Today the Sustainable Packaging Initiative for Cosmetics (SPICE) announced a new publicly available tool to assess more than 15 environmental indicators of packaging production and life-cycle.
The eco-entrepreneur behind Smood Natural Deodorants is observing more interest in zero-waste personal care products despite hurdles such as the lack of convenience.
The California-based deodorant brand has plans to be a fully plastic-free business by mid-2021. And the brand’s partnership with a new beauty packaging company is a key piece of that sustainability strategy.
Late last week, GOJO (the manufacturer of Purell) announced the use of alternative personal care product packaging solutions to make it possible for the brand to fill demand swiftly.
To make it easy for consumers to recycle plastic bottles for Timeless Skin Care’s most popular products, the brand has partnered on a mail back program with TerraCycle.
Sustainable beauty packaging options are in high demand and short supply. But Ezonyx, a biotech and IP licensing company, hopes to add to that supply with its new degradable bioplastic.
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has marked the end of in-store cosmetic testers, but one firm doubts the abilities of augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR) and similar technology to completely replace them.
Italian packaging specialist Mktg Industry has developed a separable double-layered paper and plastic design for lipsticks, enabling easy refills and simply recycling for consumers.
The beauty industry will have to re-think product engagement and interaction as consumers emerge from the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis with safety and hygiene front-of-mind, highly aware of everything they touch, says a trends expert.
As industry at large moves slowly closer to a circular economic model, innovations like Eastman’s new Tritan Renew material, made from recycled plastics, highlights what materials circularity means.
Retailers have been instrumental in defining the terms of Clean Beauty. But until now, brands have been left alone to decide what ‘sustainable packaging’ really means. Credo’s new 4-phase plan for cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance brands changes...
In the cosmetics and personal care business today, DTC mailing and retail drop shipping are not uncommon, especially not since the Coronavirus pandemic. But sustainable beauty packaging remains elusive. Founders Rebecca Percasky and Kate Bezar believe...
Labels designed to inform consumers about the recyclability or disposability of plastic packaging create confusion worldwide and industry must address this collectively and urgently, says the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Consumers International.
Before the Coronavirus pandemic, beauty product testing was a mainstay of cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance retail. With stores starting to reopen in the Americas region, brands and retailers are looking for the right way to let shoppers test makeup...
Recycle BC, a non-profit based in British Columbia, thinks so. The organization headed up by Tamara Burns just launched a campaign encouraging consumers to tour their own homes and spot any otherwise-overlooked recyclable packaging.
Bioplastics research and development efforts worldwide remain very immature, particularly in cosmetics where there have been very few patents filed, according to Clarivate Analytics.
Innovation begets innovation. The beauty industry, even now, is a fast-moving industry. As cosmetics and personal care product ingredients and formulations become evermore sophisticated and nuanced so too do the materials, and designs, and dispensing...
This week, the Good Housekeeping Institute began accepting submissions for its now annual awards program. This year the Institute will recognize sustainable packaging innovation in four industries: home care and cleaning, toys, food, and beauty and personal...
This month’s PCPC Annual Meeting was all about sustainability. At the event, Cosmetics Design caught up with Szaky to discuss the business of TerraCycle, the Loop platform, and sustainable beauty packaging more broadly.
For the skin care startup Victorialand Beauty, inclusive beauty is accessible beauty. And in recent months, the brand has improved website functionality and product packaging design to better serve consumers with vision impairments.
Among multinationals, Colgate has been making headlines in the sustainable oral care space of late, and several indie and startup brands are pushing the category forward as well. Now Unilever is back in the game with today’s launch of the Signal Ecolo...
The makeup brand Tiila Abbitt founded in 2018 is educating consumers and setting a new standard for makeup packaging. Āether Beauty’s latest launch is “literally the only liquid lip component in all of Sephora that can be recycled.”
The organizers of the 2020 Expo Pack Mexico event, to be held at Expo Santa Fe, Mexico City, June 2 – 5, say that the event is proving highly popular and that exhibition space is selling out fast.
Brazilian cosmetics and personal care giant Natura is aiming to raise the bar on sustainable packaging with by inviting designers and innovators to present their best solutions.
Growth strategy consulting firm Frost & Sullivan recently published a report on the bioplastics market; and all 8 companies highlighted in the report serve the cosmetics and personal care industry.
Hair care specialist Schwarzkopf has partnered with international recycling provider Terracyle to launch its free Schwarzkopf Recycling Program in the US.
This June, the Colgate brand announced plans to launch its innovative new oral care packaging in 2020. Yet late last week, the Tom’s of Maine fully recyclable toothpaste tubes hit the market.
The Unilever brand announced its new No | Better | Less Plastic framework recently and is moving forward with new beauty packaging initiatives that will remove over 20,000 metric tons of virgin plastic from the brand’s supply chain.
At last week’s Raise the Green Bar sustainability summit in New York City, Birnur Aral and Carolyn Forté of the Good Housekeeping Institute announced the winners from indie, niche, and legacy brands in 9 categories across bath and body, makeup and skin...
The Body Shop has spent two years building a solid supply chain with Plastics for Change in India to source Fair Trade recycled plastic and plans to integrate these materials across its global recycled plastics portfolio within three years.
This week, the Barcelona, Spain – based company announced the new eco-chic bottle accessory, expanding the range of wood packaging options available to cosmetics and personal care makers.
This month, the beauty packaging company announced its equity investment in 3 China-based companies specializing in components and complete makeup packaging solutions.
In response to the growing cannabis beauty trend, the premium packaging maker has introduced a collection of hemp board papers in a number of colors and finishes.
Personal care major Unilever will slash use of virgin plastic in half by 2025, cutting use completely or using alternatives such as cardboard, bamboo and recycled materials.
An increasing body of evidence is pointing to sustainable packaging as the new industry standard, with recycled materials and refillable solutions becoming more and more popular.
At last week’s tradeshow, international beauty packagers, brush makers, contract manufacturers, and more, were showcasing their latest and most innovative solutions for cosmetics and personal care industry insiders. Cosmetics Design was there, and here...
The beauty packaging maker has announced partnerships with TerraCycle and PureCycle in recent days, which is an indication that Aptar is eager to help its customers meet looming sustainability goals.
The show made it’s US debut 3 years ago and has since grown to become a destination for beauty manufacturers and brands of all size looking to source the latest and best aerosol and packaging solutions for cosmetics, personal care, fine fragrance, gift-with-purchase,...
The company Suvi Haimi and Laura Kyllönen founded in Finland in 2016 has been gaining accolades, winning awards, and making headlines while continuing to innovate for a plastic-free future. This year, Sulapac announced that its Universal Recipe material...
The SC Johnson-owned soap brand method is the first personal care brand to license art work from Minted, a design platform that uses data to sell art and graphic design by independent creative professionals worldwide. And this week the venture launched...
This month the beauty packager published an 18-page report outlining the company's past, current, and future approach to environmental sustainability and, as part of the document, laid out 5 ways that Albéa is working toward a circular approach to...
Cosmetics packaging supplier, Geka, centres its beauty strategy on customisation, innovation and sustainability through its new 3D packaging configurator and ‘green mascara’ concept launches.
This month’s Cosmoprof North America event will include an event-within-an-event: Comopack, a tradeshow all about contract and private-label manufacturing, with exhibitors showing packaging, applicators, machinery, ingredients, and raw materials too....
Expo Pack Guadalajara, one of the leading events for the packaging and processing industries in Latin America, broke attendance records for its 2019 event.
Yesterday, the beauty maker announced its minority stake investment in Carbios, a green chemistry company working to solve environmental sustainability problems in manufacturing. The funds will help the company move its PET recycling technologies closer...
Colgate, the brand’s parent company, announced yesterday that a new tube design has been recognized for its recyclability by the APR. The company intends to update Tom’s toothpaste tubes next year and all Colgate owned brands’ toothpaste tubes with 100%...
