Nutricosmetics

Trend Analysis: Nutribloom Consulting founder Paula Simpson on beauty-from-within

12-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Nutraceuticals, nutricosmetics, beauty vitamins, supplements, ingestibles, beauty-from-within products, functional foods and beverages, collagen tablets; the list goes on. Regardless of what they’re being called, natural health supplements have gone mainstream....

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Wellness Simplified: Cosmetics Design talks with Tonik founder Pip Summerville

12-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

A fair number of brands exhibiting at this year’s Indie Beauty Expo in New York City were dedicated to wellness. One such brand, Australia-based Tonik makes single-ingredient supplements. Cosmetics Design spoke with Tonik founder Pip Summerville at IBE...

Trends Watch: global cosmetics and personal care ingredients

10-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

4 ingredient sourcing strategies are rising to the top, as consumer demand for plant-derived, natural, and bio-based beauty continues.

Listen to Cosmetics Design on The Eco Well podcast

10-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Consumers today are enchanted with green beauty, clean beauty, and everything in between. Still there’s a lot to be done in the way of consumer education when it comes to sustainable cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance products. Ventures like The...

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Next generation sustainability and what it means for the beauty industry

10-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

At BeautyX in New York City last month, Cosmetics Design caught up with Beauty Heroes founder Jeannie Jarnot to learn more about her passion for Going Blue—a term that describes how forward-thinking businesses are taking steps to give back and actually...

California sets a precedent in the US with animal testing ban

05-Sep-2018 By Simon Pitman

The California State legislative has approved The California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act with a stunning 80-0 vote that will make the state the first in the US to implement such a law.

FGI event helps new cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance brands get to retail

05-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In late August, The Fashion Group International hosted a panel discussion for beauty entrepreneurs. Industry experts Ian Ginsberg, Barbara Zinn Moore, Larry Kahn, and Alicia Yoon shared their distinct outlooks and insights on Getting...

5 innovative beauty launches at IBE NY 2018

04-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

This year’s Indie Beauty Expo in New York City was the largest yet, featuring nearly 250 cosmetics, personal care, fragrance, and wellness brands. Among all the exhibits and demos, these 5 product launches stood out to Cosmetic Design.

Regenerative agriculture, Part III

Taking natural and organic cosmetic ingredients to the next level

30-Aug-2018 By Simon Pitman

One of the main focuses of the Familia Luna Farms is the production of botanicals and essential oils, many of which can be used for cosmetics and personal care ingredients.

Regenerative agriculture, Part I

Costa Rica regenerative farm paves the way for better botanicals

28-Aug-2018 By Simon Pitman

The rise and rise of the organic and naturals trend in the cosmetics and personal care industry is putting increasing pressure on farmers to produce pesticide-free, sustainable and efficient crops for raw materials.

Indie Beauty Expo NYC 2018, in photos

27-Aug-2018 By Simon Pitman

Following the buzz of last week's Indie Beauty Expo in New York City last week, the Cosmetics Design team has put together a photo gallery that includes some of the hottest new brands and product launches at the event.

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Part Three - Can the beauty industry really move away from anti-aging and advocate healthy-aging?

16-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In the third and final installment of our video interview, Kayla Villena, senior analyst in beauty and fashion at Euromonitor, discusses the cosmetics and personal care trends she saw on the show floor at Cosmoprof North America this year, shares insight...

BeautyX Capital opens Monday in New York City

16-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Founders of indie beauty and wellness businesses have one final chance to take advantage of a BeautyX educational event this year. The two-day seminar on financing, funding, and investor capital—complete with panel discussions, case studies, networking...

International Beauty: A look at how Umma is bringing K Beauty startups to the US

15-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Relocating an emerging cosmetics or personal care brand from its comfortable, original market to stores and consumers an ocean away is no doubt challenging. But companies like Umma represent a new generation of beauty distributors, accelerating and investing...

i5 Beauty Foundry: a new one-stop shop for beauty brand leaders

14-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Support services for cosmetics and personal care startups are showing up in every corner of the industry. And new brand founders can get a multitude of help from PR firms, ingredient makers, contract manufacturers, packaging companies. Still, full-service...

3 consumer expectations are driving prestige skin care business

09-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Recent data from market research and consumer trends group NPD shows that just a few key factors boosted Q2 prestige skin care sales for 2018 to $1.3bn—a figure that’s up 12% compared to the same quarter last year.

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Women’s hair regrowth brand Keranique debuts professional partner program at Cosmoprof North America

09-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The brand led by CEO Thomas Shipley is well know for its direct-response TV retail presence. And just last year the brand began to sell at Ulta stores. Now Keranique is adding another retail channel, teaming up with salon professionals to get the brand’s...

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Beauty brands can do more with media

01-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

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,...

Arcade Beauty buys assets from Suite K to expand sampling and fragrance capabilities

30-Jul-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The beauty sampling company announced the transaction late last week. It’s a deal that lets Arcade take over a nearly 80,000 square-foot facility in New Jersey and lets Suite K refocus their beauty and personal care contract manufacturing business.

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Beauty products caught in an ugly trade war

30-Jul-2018 By Aliza R. Karetnick

As global players, the well-being of cosmetics and personal care companies depends, in large measure, on an open international marketplace free from excessive duties, which have a tendency to depress manufacturing growth and, in turn, dampen robust industry...

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Jeanine Recckio can see the future of beauty

23-Jul-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In this video interview, Cosmetics Design sits down with beauty futurologist Jeanine Recckio of the Mirror Mirror Imagination Group to explore how she works; how smart brands can stay relevant and on-trend by adapting insights from any and every industry...

SC Johnson fragrance ingredient disclosure program reaches a milestone

19-Jul-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Consumer behavior isn’t neatly compartmentalized by industry; and the expectations of beauty shoppers aren’t limited by the practices of cosmetics and personal care makers—which is to say that SC Johnson’s latest accomplishment in scent transparency will...

3 beauty makers named to best workplaces list

17-Jul-2018 By Deanna Utroske

This month, Indeed (the employment search engine) announced its new list ranking the 50 best workplaces. The company rankings are based on employees’ reviews and ratings; and three multinational cosmetics and personal care corporations are included.

Credo writes the book on clean beauty

16-Jul-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In late June, the cosmetics and personal care retailer announced new clean beauty brand standards—a dictionary if you will—that outlines what safe beauty ingredients are and what consumers need to know to make informed purchasing decisions. Cosmetics...

Beauty and fragrance ingredient maker Sensient acquires Mazza

12-Jul-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Founded in 2011, Mazza Innovation has made a name for itself over the years for its botanical extraction technology—a process that is solvent free and instead uses pressurized low polarity water. It’s tech that Sensient will now leverage to develop clean...

SVBeautyTech accelerator opens with 9 companies

03-Jul-2018 By Deanna Utroske

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...

Hum Nutrition launches dissolving collagen tablets

02-Jul-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The beauty-from-within and supplements brand just debuted Collagen Pop, pressed tablets that dissolve in water like Airborne or 8Greens. Sold on the Hum Nutrition site and at all Sephora stores in the US, the new wellness / beauty ingestible is the latest...

Unilever acquires majority stake in Equilibra

28-Jun-2018 By Simon Pitman

Unilever has confirmed the acquisition of a 75% stake in Italian personal care and wellbeing business Equilibra.

New FIT research on Transparent Beauty redefines cosmetics and personal care business

21-Jun-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Last week at New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology, graduate students in the 2018 class of FIT’s cosmetics and fragrance marketing and management program presented their capstone research projects to a crowded auditorium of industry leaders....

Beauty Pitch Angels event returns to CosmoProf NA for 2018

20-Jun-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Registration is open through the end of June for both entrepreneurs and investors interested in participating in the event next month. The Beauty Pitch Angels program is essentially an interactive venue for emerging cosmetics and personal care brands...

Is biological design the future of everything?

07-Jun-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Christina Agapakis, creative director of the biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks, thinks it is. So when Cosmetics Design visited the company’s labs in Boston, Massachusetts, late last month, she shared insight into the expansive possibilities that biological...

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ABC President explains how Brazilian biodiversity regulation works

01-Jun-2018 By Simon Pitman

Cosmetics Design got to talk to João Hansen, president of Brazilian cosmetic industry supplier association ABC to find out more details about how Brazil's biodiversity regulations can work to improve the environment and the industry.

Cosmetics and personal care suppliers honored at 2018 CEW Beauty Awards

22-May-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The organization’s annual beauty awards expanded this year to celebrate not only innovative brands and products and perfumers but also—for the first time—packaging and ingredient suppliers as well.Cosmetics Design was there to see the 2018 winners, of...

BeautyTech Meetup arrives in New York

22-May-2018 By Deanna Utroske

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...

Inde Beauty Expo Dallas 2018, in photos

14-May-2018 By Simon Pitman

The Indie Beauty Expo Dallas 2018 happened last week and here we bring you some of the highlights from this small but innovation-filled event. Exhibitors included indie beauty players from all over the country, including home-grown companies from Texas.

FDA leaders to speak at ICMAD cosmetics and personal care regulatory workshop

02-May-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The one-day workshop will cover a full range of topics of interest to beauty brands big and small, ranging from legislation, claims, sourcing, and trends.

Virginia bans animal testing

12-Apr-2018 By Deanna Utroske

On Tuesday, the state passed legislation requiring cosmetics and personal care makers to use alternate forms of testing, and authorizing the Attorney General to enforce the ban and fine violators.

FDA prepares for public meeting on cosmetics regulation

12-Apr-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Each year, the US Food and Drug Administration participates in a summit of global cosmetics regulatory authorities. In advance of that, the FDA holds a meeting in the US to gather public input on topics relevant to regulating beauty and personal care...

Are supply chain auditing tools calling the shots in beauty manufacturing?

09-Apr-2018 By Deanna Utroske

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,...

CEW Beauty Award finalists exemplify personal care and cosmetics industry innovation and the rise of indie beauty

04-Apr-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The business organization announced its 2018 Beauty Award finalists this week. Several of the 250+ products in the running come from independent cosmetics and personal care brands, and many of those from big beauty brands feature notable new technologies.

Can Qurate Retail Group become the Netflix of beauty commerce?

29-Mar-2018 By Deanna Utroske

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...

Personal care ingredient maker Jungbunzlauer to open tech center in US

28-Mar-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The Swiss biotech company announced plans this month to open a facility in the US. Much like Jungbunzlauer’s AppliTech facility in Germany, the new ingredient technology center will allow the company to work more closely with local clients.

Well-Kept Beauty app joins Accelerate Baltimore

22-Mar-2018 By Deanna Utroske

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...

QVC parent company rebrands as Qurate Retail Group

14-Mar-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Plans to rename the company were announced at the start of the month. And while the eight retail brands that comprise Qurate sell in many more sectors than just cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance; beauty is big business in the video commerce, ecommerce,...

PCPC annual meeting zeros in on the Power of Beauty

08-Mar-2018 By Deanna Utroske

At the end of February, the Personal Care Products Council convened its annual meeting in Palm Beach, Florida. The Power of Beauty was the theme of this year’s gathering. And leaders ranging from PCPC board members to magazine executives, market researchers,...

Is the future of beauty up for sale? RPG and IMX open auction of automated customization patents

06-Mar-2018 By Deanna Utroske

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...

L’Oréal hair care brand teams up with TerraCycle to reduce plastic packaging waste

05-Mar-2018 By Deanna Utroske

For a second year, Garnier is running a recycling program on college campuses. The company has partnered with not only the TerraCycle recycling company but also with the social change organization DoSomething.org for this year’s initiative.

L’Oréal USA announces new initiative for carbon neutral manufacturing and distribution

01-Mar-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The beauty maker revealed plans today that will have all 21 of the company’s US operations facilities carbon neutral next year.

Personal Care Products Council asks beauty editors to help set the record straight on science and safety of cosmetics

01-Mar-2018 By Deanna Utroske

At this week’s annual meeting event in Palm Beach, Florida, the trade organization held a dedicated session for press in an effort to better mitigate the proliferation of misinformation about personal care, cosmetics, and fragrance ingredients.

Cosmetics Design Latin America wants to hear from you!

21-Feb-2018 By Simon Pitman

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!