steals the top spot in Europe, according to Kantar Worldpanel’s 2020 Brand Footprint.
Consumers are talking a lot about moisturising, vitamins and DIY in beauty, with all three topics trending positively in global customer reviews, according to AI data specialist Revuze.
This week P&G’s King C Gillette collection of tools and products for shaving, trimming, and skin and beard care went on sale at both Walgreens online and in-store.
China’s retail sector took a dire hit this year due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak but one industry expert believes we have not seen the back of beauty in brick-and-mortar if it learns to adapt quickly to the times.
The global luxury goods market will shrink dramatically in the face of the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, with significant downgrades expected in Switzerland, Germany, Italy and France, says Euromonitor International.
This week, the company known for its AI and AR solutions for beauty, introduced a skin diagnostic tool, a shade finder, and a virtual try-on option for brands marketing to consumers via WeChat mini programs.
Consumers have very limited cognitive capacity for paying attention and making decisions, but emotional advertising will innately grab their attention and can be powerful short- and long-term, says an expert.
The business magazine’s second annual list of Private Titans highlights 1,000 companies across industries that were once startups but have since grown in sales, employees, valuation and other indicators so as to standout in the private sector.
Consumer interest in topical probiotic cosmetics is rising, presenting opportunity to target niche skin conditions and push hard science before establishing relevance in the wider wellness market, an expert says.
As the world watches and waits for the Coronavirus recovery to begin, tech makers, beauty retailers, and multinationals are innovating contactless sampling and selling strategies.
An intensified attention to hand hygiene during the COVID-19 pandemic has left many people in and beyond medical professions looking for personal care and treatment products that can help protect and repair dry hands and nails.
Beauty is one of the hardest-hit consumer categories in the ongoing global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but it will also likely bounce back fastest because of digital strengths, says an expert consultant.
This week the social customer service company Conversocial added Apple Business Chat to its roster of messaging (and payment) channels. And DaySmart Software recently added free teleconference consultation capabilities for some 14,000 spas and salons.
The cosmetics and personal care industry has already been deeply affected by the Coronavirus crisis. To help guide the beauty industry through this predicament, market research firms are circulating newly updated data and insights.
Consumers in coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown are looking forward to plenty the other side, but beauty therapy tops the ranks – way ahead of eating out, socialising and travel, according to Kantar.
The ongoing global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has gripped markets worldwide, and with no concrete end in sight, CosmeticsDesign’s editors discuss market impacts, industry response and what might still be to come.
The Los Angeles, California – based nail polish manufacturer is among the many beauty businesses turning over product production to alcohol-based hand sanitizer in an effort to help stop the spread of Coronavirus.
It’s 2020 and natural beauty products are no longer niche or novel, but there is a long way to go before they are the new normal. Here, Cosmetics Design looks at recent industry developments in the natural and botanical space.
The Natura subsidiary reopened its CF Pacific Centre store in Vancouver, Canada, this month with new features meant to reintroduce consumers to the brand’s progressive mission for gender equality, environmental sustainability, and more.
As part of the multinational consumer goods company’s Diversity & Inclusion Week events, P&G executives took to the stage alongside Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD, to discuss visibility and inclusion in advertising.
This month, the Revlon brand announced a partnership with the Los Angeles, California – based non-partisan group to help make ‘voter’ an aspirational and mainstream identity.
After 20 years on the market, the clean beauty brand is refreshing its branding, signing a deal with Ulta, and launching a new line of products—formulated with CBD—called ENHANCE.
Late last year, Albert Dashi and Oliver Worsley took their patent-pending skin analysis patch and corresponding beauty app public with a soft launch. And still today, the two molecular biology PhDs are hopeful that Sequential Skin will be the future of...
At this week’s INNOCOS event in Scottsdale, Arizona, the first Blue Beauty Award winners were announced, recognizing cosmetics, personal care, and wellness brands for business strategies and initiatives that have a positive environmental effect.
This week, the Revlon brand launched a new line of hair care and hair treatment products formulated with black castor oil and without sulfates, silicones, petrolatum, or mineral oil.
Conscious consumerism is here to stay and as the fast-paced clean and ethical beauty trend takes its grip, industry needs to start delivering on all fronts – overcoming lab and regulatory hurdles along the way.
This month, the vertically integrated cosmetics and personal care accelerator brought its DTC brands Fourth Ray Beauty and SOL Body in to the conventional retail channel in a deal with Ulta Beauty.
The New Year marked a new decade as well; and over the past two months news of environmentally sustainable cosmetics and personal care products, packaging, and business operations point to a future where green practices are built in rather than added...
Following the success of last year’s Indie Trail feature, the show organizers have teamed up with the online cosmetic science education venture to expand the programing and resources available to indie beauty brand leaders at this year’s edition of in-cosmetics...
The Colgate brand is getting in on the microbiome beauty and wellness movement with a small collection of oral and personal care products formulated with prebiotics.
In an effort to reach consumers looking for safe, effective, knowledge-based beauty, cosmetics and personal care products are being marketed as ‘friendly’. While investors and retailers are looking for a ‘beauty brand she can believe in’.
in-cosmetics Global will feature a dedicated beauty tech zone, showcasing the latest smart products and providing a platform to network and spark collaboration.
The Michigan-based commodity chemical company was on hand at the first Uplink Live event of 2020, meeting with indie brand leaders and showcasing a single ingredient: ACULYN Siltouch Rheology Modifier.
The US-based cannabis company is expanding into what it calls the healthy beauty category with new product lines from its existing health and wellness brand AcesoHemp.
A recent fragrance concept report from Sozio suggests that the familiar tropical notes of banana are showing up in fine fragrance, skin care, body care, and beyond.
The beauty brand incubator, owned by LVMH, bought remaining stake and ownership of Kat Von D Beauty at the start of the year, renamed the brand, and is now launching new product and a new marketing campaign.
The first summit event from the Natural and Organic Health and Beauty Alliance will run for 2 days in Los Angeles, California, bringing together cosmetics and personal care industry leaders for educational sessions and networking meant to clarify and...
‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ is beauty’s current sustainability mantra, but what if industry went one step further and considered carbon capture in packaging materials? One futurologist says it’s do-able.
The tremendous rise of CBD beauty is continuing to fire up, fuelled by indie and skin care innovation, but weed washing and big brand resistance remain key hurdles to growth, according to Prohibition Partners.
Biopharmaceutical company Avicanna is seeking a partnership to help it expand the footprint of its CBD skin care brand, Pura Earth into Asia, starting with Japan.
