Immupure just may be the brand to answer that question. Formulated with the components of colostrum, the skin care collection brings consumer education, product benefits, and agile business to the fore in a fresh, contemporary way.
East Coast Glow uses glacial water and other local ingredients in its collection of personal care products. It’s a concept, right in line with several current industry trends, that the company hopes will sustain sales beyond tourist season.
Just days before the popular ‘90s skin care brand ended trading on its reverse stock split, Joey new York announced a new deal with the company behind The Labb Aesthetic Beauty Bar, which provides injectables in a medical-office-meets-salon setting.
Ahead of the Indie Beauty Expo in New York City this month, the Cosmetics Design takes a look at what to expect at the event, as well as what's happening in the fast-paced world of indie beauty, where the innovation is at and how these players are...
The popular beauty press is abuzz with news of a forthcoming nude eye shadow palette from the revered L’Oréal brand. And rightly so—it’s a product consumers themselves asked Urban Decay to create.
The personal care company’s “Thank you, mom” campaign and pop-up spa in the Rio Olympic village are getting legacy P&G brands a fair amount of attention during the games.
As of yesterday, the color cosmetics brand from P&G is available (online) in the States for the first time in six years—a test perhaps, to gauge whether the personal care giant should grow its makeup business globally.
Among consumers spending on masks and driving the skin care subcategory are young men, according to Connecticut-based Mënaji. The company specializes in care and color for men and sees multi-masking as a rising trend.
Jane Iredale is one of the most venerated names in the natural color cosmetics category, largely because the brand was the first to establish this category, almost 20 years ago. Cosmetics Design was lucky enough to catch up with the brand's founder,...
To keep up with consumer demand for practical, portable makeup, MAC has launched a color cosmetics collection in small, travel-sized packages—a strategy being used to sell more product in the indie beauty space as well.
Cosmetics Design recently caught up with the founder and president of Kariderm, a Canada-based natural skin care line that was established off the back of sourcing sustainable ingredients that help rural communities in Burkina Faso, in West Africa. Now...
It’s an exclusive new brand from Family Christian meant to fill consumers’ “need for alternatives from secular…options,” according to the company, which began selling the collection of beauty products, clothing, and accessories just last Friday.
Cosmetics Design caught up with Monique Wallace, director of sales and partnerships at Skinny & Co, to find out all about the big trend for coconut oil. In this video interview Wallace talks about why consumers are buying it, how the company sources...
Deluvia Skincare has been built around ingredients from the Dead Sea with the focus of curing psoriasis. We spoke to company vice president Ayman Qawasmeh to find out about how the brand has evolved over the past 13 years to become one of the fastest...
Cosmetics Design recently caught up with Vida Karamooz, founder and CEO of Blue Beautifly. The idea for Blue Beautifly evolved from six years of research that included the study of ayurveda medicine and herbalism, resulting in a line that is both sustainable...
For the second in this two-part article, Cosmetics Design looks at the new category from a cosmetic chemist’s perspective. Valerie George explains the nuances of beauty product formulations that go from the gym to the office and aren’t undone by a bit...
For the first in this two-part article on the new category, Cosmetics Design connected with Courtney Jones Louks, CEO of Sweat Cosmetics, to find out how active beauty is shaping up and why the category is well positioned for growth. In the next installment,...
At least one fragrance maker is betting the answer is ‘yes.’ Parlux Fragrances has just launched the 20th perfume in the Paris Hilton collection and is touting it as anything but a signature sent.
OPI Nails has ventured into the retail space with its first flagship spa in the UK where it will offer luxury manicures and pedicures as well as a fully stocked range of its nail care products for consumers to take home.
Next month, the collection developed in collaboration with Dr. Barbara Sturm will go on sale. While the cosmetics and personal care industry at large seems to be grappling with just how to meet the need of all consumers in the growing beauty market place.
Beauty sampling provider Glossybox is not afraid to ask customers to unsubscribe from its online platforms should they become persistent in giving ‘abusive’ or ‘aggressive’ feedback on its social media channels.
Winners of the 2nd annual competition will be decided in Las Vegas, Nevada, latter this month in conjunction with the Professional Beauty Association’s Beauty Week events and Cosmoprof North America.
A unique, reusable delivery system that promises to optimize cosmetic science and applicator design for results far beyond what creams or wet masks can provide, infusers are the creation of BioMod Concepts. To find out more, Cosmetics Design interviewed...
L’Oreal has launched a 'lens’ on Snapchat, a social media platform increasingly favoured by millennials, in an industry-leading move that again confirms the company’s digital clout.
The signature ingredient of the company’s tooth whitening products-in-development is protein from sea life; and with this latest addition to the R&D team, SafeWhite is that much closer to perfecting, patenting, and taking the innovation to market.
Banjara’s, a herbal skin care brand in India, has launched a marketing campaign that makes a point of rejecting the traditional focus on skin lightening, a trend which dominates across Asia.
At the recent Sustainable Cosmetics Summit in New York City, IFF launched a new fragrance, announcing that it meets stringent certification standards and stands as a perfume industry proof of concept for sustainability.
The skin care company’s new identity isn’t a simple brand refresh, H2O+ Beauty CEO Joy Chen has changed distribution models, formulations, packaging, company headquarters, and more to revitalize the unprofitable business.
Over 26 years the in-cosmetics event has expanded to become the go-to for cosmetic and formulation experts worldwide, making the time right for a new look.
At the recent in-cosmetics event in Paris, Cosmetics Design caught up with Dr. Anne Marie Fine, who has turned her expertise in natural dermatology into a successful skin care line.
A new industry organization based in San Francisco, California, is serving regional industry professionals with educational events, workshops, and networking.
French cosmetics giant L’Oréal has strengthened its position as the world’s top beauty brand, while Brazil’s Natura and Avon both take a tumble under tough market conditions.
The Cyrano device, available as of Wednesday, centers around a palette of 12 fragrances developed through the sensorial communications company’s partnership with International Flavors & Fragrances.
P&G-owned Max Factor has teamed up with UK-based visual browser expert Blippar to make the beauty player's almost 500-strong product portfolio fully digitally interactive.
This month the skin care and hair care brand launched the #BreakTheWalls campaign as a “call to action” and a “national awareness platform” to move the industry toward a genuinely diverse and inclusive consumer experience.
With day one over and two yet to come of the in-cosmetics Paris trade show, take a look through this gallery at a snapshot of some of the highlights so far...
LA-based Landing International is the company behind a new B2B concept in online beauty platforms. Called Marketplace, it will platform hard to source beauty products, starting with a collection from Asia.
Formulation shortfalls meant that hair gels fell from grace years ago, but a new generation of cleaner, easy to use and more effective products looks set to shake up the hair styling category.
Beauty Ideas Group, the company behind nügg, launched the brand in 2014 with its signature pod-pack masks. Now, with recent line extensions—an eye mask and a lip mask— nügg is winning over consumers and innovating for the future.
Edgewell Personal Care has taken its engagement with e-commerce a step further by becoming one of the first beauty and personal care brands to engage with Amazon’s new Dash concept.
A lip balm based on sheep oil sourced in Australia is making its debut in the US, which the manufacturers claim is the first of its kind to hit the US market.
Lush’s Sprouting massage bars. The story has taken the internet by storm during the past week, as more and more consumers report that beans in the bars sprouted in showers and sinkholes.
Mineral makeup remains popular in the color cosmetics category, while clean beauty alternatives and organic infusions are nudging in on the beauty market. Here, Suzanne Roberta of Adesse New York tells Cosmetics Design how nail care is keeping up.
The innovative application tool company Rea.deeming Beauty accepted a substantial payment from Avon as the company continues to challenge trademark infringement globally.
Jack Winn Color, a company launched last year following a Wharton MBA project, believes the industry is ready for healthier hair dye and a streamlined supply chain.
The natural organic cosmetic and personal care category is defined by its eco credentials and that is the determining factor for entries to the CEW ECO Beauty Awards.
