Skin care

Avon and Herbalife execs go to work at Tupperware

17-Mar-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Tupperware owns six brands. Five of those are beauty and personal care brands. And late last week, the direct-sales company added 2 beauty and wellness executives to its leadership team.

CBD skin care to get a boost from Amyris technologies

17-Mar-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The beauty ingredient maker has announced recent advances in fermentation technology and posted new research data online that shows the advantages of formulating CBD skin care with the company’s biotech Neossance Squalane.

The Body Shop Canada redecorates to focus on refillables and activism

12-Mar-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The Natura subsidiary reopened its CF Pacific Centre store in Vancouver, Canada, this month with new features meant to reintroduce consumers to the brand’s progressive mission for gender equality, environmental sustainability, and more.

P&G wants other beauty makers to elevate LGBTQ inclusion

11-Mar-2020 By Deanna Utroske

As part of the multinational consumer goods company’s Diversity & Inclusion Week events, P&G executives took to the stage alongside Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD, to discuss visibility and inclusion in advertising.

Sephora Accelerate announces 2020 member brands

11-Mar-2020 By Deanna Utroske

This year the retailer is adding 13 women-led beauty brands from around the world to its six-month accelerator program.

SPF+, whitening and perfecting: L’Oréal publishes flurry of sunscreen patents

10-Mar-2020 By Kacey Culliney

International beauty major L’Oréal has developed advanced sunscreen formulations that provide increased protection, improved sensorial experience, enhanced appearance and skin whitening.

The PCPC’s focus on science, safety, and sustainability

10-Mar-2020 By Deanna Utroske

At the start of March, the Personal Care Products Council held its annual meeting event, complete with educational panels, keynotes, and breakout sessions. This year’s topic was sustainability. And Cosmetics Design was there to connect with the experts,...

MyChelle Dermaceuticals launches CBD skin care line

10-Mar-2020 By Deanna Utroske

After 20 years on the market, the clean beauty brand is refreshing its branding, signing a deal with Ulta, and launching a new line of products—formulated with CBD—called ENHANCE.

Sequential Skin: beauty tech’s new approach to genetic analysis and microbiome skin care

09-Mar-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Late last year, Albert Dashi and Oliver Worsley took their patent-pending skin analysis patch and corresponding beauty app public with a soft launch. And still today, the two molecular biology PhDs are hopeful that Sequential Skin will be the future of...

L’Occitane announces new parental leave policy

05-Mar-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The beauty maker and retailer’s new employee policy will ensure leave for parents company wide and is a move towards more equitable and inclusive benefits.

University of Cincinnati adds a new degree program for cosmetic scientists

05-Mar-2020 By Deanna Utroske

In February, UC announced a new option, in partnership with the chemical engineering department, for master’s degree students interested in cosmetic science.

2020 in-cosmetics global trade show postponed until June

05-Mar-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Today, the organizers behind in-cosmetics global have announced—in light of mounting coronavirus concerns in Europe—a postponement of this year’s event.

5 innovative brands win Blue Beauty Awards at INNOCOS

04-Mar-2020 By Deanna Utroske

At this week’s INNOCOS event in Scottsdale, Arizona, the first Blue Beauty Award winners were announced, recognizing cosmetics, personal care, and wellness brands for business strategies and initiatives that have a positive environmental effect.

Cosmetic Laboratories of America is now part of the KDC/ONE business

03-Mar-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The Canada-based beauty maker has been growing exponentially since being acquired by Cornell Capital in mid-2018. And the Cosmetic Laboratories of America acquisition is just the latest in what is now a long line of deals that have vastly expanded KDC/ONE.

Indie Beauty Profile

Stan Ades, Pacific Shaving Company

27-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

In his Indie Beauty Profile, Stan Ades, Co-Founder of the Pacific Shaving Company describes a business built on the courage of the Founders’ convictions that a personal care startup could actually improve the at-mass shave and grooming category.

Demand for cosmetics and personal care preservatives is on the rise, says Frost & Sullivan data

26-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

While the microbiome skin care movement and consumer interest in paraben-free cosmetics and personal care products might suggest that preservatives are falling out of favor in the beauty industry, new data from the market research and consulting firm...

2020 Indie Beauty Innovators Awards open for entries

26-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Late last week, the Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers and Distributors opened their 2020 IBI Awards competition in 8 product categories and 7 stewardship categories.

The Clean & Ethical Beauty boom: How to connect with the conscious consumer

25-Feb-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Conscious consumerism is here to stay and as the fast-paced clean and ethical beauty trend takes its grip, industry needs to start delivering on all fronts – overcoming lab and regulatory hurdles along the way.

What does IBE look like overseas?

24-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

One month from now, the Berlin, Germany, edition of the Indie Beauty Expo will open its doors, welcoming buyers from nearly 80 retailers as well as 100s of press and influencers, brand founders, and other industry professionals.

Indie Beauty Profile

Tony Rechtman, INIKA Organic

21-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

In his Indie Beauty Profile, Tony Rechtman, CEO and Founder of Australia-based Total Beauty Network, the company behind the INIKA Organic brand talks about his work to make effective natural makeup and skin care a reality and about the sizable company...

CD BUZZ VIDEO

VIKE Beauty at IBE LA: launching a brand and elevating a category

20-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

At last month’s Indie Beauty Expo event in Los Angeles, California, the beauty influencers known on InstaGram as The Vike Twins were showcasing their newly launched brand and category disrupting makeup remover mist.

L’Oréal Canada’s founding President has passed away

20-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Philippe Dalle opened the beauty maker’s Canada-based subsidiary in 1958 and served as President until 1984. This week the company and the industry morn his loss.

Ungerer & Company is now owned by Givaudan

20-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The acquisition brings more natural ingredients and more local and regional markets to the Givaudan business.

Sustainable Beauty strategies for the 2020s

20-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The New Year marked a new decade as well; and over the past two months news of environmentally sustainable cosmetics and personal care products, packaging, and business operations point to a future where green practices are built in rather than added...

Indie Beauty gains ground at in-cosmetics Global 2020, thanks to Formula Botanica partnership

19-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Following the success of last year’s Indie Trail feature, the show organizers have teamed up with the online cosmetic science education venture to expand the programing and resources available to indie beauty brand leaders at this year’s edition of in-cosmetics...

Tom’s of Maine launches prebiotic toothpaste and personal care

18-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The Colgate brand is getting in on the microbiome beauty and wellness movement with a small collection of oral and personal care products formulated with prebiotics.

Colgate’s newest brand launches CBD product line

18-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Just last month, Colgate announced an agreement to acquired Hello Products LLC. And this month the brand launched a collection of CBD oral care exclusively at Ulta Beauty.

Analysis

Friendly Beauty: what new terminology means for brands and formulators

17-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

In an effort to reach consumers looking for safe, effective, knowledge-based beauty, cosmetics and personal care products are being marketed as ‘friendly’. While investors and retailers are looking for a ‘beauty brand she can believe in’.

in-cosmetics Global spotlights beauty tech

14-Feb-2020 By Kacey Culliney

in-cosmetics Global will feature a dedicated beauty tech zone, showcasing the latest smart products and providing a platform to network and spark collaboration.

CD Buzz Video

Dow showcases sustainable personal care formulation tech at Uplink Live

13-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The Michigan-based commodity chemical company was on hand at the first Uplink Live event of 2020, meeting with indie brand leaders and showcasing a single ingredient: ACULYN Siltouch Rheology Modifier.

Indie Beauty Profile

Linda Dempah, Adeba Nature

13-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile, Linda Dempah, CEO of Adeba Nature, describes the solid beginnings of the brand she’s built around a single, rare ingredient—Adjoba oil.

DUOLAB startup launches personalized, preservative-free, on-demand skin care

12-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The venture, owned by L’Occitane Group, launched its AI powered skin care technology this week in the UK and Ireland. And there are plans to launch DUOLAB in the Asian market before year’s end.

Dixie Brands is getting into the skin care business

11-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The US-based cannabis company is expanding into what it calls the healthy beauty category with new product lines from its existing health and wellness brand AcesoHemp.

Is beauty going bananas?

11-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

A recent fragrance concept report from Sozio suggests that the familiar tropical notes of banana are showing up in fine fragrance, skin care, body care, and beyond.

Luxe and Active soar: L’Oréal reports ‘best sales growth of the decade’

10-Feb-2020 By Kacey Culliney

L’Oréal has reported its strongest sales growth in a decade, with Luxe and Active cosmetics surging significantly and e-commerce growing ‘spectacularly’, according to its CEO and chairman.

CD Buzz Video

Sway: the startup personal care brand making armpits pretty

10-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Rebecca So founded Sway in 2017 with a collection of underarm care products. Since then, the brand has grown to include skin care, body care, and more. But still at the heart of Sway is a mission to make pits pretty.

The Body Shop parent InNature to focus on Natura following Malaysia float

06-Feb-2020 By Richard Whitehead

The company behind The Body Shop in three South East Asian markets is expecting to raise over MYR120m (US$30m) from an upcoming IPO on Kuala Lumpur's stock exchange.

PharmaCielo will start shipping CBD isolate to beauty makers in the EU and beyond

05-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The Colombia-based (Canada-owned) cannabis cultivator signed a 3-year deal late last month with CBD Export Global to distribute CBD isolate and broad-spectrum CBD oil in Europe.

NOHBA Summit on clean and green beauty opens in March

04-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The first summit event from the Natural and Organic Health and Beauty Alliance will run for 2 days in Los Angeles, California, bringing together cosmetics and personal care industry leaders for educational sessions and networking meant to clarify and...

Editor's Spotlight: Indie Beauty Analysis

3 ways IBE exhibiting brands stood out from the crowd

03-Feb-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Last week’s Indie Beauty Expo event in Los Angeles, California, attracted hundreds of influencers, buyers, press, and investors. Here’s a quick look at how select cosmetics, personal care, and wellness brands exhibiting at the event managed to capture...

IN-DEPTH ON CBD BEAUTY - THE LONG READ

The CBD beauty blaze: Disruption has been ‘nothing short of remarkable’

28-Jan-2020 By Kacey Culliney

The tremendous rise of CBD beauty is continuing to fire up, fuelled by indie and skin care innovation, but weed washing and big brand resistance remain key hurdles to growth, according to Prohibition Partners.

Stephens and Associates acquired by SGS

28-Jan-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The contract research and testing lab venture, based in the Southwestern US, is now part of the multinational inspection, verification, testing, and certification company SGS.

Cosme Tokyo 2020

Breaking down barriers: Avicanna on ‘huge’ potential to grow CBD skin care brand in Asia

27-Jan-2020 By Amanda Lim

Biopharmaceutical company Avicanna is seeking a partnership to help it expand the footprint of its CBD skin care brand, Pura Earth into Asia, starting with Japan.

IBE announces 2019 Best in Show winners, 5 trends stand out

24-Jan-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Just days before the 2020 Indie Beauty Expo event series gets underway, the 2019 Best in Show have been announced; and several of the winning cosmetics and personal care products exemplify global innovation trends.

Neutrogena EMEA innovation fuels 2019 Johnson & Johnson sales amid baby care dip

23-Jan-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Personal care major Johnson & Johnson has reported stable full-year 2019 results, with marginal growth in consumer health driven largely by Neutrogena innovation despite a sales dip in baby care.

LBB Specialties restructures leadership team for further growth

23-Jan-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The personal care and cosmetics ingredient distribution venture has named a new CEO and Executive VP to “maximize growth” in existing markets as well as through additional acquisitions.

Beauty Tech Faceroll: one brand’s plan to reach consumers through gaming

23-Jan-2020 By Deanna Utroske

This week, Benefit Cosmetics announced a cross-industry collaboration that promises to reach more than 15,000,000 women.

FDA calls meeting on standardization of talc testing methods

22-Jan-2020 By Deanna Utroske

In early February, the public health agency will hold a public meeting on testing methods for asbestos in talc and for cosmetic products containing talc.

Beauty suppliers and manufacturers taking steps toward circularity

21-Jan-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Several companies in the cosmetics and personal care sector have signed on to support the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in its development of an online tool to help businesses measure and track their progress toward economic circularity.

Editor's Spotlight

Indie beauty brands are winning with QVC and HSN

20-Jan-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Following a pitch competition in mid 2019, the video commerce channels owned and operated by Qurate Retail Group are putting winning brands on air and in front of millions of consumers.