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Immunity and beauty: The science, trends and future promise for growth

18-May-2021 By CosmeticsDesign-Europe Senior Reporter

Interest in topical and ingestible beauty products that support and even boost immunity is gaining traction, but what science can back up product developments and how much growth potential is there really in this space?

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.

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.

Climate Neutral partnering with beauty brands to decrease industry’s carbon emissions

21-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The nonprofit works with businesses across industry sectors to measure, offset, and reduce carbon emissions. 8 beauty brands have been certified Climate Neutral over the past year and more are signing on for 2021.

P&G beauty sales surge on 'superiority' push as Q3 2021 sales continue to rise

21-Apr-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Personal care giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) has reported a net sales rise for its third quarter (Q3) of fiscal 2021, with beauty leading the charge in growth terms.

At Sally Beauty the future of hair color is bright

19-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This month the beauty supply channel mainstay announced the addition of some 60+ new shades to its portfolio of professional hair color products.

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.

Insect ingredients specialist EnviroFlight expands R&D for cosmetic inputs

14-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Today, EnviroFlight, a subsidiary of the upcycling organic ingredient maker Darling Ingredients, announced plans to break ground on a new R&D facility in North Carolina.

E-beauty lows: Hair care saw ‘steep decline’ in customer review sentiment during 2020

13-Apr-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Online beauty customer reviews in 2020 showed a sharp decline in sentiment across hair care, largely fuelled by product dissatisfaction around DIY hair colour kits and shipping issues, according to AI data specialist Revuze.

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.

Almond-derived cosmetic ingredient traceability easier with CASP

06-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The California Almond Sustainability Program is a free collection of online interactive tools for growers and handlers to share best practices and data on growing, processing, and crop management.

Herbal Essences teams with Walmart, TerraCycle, and The Nature Conservancy

01-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

In March, the P&G hair care brand announced its Renew the Forests initiative in support of TNC’s Plant a Billion Trees program.

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.

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.

A ‘milestone’ moment: Garnier now Leaping Bunny certified globally

09-Mar-2021 By Kacey Culliney

L’Oréal’s Garnier brand has received Cruelty Free International’s Leaping Bunny approval on its entire global portfolio after months of work with its vast supplier network – a move that proves exactly what is possible on a mass beauty scale, says the...

‘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.

Special Edition: Halal cosmetics developments

Hijabi hair care: Unmet needs creating massive opportunities for industry players - Dow

04-Mar-2021 By Amanda Lim

The unmet hair care needs of hijab-wearing Muslim women is creating huge opportunities for players to develop products that specifically target covered hair.

Style Update: Marc Anthony hair care gets a new look

01-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

In recent weeks, the 25-year-old hair brand announced new brand positioning, an updated brand name, and new packaging as well as a Strategic Review Process, which could lead to the sale of company assets.

Beauty Ingredient Update: Gelest’s new CBD hybrid fluid compatible with silicones

25-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

CosmeticsDesign.com first reported on the ingredient supplier’s research around CBD derivatives and silicone gel elastomers following the 2019 SCC Annual Meeting and Technology Showcase. Now that research is a reality, with the launch of a personal care...

Why is textured hair front-and-center for Sally Beauty?

24-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Throughout Black History Month, beauty ingredient makers, manufacturers, brands, and retailers have been foregrounding opportunities and celebrating the importance of historical and ongoing contributions of Black people. Sally Beauty is no exception,...

5 Insights on scalp care

23-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Dr Isfahan Chambers-Harris was, like so many indie beauty brand founders, inspired to launch Alodia Hair Care out of her own experience—For Dr Chambers-Harris that was an experience of hair breakage and scalp damage that she attributed to chemical straighteners....

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...

Mindy McKnight’s family hair brand for all textures launches in Canada

15-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The creator of the Cute Girls Hairstyles YouTube channel launched Hairitage by Mindy early last year. And now in partnership with Walmart the brand has expanded into a new market.

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.

Dove teams with skin care influencer to launch Hair Therapy product range

10-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This week the new Dove Hair Therapy product collection went on sale at mass and drug retailers—Hair Therapy is a concept that conjoins skin care ingredients, hair care technology, and the scalp care trend.

5 Insights on beauty product format innovation

08-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Personal care entrepreneur and zero-waste advocate Jayme Jenkins shares insights into the development and launch of Everist shampoo concentrate.

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.

Scalp Care Update: trends, opportunities, and ideas about an emerging category

22-Jan-2021 By Deanna Utroske

For years now, scalp care has been worth watching. But already this year it’s been included in Forbes coverage of the biggest beauty trends of 2021. Here, Cosmetics Design looks at the latest launches and considers what founders and formulators already...

Unilever commits to €2bn annual spend with ‘diverse’ suppliers by 2025

21-Jan-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Personal care major Unilever has set aside more money to conduct business with suppliers owned or managed by under-represented groups, including those led by women and people with disabilities.

Construction begins on Colonial Chemical M.E. Arabia

20-Jan-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Today, the Tennessee-based specialty surfactants company announced that work has begun on a new manufacturing facility that will make the most of regional localization efforts in and beyond Saudi Arabia.

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...