Skin care

Womaness launches with affordable beauty and wellness for women 40+

21-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The age-inclusive beauty movement is swiftly gaining momentum as more brands and ingredient makers look to meet the needs and expectations of the 40+ consumer.

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.

COVID 'comparisons': J&J Q1 2021 consumer health sales dip amidst overall earnings rise

21-Apr-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Personal care major Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has reported a global sales rise for the first quarter of 2021, fuelled by pharmaceuticals and medical devices, but its consumer health division saw overall sales decline despite strength in oral and...

Virtual Beauty Retail: Mary Kay launches digital pop-up shop

19-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The Texas-based beauty company has just expanded its Suite 13 virtual 3D beauty showroom and expects to have the tech in place for nearly all markets that Mary Kay serves by the end of the year.

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.

Special Edition: Cannabis beauty - Innovation and science in CBD and cannabinoids

Beyond CBD? Any of the 100+ minor cannabinoids could be a ‘rock star’ beauty active, says Treehouse Biotech

09-Apr-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Cannabidiol (CBD) may have stolen the limelight in cannabis beauty so far, but there are over one hundred minor cannabinoids worth studying with significant potential for future innovation, says cannabinoid specialist Treehouse Biotech.

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...

ECM specialists Xylyx Bio launch skin care brand

08-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Today, executives from Xylyx Bio announced the launch of VIVIQ Skin Health, a consumer brand that leverages proprietary ECM tech.

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.

Researchers reveal new skin microbiome opportunities for fucoidan

01-Apr-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

A new study investigating the effects of two organic seaweed extracts on atopic dermatitis (AD), the most common type of eczema, suggests they may alter gene expression when used as a topical solution.

Cosmetic treatment info site RealSelf adds beauty product ecommerce

30-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This month the online medical aesthetics community launched a skin care shopping platform, featuring brands like HydroPeptide, Obagi, SENTÉ, and BeautyStat.

Indie Beauty Profile

Gregory Macdonald, Bathorium

30-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Gregory Macdonald, Founder of Bathorium, sees indie beauty as a community and bathing as a lost art. In his Indie Beauty Profile, he describes the brand he’s building to reinvigorate the bath category globally.

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.

Hand Sanitizer donations continue as industry supports COVID precautions

18-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This month, as in-person learning resumed in Shelby County Tennessee, local beauty maker Ampro Industries delivered more than 6,000 gallons of hand sanitizer to help keep students, teachers, and staff safe.

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.

IPA World Congress + Probiota Americas Digital Summit is back for 2021

17-Mar-2021 By Stephen Daniells

After a record-breaking 2020 Digital Summit, the IPA World Congress + Probiota Americas is back for 2021 with a dynamic extended program, a more immersive platform with new features, and more on-demand content.

Performance-driven: Aussie skincare brand Ultraceuticals expanding across the US after enduring pandemic setbacks

17-Mar-2021 By Amanda Lim

Australian cosmeceuticals brand Ultraceuticals is moving at full speed with US expansion, with plans to expand nationwide by July, after bouncing back following a series of COVID-19 delays.

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.

Plant power: Alcohol-free disinfectant uses lemon bush and chamomile to help kill COVID-19 virus

15-Mar-2021 By Amanda Lim

An Australian firm has developed an alcohol-free disinfectant that uses native plant extracts, which it claims can help kill the COVID-19 virus within 90 seconds without damaging even the most sensitive skin.

Special Edition: Advances in sun protection - skin science and ingredients innovation

Sun, skin care and supplements: French nutricosmetics startup wants to ‘break barriers’ in sun care with co-branding push

12-Mar-2021 By Kacey Culliney

There remains significant scope to advance beauty supplements that care for sensitive skin exposed to the sun and even greater potential for smart co-branding with sun care brands, says the founder of D+ For Care.

Indie Beauty Profile

Ben-Yam Barshi and Elah Barshi, Moringaia

09-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Ben-Yam Barshi and Elah Barshi, Co-Founders of Moringaia, are part of a new generation of beauty and personal care brands—brands that leverage conventional commercial strategies and CPG brands for social and environmental betterment.

Beauty Tech Deal: molecular-level skin assessment technology for smartphones

09-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

On Monday, trinamiX (a BASF brand) and VIAVI announced partnering on a tech development project that will put near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy into consumer hands.

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...

Yooma acquires CBD skin care brand Blossom

08-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The Toronto, Canada – based wellness company announced plans to purchase 4 brands from EMMAC Life Sciences Group in exchange for shares of Yooma, equivalent to $8.1m US dollars.

‘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.

Decorté adds in skin care assessment tech for US market

03-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The KOSÉ Corporation brand has teamed up with Perfect Corp to bring YouCam's AI Skin Diagnostic tools to consumers in the States.

Investment Strategy: Ming Zhao to raise capital for PROVEN Skincare from streaming viewers

02-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This summer, a new series called Going Public will stream on Entrepreneur.com and across that publication’s social channels. Both accredited and non-accredited investors will have the opportunity to invest in companies appearing on the series.

Nivea releases data on human touch, wellbeing, and pandemic isolation

25-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The Beiersdorf body care brand has also launched a campaign called Care For Human Touch to educate consumers about the importance of touch.

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...

Trend Alert: beauty consumers are ready for immunity-boosting skin care

24-Feb-2021 By Dr. Ebru Karpuzoglu

The COVID19 pandemic has had far-ranging consequences on our lives and wellness, with the most immediate impact being concerns over our overall health both physically and mentally. At the same time, wellness and skin care are converging; and as a result,...

Masstige move? Estée Lauder to acquire Deciem in two-part deal

23-Feb-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Prestige beauty major The Estée Lauder Companies will up its investment in mass functional beauty player Deciem, establishing terms for full ownership in three years – a move that will diversify it into the increasingly important masstige market, an expert...

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.

Beautiful opportunity: The time is right for probiotics in skin care

11-Feb-2021 By Nikki Hancocks

Consumers are 100% focused on natural ways to improve their skin health and probiotics are an exciting newcomer for this 'extremely engaged' market.

Company demonstrates small commercial scale fermentation process for CBG, GBGA

10-Feb-2021 By Hank Schultz

A cannabinoid product developer has announced it has successfully demonstrated CBG and CBGA production from a proprietary fermentation process.

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.

Gillette launches a shave brand with sustainability goals

09-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The P&G – owned personal care and grooming brand just announced its latest venture. The new Planet KIND shave and skin care brand has partnered with Plastic Bank to limit plastic waste in the oceans.

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.

‘Prestige first’: Shiseido sells off personal care division for $1.5bn to focus on high-end skin care

04-Feb-2021 By Amanda Lim

Japanese cosmetic giant Shiseido Company has announced the decision to sell its low-cost personal care business to CVC Capital Partners in a deal worth 160 billion yen ($1.5bn) in order to focus on its more high-end cosmetic brands.

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.

TriNutra introduces B’utyQuin for cosmetic product formulations

28-Jan-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The nutritional supplements company has ventured into beauty, launching 3% thymoquinone black cumin seed oil as a topical skin care active at the start of 2021.