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PCPC Washington Report takes stock of wins and losses for the beauty industry

28-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

At this week’s annual meeting event, members of the Personal Care Products Council’s board of directors presented an overview of how all things political in the US just now are affecting the organization’s work on behalf of the industry.

NYSCC to host event for aspiring cosmetic chemists

26-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Next month, the New York Chapter of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists is bringing together speakers from 4 major North American universities for a half-day event entitled Cosmetic Science in Academia.

Amazon continues to attract indie beauty brands

25-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This month, Pour Moi Skincare announced plans to start selling on the multinational ecommerce platform—a move that more and more cosmetics and personal care startups are making since Amazon launched its dedicated indie beauty shop last summer.

Qosmedix adds mini beauty packaging division

21-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The supplier’s new Itty Bitty Beauty offering is a platform meant to simplify the design and packaging selection process for brands looking to add mini sizes to their cosmetics and personal care product portfolio. Qosmedix will launch its new platform...

New CEW awards honor women indie beauty entrepreneurs

20-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The cosmetic and personal care industry organization will host its first Female Founders Awards next month, celebrating the achievements of women leading innovative beauty startups.

ADF&PCD returns to NYC in 2019

19-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

In mid-September, the North American edition of Easyfairs beauty packaging event will showcase the latest in aerosol, dispensing, perfume, and cosmetic packaging. The 2-day show will feature exhibitors, tours, awards, and educational presentations pertinent...

Editor’s Spotlight

Small but Mighty: how mission-led indie beauty brands are sharing the wealth

18-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

At a benefit event in New York City last week, Linda Treska, founder of the waterless makeup brand Pinch of Colour, announced the launch of Blue Angel Charity, a nonprofit working in tandem with the brand to “combat the global water crisis.”

POS Bio-Sciences rebrands to become plant-based ingredient supplier

13-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The Canadian company got its start in the 1970s as a spinoff of a research initiative at the University of Saskatchewan and worked in partnership with several industries on a contract-services model. Now renamed KeyLeaf, the business will be focused squarely...

20+ companies in beauty made Forbes 2019 list of America's Best Employers for Diversity

13-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The second annual ranking includes cosmetics and personal care manufacturers, industry suppliers, and a range of beauty retailers. Sephora, Ulta, Amazon, and Qurate all made the list; as did P&G, Mary Kay, The Estée Lauder Companies, and Unilever.

PCPC celebrates 125 years and readies for 2019 annual meeting

06-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The Personal Care Products Council will hold its annual meeting later this month, bringing together 500+ industry executives, supply-side professionals, and media for a mix of educational programming, networking, and strategic meetings.

ProAmpac reorganizes to serve cosmetics and personal care brands

06-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This week, the flexible packaging company announced a newly configured team that will work with beauty makers to design and develop packaging solutions that make sense for the modern marketplace.

Indie Beauty Profile

Sylwia Wiesenberg, Bawdy Beauty and DOPE Naturally

01-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Sylwia Wiesenberg is the entrepreneurial spirit personified. In her Indie Beauty Profile, the founder of both Bawdy Beauty and DOPE Naturally, shares the back story and brand stories that she’s single-handedly building into an enviable business venture....

Arcade Beauty and Vengo Labs team up to reinvent beauty on the go

30-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Portable skin care products, mini beauty, and sample sizes of everything from hair care to body care have become increasingly popular over the last year or so. Now, sampling company Arcade Beauty and retail tech maker Vengo Labs are teaming up to put...

GC3 invites green beauty tech startups to apply for upcoming showcase

17-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The Green Chemistry & Commerce Council is accepting applications for chemistry technology solutions and new ingredients that meet the needs of major companies—needs like UV filters with low aquatic toxicity and naturally derived hair conditioning...

Eco Well Podcast to host live show and green beauty consumer discovery event

16-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Jen Novakovich’s green beauty venture out of Canada features Cosmetics Design editor Deanna Utroske as a guest on this week’s podcast; and in March will host a first-of-its-kind panel discussion and shopping event, with the aim of connecting consumers...

BeautyX Summit returns to Los Angeles, California, this month

15-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The two-day educational event for entrepreneurs and indie beauty brand leaders will take place January 21 and 22 in LA. Attendees will hear from editors, influencers, and other experts on every facet of social and conventional media. Cosmetics Design...

In 21 European countries, independent beauty brands have a new retail champion

10-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This week the Indie Beauty Media Group announced a multifaceted partnership with Germany-based beauty retail giant Douglas. It's the fourth retail partnership struck by the organization behind the—now global—Indie Beauty Expo events and the second...

Laurie Ann Goldman in as CEO at New Avon LLC

09-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Goldman began her work as the CEO of the US-based, stand-alone division of the social selling beauty company Tuesday and is already talking about invigorating the business, driving sales, and encouraging progress for women.

Editor’s Spotlight

Beauty startups from Oceania are going global

07-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Cosmetics Design recently predicted that ‘all things Australian’ will be good for the personal care and cosmetics business this year. Before this trend fully catches hold, here’s a look at some of the indie brands from Australia and New Zealand that are...

Editor’s Spotlight

2019 Goals: Building on the wisdom of indie beauty brand founders

04-Jan-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The Indie Beauty Profile column is moving…to Fridays! But before going ahead with that, Cosmetics Design is looking back over a selection of the business advice that featured cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance brand leaders have shared over the past...

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...

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.

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.

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...

SCC Annual Scientific Meeting keynotes to cover new tech and leadership topics

03-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

At the upcoming December event in New York City, over 50 experts will speak about science, technology, and formulation, covering both the basics of cosmetic product development and chemistry as well as the latest ideas and innovations in the beauty, personal...

New biotech patent makes Spirulina microalgae into a specialty chemical factory

26-Nov-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Lumen Bioscience announced today that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent for its gene editing and insertion technology that makes the microorganism into a platform that can readily produce biologics, proteins, and other various molecules...

Editor's Spotlight

How is indie beauty shaping up in Europe?

21-Nov-2018 By Simon Pitman

The first ever Indie Beauty Expo (IBE) to take place in Europe has just been wrapped up in London, a small event that showcased some of the leading brands targeting the market there.

Cosmoprof Bologna 2019 event designed around sustainability

20-Nov-2018 By Simon Pitman

The organisers of next year’s Cosmoprof Bologna, one of the biggest global industry events, say that this year’s event has been carefully put together around the concept of sustainability.

Croda opens marine biotech center in Canada

14-Nov-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The specialty chemical maker is looking to the marine environment and biotechnology as a sustainable alternative to conventional personal care ingredient manufacturing. And having acquired Prince Edward Island – based Nautilus Biosciences at the start...

Editor’s Spotlight

The conscious beauty supply chain

09-Nov-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Conscious personal care consumers, mission-driven fragrance brands, and feel-good cosmetics marketing campaigns are hard to miss now days. So smart suppliers and distributors are not only helping beauty makers tell more nuanced ingredient stories, they...

Avon announces new GM and growth plans in Central America

07-Nov-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Monday, Jorge Leonardo Palomera Ruiz took over as general manager of the CARD markets—Central America and the Dominican Republic—at Avon. His appointment is just the latest in a string of leadership changes at the company since relocating its global headquarters...

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Unilever unites with Humane Society International to end animal testing for cosmetics

07-Nov-2018 By Natasha Spencer

In an “unprecedented move” by one of the globe’s leading beauty brands, Humane Society International notes how these increasing efforts to ban animal testing in the cosmetics sphere may well be the “beginning of the end for cruel cosmetics”. We spoke...

Editor’s Spotlight

The beauty industry’s stake in worldwide wellness

05-Nov-2018 By Deanna Utroske

According to the Global Wellness Institute’s 2018 report, wellness is now a $4.2 trillion business; and the beauty, personal care, and anti-aging categories account for $1,083bn of that figure. Here, Cosmetics Design looks at brands and trends navigating...

5 takeaways from CEW’s panel event on natural beauty

05-Nov-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Last week in New York City, Cosmetic Executive Women hosted a discussion among industry leaders asking, What is the New Natural? Answers to this question were mixed but the likes of Tata Harper and Credo co-founder Annie Jackson, who both spoke on the...

Idea Couture event animates The Future of Beauty

01-Nov-2018 By Deanna Utroske

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...

Editor’s Spotlight

Algae has a big role in the future of global beauty

22-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Marine-derived ingredients are on the rise in cosmetics and personal care product formulations. In particular, algae from every corner of the ocean is being used as both an ingredient and an ingredient factory. Here, Cosmetics Design takes a quick look...

Editor’s Spotlight

Beauty Innovation Showdown: Indie Brands and Ingredient Makers

19-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Independent cosmetics and personal care brands are widely known as innovators. While, ingredient suppliers and specialty chemical companies have long partnered with big beauty makers on new technologies, benefits testing, and formulations. Now, as indie...

Raise the Green Bar sustainability summit takes place November 8 in NYC

17-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The full-day event, hosted by The Good Housekeeping Institute and Made Safe, a non-profit certifying body, returns to New York City for a second year to help cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance brands (in fact, any FMCG brand) discover, understand,...

Fashion Snoops trend immersion event returns to NYC

15-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In early November, the trend forecasting agency Fashion Snoops is holding a full-day event in New York City, previewing coming color and culture trends that will impact fashion, home, design, and beauty in the years ahead. In-house FS experts and guest...

Persona launches a beauty supplement

11-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The customized vitamin brand, backed by L Catterton, launched two new dietary supplements and a mobile app this month. It’s the latest in a long line of recent pill and capsule launches from wellness and skin care brands getting in on the beauty-from-within...

Does radio advertising matter for beauty?

08-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

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...

A preview of marketing trends to be shown at in-cosmetics North America

03-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

This month, the cosmetics and personal care ingredient and manufacturing trade show returns to New York City. The event’s marketing trends content promises to equip cosmetic chemists and R&D professionals with the data, insights, and inspiration needed...

Around the World Beauty offers first US tours in New York City

01-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

This summer, the global travel venture, founded by blogger and makeup artist Stephanie Flor, began running short walking tours to some of NYC’s newest cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance shops. Cosmetics Design recently joined a tour to get a sense...

Editor’s Spotlight

Supplementing Indie Beauty

28-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Color brands commonly branch into skin care and vice versa, fragrance brands have been known to add body care, and hair color brands regularly add care and treatment products to their portfolios. Today, beauty supplements are some of the most buzz worthy...

in-cosmetics LATAM 2018

in-cosmetics LATAM director gives insight into the 2018 event

27-Sep-2018 By Simon Pitman

During last weeks in-cosmetics Latin America event I spoke with show director Daniel Zanetti to find out all about what was new at this year's event, some of the key trends, and how exhibitor and visitor numbers looked.

Editor's Spotlight

The big business of natural beauty ingredients

24-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Acquisitions and launches in the natural cosmetics and personal care ingredients space have been coming along pretty steadily for the past year or so now—evidence that the natural beauty is no longer restricted to the fringes of the industry. Here, Cosmetics...

Avon cuts back US operations

20-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The direct-sales beauty, personal care, and wellness company announced plans this week to streamline operations in New York State. Avon is closing offices and reducing staff, all in an effort to “fuel growth,” according to company executives.

New Chapter founder unveils plan for new line of topical products

17-Sep-2018 By Hank Schultz

New Chapter founder Paul Schulick plans to launch a line of topical products aimed at the skin microbiome with a plan to reenter the ingestibles field in 2020.

A short survey of sustainable cosmetics and personal care packaging strategies

17-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Brands, manufacturers, and suppliers all around the beauty industry are keen to use less energy, generate less waste, and reduce their overall carbon footprints. Here Cosmetics Design looks at a few of the packaging solutions that can help cosmetics and...