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From The Editor's Desk

Could Unilever’s ‘Tinder for ideas’ app reinvent beauty R&D?

24-Jul-2019 By Simon Pitman

Unilever’s recently announced an app aimed at simplifying concept phase development and it has got beauty professional’s tongues wagging.

Cibus picks up another patent for non-transgenic gene editing technology

23-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Last week, the biotech company announced receipt of the patent No. 10,287,594 for technology that builds on Cibus’s previously patented gene-editing tech. And now, Cibus is confident that it has in-house intellectual property for the use of Gene Repair...

Editor's Spotlight

Indie Beauty brand leaders as product knowledge experts

22-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Startup founders and independent brand leaders in the cosmetics and personal care business know what’s been missing in the marketplace and they often keep in close contact with consumers both online and in person, making the beauty entrepreneur’s perspective...

L’Oréal Canada brings 5 tech startups into corporate accelerator program

18-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The technologies—voice, machine vision and location analytics, ecommerce advertising, multicloud broadcasting, and AI—aren’t exclusively beauty tech solutions. But L’Oréal Canada and the men leading these startups see great potential for their tech tools...

Personal care manufacturer KDC/ONE makes second acquisition this month

17-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The Canadian company announced this week that it has reached a deal to acquire Swallowfield’s beauty manufacturing business. The news comes just 2 weeks after KDC/ONE acquired Alkos and again furthers the company’s presence and capabilities in Europe.

Kopari closes $20 million Series A funding round, thanks to L Catterton, Unilever Ventures, and others

17-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Coconut oil is the hero ingredient in Kopari products. And the San Diego, California – based beauty startup has plans to grow its business even further, creating more coconut beauty products and reaching more consumers in-store and online.

Sally Beauty ramps up customer insights and engagement with new experience programme

17-Jul-2019 By Natasha Spencer-Jolliffe

International beauty products retailer, Sally Beauty, engages with platform technology provider, Service Management Group (SMG), to launch customer experience management programme.

Project Beauty Expo moves to Los Angeles, California

16-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Last year, the beauty discovery show and entrepreneur education event, hosted by and for women of color, took place in New York City. For 2019 it’s headed to the West Coast. PBE will take place from September 14 through 16, and a first look at the program...

Charkit acquires CA Specialties and Custom Ingredients, Cathy Ayer Clark stays on as president

16-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Late last week, the multi-industry chemical supplier announced its latest acquisition. Adding the Custom Ingredients business to its portfolio means Charkit now offers that company’s popular ready-made ingredient blends for both personal care and industrial...

The Estée Lauder Companies creates a new role for Sara Moss

16-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This month, Moss became the beauty company’s vice chairman, a post that sees her advising executive management, collaborating with senior staff to advance women’s leadership, and coordinating communication between the board of directors and the Lauder...

6 indie brands helping define the mindful beauty movement

15-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Mindful beauty is a catchall term that describes the sorts of businesses and brands that conscious consumers want to support. Here, Cosmetics Design takes a look at 6 types of mindful beauty and a small selection of the indie brands that are envisioning...

2019 Indie Beauty Innovators Awards finalists announced

11-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This week, ICMAD, the Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers and Distributors association, released its list of 30+ finalist across 11 categories. Winners will be announced at a celebratory dinner later this month in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Can machine learning help cosmetics and personal care brands build consumer loyalty?

11-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Launchmetrics thinks so. The data analytics company launched a new brand decisioning platform today called Insights by Launchmetrics that promises to help beauty brands spend smarter on marketing as well as to compare and contrast a beauty brand’s performance...

Unilever advances zero-deforestation initiative

10-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This week, Unilever published lists of its paper and board product suppliers as well as of its soy suppliers. The beauty maker believes that this sort of transparency will compel partner companies along the supply chain to be accountable for practices...

5 big beauty makers rank on Forbes 2019 list of Best Employers for Women

10-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The list, published this month by Forbes Media, rates 300 US companies based on survey data that indicates which companies working women like most. The 2019 list includes 5 multinational cosmetics and personal care corporations as well as a handful of...

Cosmoprof North America is just 3 weeks away!

09-Jul-2019 By Simon Pitman

The Cosmoprof North America event will be opening its doors in less than three weeks, and this year it will incorporate a number of brand new innovations to the show floor.

Investors start to get behind Edgewell Personal Care

09-Jul-2019 By Simon Pitman

Initially investors seemed to shy away from Edgewell after the company decided to merge with shaving brand Harry’s back in May, but things have started to turn around.

Indie Beauty Profile

Michal Berski, Curlsmith

05-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

In his Indie Beauty Profile, Michal Berski, CEO of Curlsmith, describes a hair care, treatment, and styling brand developed for people with curly hair—a brand he believes is unlike any other on the market. And he offers advice for other personal care...

Canadian firm bets on Colombia for low cost hemp cultivation

03-Jul-2019 By Hank Schultz

Relevium Technologies, a Canadian development stage company focusing on online sales of dietary supplements and personal care products, is moving to acquire LifeLine Pharma, a Colombian cannabis company.

From The Editor's Desk

How trade wars are impacting the cosmetics industry

03-Jul-2019 By Simon Pitman

Global trade has seen some big changes in recent years, highlighted by massive shifts in international trade agreements that have impacted many areas of business, including the beauty and personal care industry.

Society of Cosmetic Chemists preps for annual meeting

03-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The 2019 SCC technology showcase and meeting event site is live. And it lists out an agenda full of cutting-edge topics, spanning microbiome beauty; sustainable formulations; clean beauty; and textured hair; as well as all things CBD, hemp, and cannabis....

European Union signs trade agreement with Mercosur

02-Jul-2019 By Simon Pitman

The European Union has signed a big trade agreement with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay that will see many tariffs eliminated in the two regions, including chemicals.

KDC/ONE acquires French beauty manufacturer Alkos

02-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Recently, Canadian cosmetics and personal care manufacturer KDC/ONE has been growing steadily, opening new laboratory facilities in 2018 and again early this year, and acquiring several businesses to strategically bolster the company’s capabilities in...

Cosmopack puts beauty manufacturing on display with new Factory feature

02-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This month’s Cosmoprof North America event will include an event-within-an-event: Comopack, a tradeshow all about contract and private-label manufacturing, with exhibitors showing packaging, applicators, machinery, ingredients, and raw materials too....

Expo Pack Guadalajara breaks attendance records

27-Jun-2019 By Simon Pitman

Expo Pack Guadalajara, one of the leading events for the packaging and processing industries in Latin America, broke attendance records for its 2019 event.

Unboxing Wellness: Scentbird adds CBD, Women’s Health, Supplements, Tonics, and more

27-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The monthly subscription and discovery service has moved beyond its core business of fragrance in recent months—adding color cosmetics and skin care. And now, Scentbird has entered the wellness category, partnering with bands like Perfect V, Golde, and...

From The Editor's Desk

What will make skin microbiome a long-term trend?

26-Jun-2019 By Simon Pitman

This week’s two-day Cosmetics Design Summit on Skin Care Microbiome Innovation concluded with a panel discussion to explore whether the microbiome trend is a fad or here for the long-term. The consensus was unanimous…

bgX develops on-demand beauty service and new e-commerce platform

26-Jun-2019 By Natasha Spencer

On-demand beauty technology provider, bgX, has teamed up with software management company, Shortcuts, in a new global partnership.

2 tech company updates that beauty pros need to know about

26-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This month Google and Amazon announced new tech services that change the ecommerce marketplace for both consumer and professional beauty products. Read on to find out what’s new and why it matters.

“For a better world”: Amorepacific plots 2020 sustainability goals in newly published annual report

26-Jun-2019 By Amanda Lim

K-beauty conglomerate Amorepacific has published a new report detailing its sustainable practices and its 2020 goals that focus on three strategic directions -promotion of a sustainable lifestyle, contribution towards a cyclical economy, and ensuring...

Beleza Pura Store corners Brazil’s vegan beauty category

25-Jun-2019 By Simon Pitman

Brazilian consumers are showing an increasing concern in beauty products that are kind to the environment and to animals, a trend that is underlined by the success of Beleza Pura Store.

Unfiltered Experience, a brand new DTC beauty event

25-Jun-2019 By Simon Pitman

A new beauty show targeting the fast growing Direct To Consumer (DTC) beauty industry will be launched at the end of July, in Las Vegas.

Athletic apparel maker lululemon launches personal care

20-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The Canadian company announced its move into the new consumer goods sector just this week. lululemon’s initial personal care product portfolio is small but carefully targeted to meet the needs of the brand’s active consumers.

LATAM Beauty Brand Profile: Barba Roja

Colombian men's hair care line launched featuring CBD

19-Jun-2019 By Simon Pitman

Colombian-based barber and hair care brand Barba Roja was platforming its newly launched new hair care line featuring CBD at last week's Expo Belleza in Medellin. Cosmetics Design caught up with the founder to find out more.

3 takeaways from The Global Beauty Tech Forum

19-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

At yesterday’s Global Beauty Tech Forum in New York City, technology leaders, brand executives, retail experts, and consumer media pros took the stage to discuss current and emerging digital technologies—technologies that are transforming the cosmetics,...

From The Editor’s Desk

Is CBD hair care set to make a big splash?

19-Jun-2019 By Simon Pitman

CBD skin care is shaping up to be one of the biggest trends of 2019, but is the buzz translating into product launches that target the hair care market?

Expo Belleza 2019, in photos

18-Jun-2019 By Simon Pitman

One of Latin America's most vibrant cosmetic and personal care events place took place in Medellin, Colombia, highlighting some of the most dynamic and fastest growing brands from a country renowned for its love of both beauty and fashion.

In Conversation: Cosmetics Design interviews indie brand leaders, PART 2

17-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

One of the best ways to learn is to listen. Last Friday’s Editor’s Spotlight item here on Cosmetics Design was a compendium of 8 video interviews with indie beauty brand founders. Today we’re adding 8 more conversations with entrepreneurs and innovators...

In Conversation: Cosmetics Design interviews indie brand leaders

14-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Innovative cosmetics and personal care startups have been making headlines here on Cosmetics Design for years. But not all of our conversations with indie brand leaders are included in the weekly Indie Beauty Profile column. To highlight brands and innovations...

LATAM Beauty Brands Profile

The discovery of an ancient Amazon hair treatment launched this brand

13-Jun-2019 By Simon Pitman

A trip to a remote part of the Amazon had hairdresser Fabian Lliguin wondering what made local tribeswomen’s hair so shiny and healthy. After they revealed what the secret was, a brand was born.

Socati maneuvers for rapid growth in hemp-extract production business

13-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Earlier this year, the Oregon-based company acquired cosmetics and personal care ingredient maker Blue Marble Biomaterials; and now Socati has appointed 4 new board members with experience in a range of industries and swiftly expanding market niches....

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How one lab is helping beauty makers and suppliers succeed in the microbiome skin care movement

13-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

A contract laboratory called BaseClear, located in the South Holland province of the Netherlands, has been doing microbial genomic and DNA work for decades. At the AIRS Conference in Barcelona, Spain, earlier this month, Cosmetics Design spoke with the...

CBD product makers should be mindful of FDA guidelines, says Kline

12-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Following the FDA's public hearing on Scientific Data and Information about Products Containing Cannabis or Cannabis-Derived Compounds on May 31, the Kline consulting and research firm issued a media release highlighting 3 points of which cosmetics...

Will new data change beauty makers’ foam formulation strategy?

12-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

An article on the dynamics of collective bubble collapse, published last month in the online peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports, outlines 2 mechanisms by which foams collapse and proposes a next research approach to discover how to formulate more...

From The Editor's Desk

Natura’s Avon acquisition creates the first Latin American beauty powerhouse

12-Jun-2019 By Simon Pitman

Natura’s acquisition of Avon was significant not only because of the magnitude of the deal, but also because it has created the first ever major Latin American multinational.

Expo Belleza event founder shares incredible growth story

11-Jun-2019 By Simon Pitman

The Expo Belleza event in Medellin, Colombia has only been running for four years but has grown exponentially, having started off as a very small event for beauty professionals. Cosmetics Design spoke to event co-founder Joseph La Manna to find out more.

ADF&PCD New York Innovation Awards accepting entries

11-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The annual packaging awards event for fragrance, personal care, cosmetics, and aerosol products coincides with the ADF&PCD tradeshow. The show and awards celebration will take place in mid-September. And in preparation, the event organizers are accepting...

2 beauty brands receive funds from Canada’s Women Entrepreneurship Strategy investment program

11-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

At the end of May, WES announced its support of 14 women-led businesses in Manitoba. Among the recipients are Heather Urqhart’s Huna Natural Apothecary and a brand called Tiber River Naturals, led by Adriana DeLuca and Michelle Lalonde.

President of ABC discusses the big trends driving the Brazil market

06-Jun-2019 By Simon Pitman

Brazil is by far the biggest market for cosmetics and personal care in the Latin American region making it the biggest trendsetter and influencer for the industry in the region. Cosmetics Design spoke to Vania Leite, president of Brazilian beauty and...

Nevada makes bold move to ban cosmetics animal testing

06-Jun-2019 By Simon Pitman

Nevada has followed suit with it neighboring state of California, to become the second state in the US to ban the testing of cosmetics and personal care on animals.