In her Indie Beauty Profile, Allison Moss, founder of type:A Brands, shares real insight into how she’s leading a deodorant brand that is changing the category’s packaging norms, helping define the clean beauty movement, and navigating what would seem...
The three day Expo Beauty Show closed its doors on Tuesday in Mexico City, confirming another extremely busy show for what is a favorite destination for professional beauty players, platforming domestic players, as well as bigger Latin American and Global...
The founder of Renovatio and creator of APSKIN, an antioxidant skin cream made from apples, is eyeing further expansion in Asia-Pacific (APAC) beginning with Thailand next year.
A major new skin care range based on CBD oil was launched at the recent Belleza Y Salud event in Bogota, Colombia, Called Kuida, and launched by Colombian company Khiron, the new range has significant financial backing and looks set for a strong start.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Dr. Isfahan Chambers Harris, founder of Alodia Hair Care, describes putting her scientific expertise to work to solve her own hair care challenges. And, sharing a bit of her personal background, she encourages would-be entrepreneurs...
This week in New York City, indie founder Ozohu Aodh and Essence magazine beauty director Julee Wilson introduced the luxury natural skin care line EPARA to a room of industry editors and influencers ahead of the brand’s retail debut in the US. EPARA...
At the recent Belleza Y Salud event in Bogota, Colombia, Cosmetics Design was lucky enough to catch up with Juan Diaz, co-founder of H La Cosedora Nail Art, a company that is striving to reinvent the increasingly popular trend for nail stamping.
A brand new brand on the Colombian market, Mae Selva has been built around coffee as the base ingredient for a range of masks and scrubs. We spoke to co-founder Felipe Paros to find out about the brand's ambitions for the future.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Therese Clark, founder of Lady Suite, discusses how and why she’s launching a clean women’s wellness brand into the cosmetics and personal care space. And she shares insight into why it takes a healthy mix of creative vision...
Independent cosmetics and personal care brands are widely known as innovators. While, ingredient suppliers and specialty chemical companies have long partnered with big beauty makers on new technologies, benefits testing, and formulations. Now, as indie...
Biobased process technologies provider, Genomatica, explains its strategic decision to focus on natural products and supportive technologies over petrochemical alternatives.
In his Indie Beauty Profile Andrew Glass, founder of Non Gender Specific, reminds entrepreneurs just how often they might be told, “that is a horrible idea,” before the business takes off. And, he describes the beginnings of a skin care brand that’s aspiring...
Friday morning in New York City, Aurora Carrara, artistic director of the Italian fragrance brand UERMI, talked press, influencers, and bloggers through a collection of scents inspired by fabrics and materials such as latex (which provoked this article’s...
Yesterday evening at a pop-up event in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood, the skin care brand led by acupuncturists Angela Chau and Ervina Wu launched their latest product. Cosmetics Design was there to learn why 5yina chose to expand into whole body...
The cheap-chic department store announced a new owned brand this week. Smartly will be available in stores starting Sunday and most of the products will cost less than $2—remarkable, considering some of the personal care items in the collection were “developed...
In a world where self-tanner has been a fact since the 1950s (with ups and downs in popularity) and more recently paint-on freckle products (from suppliers like Faber Castell and brands like Freck) have come to market, one beauty entrepreneur believes...
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Kenna Whitnell, founder of Altilis Beauty, describes how her academic work in biotechnology led her to develop novel plant-based skin care ingredients and why she believes indie beauty entrepreneurs have cause to celebrate...
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Lishawn Lalonde, founder of Uliv Skincare, suggests that, as a solo entrepreneur, taking slow but steady steps forward is the best way to build a plant-based skincare line.
With consumer desire for natural-based but effective deodorants a priority, a new ‘plant-powered’ deodorant called Myro has just been launched in the US.
Givaudan has launched its fragrance on the move concept at last week’s in-cosmetics LATAM, highlighting another way the fragrance category is continuing to reinvent itself.
Monday evening at the Perfumarie in New York City, brand founder Menaye Donkor and her small team hosted an event for press, industry insiders, and in-the-know consumers, introducing those gathered to the Italian luxury body care brand Shey and previewing...
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Kristen Tostado, founder of a new color cosmetics brand called Social Paint, explains why she and her brand are passionately gluten free. And, she gives a bit of insight into why she believes indie beauty and mass production...
There are at least as many possible scents as there are ideas and memories, which may be why a profusion of indie fragrance and aromatherapy brands are blending up scents and bringing novel and nuanced products to market. Here, Cosmetics Design looks...
The professional beauty supply retailer has added a consumer-friendly hair color box kit to its private label product portfolio and begun selling a similar kit from an existing national brand as well.
New Chapter founder Paul Schulick plans to launch a line of topical products aimed at the skin microbiome with a plan to reenter the ingestibles field in 2020.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Lindsay Knaak-Stuart founder of Meant, illustrates how she’s built a stylish yet simple body care brand that has—without an ad budget—captured the attention of discerning consumers and enviable retail buyers alike.
Independent cosmetics and personal care brands commonly get started with the hope of meeting an overlooked consumer need or filling an industry niche. Still, it’s not that often something truly new comes to market. Here Cosmetics Design identifies 4 new...
A fair number of brands exhibiting at this year’s Indie Beauty Expo in New York City were dedicated to wellness. One such brand, Australia-based Tonik makes single-ingredient supplements. Cosmetics Design spoke with Tonik founder Pip Summerville at IBE...
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Kari Gran, co-founder of the Kari Gran brand discusses how a real-estate agent decides to become a cosmetics and personal care entrepreneur. And, she describes the business philosophy that has made Kari Gran a leading brand...
This year’s Indie Beauty Expo in New York City was the largest yet, featuring nearly 250 cosmetics, personal care, fragrance, and wellness brands. Among all the exhibits and demos, these 5 product launches stood out to Cosmetic Design.
Indie brand founder Michelle Vidal patented her spray technology after years of researching the composition of thermal springs around with world and testing canned facial mists already on the market. At last week’s IBE New York event, Cosmetics Design...
Cosmetics Design caught up with founder Sara Happ and her colleague Peggy Fry at Cosmoprof North America to discuss where and how the lip care and lip color brand is growing.
Following the buzz of last week's Indie Beauty Expo in New York City last week, the Cosmetics Design team has put together a photo gallery that includes some of the hottest new brands and product launches at the event.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Shiva Tavakoli, co-founder of Joon Haircare, outlines her retail growth strategy for the brand. And she shares her tips for keeping a new beauty business focused on what matters most.
Innovative startups are changing the way consumers style their hair; and at Cosmoprof North America, Cosmetics Design spoke with Michiyo Oishi, Co-Founder of Beauty Tribe, to learn about the brand’s Jetset Hot Rollers, how better tool technology creates...
Lena & Lina launched less than a year ago, in November of 2017; though that brand’s Founder and CEO Paulina Kapoor has been at work on the skin care collection since 2015. At Cosmoprof North America, she spoke with Cosmetics Design about the brand’s...
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Mary Futher, founder of kaia naturals, describes a brand that puts “careful thought, scientific research, [and] naturally derived ingredients in every product,” to save her customers the trouble of scrutinizing labels; and...
New indie skin care brand founder Aneela Zaman has been showcasing her Sleeping Beauty serum at industry shows across the country, at the CEW Demo Day in New York City, at IBE Dallas, and most recently at Cosmoprof North America in Las Vegas. That’s where...
Hair care is the pivotal part of any cosmetic and personal care player’s portfolio in the Latin American market, so Cosmetics Design caught up with one of the region’s biggest players to find out how to make hair care work in such a competitive market..
There’s a whole swath of indie beauty brands advocating the notion that simple is best and less is more. They usually formulate with natural ingredients and have relatively small product portfolios. Still, the consumer appetite for what’s new, next, and...
Consumer hunger for the latest niche offering in the naturals and organics beauty space has never been higher. Here are our top picks for independent companies leading the pack.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Tina Hedges, founder of LOLI Beauty, offers advice that she’s gained over the course of several entrepreneurial ventures; enumerates how LOLI takes sustainability to the far end of possibility; and explains why the seed of...
At last week’s Cosmoprof North America tradeshow in Las Vegas, Nevada, Steinberg spoke with Cosmetics Design editor Deanna Utroske about her new brand’s impressive retail reach; what young women expect from packaging and formulation; how millennials approach...
The beauty wellness brand has until now been focused on skin care formulated with natural ingredients. But this summer (as is increasingly common among personal care brands) Well Within added two skin care supplements to their product portfolio.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Rose-Marie Swift, founder of RMS Beauty, explains why green beauty brands should focus first on consumer education (and only later on sales and marketing). And, she describes her experience moving from life as makeup artist...
In this video conversation with Cosmetics Design, Catie Wiggy, director of product innovation at MyChelle Dermaceuticals, talks about the brand’s recent partnership with French Transit, MyChelle’s newest product launches, reef-safe sun care, what ‘green...
This month, the fast-fashion retailer announced a collection of 25 scents intentionally blended to coordinate with the company’s existing fragrances. The new Eau de Toilette and body mist collection will go on sale next month.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Jessica Postiglione, CEO of OLIKA, details the strategy behind the first brand from a company that’s laser-focused on differentiation in the personal care industry. Her company’s Birdie and Minnie are known as much for their...
Industry veteran Heather Fink recently launched her own makeup brand, The Sexiest Beauty. And, even with some 30 years of experience—developing product, building brands, launching marketing campaigns—she acknowledges that as a new beauty brand founder...
