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Indie Trail companies offer beauty startups less and more

19-Apr-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Just 34 of the more than 800 companies exhibiting at the in-cosmetics Global tradeshow in Paris this month opted to be featured on the event’s first Indie Trail map—a guide meant to help indie beauty brands and aspiring founders find and connect with...

Alcone’s direct-sales skin care and makeup brand plans for future growth

18-Apr-2019 By Deanna Utroske

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...

1 cosmetics and personal care company ranked among America’s Best Midsize Employers of 2019

17-Apr-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Forbes and Statista collaborated to determine which companies employees like working for best; and just 1 beauty maker made their list of 500 midsize businesses.

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AEM Lab debuts unique marine mud at in-cosmetics Global

17-Apr-2019 By Deanna Utroske

214 million years ago a meteorite hit what is today Québec, Canada; between then and now, the Earth has turned the mineral-rich space rock (sea water and the impacted, surrounding soil) into mud and clay with a unique composition and an array of skin...

Amway disrupts its own beauty business, launching 50 new mobile apps

17-Apr-2019 By Deanna Utroske

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.

Colombia takes a big step forward towards banning animal testing

16-Apr-2019 By Simon Pitman

The House of Representatives for Colombia agreed unanimously by voting for a bill that would prohibit the use of animals in tests for cosmetics and personal care products.

L'Oréal Canada gains access to local tech startups with new partnership

16-Apr-2019 By Deanna Utroske

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...

New legislation in Canada advances likelihood of animal testing ban

16-Apr-2019 By Deanna Utroske

On Friday, Conservative MP Marylyn Gladu (who represents Sarina—Lambton, Ontario) moved to have a bill read that would effectively ban the sale and manufacture of cosmetics and cosmetic ingredients tested on animals. Advocates are calling this legislative...

WATCH: Sam Farmer on unisex products for gender neutral teen personal care

12-Apr-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

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.

Will lip powders replace conventional lipstick?

11-Apr-2019 By Simon Pitman

A new market report suggests that lip powder palettes now account for 55% of global sales, and that this trend could mean that conventional lip products may be on the way out

Gattefossé’s Emulium Illustro picks up Gold at in-cosmetics Global

11-Apr-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

The company’s new water-in-oil (W/O) emulsifier of natural origin, designed principally for pigmented formulations, won this year’s Gold Innovation Award in the Functional Ingredient category.

Claire’s claims FDA test results for asbestos to be inaccurate

10-Apr-2019 By Simon Pitman

The recent warning by the US FDA about three Claire’s color cosmetic products containing potentially dangerous levels of asbestos has seen company executives spring to the defense and claim that the testing may not be accurate.

LATAM companies at in-cosmetics Global, in photos

10-Apr-2019 By Simon Pitman

Latin American companies left a big mark on the show floor at the recent in-cosmetics Global event in Paris. In this photo gallery we bring you some of the highlights and tell you what those businesses were highlighting.

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The multiuse trend spells opportunity and headaches

10-Apr-2019 By Simon Pitman

The in-cosmetics Global event is always a major platform for new and emerging trends. And plenty of new trends were in evidence at the Paris event, but one in particular caught my eye – the move towards multiuse or multipurpose products.

PromPeru highlights natural but innovative ingredient players

09-Apr-2019 By Simon Pitman

PromPeru is hard at work building a platform for natural ingredients suppliers from Peru, and this year’s in-cosmetics Global event provided the perfect event to highlight some unique offerings.