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The Cosmetics Design 2019 Trends Video

The Cosmetics Design beauty and personal care industry trends for 2019

19-Dec-2018 By Simon Pitman

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,...

From The Editor's Desk

Are beauty consumers tiring of social media?

19-Dec-2018 By Simon Pitman

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.

Editor’s Spotlight

What is indie beauty anyway?

18-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Recently, brands featured on the Indie Beauty Profile column have been asked to define or explain their thinking on what makes a cosmetics, personal care, or fragrance brand independent. Here, Cosmetics Design has complied a selection of the replies in...

Top Ingredient and Product Launch Predictions: 2019

18-Dec-2018 By Belinda Carli, Director, Institute of Personal Care Science

Looking to the year ahead, we ask industry expert Belinda Carli, Director of the Institute of Personal Care Science, what her predictions are for the top launches and trends tipped to define the beauty industry in 2019.

IFF acquires three personal care ingredients from Kemin Industries

18-Dec-2018 By Lucy Whitehouse

IFF-Lucas Meyer Cosmetics (IFF-LMC), a cosmetic actives subsidiary of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc., has expanded and strengthened its strategic portfolio.

Indie Beauty Profile

Laura Rudoe, Evolve Beauty

17-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile, Laura Rudoe, founder of the small-batch, artisan personal care brand Evolve Beauty, gives us a good insider understanding of why independent brands are so ingenious. And, she describes building a hand-made products business...

From The Editor's Desk

Global ingredients players are helping indie beauty, but competing too

12-Dec-2018 By Simon Pitman

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.

Amyris and ADL expand production of fermentation-derived ingredients

11-Dec-2018 By Simon Pitman

Amyris, a leading player in fermentation derived ingredient, has confirmed that it is expanding production of with its contract partner ADL Bionatur.

Editor’s Spotlight

2018 cosmetics and personal care ingredient launches

10-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Certainly no year passes in the beauty industry without a significant number of new ingredient technologies coming to market. Here, we look at selection of standout ingredients that made headlines on Cosmetics Design over the last 12 months.

Univar adds Sino Lion ingredients in US

10-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The personal care and cosmetics ingredient distributor announced a new partnership this month, one that not only expands Univar’s sustainable ingredients portfolio but that will also generate new so-called green prototype product formulations for beauty...

Editor’s Spotlight

These 4 indie brands are going all in on marine ingredients

07-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

At next month’s Indie Beauty Expo in Los Angeles, California, numerous new cosmetics and personal care trends will be visible. Chief among them, the emerging marine ingredients trend. Here Cosmetics Design looks at 4 brands, exhibiting at IBE, that are...

Cosmetics Design’s new column: From The Editor’s Desk

05-Dec-2018 By Simon Pitman

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.

Supplier Case Study

From the Ground Up: how Brazilian Kimberlite Clay is building a global beauty ingredient business

05-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Founded just three years ago, Brazilian Kimberlite Clay has been supplying beauty makers since first exhibiting at the Dubai Beauty World Middle East event in 2016. This month, Cosmetics Design caught up with the company’s international business director...

First US Microalgae Industry Summit set for May 2019

04-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

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 2019 Beauty Industry Awards are open!

04-Dec-2018 By Simon Pitman

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.