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Creative commerce is about finding ways to engage with customers across all retail channels. © Getty Images - Alistair Berg

How brands can use creative commerce to generate DTC engagement

As tracking consumer movements online is becoming more challenging, creative commerce could be the secret to customer engagement.

Juicing it: Joos founder on creating superfood skincare brand

Superfoods are to health foods as botanicals are to natural cosmetics, and skincare brand Joos wants to bring those worlds together.

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Bacillus Lysate: The Future of Sun Protection

The new ingredient, certified by the Space FoundationTM, can make conventional sunscreen ingredients perform more optimally.

Industry must 'courageously and innovatively' break barriers to menstrual health and wellbeing

Health and hygiene firm Essity has renewed its partnership with UNICEF to improve awareness and education surrounding hygiene and menstruation health management (MHM), highlighting challenges that exist in achieving wellbeing for all and spotlighting...

The Maui-based sunscreen ban has turned to mineral UV filters to address reef health impacts in their backyard. © Project Reef

Hawaii-based Project Reef founder on taking stand for marine health in SPF

As a ban on chemical UV filters goes into effect later this year in Maui a Hawaii-based sunscreen brand partnered with Four Seasons to start protecting reefs now.

The Body Shop estimates there are as many shower gel bottles thrown away monthly as there are cars on the road in the US. © Getty Images - Alistair Berg

Plastic pollution problems: Three takeaways from The Body Shop plastic waste study

Plastic is both an important packaging material and a prevalent pollutant, and The Body Shop wanted to know what cosmetic plastic Americans throw away the most.

Coffee by-products could have cosmetics potential. [iStock]

Something brewing? Coffee by-products could boost antioxidant properties of cosmetic formulations – Review

Coffee by-products could be a suitable ingredient for cosmetic and topical formulations due to its hight antioxidant properties, a new study has revealed.

Beauty retail analysis: How to win over beauty consumers in the shifting post-pandemic retail landscape

How to win over… beauty consumers in the shifting post-pandemic brick-and-mortar landscape

Major brands including Sephora, Lush Cosmetics, Health & Glow and SUGAR Cosmetics have exclusively shared their insights on how they are redefining the in-store consumer experience in the wake of the COVID-pandemic.

Capra Biosciences is bringing a fermented retinol to the market to showcase the capabilities of their modular production technology. © Getty Images - 5./15 WEST

Biotech start up Capra wants to use $1.8 million in funding to expand modular technology

Biotechnology company Capra is bringing a fermented retinol to the market, but the production process may mean more cost-effective biotech cosmetic ingredients.

Catch up on the world of fragrance with CosmeticsDesign

This week is the World Perfumery Congress, which means it's time to catch up on the fragrance industry with CosmeticsDesign.

Unilever says a topical blend containing hydroxystearic acid can stimulate antimicrobial peptide production and offer skin, scalp and oral protection against microorganisms [Getty Images]

Unilever files patent on antimicrobial peptides for skin immunity

Personal care major Unilever has filed a patent on a method to induce the natural secretion of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) on the human body – enforcing immunity of the skin, scalp and oral cavity it claims.