“MANE’s mission is to help define and express your brand’s olfactive identity,” says Miranda Gordon, vice president of marketing in the fine fragrance division. And in this video interview, filmed at the 2019 BeautyX Capital Summit in New York City, she...
In this video interview with Cosmetics Design, Carolyn Aronson, Founder and CEO of It’s a 10, discusses her inspiration for the brand, how she makes packaging and design decisions, what new category the brand will be launching into next year, and her...
The global cosmetics and personal care ingredient supplier hired a chief accelerator director in 2017, invested in One Ocean Beauty in 2018, and this week the company is exhibiting at Uplink Live in New York City. At this year’s BeautyX Capital Summit,...
This week, My Magic Mud is exhibiting at the Indie Beauty Expo in New York City. But Cosmetics Design caught up with CEO Jessica Arman last month in Las Vegas, Nevada, to learn how this dirt-based beauty brand that launched with a single product—a tooth...
Consumer demographics are shifting here in the US and globally. And before long, formulators, manufacturers, brands, and retailers will focus more on the characteristics and curl pattern of hair than on any given consumer’s ethnicity. Cosmetics Design...
Adiya Dixon Wiggins has reinvented the most common of beauty tools: the makeup brush. “Yubi slides onto your fingers to become an extension of your hand,” explains Dixon Wiggins in this video interview with Cosmetics Design, filmed at the recent Cosmoprof...
Colombian-based barber and hair care brand Barba Roja was platforming its newly launched new hair care line featuring CBD at last week's Expo Belleza in Medellin. Cosmetics Design caught up with the founder to find out more.
One of the best ways to learn is to listen. Last Friday’s Editor’s Spotlight item here on Cosmetics Design was a compendium of 8 video interviews with indie beauty brand founders. Today we’re adding 8 more conversations with entrepreneurs and innovators...
Innovative cosmetics and personal care startups have been making headlines here on Cosmetics Design for years. But not all of our conversations with indie brand leaders are included in the weekly Indie Beauty Profile column. To highlight brands and innovations...
At this year’s NYSCC Suppliers’ Day tradeshow in New York City, Anna Langerveld, president and CEO of Genemarkers, was talking with attendees about her company’s latest offering, a test that skin care makers can use to help develop CBD products with the...
At this year’s Luxe Pack New York event it seemed as if everyone was showing some sort of greener, cleaner beauty packaging. To meet the growing demand for environmentally friendly packaging, HCT has begun making compacts in recyclable, recycled, and...
At this year’s NYSCC Suppliers’ Day event, the beauty ingredient maker was showcasing two new skin care ingredients: one a globally compliant option for cannabis beauty, the other a unique French rose extract. In this video interview, Ashland’s vice president...
For the past two weeks, fragrance entrepreneur Kristi Moe hosted a pop-up shop in the Artists & Fleas section of New York City’s popular Chelsea Market. For consumers (locals and tourists alike) it was an opportunity to discover and experience Zodica...
At this month’s NYSCC Suppliers’ Day ingredient discovery show in New York City, the team at Clariant spoke with Cosmetics Design editor Deanna Utroske about not only their most recent green-chemistry ingredient launches but also the company’s new Innovation...
At this week’s NYSCC Suppliers’ Day event in New York City, Cosmetics Design spoke with Jane Sum, Covestro’s head of cosmetics, about that company’s Baycusan line of biodegradable film formers, as well as about Covestro’s first ingredient in a new collection...
