Hair care

PCPC Washington Report takes stock of wins and losses for the beauty industry

28-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

At this week’s annual meeting event, members of the Personal Care Products Council’s board of directors presented an overview of how all things political in the US just now are affecting the organization’s work on behalf of the industry.

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Annual financial results point to LATAM struggles for multinationals

27-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

In the past few weeks some of the largest multinational cosmetic and personal care players have released annual financial results that point to weaknesses in the LATAM market.

LATAM men’s grooming market poised for strong growth - Euromonitor

26-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

The men’s grooming market in the Latin American region is pulling out of a period of slow growth, and as renewed vigor propels the category into the mainstream, real momentum is starting to be seen.

LATAM Special Edition: Natural Hair Care

Mintel highlights the hottest natural hair care launches

26-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

The Latin American region has always been about hair care, so combine that with the naturals trends and you have a segment of the market that is alive with new product launches and innovation.

What to look out for in LATAM natural hair care formulation

26-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

In Latin America the hair care market remains the biggest category, and with the natural trend making bigger inroads in the region, that means that natural hair care is now very important.

NYSCC to host event for aspiring cosmetic chemists

26-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Next month, the New York Chapter of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists is bringing together speakers from 4 major North American universities for a half-day event entitled Cosmetic Science in Academia.

Aptar continues outreach to indie beauty brands with new site

26-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The packaging company launched its new site for startups and standalone cosmetics and personal care brands at this week’s Luxe Pack event in Los Angeles, California. It’s the next iteration of Aptar’s Indie Boutique offering.

Amazon continues to attract indie beauty brands

25-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This month, Pour Moi Skincare announced plans to start selling on the multinational ecommerce platform—a move that more and more cosmetics and personal care startups are making since Amazon launched its dedicated indie beauty shop last summer.

Indie Beauty Profile

Emilie Davidson Hoyt, LATHER

22-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile, Emilie Davidson Hoyt, founder of LATHER, shares an outline of her long-running indie brand: an unassuming masstige personal care line that’s meeting the expectations of today’s naturals consumer. She has sound advice for other...

Avon results point to continued challenges in Latin America

21-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

Avon’s full year 2018 have underscored that its biggest region by sales, Latin America, continues to be a weaker spot amidst global sales that failed to shine anywhere.

Qosmedix adds mini beauty packaging division

21-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The supplier’s new Itty Bitty Beauty offering is a platform meant to simplify the design and packaging selection process for brands looking to add mini sizes to their cosmetics and personal care product portfolio. Qosmedix will launch its new platform...

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Bridging the gap between ethical working practices and protecting the environment

20-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

Increasingly, cosmetic and personal care consumers want transparency regarding the origins and manufacturing practices of the products they buy, something that can prove to be a tough call for many brands to answer.

New CEW awards honor women indie beauty entrepreneurs

20-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The cosmetic and personal care industry organization will host its first Female Founders Awards next month, celebrating the achievements of women leading innovative beauty startups.

Natura is first off the block to sign up for UEBT certification

19-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

Natura Brasil has sealed its Ekos line with a brand new certification from the Union of Ethical BioTrade, confirming it has fulfilled tough criteria to respect both people and biodiversity.

ADF&PCD returns to NYC in 2019

19-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

In mid-September, the North American edition of Easyfairs beauty packaging event will showcase the latest in aerosol, dispensing, perfume, and cosmetic packaging. The 2-day show will feature exhibitors, tours, awards, and educational presentations pertinent...

Editor’s Spotlight

Small but Mighty: how mission-led indie beauty brands are sharing the wealth

18-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

At a benefit event in New York City last week, Linda Treska, founder of the waterless makeup brand Pinch of Colour, announced the launch of Blue Angel Charity, a nonprofit working in tandem with the brand to “combat the global water crisis.”

L’Oréal’s annual results point to LATAM struggle

14-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

The world’s biggest beauty and personal care player has published strong full-year 2018 results, but whereas the figures show that new markets were generally strong, it Latin America was the exception.

LATAM Beauty Brands Profile

LATAM Beauty Brands Profile - Mintel's skin and hair care launches

13-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

This week's LATAM Beauy Brands profile highlights some of the hottest hair and skin care launches throughout the region, brought to you from market research provider Mintel.

POS Bio-Sciences rebrands to become plant-based ingredient supplier

13-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The Canadian company got its start in the 1970s as a spinoff of a research initiative at the University of Saskatchewan and worked in partnership with several industries on a contract-services model. Now renamed KeyLeaf, the business will be focused squarely...

Colgate announces next CEO

13-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This week, the global consumer brands company (which owns Tom’s of Maine, Irish Spring, Lady Speed Stick, and other personal care brands) announced that Noel Wallace, currently COO at Colgate-Palmolive, will become CEO in April.

20+ companies in beauty made Forbes 2019 list of America's Best Employers for Diversity

13-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The second annual ranking includes cosmetics and personal care manufacturers, industry suppliers, and a range of beauty retailers. Sephora, Ulta, Amazon, and Qurate all made the list; as did P&G, Mary Kay, The Estée Lauder Companies, and Unilever.

Unilever results point to problems in Latin America

12-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

Unilever posted strong full year 2018 results, with big gains in the Asia Pacific region, but in Latin America the picture was not so rosy, with Argentina and Brazil being singled out.

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Is indie beauty a thing in Asia?

12-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

The indie beauty trend is taking North America and, increasingly, Europe, by storm. But is it gaining the same sort of popularity in Asia? If so, where are the hot spots for indie beauty?

Brazil tipped to be the fastest growing market in Latin American – Euromonitor

07-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

Cosmetics Design asked market research provider Euromonitor International which will be the fastest growing beauty and personal care market in the Latin American region over the next five years.

LATAM Beauty Brands Profile

LATAM Beauty Brands Profile: Inbiotech

06-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

Colombian biotech company Inbiotech started up as a biotech research firm back in 2004, but has since expanded with a beauty and personal care portfolio that includes five hair and skin care brands targeting a range of different functions.

Panama Beauty Project highlights how the industry can change lives

06-Feb-2019 By Simon Pitman

Volunteers from different parts of the beauty industry will visit the Central American country of Panama to demonstrate how indigenous populations can create a livelihood by making personal care products.

PCPC celebrates 125 years and readies for 2019 annual meeting

06-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The Personal Care Products Council will hold its annual meeting later this month, bringing together 500+ industry executives, supply-side professionals, and media for a mix of educational programming, networking, and strategic meetings.

ProAmpac reorganizes to serve cosmetics and personal care brands

06-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This week, the flexible packaging company announced a newly configured team that will work with beauty makers to design and develop packaging solutions that make sense for the modern marketplace.

Amazon to start selling beauty and personal care in Brazil

31-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

Amazon has confirmed that it will start selling beauty and personal personal care products online, in a market where competition in the category is already highly competitive.

Mibelle launches fermented-honey prebiotic skin care ingredient

31-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Bee beauty and microbiome-friendly skin care are both shaping up to have a big impact on the personal care and cosmetics industry. The new ingredient launch from Mibelle Biochemistry neatly addresses both trends.

Arcade Beauty and Vengo Labs team up to reinvent beauty on the go

30-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Portable skin care products, mini beauty, and sample sizes of everything from hair care to body care have become increasingly popular over the last year or so. Now, sampling company Arcade Beauty and retail tech maker Vengo Labs are teaming up to put...

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How luxury beauty brands can remain relevant in a fast changing market

30-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

There is an increasing body of evidence pointing to the fact that luxury consumers are changing their buying patterns while also becoming more difficult to access. So how to navigate these new hurdles?

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Gallinée showcases the latest in microbiome skin care at IBE LA

29-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

In 2015 Marie Drago founded a new kind of personal care brand, one that promised to be “revolutionary skincare with a patented complex of pre, pro and postbiotics to support your skin's microbiome.” At this month’s Indie Beauty Expo event, Cosmetics...

How do ingredients companies approach indie beauty formulation?

28-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

To answer this questions, Cosmetics Design spoke to decision makers at Blue Diamond Almonds Global Ingredients Division, to find out how ingredients providers come up with solutions that suit the specific demands of indie beauty players.

Challenging times: Formulating modern beauty solutions from traditional beliefs far from easy

28-Jan-2019 By Amanda Lim

Behind the rising trend of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda beauty, there are challenges that formulators face when creating modern skin care products from millennia-old wellness concepts.

Halal claims: ingredients through to finished products

28-Jan-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

With halal beauty a rising focus for brands, formulators and ingredients suppliers alike, we speak to companies working in the space to find out why the trend is rising, and how they are responding.

Editor’s Spotlight

4 must-know beauty trends spotted at IBE LA

28-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Every day the indie beauty movement gets more sophisticated, the brands more varied, and the innovations more relevant. Cosmetics Design discovered these 4 trends last week at the Indie Beauty Expo in Los Angeles, California—trends that signal what’s...

Amazon’s Q3 health and personal care sales reach $1.7bn

24-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

Amazon has reported that its third quarter sales for health and personal care products (HPC) in the U.S. were $1.7 billion in the third quarter and is expected to top this milestone figure in the fourth quarter.

Genomatica ramps up production of natural Butylene Glycol

24-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

Bio-based chemicals provider Genomatica says it has started larger scale production of natural Butylene Glycol to supply formulators of cosmetic and personal care products.

Aurora Cannabis breaks into Mexico market with acquisition

24-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

Canada-based Aurora Cannabis, a supplier of cannabis raw materials, has agreed to acquire all the outstanding shares in Mexican business Farmacias Magistrales.

Luxury market report points to new challenges for brands, Part II

23-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

A new market report points to the fact that luxury brands are facing new challenges, as a growing wealthy class worldwide shies away from displays of conspicuous wealth.

Made Of brand rides boom in baby organic products

23-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

With major retailers in the US clambering to stock the leading organic baby and toddler personal care products, Made Of is one particular brand that is reaping the benefits.

Avon Products woos Brazil market with 2-hour delivery

23-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

In the face of significant challenges in the all-important Brazil market, executives at Avon Products are trying to win back customers with the launch of a two-hour delivery service.

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The microbiome trend takes center stage for Cosmetics Design this year

23-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

The microbiome trend has taken the industry by storm and Cosmetics Design is homing in on it with a dedicated ingredient category for this year’s Beauty Industry Awards as well as a two-day conference program dedicated to the topic for our inaugural Cosmetics...

Luxury market report points to good times but challenges, Part I

22-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

A new report from UnityMarketing, State Of Luxury, points to a good year ahead for luxury brands, but cautions that this is reason for concern in the longer-term.

Brazil moves closer to chemical management system

22-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

Brazil has moved one step closer to creating a REACH-like system for the management of chemicals in the country, including those used for cosmetics and personal care.

Deciem skin care founder Brandon Truaxe dead at 40

22-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

The man behind the hugely successful Canadian skin care brand Deciem has been found dead at 40, with early reports suggesting he took his own life.

GC3 invites green beauty tech startups to apply for upcoming showcase

17-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The Green Chemistry & Commerce Council is accepting applications for chemistry technology solutions and new ingredients that meet the needs of major companies—needs like UV filters with low aquatic toxicity and naturally derived hair conditioning...

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Cosmetics Design introduces a new column for LATAM brands

16-Jan-2019 By Simon Pitman

Cosmetics Design is upping its coverage of the Latin America market with the introduction of a brand new column to support Latin American cosmetic and personal care brands.

Eco Well Podcast to host live show and green beauty consumer discovery event

16-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Jen Novakovich’s green beauty venture out of Canada features Cosmetics Design editor Deanna Utroske as a guest on this week’s podcast; and in March will host a first-of-its-kind panel discussion and shopping event, with the aim of connecting consumers...