The global specialty chemical and ingredient distributor launched a new site this week, serving the industry overseas—in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
When color cosmetics brand Il Makiage was preparing to relaunch in the US, they teamed up with Socialfly, a full-service social media agency specializing in strategy, influencer marketing, paid media, and creative services. Cosmetic Design checked in...
This week the cosmetics company announced its new tech hub in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as changes to Marc Rey’s role, adding the responsibilities of chief growth officer to his current position as president and CEO of Shiseido Americas. Both...
In a forward-looking statement issued late last month, the consumer packaged goods and pharmaceutical company announced an offer to acquire Ci:z Holdings Co., Ltd., which owns the Dr.Ci:Labo, Labo Labo, and Genomer skin care brands as well as some salon...
Last month in New York City, Idea Couture hosted an interactive and educational day-long event that brought the innovation and design firm’s new report on The Future of Beauty to life. The event and report highlighted 6 cosmetics and personal care trends...
At this year’s annual National Association of Broadcasters trade show and conference event in Las Vegas, Nevada, Tag Station announced a new intelligence portal that gathers listener data from people using the NextRadio app. That Dial Report's first...
The website updates are meant to help the company’s customers (which include cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance makers) navigate more easily to the information they need as well as to clearly delineate Emerald’s market-focused business units.
This summer, the subscription makeup and personal care box company launched a newly revised and refreshed website. Cosmetics Design checked in with Meredith Schwartz, Birchbox's VP of product, to get an inside view of the redesign project.
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.
This summer, the Canadian retailer launched dedicated ecommerce for beauty consumers. The new site features both mass and luxury brands and boasts being “Canada's largest online beauty destination.”
Stephanie Scott founded First and Last PR six-and-a-half years ago and has seen the cosmetics and personal care industry as well as all things media change substantially in that time. Here, in conversation with Cosmetics Design, she discusses how it was,...
“Our customers are really demanding more environmentally friendly options,” Sari Sternschein, VP of Marketing at Qosmedix, tells Cosmetics Design in this video interview (filmed at Cosmoprof North America). She describes the recycled and recyclable solutions...
The multinational social-sales beauty brand is continually revamping its business these days. There have been drastic changes in leadership, real estate, product manufacturing…the list goes on. But Avon hopes the move to digital brochures—in 12 countries...
Claire Chang of igniteXL has teamed up with Draper University on a new project calculated to bolster early-stage startups that are levering technology to disrupt business as usual in the cosmetics and personal care industry. The inaugural SVBeautyTech...
The Unilever brand, acclaimed for its Self-Esteem Project, announced a ‘No Digital Distortion Mark’ initiative this week. In doing so, Dove joins a growing number of brands, retailers, and media that have given up Photo Shopping—and are verifying as much...
We caught up with L'Oréal's digital strategy manager for hair care and styling at the recent FCE Cosmetique event in Brazil, where he shared some of his in depth knowledge for both the Brazil market and worldwide.
In a bid to offer a comprehensive web presence, Croda, international personal care ingredients supplier, has launched a website dedicated to personal care formulators.
In this video interview, Cosmetics Design editor Deanna Utroske talks with David Shaw of DuPont Tate & Lyle about what’s new and what’s next for the company’s personal care ingredient Zemea.
The global beauty technology Meetup community founded by Odile Roujol launched a New York City chapter this week. A next, panel event in already in the planning stages for later this summer; and gauging from the turnout at this week’s gathering, there...
The Estée Lauder Companies, L’Oréal, P&G, Kimberly Clark, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, and other industry leaders all have relationships with a platform known as AuditOne Global. And to help simplify the management of manufacturing standards,...
As of this month, Zemea, the ingredient maker’s branded version of propanediol, has a dedicated mobile app for cosmetics and personal care formulators. The interactive digital resource is meant to help chemists and product developers work with Zemea and...
At yesterday’s CEW event in New York City, Qurate CEO Mike George told the sold-out room that he thinks it’s a realistic goal. Beauty is big business in the new age of retail; the personal care, cosmetics, and fragrance sectors generate annual sales of...
Late last week, the seed accelerator program of Baltimore City’s Emerging Technology Centers announced the seven companies selected to participate during 2018. And Sheena Deanne, the founder of Well-Kept Beauty is among the innovators selected to take...
Beauty makers and brands have been updating the digital packaging experience for years to give consumers online the same information and tangibility they’ve grown accustomed to in store. But everyone is shopping online now, and industry suppliers like...
The beauty maker chose to announce its new SkinCeuticals product and counter-top formulating technology at the 2018 Fast Company Grill in Austin, Texas (an event for influencers and innovative thinkers that coincides with the SXSW conference and festivals)....
Sephora has been running its Accelerate program for women brand founders and startup leaders for three years now. This week, the company announced the 13 women selected to participate in the 2018 edition of the program—they represent brands innovating...
The company’s joint venture, Beauty Personalization Domination, has set an opening bid of $500 million for the full portfolio of 75 patents and anticipates bids well above that figure coming from top multinational cosmetics and personal care companies...
This month, the New Jersey – based nail lacquer and nail care treatment product maker announced a full online refresh that foregrounds the company’s place in the modern beauty industry.
The Cosmetics Design team is dedicating itself to providing the most cutting edge and informative news for the cosmetics and personal care industry throughout Latin America, so, naturally, we want to hear about all the news from your business in the region!
We have always been swift to report on what is happening in the fast-moving Latin American cosmetics and personal care market, but now we are offering more targeted and in-depth coverage.
Interested creative professionals and technology starts-ups have under one month to submit brand-specific pitches to Coty for consideration in the competition, which is an extension of the Digital Accelerator program that Coty launched last year.
The color expert has teamed up with high-performance sensor maker ams to create new color management technology for mobile devices. The sensor is expected to change the way beauty brands showcase product and how makeup consumers use apps and mobile sites...
The list of 250 direct-to-consumer brands was compiled by the Interactive Advertising Bureau in partnership with business insights company Dun & Bradstreet. Some 30 cosmetics, fragrance, hair, and personal care brands are included in the list of brands...
Using AR technology, the beauty maker has created a new tool for consumers to virtually test and shop full looks online in real time from any device. And Coty has plans to upgrade and roll out this sort of tech for all its color cosmetics brands.
The multinational cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance company is debuting its Amazon Echo skill Let’s Get Ready for all Echo devices this month. Voice services, chat bots, and virtual assistant tools like this are on the rise; and Coty is an early...
The optical technology platform developed by Cambridge Consultants is bringing top-of-the-line skin data analysis in to the hands and homes of beauty consumers. Cosmetics Design caught up with Edward Brunner, head of Asia consumer business for the company,...
Researchers from the University of California San Diego and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory teamed up to develop the new technology, and late last year, published details of their method in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature Protocols....
The Cosmoprof Bologna Worldwide event organisers are focusing on making the 2018 event portfolio even more international with the addition of some key events and further partnership developments.
The L’Oréal color cosmetics brand has teamed up with electronics company Samsung and VR production agency Cubicle Ninjas on a virtual beauty tutorial experience. Today, the experience launches in select stores and there are plans to expand the brand’s...
The Cosmetics Design team has compiled a list of the top trends to look out for in each of the three regions we cover - Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific. Be sure to watch this video so you can clue into what to expect in 2018 and stay one step ahead...
Pat McGrath Labs has teamed up with the music streaming service, and as of this week a newly released color cosmetics collection developed as part of the So Obsessed campaign that’s a joint project between McGrath and singer, songwriter Maggie Lindemann...
Legacy cosmetics and personal care brands can be slow to adopt new technologies. But as natural language product discovery tools become more common place, beauty brands will find creative ways to leverage programming interfaces like the Alexa Skills Kit...
The deal brings advanced artificial intelligence technologies to the beauty company. And Shiseido intends to take full advantage of the company’s tech tools and data capabilities.
Today, personal care and cosmetic ingredient makers know that all things green, bio-based, and alternative are of great interest to the beauty manufacturers they serve. And yet, this is the digital age. How are beauty ingredient companies to engage in...
Beauty’s digital, tech, and marketing insiders flocked to CEW’s Connected Consumer Conference last week to hear the experts discuss how brands are using the latest tech tools to engage with consumers today. And Cosmetics Design was there to find out what’s...
Today, the YouCam app maker announced the closing of its Series A funding round. Now Perfect Corp plans to spend millions improving the augmented reality and artificial intelligence tech that makes the digital beauty ecosystem tick.
At recent cosmetics and personal care industry events across New York City beauty tech makers were exhibiting imaging systems, product development (and full lifecycle) software, as well as in-store digital tools and toys. Here, Cosmetics Design takes...
The privately owned online media company announced the launch of its new shopping site this week, a dot com designed as a destination for consumers looking to discover and buy cosmetics and personal care products (as well as fashion) that meets a fixed...
The beauty technology company behind several popular augmented reality makeup platforms recently celebrated a milestone. Perfect Corp’s suite of YouCam apps have been downloaded over half a billion times by consumers around the world.
Tuesday at this week’s MakeUp in New York color cosmetics trade show in NYC, a standing-room-only conference session featuring speakers from L’Oréal, Google, and Peclers Paris, outlined how tech tools, data, and trends are changing beauty for consumers,...
