The Estée Lauder color cosmetics brand is well known for engaging the LGBTQ community and having a passion for diversity. In honor of Pride Month (the annual celebration of queer life and history), the brand is giving donation voucher to employees and...
Last week at New York City’s Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, The Fragrance Foundation held its annual awards event. Trophies were given to nearly 20 fragrances across luxury, prestige, and mass. The event also honored 2018 Hall of Fame inductee Ann...
At a two-day event in Boston, Massachusetts, last month, experts from personal care, medicine, academia, government, and beyond came together to share learnings and build a network among professionals in this emerging field. As part of the program Cecile...
Last night’s celebration in New York City was a lively and glittery event, with more than 20 awards given out to brands, fragrance houses, perfumers, internet celebrities, and more. But over the course of the evening, presenters and honorees alike shared...
Beauty brands, personal care ingredient makers, contract manufacturers, and Instagram influencers all seem to be conspiring to make blue skin care products a 2018 trend to be remembered. Here, Cosmetics Design takes a look at the spectrum of blue ingredients...
The team at Coty has been steadily reinventing the iconic mass-market beauty brand since acquiring CoverGirl from P&G in October 2016. And these latest developments are hardly the end of it.
It's your final opportunity to register for the Skin Protection 2018 online event, so do it now so you can take advantage of our full online webinar presentation programme, which will let you in on everything you need to know about this fast moving...
Tuesday evening in New York City, the team behind CosmoProf North America hosted a preview event, featuring 11 global beauty trends. Cosmetics Design caught up with Ulli Haslacher, founder of Pour Moi Skincare, at the event to talk about geomoisturization...
We caught up with João Paulo Picolo, Managing Director of the FCE Cosmetique event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to find out more about how the event has been reinvented in recent years.
At this month’s cosmetics and personal care tradeshow in New York City, exhibitors ranging from ingredient makers to trend consulting agencies showcased their wares in meaningful ways—ways that say as much about the business behind the booth as the actual...
The organization’s annual beauty awards expanded this year to celebrate not only innovative brands and products and perfumers but also—for the first time—packaging and ingredient suppliers as well.Cosmetics Design was there to see the 2018 winners, of...
The global beauty technology Meetup community founded by Odile Roujol launched a New York City chapter this week. A next, panel event in already in the planning stages for later this summer; and gauging from the turnout at this week’s gathering, there...
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but in the beauty business world it can also be the fiercest form of competition. At last week’s CEW event in New York City, niche brand leaders from L'Oréal and Unilever took the stage to share insights...
The first ever CosmeticsDesign Summit will take place in June 2019 and this unique face-to-face event will focus on one of the industry’s biggest trends – the skin microbiome.
In 2019, IBE will host its first event in Berlin, Germany, bringing together independent cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance brands; beauty entrepreneurs; retail buyers, media, investors, consumers, and industry allies for two days of business and...
At the Indie Beauty Expo in NYC last August, Cosmetics Design noticed a pervasive trend: a bulk of rose waters and other rose skin care products were hitting the market. Since then, rose colored clays, rose quartz facial rollers, and countless other rose...
Wednesday, the WFFC released the names of this year’s Recognition Award recipients as well as the name of the 2018 Innovation Excellence Award winner. The four honorees will be feted at a dinner event this June.
Several cosmetics product launches and brand announcements are expected at this year’s installment of The MakeUp Show NYC, a beauty industry event (held in eight cities each year) catering to makeup artists, aestheticians, hairstylists, and similar professionals.
Ahead of its upcoming summits in North and Latin America and its Masterclass in London in July, Ecovia Intelligence has released an update on the global natural and organic cosmetics markets.
Coty has unveiled a blended reality Magic Mirror at its relaunched Boujois boutique in Pars, a step that highlights how technology can integrate physical products with digital content.
In an industry where color plays such a massive part in the presentation of products and what is trending for make up products, a new expo at the Smithsonian Design Museum, in NYC, delves deeper into the science beshind color choices.
Cosmoprof North America has moved to reinforce its innovation and education program by collaborating on a program with FIDM undergrad students to find an outstanding beauty concept for the year 2050.
In our sustainability focus, we delve into the metamorphosis of water in beauty and personal care by looking at the demand for waterless product R&D efforts and releases.
By By Arash Farin, Managing Director, The Sage Group
Celebrity endorsements are out, and shoppers are swayed by advice and reviews from online influencers, who are increasingly playing a role in determining which products rise to prominence. What does this mean for the beauty industry at large and what’s...
L'Occitane en Provence is set to expand its experiential retail strategy with the launch of the L'Occi Truck – the debut traveling pop-up experience for the brand. The retail store on wheels presents a new direct-to-consumer shopping model for...
Yesterday evening at the Diptyque popup in New York City, Coveteur editors hosted a panel discussion about the role of scent in our current moment. The consensus: when it comes to both personal fragrance and scented home products, this is the age of identity,...
Later this month, nugg, the popular indie skin care brand known as ‘The Face Mask Authority’, is adding peel-off masks to its product portfolio. To find out more about how this dynamic skin care niche is evolving, Cosmetics Design connected with that...
The beauty tech company recently conducted a survey of its users to learn where they stand the issue of animal testing and cruelty-free products. The resulting data guided the app’s latest brand partnerships.
The market research company Brand Spark International has just announced the winners of its Best New Products awards in Canada and more than a dozen cosmetics and personal care products made the list.
This month, the trade organization announced the qualifiers for its prestigious annual awards and later this week the fragrance industry will gather for the finalists luncheon in New York City to celebrate the scents, the companies, the brands, and the...
At yesterday’s CEW event in New York City, Qurate CEO Mike George told the sold-out room that he thinks it’s a realistic goal. Beauty is big business in the new age of retail; the personal care, cosmetics, and fragrance sectors generate annual sales of...
At The Fragrance Foundation’s third annual Creatives event this week in New York City, Aerin Lauder and her colleagues Karyn Khoury and Honorine Blanc sat down with Jane Larkworthy to discuss the ins and outs of building a luxury lifestyle brand centered...
And, Level Brands aims to make Isodiol the top CBD company worldwide, in personal care and otherwise. After signing a licensing deal in early January and announcing plans for the kathy ireland Health & Wellness brand to launch CBD skin care, Level...
The brand sells dozens upon dozens of razors in a full spectrum of styles, some disposable, some refillable, all intended to meet the grooming needs of men today. Gillette believes that “One Size does not actually fit all, especially when it comes to...
At the start of 2018, The Fragrance Foundation hosted an event for members (and the press) where new president Linda Levy announced not only the professional organization’s refreshed mission but also a new official national day. March 21, 2018 is the...
The report aggregates survey responses from 1,200 women who subscribe to the monthly box of beauty, hair, and lifestyle products. And the data points to hair styling trends as well as a rising demand for free-from and custom hair care formulations.
The Cosmetics Design editorial team will be presenting a comprehensive analysis of global beauty trends and forecasts at the in-cosmetics Global event in Amsterdam. Don't miss it!
The beauty maker has partnered with Fortis BC, an energy utility company, on an energy saving pilot program; and this week, the first CleanO2 carbon capture unit was installed at LUSH Cosmetics headquarters in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The nearly 50-year-old naturals brand was among the many personal care and cosmetics makers exhibiting at this month’s Expo West event in California. Cosmetics Design caught up with Tom’s after the show to find out how the brand is keeping pace with the...
Plans to rename the company were announced at the start of the month. And while the eight retail brands that comprise Qurate sell in many more sectors than just cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance; beauty is big business in the video commerce, ecommerce,...
According the market researcher’s recent report—looking at sales, investments, launches, and acquisitions for the full year 2017—the cosmetics and personal care device business is doing well and on track to continue growing by addressing an array of consumer...
Every new beauty trend, treatment, and technology changes the routines and regimens that consumers use to care for and makeup their faces. Which explains why, in recent days, specialized lash and brow brands have launched color and cleansing products...
The international personal care ingredients trade show takes place next month in Amsterdam. And this year, the thousands of product manufacturers attending will have free access to marketing trends programming, including a session on Beauty around the...
At the end of February, the Personal Care Products Council convened its annual meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. The Power of Beauty was the theme of this year’s gathering. And leaders ranging from PCPC board members to magazine executives, market researchers,...
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.
