Color cosmetics

Overcoming Insecurities: Fièra Cosmetics approach to skin care and community hunger

08-Jun-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This month the Toronto, Canada – based DTC brand for women 40+ announced that its food donation initiative has reached the 1 million meals mark.

The Body Shop transitioning to vegan beauty product formulations

07-Jun-2021 By Deanna Utroske

At the start of June, the Natura-owned company announced plans to certify all of its product formulations—body care, skin care, color cosmetics, etc.—with The Vegan Society by December 2023.

Mary Kay joins Ellen MacArthur Foundation Network, aiming to source materials more sustainably

03-Jun-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The beauty maker is among the Foundation’s 10 newest Network members, businesses and institutions tasked with leading the change to a circular economy.

Ubiquitous Beauty Tech: Perfect Corp teams up with LUMINESS

25-May-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The beauty tech company best known for its 3D AR tech and virtual cosmetics, hair color, and skin care try-on services has partnered with the airbrush cosmetics brand LUMINESS.

A deep dive into Kantar Worldpanel 2021 Brand Footprint

Top beauty and personal care brands 2021? Colgate, Lifebuoy, Dove ‘most chosen’

24-May-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Colgate, Lifebuoy and Dove are the most chosen beauty and personal care brands in the world, with a hygiene focus driving growth in an otherwise flat market, according to Kantar Worldpanel’s 2021 Brand Footprint.

Harry Rosen gets into the personal care retail business

19-May-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This month, the Toronto, Canada – based men’s luxury clothing retailer launched a multi-brand men’s grooming dropship platform.

CPNA Returns: the largest B2B beauty event in the region opens registration for August 2021 tradeshow

18-May-2021 By Deanna Utroske

For nearly two decades now, Cosmoprof North America has been one of the most expansive and well-attended cosmetics and personal care industry events in the US. Now, BolognaFiere Cosmoprof (the organization behind the tradeshow) prepares for a safety-first,...

Yukon Soaps Company and Cheekbone Beauty secure grant funding from the Indigenous Innovation Initiative

12-May-2021 By Deanna Utroske

In its inaugural Indigenous Gender Equality initiative, Grand Challenges Canada has awarded $2.5m CAD to 10 projects, two of which are the work of Indigenous cosmetics and personal care brand leaders.

Vivify Specialty Ingredients, a new company name for Aakash, Calico, Heritage Color, and Sandream Specialties

11-May-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The newly rebranded cosmetics, personal care, and pigments businesses in the CenterOaks Partners portfolio is preparing for further cross-industry global growth.

New Media Trends: e.l.f. Cosmetics launches on Twitch

10-May-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The vegan makeup and skin care brand has created its own channel on the livestreaming platform and began streaming over the weekend.

Special Edition: Clean & Ethical - 'Better for you, better for the planet' beauty

‘Seemingly unconquerable’: Unilever to open-source vegan replacement for carmine red

07-May-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Unilever and its prestige brand Hourglass have developed a vegan carmine alternative after years of supplier collaboration – a patent-pending innovation it plans to open-source in the coming year, says the global vice president of R&D for prestige.

SCC call-for-speakers deadline is May 15

05-May-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The Society of Cosmetic Chemists is developing the content program for the organization’s 75th Annual Scientific Meeting and Showcase and is currently accepting abstracts from prospective speakers.

Amanda E Johnson and LaToya Williams-Belfort to speak at Black Enterprise Summit

05-May-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Tomorrow, Thursday May 6, the multimedia company is hosting a free online event for small businesses and aspiring founders. And the program includes both the COO of Mented Cosmetics and the Executive Director of the 15 Percent Pledge.

Lubrizol teams with Advonex on beauty ingredient alternative to silicone, petrolatum, and mineral oil

04-May-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The deal is Lubrizol’s latest effort to meet growing customer (and end-consumer) demand for sustainable cosmetics and personal care inputs.

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics adds digital consultation service in partnership with Perfect Corp.

04-May-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Today the Estée Lauder Companies’ brand announced the new makeup try-on and product recommendation service as a next-gen version of in-store makeup artist services.

Talc harmful in some cosmetics and personal care applications, says Government of Canada

29-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

A public comment and consultation period is open now, but risk assessment and management reports have already been published and the Government of Canada plans to update The Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist accordingly.

L’Oréal Paris to halve CO2 emissions by 2030: ‘We are in the decade to make the change,’ says global head

28-Apr-2021 By Kacey Culliney

L’Oréal Paris has unveiled its environmental goals for the next decade, pledging to reduce carbon emissions by 50% and lightweight or sustainably convert its entire packaging portfolio by 2030.

ROELMI HPC: developing ingredients for tomorrow’s global beauty marketplace

28-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

With a watchful eye on the US cosmetics and personal care market, the Italian biotech company is leveraging green chemistry, local sourcing and production, and the science of sustainability to innovate for the future of beauty.

Sephora at Kohl’s: where department stores and next-gen beauty retail meet

27-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The beauty retail partnership will be realized in-store this August and continue expanding in the years ahead.

Zero Waste Mascara: how one innovative indie brand is making the impossible possible

26-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Shannon Goldberg just launched Izzy Zero Waste Beauty with what may be the most challenging beauty product when it comes to environmental sustainability.

Beauty Pitch Alert: The Big Find returns at QVC and HSN

15-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

For the third year now, the video commerce and livestream retailer Qurate is running The Big Find pitch competition to discover founder-led brands across consumer product categories, including cosmetics and personal care.

Amyris acquisitions continue with color cosmetics brand EcoFabulous

15-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Today, the biotech company announced plans to add a 7th clean consumer brand to its portfolio. This just one day after the ingredient maker publicized a deal to acquire a tech company called Beauty Labs International.

5 Insights on alternative funding for beauty startups

12-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

ATHR Beauty, the brand Tiila Abbitt is leading to “disrupt the $500 billion beauty industry with clean and sustainable makeup that works,” is in the midst of a funding raise; but it’s not the usual sort.

Sustainable step change: Can circular beauty become a mainstream reality?

08-Apr-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Many beauty manufacturers, suppliers and retailers have made important sustainability pledges for this coming decade, but as efforts kickstart in shifting linear business models to circular ways of working, there remains a raft of challenges along the...

Beauty subscription service IPSY announces banned ingredients list

07-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Late last month, IPSY introduced an initial list of 32 ingredients that the company will prohibit in products shipped by the end of 2022.

Beauty brands help boost business at Yottaa

25-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The website performance optimization specialist served more than 200% more sites during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and signed deals with notable skin care and hair care brands like TULA and Briogeo.

Clean Beauty Sampling: Perfect Corp and Mineral Fusion bring virtual try-on tech to Whole Foods

25-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The Amazon-owned multinational supermarket chain is getting in on touch-less makeup sampling thanks to a newly announced partnership between Perfect Corp and the color cosmetics brand Mineral Fusion.

Circular Beauty: The future of sustainable sourcing, green chemistry and eco-design

24-Mar-2021 By CosmeticsDesign-Europe Senior Reporter

The global beauty industry is working hard to make circularity a mainstream reality, reinventing and reconsidering all aspects of complex supply chains. But what does the future truly hold as industry tries to close the loop?

L’Oréal Canada calls for innovative startups

24-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This month the beauty maker announced an open innovation challenge, recruiting scalable businesses with winning solutions in ecommerce, conscious tech, or new channel opportunities.

Innovation in Action: advances in microbiome beauty

19-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Personal care and cosmetics consumers are more intrigued and informed about the human microbiome every day. Here, Cosmetics Design takes a look at newly emerging science, brand updates, and other microbiome news worth knowing.

Bon Voyage: how beauty brands can redefine the future of wellness travel

18-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Cosmetics Design recently checked in with travel, beauty, and wellness expert Edyta Satchell to find out how brands can best innovate to meet the needs of business and leisure travelers, and why now is the time to do so.

PODCAST: A global beauty view on COVID-19 – hottest acquisitions, flashy innovations and biggest challenges

15-Mar-2021 By Amanda Lim

CosmeticsDesign editors break down the beauty and personal care acquisitions, product innovations and challenges that have arisen under the pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Consumers expect full transparency from brands and companies’, says incoming L'Oréal CEO

05-Mar-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Beauty consumers worldwide are demanding open and honest brand communication on product formulations and ingredients in a digital world strained by unreliable and biased information, says the deputy CEO of L’Oréal.

Burt’s Bees vision for a circular economy: “a world where people are doing well by nature and for nature”

17-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Today, the Clorox-owned personal care brand announced plans to be Net-Zero-Plastic-to-Nature by 2021 and shared updates on packaging improvements, new product launches, waste elimination initiatives, and smart partnerships—all part of the Burt’s Bees...

L’Oréal continues to bet on travel retail with new LATAM Lancôme flagship

16-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Late last month, the multinational beauty makers opened the largest Lancôme shop in all of South America at São Paulo International Airport.

L’Oréal reports 5% net profit drop for 2020 despite strong Q4 and ‘record year’ in actives

12-Feb-2021 By Kacey Culliney

International beauty major L’Oréal has reported an overall loss in net profit for the full year of 2020, despite a spike in sales for the fourth quarter, most notably in active cosmetics and across China.

Beauty boost? Revlon eyes global brand extensions ‘for significant long-term revenue’ via MDR Brand Management

08-Feb-2021 By Kacey Culliney

International beauty major Revlon has partnered with MDR Brand Management to create a global brand extension strategy that takes it into new spaces and drives deeper consumer engagement across the EMEA, APAC and Americas.

CEW and Macy’s team up to fulfill retailer’s commitment to Fifteen Percent Pledge

03-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This month, the department store chain announced several initiatives to better support the Black community, including adding 11 Black-owned beauty brands to the Macy’s ecommerce site.

Tracee Ellis Ross to advise on Ulta Beauty diversity and inclusion initiatives

02-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Today, the beauty retail chain announced the new D&I Advisor role along with efforts to ensure that all customers and stakeholders “feel connected to and reflected at Ulta Beauty.”

Black-owned beauty gets support from L’Oréal USA – NAACP partnership

01-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Just in time for Black History Month, the multinational cosmetic and personal care company has announced a grant program—deadline February 18, 2021—to support startups and small businesses.

James B Holcomb moves to Univar Solutions

28-Jan-2021 By Deanna Utroske

At the start of year, the chemical distribution executive joined Univar to lead the company’s ingredient distribution business in North America.

The Vertical Beauty Alliance brings manufacturing, retail, and design experts together

20-Jan-2021 By Deanna Utroske

MANA Products, Meiyume, and RPG announced the partnership this month along with their global strategy to bring beauty brands the end-to-end solutions needed in the modern cosmetics and personal care marketplace.

Fragrance and personal care ingredient distributor Tilley Chemical Company accepts SK Capital investment

19-Jan-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The family-owned specialty chemical distributor announced this month that SK Capital has made a controlling investment in the business.

OLAY, seeking to up number of women in STEM, delivers science-in-a-box to school teachers

18-Jan-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Last year, the P&G skin care brand announced a commitment to—by 2030—double the overall number of women in science, tech, engineering, and math careers, and to triple the number of women of color in STEM careers. Now the brand is sending out educational...

Vejii invests further in beauty, expanding Dear Self Care brand in partnership with Tia Blanco

18-Jan-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The holding company behind vegan ecommerce site Vegii (shopvejii.com) announced the partnership last week along with the forthcoming launch of a Dear Self Care color cosmetics product line.

Indie Beauty Profile

Mehir Sethi, True + Luscious

12-Jan-2021 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile Mehir Sethi, CEO of True + Lucious, shares insight into how she launched and led a new color cosmetics brand to $1m in sales during COVID-19.

Aveda goes 100% vegan, removing all bee-derived ingredients from formulations

08-Jan-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This month the Estée Lauder Companies brand announced having delivered on its commitment to have all-vegan products “on shelves” by January 2021.

e.l.f. Cosmetics leverages entertainment platform Triller for global marketing

04-Jan-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The beauty maker created a holiday music remix album in partnership with Triller; and several of the brand’s tracks landed on this week’s Billboard Triller Global Chart.

2020 Year in Review

For We Can Only Be Beautiful Together

23-Dec-2020 By Deanna Utroske

15 Cosmetics Design articles that illustrate how 2020 began to change the business of beauty by and for Black People.

Women now outnumber men on Coty’s Board of Directors

22-Dec-2020 By Deanna Utroske

This month the beauty maker announced two new Directors—Anna Adeola Makanju and Mariasun Aramburuzabala Larregui—as well as the departure of Paul S. Michaels.