The latest annual TABS US color cosmetics report highlights some interesting shifts in the category, with lower intended purchasing and a demise in how social media influences consumers.
Everyone wants a slice of the fast-growing indie beauty market right now, and while it has never been easier to launch a brand, the competition is getting all the more fierce.
This month the Coty brand launched a new line of color cosmetics on Ulta.com. The Full Spectrum Collection of complexion and color products are “specifically designed to address the skin and color needs of WOC,” according to Cover Girl.
Family is a key part of the global Estée Lauder Companies business story and important to the company’s Aerin Beauty brand in particular. Aerin Lauder’s eponymous venture is a luxury lifestyle brand with product lines in beauty, fragrance, fashion, and...
At a CEW Speakers Series event this week in New York City, Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette spoke one-on-one with Jill Scalamandre, chairwoman of Cosmetic Executive Women, about how the company is updating its approach to beauty, what the acquisitions of Blue...
Cosmetics Design is bringing you a new regular column, From The Editor’s Desk, designed to offer our readers a more in depth perspective on matters that are impacting our industry.
Algae and algae outputs are increasingly useful in the cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance industries—a fact that is not lost on global events producer Active Communications International. The company is hosting its first US Microalgae Industry Summit...
The third annual Beauty Industry Awards is open for entries, with the Cosmetics Design team inviting entries for ten categories representing all aspects of the industry, from finished products through to formulation.
The new brand is counting not only on consumer demand for customized personal care but also on the fact that consumers know what they want and that individual expectations and tastes should determine what goes into each shampoo and conditioner formulation.
Beauty trends can be hard to keep up with. But location is particularly relevant; and knowing (and leveraging) the unique value of a given location can give cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance makers an advantage.
A wide variety of tea-derived inputs is used in personal care product formulations, most often for their antioxidant activity. Green tea, white tea, fermented black tea, matcha, blue tea (which is really butterfly-pea flower and lemongrass), and other...
The first ever Indie Beauty Expo (IBE) to take place in Europe has just been wrapped up in London, a small event that showcased some of the leading brands targeting the market there.
The winners of the Cosmoprof Asia and Cosmopack Asia Awards were announced at last week’s Hong Kong trade show in front of 200 guests, including finalists, buyers, and influencers.
The organisers of next year’s Cosmoprof Bologna, one of the biggest global industry events, say that this year’s event has been carefully put together around the concept of sustainability.
Consumers consistently demand more from their skin care and cosmetics products. In this dedicated feature, we ask whether multifunctionality still important, and what’s new?
