This week, Sally Beauty began accepting applications for its new Cultivate program, an initiative meant to support women’s entrepreneurship in the hair care industry and bring innovative new products to the company’s customers. But unlike similar industry...
The new company, started in April by Conrad Plimpton (best known as the founder and chairman of Inolex), is endeavoring to be a major figure in the sustainable cosmetics and personal care supply chain. SBI is partnering with and buying up natural, organic,...
Registration is open through the end of June for both entrepreneurs and investors interested in participating in the event next month. The Beauty Pitch Angels program is essentially an interactive venue for emerging cosmetics and personal care brands...
The Estée Lauder color cosmetics brand is well known for engaging the LGBTQ community and having a passion for diversity. In honor of Pride Month (the annual celebration of queer life and history), the brand is giving donation voucher to employees and...
The digital-first, millennial-focused beauty and hair color brand announced the deal Monday; explaining that with the benefit of private equity funds, Panagakis will facilitate an expansion of Lime Crime into new categories and even more retail channels...
On Friday the skin care brand opened a pop-up shop on 5th Avenue in Manhattan’s Flatiron neighborhood. It’s the second summer that Unilever is leveraging this limited-time, experiential, personalized retail strategy to engage beauty consumers.
Last week at New York City’s Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, The Fragrance Foundation held its annual awards event. Trophies were given to nearly 20 fragrances across luxury, prestige, and mass. The event also honored 2018 Hall of Fame inductee Ann...
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Risa Barash, founder of Fairy Tales Hair Care, outlines how a single-product grew into a leading problem / solution brand in the children’s hair care space, competing with the likes of Suave Kids at major retail stores.
At a two-day event in Boston, Massachusetts, last month, experts from personal care, medicine, academia, government, and beyond came together to share learnings and build a network among professionals in this emerging field. As part of the program Cecile...
The privately-owned beauty company is known for its portfolio of non-competing color cosmetics brands, like Physicians Formula and wet n wild. With this latest deal, Markwins adds an MUA brand to the mix and there are plans to expand Markwins with acquisitions...
Last night’s celebration in New York City was a lively and glittery event, with more than 20 awards given out to brands, fragrance houses, perfumers, internet celebrities, and more. But over the course of the evening, presenters and honorees alike shared...
The beauty and personal care ingredient distributor has a good track record here in the States and has strategically partnered with regional ingredient makers over the years. Now, Netherlands-based IMCD has seized the opportunity to grow in the US market...
Beauty brands, personal care ingredient makers, contract manufacturers, and Instagram influencers all seem to be conspiring to make blue skin care products a 2018 trend to be remembered. Here, Cosmetics Design takes a look at the spectrum of blue ingredients...
The team at Coty has been steadily reinventing the iconic mass-market beauty brand since acquiring CoverGirl from P&G in October 2016. And these latest developments are hardly the end of it.
