Packaging

Sustainable step change: Can circular beauty become a mainstream reality?

08-Apr-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Many beauty manufacturers, suppliers and retailers have made important sustainability pledges for this coming decade, but as efforts kickstart in shifting linear business models to circular ways of working, there remains a raft of challenges along the...

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Herbal Essences teams with Walmart, TerraCycle, and The Nature Conservancy

01-Apr-2021 By Deanna Utroske

In March, the P&G hair care brand announced its Renew the Forests initiative in support of TNC’s Plant a Billion Trees program.

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The Estée Lauder Companies leverage molecular recycling tech for sustainable beauty packaging

31-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

In partnership with global specialty materials company Eastman, the beauty maker plans to meet 2025 sustainability goals using recycled and/or recyclable plastic for its luxury cosmetics packaging.

Circular Beauty: The future of sustainable sourcing, green chemistry and eco-design

24-Mar-2021 By CosmeticsDesign-Europe Senior Reporter

The global beauty industry is working hard to make circularity a mainstream reality, reinventing and reconsidering all aspects of complex supply chains. But what does the future truly hold as industry tries to close the loop?

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L’Oréal Canada calls for innovative startups

24-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This month the beauty maker announced an open innovation challenge, recruiting scalable businesses with winning solutions in ecommerce, conscious tech, or new channel opportunities.

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Bon Voyage: how beauty brands can redefine the future of wellness travel

18-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Cosmetics Design recently checked in with travel, beauty, and wellness expert Edyta Satchell to find out how brands can best innovate to meet the needs of business and leisure travelers, and why now is the time to do so.

PODCAST: A global beauty view on COVID-19 – hottest acquisitions, flashy innovations and biggest challenges

15-Mar-2021 By Amanda Lim

CosmeticsDesign editors break down the beauty and personal care acquisitions, product innovations and challenges that have arisen under the pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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TricorBraun acquires Canada-based RODA Packaging

10-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Just days after TricorBraun was acquired by Ares Management and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, the beauty packaging company announced a deal to buy RODA.

‘Consumers expect full transparency from brands and companies’, says incoming L'Oréal CEO

05-Mar-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Beauty consumers worldwide are demanding open and honest brand communication on product formulations and ingredients in a digital world strained by unreliable and biased information, says the deputy CEO of L’Oréal.

Change fosters innovation: How the pandemic is driving new beauty packaging and design trends

03-Mar-2021 By Amanda Lim

The beauty needs and habits brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic are pushing companies to rethink packaging and address the shift towards digital experiences, hygiene, sustainability and more.

Style Update: Marc Anthony hair care gets a new look

01-Mar-2021 By Deanna Utroske

In recent weeks, the 25-year-old hair brand announced new brand positioning, an updated brand name, and new packaging as well as a Strategic Review Process, which could lead to the sale of company assets.

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Burt’s Bees vision for a circular economy: “a world where people are doing well by nature and for nature”

17-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Today, the Clorox-owned personal care brand announced plans to be Net-Zero-Plastic-to-Nature by 2021 and shared updates on packaging improvements, new product launches, waste elimination initiatives, and smart partnerships—all part of the Burt’s Bees...

Quadpack maneuvers to gain US market share

17-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The beauty packaging maker announced plans this month to expand business in the Americas region and claim a full 1% of the market by 2025.

Clinal Data Sharing: Codex Beauty Labs new labeling strategy

10-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

In a move meant to advance transparency and consumer education in the cosmetics and personal care industry, the skin care startup has begun sharing clinical efficacy data on all product packaging.

5 Insights on beauty product format innovation

08-Feb-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Personal care entrepreneur and zero-waste advocate Jayme Jenkins shares insights into the development and launch of Everist shampoo concentrate.

Product Innovations

Koster Keunen’s Global Sustainability Program

We follow the UN Development Goals as part of a sustainable future for all. Our program is a serious commitment to a healthy ecosystem with a fair and...

Survey Report: State of the cosmetics formulation & packaging sector in North America 2017

Cosmetics Design conducted its inaugural ‘state of the industry’ survey in May 2017 to gauge the state of the current cosmetics formulation and packaging...