As part of the move towards more natural-looking hair styles, Latin American consumers are all out for natural hair care solutions and product launches.
Hair care defines the beauty world in the Latin American region. Combine the category with the most pervasive trend in the industry and you have some captivating dynamics.
Today, the global tech solutions company announced a new module expressly for beauty; it’s a module meant to help ingredient suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers address regulatory compliance, safety, and risk issues.
The international investment firm has formed a subsidiary dedicated to hemp, CBD, and THC-free cannabinoid and has plans develop or acquire cosmetics and personal care brands in this space.
At this week’s annual meeting event, members of the Personal Care Products Council’s board of directors presented an overview of how all things political in the US just now are affecting the organization’s work on behalf of the industry.
In the past few weeks some of the largest multinational cosmetic and personal care players have released annual financial results that point to weaknesses in the LATAM market.
The Salesforce executive will take her seat at the table March 1st; and later this year 2 board members will retire. The leadership changes come at a time of transition for Colgate: the consumer products company’s next CEO takes his post in April.
This week the conscious commerce beauty brand announced the gift, benefiting 50+ nonprofits serving women living with cancer, surviving domestic abuse, or transitioning out of homelessness.
The men’s grooming market in the Latin American region is pulling out of a period of slow growth, and as renewed vigor propels the category into the mainstream, real momentum is starting to be seen.
The Latin American region has always been about hair care, so combine that with the naturals trends and you have a segment of the market that is alive with new product launches and innovation.
In Latin America the hair care market remains the biggest category, and with the natural trend making bigger inroads in the region, that means that natural hair care is now very important.
Next month, the New York Chapter of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists is bringing together speakers from 4 major North American universities for a half-day event entitled Cosmetic Science in Academia.
The packaging company launched its new site for startups and standalone cosmetics and personal care brands at this week’s Luxe Pack event in Los Angeles, California. It’s the next iteration of Aptar’s Indie Boutique offering.
The cosmetic brush design and manufacturing company announced its formal expansion to the West Coast late last week. Anisa International, of course, collaborates with numerous customers in the area, but with this latest venture the makeup brush company...
This month, Pour Moi Skincare announced plans to start selling on the multinational ecommerce platform—a move that more and more cosmetics and personal care startups are making since Amazon launched its dedicated indie beauty shop last summer.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Emilie Davidson Hoyt, founder of LATHER, shares an outline of her long-running indie brand: an unassuming masstige personal care line that’s meeting the expectations of today’s naturals consumer. She has sound advice for other...
Avon’s full year 2018 have underscored that its biggest region by sales, Latin America, continues to be a weaker spot amidst global sales that failed to shine anywhere.
The color cosmetics, skin care, and fragrance brand led by makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury announced the location of its first own-brand retail shop in North America this week. The flagship store is a next step in what has been a steady progression of...
The supplier’s new Itty Bitty Beauty offering is a platform meant to simplify the design and packaging selection process for brands looking to add mini sizes to their cosmetics and personal care product portfolio. Qosmedix will launch its new platform...
Tuesday in New York City, CEW hosted a panel discussion about cannabis-derived ingredients. Speakers and sponsors from a range of cosmetics, personal care, and wellness brands already doing business in the cannabis beauty space were on hand to talk best...
Increasingly, cosmetic and personal care consumers want transparency regarding the origins and manufacturing practices of the products they buy, something that can prove to be a tough call for many brands to answer.
Inzunai forged its name as a provider of ingredient for cosmetics and personal care sourced from the Colombian Amazon. The next logical step for the business was finished products.
The cosmetic and personal care industry organization will host its first Female Founders Awards next month, celebrating the achievements of women leading innovative beauty startups.
Business leaders from the direct-sales beauty company will mentor students at Lewisville High school near Dallas, Texas. The project, which also has support from local government and a foundation, will teach students to build businesses in real time....
Natura Brasil has sealed its Ekos line with a brand new certification from the Union of Ethical BioTrade, confirming it has fulfilled tough criteria to respect both people and biodiversity.
OLIKA believes it can. The design-driven consumer goods brand launched 2 years ago and still has essentially one product: hand sanitizer. In late January, OLIKA debuted the first of its Rare Bird Collection, a limited-edition series of OLIKA’s popular...
This month the Columbus, Ohio – based cannabis company has opened both physical retail and online retail spaces serving beauty consumers in the US, looking for skin care, bath, and body care formulated with hemp-derived CBD.
In mid-September, the North American edition of Easyfairs beauty packaging event will showcase the latest in aerosol, dispensing, perfume, and cosmetic packaging. The 2-day show will feature exhibitors, tours, awards, and educational presentations pertinent...
With the skin’s microbiome a rising trend with the potential to define the direction of skin care and scalp care into the future, exhibitors and visitors will be keeping a keen eye on the latest innovations, launches and research in the space at the upcoming...
At a benefit event in New York City last week, Linda Treska, founder of the waterless makeup brand Pinch of Colour, announced the launch of Blue Angel Charity, a nonprofit working in tandem with the brand to “combat the global water crisis.”
Cannabidiol (CBD) skin care has already taken the US market by storm, and it is starting to make a splash in European markets too, underlined by a recent spike in new product launches containing the ingredient.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Nabila Chemillier, CEO of L’ODAÏTÈS, describes how she and her sisters have built a plant-based brand with all the practicality and luxury of French skin care to share their families beauty regime with today’s discerning natural...
2018 saw a boom of beauty supplements from skin care brands and vitamin makers alike. Now, innovative startups are refining the options—formulating and marketing teas, tinctures, mix-in powders, and pills to ensure beauty-from-within outlives the trend...
The world’s biggest beauty and personal care player has published strong full-year 2018 results, but whereas the figures show that new markets were generally strong, it Latin America was the exception.
Today the niche fragrance company launched a first collection of lipsticks that, like the Bond No. 9 perfumes and scented products, celebrate iconic New York City neighborhoods.
This week's LATAM Beauy Brands profile highlights some of the hottest hair and skin care launches throughout the region, brought to you from market research provider Mintel.
The Canadian company got its start in the 1970s as a spinoff of a research initiative at the University of Saskatchewan and worked in partnership with several industries on a contract-services model. Now renamed KeyLeaf, the business will be focused squarely...
This week, the global consumer brands company (which owns Tom’s of Maine, Irish Spring, Lady Speed Stick, and other personal care brands) announced that Noel Wallace, currently COO at Colgate-Palmolive, will become CEO in April.
The second annual ranking includes cosmetics and personal care manufacturers, industry suppliers, and a range of beauty retailers. Sephora, Ulta, Amazon, and Qurate all made the list; as did P&G, Mary Kay, The Estée Lauder Companies, and Unilever.
Unilever posted strong full year 2018 results, with big gains in the Asia Pacific region, but in Latin America the picture was not so rosy, with Argentina and Brazil being singled out.
On Friday, the non-profit professional organization debuted its latest initiative, Accords –a digital platform that expands upon the Foundation’s mission “to inspire the world to discover the artistry and passion of fragrance.”
This week, the multinational chemical company announced the launch of a new ingredient. Dow’s Siltouch Rheology Modifier promises to make modern-day formulating simpler and less energy intensive
Late last week, the fragrance maker announced the honor, adding Flipo to a short list of International Flavor & Fragrances’ perfumers who have been designated as Master Perfumers over the past 6 years. Anne Flipo is the first woman to be recognized...
The indie beauty trend is taking North America and, increasingly, Europe, by storm. But is it gaining the same sort of popularity in Asia? If so, where are the hot spots for indie beauty?
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Ursula Snyder, founder of DU NORD SKIN CARE, describes how she has created a brand that respects the land. Hers is an eco-lux skin care line with a levelheaded lifestyle approach to branding, packaging, formulation, and overall...
Cosmetics Design asked market research provider Euromonitor International which will be the fastest growing beauty and personal care market in the Latin American region over the next five years.
Among the trends Cosmetics Design is watching in the Americas region this year is the influx and popularity of brands and ingredients from Oceana. Case in point: Black Chicken Remedies, the once tiny Australian organic skin care and wellness brand founded...
At last month’s Indie Beauty Expo event in Los Angeles, California, a new skin care startup out of Canada introduced IBE shoppers, buyers, influencers, and media to the innovative water-free, reusable textile mask technology created by Biomod Concepts....
Colombian biotech company Inbiotech started up as a biotech research firm back in 2004, but has since expanded with a beauty and personal care portfolio that includes five hair and skin care brands targeting a range of different functions.
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