Skin care

Indie Beauty Profile

Leyna Allred, Urb Apothecary

06-Nov-2017 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile, Leyna Allred, Owner of Urb Apothecary, describes how (for her brand) ingredient sourcing and environmentalism go hand and hand. And, she reminds her fellow founders that any failure can be leveraged as wisdom.

Palette Naturals has arrived and fragrance ingredient labeling will never be the same

02-Nov-2017 By Deanna Utroske

On cosmetics and personal care product ingredient lists ‘fragrance’ has long stood in for a propriety blend of notes, for closely guarded intellectual property, or—where some consumers are concerned—for undisclosed potential allergens. Rather than slowly...

Natural personal care proves to be good business for Clorox

02-Nov-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The Clorox Company announced Q1 2018 financial results this week and it’s clear that the Burt’s Bees personal care and cosmetics brand is doing well for the company, despite its being the only beauty brand in the Clorox portfolio.

Canada's most trusted beauty and personal care retailers, according to BrandSpark data

02-Nov-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The insights and marketing firm released the results of its latest consumer trust survey this week, and which stores and etailers Canadian cosmetics and personal care shoppers trust says a lot about the current beauty retail moment.

Costco steps up “effort to reduce potential chemical harm to humans and…environment”

31-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The warehouse retailer announced an updated chemical management policy this month as well as a partnership with the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry that will help the company limit so-called chemicals of concern along the supply chain as well as in...

2017 Green Beauty Barometer data now available

31-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Skin care brand Kari Gran has announced the results of its third annual Green Beauty Barometer survey, conducted in partnership with Harris Poll. The new data shows what ingredients natural cosmetics and personal care shoppers avoid, what categories they...

California SCC Suppliers’ Day keynote explores how beauty consumers define ‘natural’

30-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Denise J. Herich, founder of the beauty product testing and consumer research firm The Benchmarking Company, kicked off Suppliers’ Day last Wednesday in Long Beach, California, with a data-rich presentation on how today’s consumer understands natural...

Indie Beauty Profile

LaKeisha A. Entsuah, Elements of Aliel

30-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile, LaKeisha A. Entsuah, founder of Elements of Aliel, speaks without pretention about her skin care line inspired by the hope of motherhood, enriched by Ghanaian culture, and formulated with signature ingredients like African...

SCC annual scientific meeting and tech showcase preview

26-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The National Society of Cosmetic Chemists will host its annual program in December at a new venue in NYC. This week, Cosmetics Design spoke with Anna Langerveld, the organization’s 2017 chair, to find out what’s in the works for this year’s two-day event....

Digital. Natural. Beautiful.

26-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Today, personal care and cosmetic ingredient makers know that all things green, bio-based, and alternative are of great interest to the beauty manufacturers they serve. And yet, this is the digital age. How are beauty ingredient companies to engage in...

Lucas Meyer partnership leads to new line of bark extracts

26-Oct-2017 By Simon Pitman

Last year Lucas Meyer formed a partnership with bark extracts specialist Bio Forextra Labs. Just over a year later the companies are together launching a portfolio of three impressive ingredients with impressive claims.

L'Oréal USA honored by the EPA

25-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

This week at an event in New York City, the US Environmental Protection Agency presented its annual Green Power Leadership Awards. For L'Oréal, the honor is validation of the beauty maker’s efforts to be an industry leader not only in the cosmetics...

Croda to make bio-based non-ionic surfactant in the US

24-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The specialty chemical company announced a new production capability of its New Castle, Delaware, facility this week. Croda, a multinational firm that serves a full spectrum of industries, will be offering the new biotech ingredient as a green option...

Colgate-Palmolive wins in-cosmetics NA Formulation Lab Challenge 2017

24-Oct-2017 By Simon Pitman

Four of the biggest beauty players in the market took up on this year's in-cosmetics North America Formulation Challenge. The four teams were Estée Lauder, Unilever, Shiseido and Colgate-Palmolive, The four teams fought a keen battle during the 90-minutes...

Indie Beauty Profile

Jené Roestorf, Luxe Botanics

23-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile, Jené Roestorf, founder of Luxe Botanics advises prospective entrepreneurs to put their egos aside. And, she paints a vivid picture of a skin care brand that delivers on so many of the promises that indie shoppers are looking...

It’s almost time for the SCC California Suppliers’ Day

23-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The personal care tradeshow takes place this week in Long Beach, California, on Wednesday, October 25, and Thursday, October 26. Keynote presentations on the opportunities and challenges of natural beauty will set the tone for the event. And the Cosmetics...

Trend Spotting: in-cosmetics North America 2017

19-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

At last week’s beauty ingredient tradeshow in New York City, industry suppliers, product developers, marketers, researchers, any other personal care pros converged. And Cosmetics Design was there to see how trends such as protection and detox, fermented...

Curbside Beauty: Sephora’s beauty truck tour

19-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Today’s the last day for the rolling experiential pop-up that’s bringing makeup tips, tricks, and samples to college campuses. The road trip is a joint project of the Sephora Collection brand and Clique Media Group’s college fashionista.

CEW event brings digital beauty pros together to learn from the best

18-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Beauty’s digital, tech, and marketing insiders flocked to CEW’s Connected Consumer Conference last week to hear the experts discuss how brands are using the latest tech tools to engage with consumers today. And Cosmetics Design was there to find out what’s...

Beauty tech company Perfect Corp to fund AI and AR initiatives with $25 million investment

18-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Today, the YouCam app maker announced the closing of its Series A funding round. Now Perfect Corp plans to spend millions improving the augmented reality and artificial intelligence tech that makes the digital beauty ecosystem tick.

Trending Tech: A quick tour of digital beauty business innovations

17-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

At recent cosmetics and personal care industry events across New York City beauty tech makers were exhibiting imaging systems, product development (and full lifecycle) software, as well as in-store digital tools and toys. Here, Cosmetics Design takes...

Sephora Accelerate 2018 is open for applications

16-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The beauty retailer is now accepting applications for its program supporting women entrepreneurs in the cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance industries. Though founders need not be beauty brand leaders to apply; Sephora is also actively recruiting...

Exclusive Interview

Smoke Screen: How one ambitious company is advancing anti-pollution efficacy testing for skin care

16-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

At in-cosmetics North America, Cosmetics Design sat down with Veronique Newton, R&D laboratory manager for CIDP, to learn how she and her team develop testing protocols for air pollution, blue light, and more—tests she believes will help set an industry-wide...

Indie Beauty Profile

Begoña Sanjuán and Isabel Ramos, AYUNA • less is beauty

16-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

In their Indie Beauty Profile, Begoña Sanjuán and Isabel Ramos, co-founders of AYUNA • less is beauty, share insight into their very carefully conceived green luxury skin care brand and have some pithy advice for their fellow founders—really, it’s good...

Is Brazilian red clay South America’s next big beauty export?

12-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

At this week’s in-cosmetics North America personal care tradeshow, Brazilian Kimberlite Clay, a São Paulo – based company, is showcasing its red clay ingredient as well as finished skin and body care products and color cosmetic prototypes. The clay is...

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.

LenaJapon skin care launches ecommerce in US

11-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The Japanese beauty brand with quince seed extract at the heart of its product formulations has plans to expand its retail presence in the States by focusing on the wellness community. For now, however, LenaJapon is only available to US beauty consumers...

Professional skin care line Envy Medical rebrands for the consumer market

10-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The product portfolio, originally developed as a complement to the company’s in-office Dermalinfusion treatments, has been reformulated and repackaged under the close supervision of beauty marketing expert Sona Tolani for wider consumer appeal.

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.

More Burt’s Bees cosmetics and personal care products in the pipeline?

09-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

This month Clorox, the company that now owns Burt’s Bees, gave an update to the investment community that highlighted the brand’s recent move into makeup as well as the Clorox company’s penchant for innovation and increased speed-to-market.

Indie Beauty Profile

Ulli Haslacher, Pour Moi Beauty

09-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile Ulli Haslacher, president of Pour Moi Beauty, explains that the brand, which may look like an overnight sensation, has years of work behind it. And, she pauses to celebrate the remarkable volume of early press coverage devoted...

Vantage expands jojoba exfoliant production facility

05-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

This week, the specialty ingredient maker announced that its jojoba exfoliant plant is newly enlarged—a development that Vantage hopes will further secure the company’s position as an industry-leading supplier of naturally based exfoliants for use in...

Walgreens Boots Alliance launches skin care brand co-created with consumers

05-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The pharmacy-led retail chain announced a new personal care brand this week, one backed by years of R&D and an online community of thousands of women who were involved along the way with product testing and the like.

Dow invests in anti-pollution skin care – Part 2

05-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

In the second part of Cosmetics Design’s exploration of Dow’s explicit work in anti-pollution skin care, Fabienne Bizeray, marketing manager of skin and sun at Dow, and Marc Eeman, a skin care application designer at the company, discuss the regional...

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.

Dow invests in anti-pollution skin care – Part 1

04-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The specialty chemical maker is putting time and money into the research, development, and marketing of skin protection ingredients. Cosmetics Design checks in with Fabienne Bizeray, marketing manager of skin and sun, and Marc Eeman, a skin care application...

The rights to Burberry Beauty luxury fragrances, cosmetics, and skincare now belong to Coty

03-Oct-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Monday, Coty announced that it’s completed the acquisition of global long-term license rights to Burberry beauty. The two ventures will now collaborate on the luxury brand’s future in the cosmetics, fragrance, and personal care...

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.

Unilever will acquire Carver Korea

28-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

The consumer goods company announced the pending deal this week, giving a clear indication that Unilever is  still shifting its brand portfolio more heavily toward personal care and beauty.

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.

in-cosmetics Latin America 2017

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...

Trend Spotting: MakeUp in New York 2017 – Part 2

27-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Part 2 of Cosmetics Design’s look back at last week’s global color cosmetics trade show in New York City is all about the innovative packaging and updated beauty tools shown at the event.

Trend Spotting: MakeUp in New York 2017 – Part 1

26-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

Last week, the global color cosmetics trade show was in New York City and Cosmetics Design was there taking inventory of the latest offerings from contract manufacturers, formulators, fillers, and accessory suppliers.

K-beauty continues to build momentum in the US market

26-Sep-2017 By Deanna Utroske

A panel of experts speaking at last week’s MakeUp in New York color cosmetics trade show shared data, insights, and anecdotes explaining why and how the Korean beauty trend is growing in the States.

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...

in-cosmetics Latin America

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...