Millennial consumers have been deemed difficult to please and having no consumer loyalty, but Gen Z consumers have really thrown marketeers and brand owners.
Late last week, the global beauty tech company launched a new service. YouCam for Web promises to bring augmented reality product try-on technology to small and medium-sized business. And Perfect Corp will showcase its new tech tool at this year’s Cosmoprof...
The technologies—voice, machine vision and location analytics, ecommerce advertising, multicloud broadcasting, and AI—aren’t exclusively beauty tech solutions. But L’Oréal Canada and the men leading these startups see great potential for their tech tools...
International beauty products retailer, Sally Beauty, engages with platform technology provider, Service Management Group (SMG), to launch customer experience management programme.
Launchmetrics thinks so. The data analytics company launched a new brand decisioning platform today called Insights by Launchmetrics that promises to help beauty brands spend smarter on marketing as well as to compare and contrast a beauty brand’s performance...
This month Google and Amazon announced new tech services that change the ecommerce marketplace for both consumer and professional beauty products. Read on to find out what’s new and why it matters.
Well, almost here. The 3D-printer that promises to turn digital images into ready-to-wear color cosmetics is available on pre-order and will be in consumers' hands in 2020.
The commerce marketing solutions firm recently published findings that illustrate what motivates cosmetics and personal care consumers to buy directly from brands via ecommerce or social media rather than shop for beauty at conventional retail stores....
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.
Launched as LimeLight in 2015, rebranded LimeLife in 2018, and boasting revenues of nearly $100 million last year, the beauty brand recently bought into a manufacturing management tech solution to streamline and optimize its overseas product production...
The beauty tech company promises to help consumers realize skin care product benefits, as demonstrated in clinical testing, in real life. Cutitronics devices are not yet on the market, but the company was at in-cosmetics Global this month talking with...
The direct-sales company recently teamed up with low-code platform developer Kony to create apps that help its representatives—Amway Business Owners—around the world better engage with and sell to their customers.
In the hands of a multinational beauty company like L’Oréal, any tech can become beauty tech, a minor detail that is not lost on the leadership of L'Oréal Canada or its new partner OSMO. And so, the two distinctly different ventures are working together...
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.
In recent weeks, major technology companies, social media platforms, and personal care makers have made a handful of announcements that definitively change the way consumers buy makeup, personal care, fragrance, and more. Here, Cosmetics Design takes...
This past Thursday evening in New York City, FaB, the global fashion and beauty tech meetup group headed by Odile Roujol, held its second event in the city, featuring over a dozen speakers and attracting a large and diverse crowd of founders, funders,...
The internet-of-things sampling platform company announced the partnership last month—a deal that gives Aptar and its beauty dispensers business reach in the digital retail space as well as an additional service Aptar can offer existing and prospective...
Today, the global tech solutions company announced a new module expressly for beauty; it’s a module meant to help ingredient suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers address regulatory compliance, safety, and risk issues.
It has now been a full year since Cosmetics Design USA started its dedicated coverage of the Latin American market, bringing you the business news, trends and technology developments from that region.
Today the fragrance maker is debuting new olfaction sensor technology at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. International Flavors & Fragrances has worked with digital scent technology before, but the current partnership with Aryballe...
The beauty ingredient maker announced this week that it is putting even more money into Cutitronics, a health tech company that’s developing consumer skin care devices to deliver customized product and to gather data. The companies are at work on a devise...
During 2018 the Cosmetics Design team has had its eye on the big trends in an effort to determine what is going to be driving the industry in 2019. In this video we have combined our know-how to bring you a total of 20 trends to look out for in the Americas,...
If a new report from TABS is anything to go by beauty consumers are losing interest in social media as a go-to for purchasing decisions. Here we take a closer at the data and try to find out what is next.
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.
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.
Beauty tech entrepreneurs Meghan Maupin and Sid Salvi think so. They’ve just launched their Atolla Skincare System on the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter and are optimistic that data-based customized serum formulations are the answer that today’s digitally...
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...