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Beauty brands need innovation and social media to excel, say pros at Beauty Biz Roundtable

11-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The fall installment of the twice-yearly industry event took place late last week in Santa Monica, California, bringing cosmetics and personal care industry executives together for networking, brainstorming, and ideas sharing.

Lion Equity Partners acquires Vivabox USA

10-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The Denver, Colorado – based private investment firm announced completion of the deal recently and now has plans to grow the cosmetics and personal care sampler box maker’s business organically and strategically by acquisition.

Sagekat launches green beauty retail resource

04-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The privately owned online media company announced the launch of its new shopping site this week, a dot com designed as a destination for consumers looking to discover and buy cosmetics and personal care products (as well as fashion) that meets a fixed...

October is breast cancer awareness month and the beauty business world knows it

04-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The pink ribbon movement celebrates 25 years this month and prominent cosmetics and personal care companies are marking the milestone with donations, data, research partnerships, and specially branded products to raise money for the cause.

AR from Perfect Corp makes headway in beauty

03-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The beauty technology company behind several popular augmented reality makeup platforms recently celebrated a milestone. Perfect Corp’s suite of YouCam apps have been downloaded over half a billion times by consumers around the world.

This is what an independent beauty brand looks like

02-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Since early this year, Cosmetics Design has been publishing the Indie Beauty Profile column weekly, showcasing the inspiring work of cosmetics and personal care entrepreneurs and their innovative brands. Now after nearly 30 installments, we pause to reflect...

Walmart updates chemical ingredient policy for cosmetics, skin care, and more

02-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The discount retailer has refreshed its policies around chemical ingredients in an effort to be a leader in the stainable chemistry movement as well as to provide transparent formulation information to consumers.

First CVS with dedicated K-beauty shop opens in NYC

28-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The retail pharmacy chain intends for its 13,000-square foot drugstore to be a destination where tourists and New Yorkers alike will discover a freshly curated selection of health and wellness products as well as a robust assortment of cosmetics and personal...

Coty revives beauty brand founder Sally Hansen

27-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

After founding her eponymous cosmetics company in 1946 and working for decades in the beauty industry as a retailer, brand leader, columnist, and more, Sally Hansen was written out of history only to be reanimated by a marketing expert in the 21st century.

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Euromonitor analyst highlights the key trends in Latin America

27-Sep-2017 By Simon Pitman

Euromonitor research analyst Elton Morimitsu spoke to Cosmetics Design about what is happening in the Brazilian beauty market now that it is clearly in recovery, and also points out some of the key trends in the rest of the Latin American market, including...

Natural and organic personal care product labeling, a path to a solution

25-Sep-2017 By Gay Timmons

Earlier this month, Cosmetics Design sent out a special e-newsletter on natural and organic labeling in the cosmetics and personal care industry. Here, Gay Timmons, president of the Natural and Organic Health and Beauty Alliance and an occasional commenter...

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Mintel highlights the most exciting global beauty launches

25-Sep-2017 By Simon Pitman

At last week’s in-cosmetics Latin America the Mintel Innovation Zone platformed some of the most interesting new product launches worldwide. In this video, Mintel’s Vivienne Rudd demonstrates some of the most interesting and trend-setting products on...

Beauty subscription service Birchbox turns 7

21-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The cosmetics and personal care products sampling business celebrates its seventh anniversary this month with a collectible box series and customer appreciation offers.  

Fast fashion retailer Forever 21 will open 10 beauty specialty stores this year

21-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

In collaboration with the retail real estate company GGP, Forever 21 has plans for over a dozen stand-alone beauty boutiques meant to deliver the experiences and products that millennial and Gen Z cosmetics and personal care consumers want.

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in-cosmetics Latin America show director reveals what is new this year

21-Sep-2017 By Simon Pitman

Cosmetics Design caught up with in-cosmetics Latin America show director Daniel Zanetti to find out about his expectations for this year's show, the all-important exhibitor numbers and what is new on the show floor.

Agnes B. Chapski to lead Sandow’s Beauty Engine

20-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

This week the media company, which specializes in design, beauty, fashion, and luxury, announced that Chapski will join Sandow as president of both its Beauty Engine brand services venture and its NewBeauty publication.

Technology and the future of beauty

20-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Tuesday at this week’s MakeUp in New York color cosmetics trade show in NYC, a standing-room-only conference session featuring speakers from L’Oréal, Google, and Peclers Paris, outlined how tech tools, data, and trends are changing beauty for consumers,...

“If we as beauty companies want every woman to buy our products…”

19-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Jamie Kern Lima, speaking at this year’s CEW Achiever Awards, urged beauty leaders to change the way images and models are used to market cosmetics and personal care products to women.

Nanotech researchers develop a new structural color solution

19-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

A team of scientists from around the world, led by Ming Xiao of The University of Akron, have just published their findings online at Science Advances. The researchers are optimistic that their noniridescent structural color solution can be useful on...

Special Newsletter natural and organic labelling

How beneficial is an international natural labelling standard?

18-Sep-2017 By Natasha Spencer

With natural actives becoming a commonplace element of many formulators' ingredient lists and as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ISO 16128 provides guidelines on definitions for natural and organic cosmetic ingredients, we...

Words Mean Nothing: The plight of natural and organic beauty labeling

15-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Depending on whom you ask, personal care and cosmetic regulations in the US are overly nuanced, too convoluted, or not exacting enough. All the same, trends and marketing strategies have collided in recent years to make ‘natural’ and ‘organic’ beauty...

Special Newsletter: Natural and Organic Labelling

Why consumers struggle with natural and organic labelling and how to fix it

15-Sep-2017 By Simon Pitman

Natural and organic labelling claims, certification and branding are confusing enough even for industry professionals, so imagine how consumers feel. We spoke to Ecovia Intelligence-founder Amarjit Sahota to find out how things can be simplified.

Finalists announced for 2017 L’Oréal Women in Digital NEXT Generation Award

14-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

This week, the beauty powerhouse announced the three brands that are still in the running for L’Oréal’s annual award honoring tech innovations that are set to change the cosmetics and personal care industry.

in-cosmetics Latin America focuses on marketing initiatives for ingredients players

14-Sep-2017 By Simon Pitman

Reed Exhibitions will be opening up the in-cosmetics Latin America event in Sao Paulo, Brazil next week, with a focus on how formulation players can leverage their brands.

Counteract Coalition wants to reinvent cosmetics and personal care industry regulations

13-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The newly formed group, comprising 15 brands and companies (both big and small), made its debut Tuesday in Washington DC. The Counteract Coalition is there to influence the course of the Personal Care Products Safety Act.

Beauty startups to compete for $5,000 prize at JPitch during in-cosmetics NA

12-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Johnson & Johnson hosted a live event for cosmetics and personal care startups at this year’s in-cosmetics Global event. Now, the company is relaunching the initiative as JPitch. And, interested consumer product innovators and tech companies can...

Inolex opens cosmetics ingredient demonstration center in Sao Paulo, Brazil

12-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The global beauty care ingredient maker began hosting training sessions at the new facility last month and is aiming to use the new center to better collaborate with current Inolex customers in Latin America and help bring more solutions to other brands...

Indie Beauty Profile

Donna Pohlad, dpHUE

11-Sep-2017 By …as told to Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile, Donna Pohlad, founder and CEO of the at-home hair color brand dpHUE has a single word of advice for her beauty brand founding counterparts and her full remarks here illustrate nicely how she herself has taken that wisdom to...

Sensorial trend still going strong with support from silicone fluid blends

07-Sep-2017 By Michelle Yeomans

Widespread advancements in silicones continues to drive the sensorial trend forward as the flexible, stable ingredient offers long lasting benefits while enhancing the texture of skin care, hair and colour cosmetics products.

First Glimpse: The ADF&PCD cosmetics and fragrance packaging tradeshow opens in NYC

07-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The annual aerosol and beauty / fragrance packaging tradeshow is in New York City this week, helping packing professionals solve problems, discover new innovations, and network with the industry’s top-tier experts.

Givaudan Active Beauty expands its digital capabilities

07-Sep-2017 By Simon Pitman

As part of its 2020 digital innovation strategy, Givaudan had launched a new educative  beauty app for its Active Beauty division.

Henkel’s Beauty Care business gets new US facility

06-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The European personal care corporation has just opened a newly consolidated North American headquarters and announced plans to add on more space for R&D in the coming months.  

Henkel confirms acquisition of Nattura Laboratorios

06-Sep-2017 By Simon Pitman

Henkel has confirmed the closing of its acquisition of Nattura Laboratorios, a move that expands its footprint in the Latin American professional hair care market.

Trend Spotting: Beauty from the heartland

06-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

‘Beauty from the heartland’ was on the list last December, when Cosmetics Design posted our annual trends video forecasting the year ahead. Here we check in on the Central States and see what’s happening with cosmetics and personal care in the heartland.

Is paraben research sensationalised?

05-Sep-2017 By Belinda Carli, Director, Institute of Personal Care Science

Research can be used to support amazing and important findings – it can also unfortunately be taken the wrong way before a true causative relationship is established, to create fear.

Personal care chemical supplier Wacker marks 40 years in Brazil

05-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The ingredient maker celebrated the milestone Monday in São Paulo, where the company’s American headquarters are located. Wacker isn’t resting on its laurels though, the company has already begun building its next multifunctional facility in South America.

Marketing pros to get special attention at second annual in-cosmetics North America trade show

05-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Last year the global event series for cosmetics manufacturers made its North American debut with a show in New York City. For 2017, the show organizers are adding dedicated programming for marketers and product development professionals. This, in addition...

Shin Etsu Chemical ups silicone production in US

05-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The largest silicone maker in Japan has just announced plans to expand its business here in the States. The company has been in operating in the US from Ohio, New Jersey, and Texas for over 30 years. And now, Shin Stsu is enlarging the Ohio business.

IBE NYC 2017: Trends and highlights

31-Aug-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The Indie Beauty Expo opened its third annual show in New York City last week, and Cosmetics Design was there, meeting with founders, discovering new brands, learning about product launches, and identifying the trends and innovations that are emerging...

CHT Group acquires ICM Silicones

31-Aug-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The specialty silicones manufacturer, founded by a former Dow chemist, has grown over the years in part thanks to several of its own acquisitions. Now owned by CHT Group, the company is likely to expand its business even further.

P&G discloses fragrance ingredients in personal care products

31-Aug-2017 By Deanna Utroske

This week, the company shared the fragrance ingredients used in the skin care brand Olay and the hair care brand Herbal Essences. And, the consumer goods company has plans to disclose all the fragrance ingredients in all of its products (not just beauty)...

How beauty brands can get social media right

30-Aug-2017 By Sinead Norenius-Raniere

In today’s digital environment, things move fast especially with social media. So having a clear understanding of what is important and what you should be doing is critical to success both from an engagement standpoint but also a brand standpoint.

A look at the beauty brands on this year’s Inc. 5000

30-Aug-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The monthly magazine covering news about growing US businesses has issued its latest 5000 list, a roster of “the fastest-growing private firms in America” and the entrepreneurs behind them.

Coty financial results show consumer beauty brands not doing well

29-Aug-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The global beauty corporation released Q4 and full-year results this month, disclosing how Coty’s acquisitions of not only the P&G Beauty Business but also of ghd and Younique are impacting the business.

Nagase acquires Fitz Chem Corporation

29-Aug-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The global specialty chemical distributor is deliberately and incrementally expanding its business in the US, and the acquisition of Fitz Chem gives the company a strong position in the Midwest.

Biotech firm offering cosmetic companies an alternative to animal testing to open in US

29-Aug-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Genoskin makes unique human skin models for testing specialty chemicals as well as finished personal care and cosmetic products. This week, the French company announced plans to bring its business to the United States.

FIT and Allure Magazine launch online beauty certificate program

28-Aug-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Online learning in the cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance industries is gaining ground: L’Oreal teamed up with General Assembly on a program for the company’s marketing pros in late 2015, The Fragrance Foundation launched a perfume course early this...

Acme-Hardesty partners with Botaneco

24-Aug-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Ingredient distributor Acme-Hardesty announced the partnership this week. And it’s only the latest step on Botaneco’s journey in the cosmetics and personal care industry.    

Trend Spotting: Delicacies as beauty ingredients

24-Aug-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Food trends influencing cosmetics and personal care formulations are nothing new. But now, luxury foods—treats on par with diamond dust, gold flakes, pearl powder, and silk—are showing up in beauty products.

in-cosmetics Latin America to be highly experiential and educational

23-Aug-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Next month in São Paulo, Brazil, the international cosmetics and personal care ingredient trade show opens its doors again, this time with a dedicated Protection Showcase, more interactive features, and programming to inform R&D pros and marketers...