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...
A trip to a remote part of the Amazon had hairdresser Fabian Lliguin wondering what made local tribeswomen’s hair so shiny and healthy. After they revealed what the secret was, a brand was born.
Isabel Ramos, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of the eco-lux indie beauty brand AYUNA Less is Beauty, recently gave a talk at the AIRS International Conference on Genomics and Microbiomics in Barcelona, Spain. Cosmetics Design caught up with Ramos...
Startup and founder-led brands innovating and selling beauty products can be found on nearly every continent and in nearly every country. Here Cosmetics Design takes a look at a selection of innovative, independent cosmetics and personal care brands from...
As the wellness movement, active beauty, and alternative pain relief converge, it’s likely that more and more startup brands will get involved in the muscle care category. Here, Cosmetics Design looks at 3 indie brands ahead of curve in this unexpected...
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Shuting Hu, founder of Acaderma Inc., outlines the years she spent researching and commercializing the science behind this natural skin care brand. And in keeping with her brand’s academic foundation, she explains why she...
In the first of a two-part series focusing on innovation in the all-important Latin American hair care market, we look at a series of products that focus on the the specific needs of the Latin American consumer.
Today, the QVC and HSN parent company announced The Big Find, a search for new and innovative cosmetics, personal care, and fashion brands that are undiscovered yet poised for success in the video commerce space.
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...
The indie beauty continues to grow; and while direct-to-consumer brands, pop-up shops, and makers markets are still very much a part of indie retail landscape, most major department stores, beauty specialty shops, and countless lifestyle boutiques carry...
The men’s grooming category is growing and Cremo is growing faster than most. Cremo Products got its start in 2007 with a single shave cream and has since grown into a robust collection of men’s personal care and colognes (there’s women’s line too). In...
In the second part of a two-part article, we bring five of the most recent and innovative hair care launches in the fast moving and very advanced Latin American market.
Today, the Indie Beauty Media Group announced it’s closing the consumer discovery portion of its IBE events to better focus on the business needs of exhibiting brands. And at IBE NY this August, the group will debut a new face-to-face event—Uplink Live—connecting...
The annual CITY awards facilitated by ICMAD have been rebranded for 2019 and are now accepting entries for products, brands, and people across some 14 categories.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Nickie Nougaisse, founder of Curls Dynasty talks about building a solution-based hair brand for people with textured hair, specifically for people with dry hair issues and those who are transitioning from a chemically relaxed...
Dubbed as the “Beauty Experience,” The Makeup Show is where professional makeup artists go to restock their favorite products and engage in demos and workshops with premier artists from around the globe.
Professionals from every possible cosmetics and personal care industry niche flock to in-cosmetics Global each year to discover what’s new in beauty ingredients, in formulation technologies, in marketing strategy, and more. To find out what one expert...
This year’s New York City edition of The Makeup Show includes numerous indie exhibitors across categories, from skin care to color cosmetics, from lash makers to nail brands, and from accessories to brushes. Following this weekend’s press preview of the...
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Renata Eileena, founder of Possible Cosmetics, shares her understanding that every beauty consumer has valuable product knowledge and that every brand leader has more to learn—that perhaps no one is every truly a beauty industry...
The P&G shave and personal care brand used the platform to test market and build interest in what was as the time a limited-edition razor. After a successful run on Indiegogo and winning an Engadget award at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show,...
Ovation Science’s new skin care brand is already adding to its portfolio. The Vancouver, Canada – based company terminated a prior licensing agreement with Canopy Growth Partners and announced the ARLO Beauty brand just last month. And sunscreen will...
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Andrea Dinnick, founder of Desavery, explains why being self-funded has—so far—been the right choice for her growing skin care business. And, she very plainly lists the 10+ jobs that a beauty entrepreneur must be ready to...
Caroline Hadfield is no stranger to the beauty industry. She’s held executive positions with LVMH, Sephora, and The Body Shop. And most recently she’s built a beauty brand from within a biotech firm. Cosmetics Design sat down with Hadfield earlier this...
After over a decade formulating for legacy beauty brands, biochemist Mirela Mitan when back to university to study luxury marketing. In 2014 she earned an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business; and in 2015 launched the luxury, indie skin care brand...
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Lisa Pineiro, founder of Glotrition, describes a skin care brand with two hero products—because there’s more than one way to care for the skin. And through her own founder story, she shares insight into the beauty consumer’s...
With the emergence of Brazil’s Natura brands on to the global market place, there is growing evidence that Latin American beauty brands are gaining momentum, both regionally and worldwide.
Givaudan Fragrances is launching a new tool that is built around artificial intelligence aimed at giving perfumers new capabilities for the creation of next generation fragrances.
The men's grooming and natural trends have both seen huge growth in the LATAM region in recent years. Here we look at a selection of products that combine both trends, brought to us by the Mintel Global New Products Database.
Singaporean beauty brand Caring Skin is advancing its expansion to capitalise on the popularity of aesthetic treatments in Asia and the rise of sensitive skin issues among consumers.
In this exclusive interview, we caught up with Sam Farmer, whose personal care products are designed to offer young consumers products that avoid limiting gender stereotypes.
The in-cosmetics Global event is always a major platform for new and emerging trends. And plenty of new trends were in evidence at the Paris event, but one in particular caught my eye – the move towards multiuse or multipurpose products.
In their Indie Beauty Profile, Tejal Ramnathkar Engman and Alexandra Turner, co-founders of Malavara, describe their journey to create a hair treatment and body care brand that fits the modern moment: ‘Ayurveda hacked’, as their ecommerce site calls it....
We reveal the winners of this year’s Beauty Industry Awards, honouring some of the best innovations in the formulation and ingredients arena, and the leading independent beauty brands.
Over the past five years the Sephora Accelerate program has helped to platform many indie beauty brands, and the latest additions to the program include two LATAM brands.
Last month in New York City, the professional organization Cosmetic Executive Women held its first Female Founders Awards event, celebrating the brands and business built by Amy Errett, Lauren Gores Ireland and Marianna Hewitt, Gregg Renfrew, Vicky Tsai,...
In her Indie Beauty Profile Maya Ivanjesku, chief scientific officer at LaFlore Probiotic Skincare, shares insight in to the challenges of building a microbiome skin care brand and offers personal care startup founders refreshingly honest advice about...
Nail art is a rapidly growing trend in the Latin American market and Colombian player H la Cosedora is riding the wave by embarking on a regional expansion of the business.
At next month’s in-cosmetics global tradeshow in Paris, beauty startups and independent personal care brands will have a clear path to follow and an easier time connecting with ingredient suppliers that are offering low order volumes and other services...
In their Indie Beauty Profile, Ndidi Obidoa and Chinelo Chidozie, co-founders of Bolden, outline a mass market skin care brand for women of color that has garnered shelf space at a major US retailer and neatly defined a large consumer base.
In this latest look at product innovation in Latin America we look at a selection of the latest beauty launches that feature Korean style innovation with a natural twist, bought to us by Mintel.
Our third annual Beauty Industry Awards has been another huge success, with a tremendous number of high quality entries making the judges’ decisions harder than ever.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Ovsanna Mkrtumyan, co-founder of Zatik Naturals, describes how she and her cofounder built an organic, vegan personal care brand by trial and error; highlights a clever seasonal retail strategy; and outlines the brand’s wide-ranging...
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.
Voting closes Thursday night. And it’s a tough call for the Beauty Awards this year: the room of indie beauty brands attracted quite a crowd, while elsewhere on the show floor startups and founder-led brands competed with legacy brands and multinational...
Late last week, the blog and social content agency led by Ron Robinson announced that it has gotten in to the personal care products business, formulating and retailing 2 facial skin care products and leaving the door open for a fuller line of beauty...
Alternative deodorants from established indie brands, new startups, natural product makers, and even multinationals are having a moment. There seems to be a new underarm product—in some clever form, format, or formula—launched every day now. Here, Cosmetics...
