Packaging

‘Recycling has to end’: Beauty industry needs to focus on reuse and refill to tackle packaging predicament

12-May-2022 By Amanda Lim

The beauty industry has been too focused on recycling and needs to shift focus on reuse and refill solutions, says two circular beauty brands, Bhuman and Emma Lewisham.

The big PCR problem: 90% of sustainable beauty packaging commitments will not be met by 2025 – expert

03-May-2022 By Amanda Lim

The CEO of plastic action platform RePurpose believes an “astonishing” 90% of sustainable packaging commitments will not be met by 2025 due to the lack of good recycling infrastructure.

Overt or covert on non-binary: What an expert says about the cosmetics marketing position

22-Apr-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Developing effective non-binary marketing takes more than removing gendered pronouns and heteronormative imagery, according to an expert.

Circular Beauty: How can industry make circularity a mainstream reality? FREE webinar

21-Apr-2022 By Amanda Lim

A raft of industry players are joining the circular beauty movement, but how can the sector encourage consumers to adopt circularity en masse?

Concept to practice: What 4 beauty experts say about circular beauty today

08-Apr-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Much of the cosmetics industry is discussing the concept of circular economies in beauty, but whether brands, infrastructures and consumers around the world are ready to actually apply the model is yet to be seen.

Special Edition: CIRCULAR BEAUTY – SUPPLY CHAIN INNOVATION AND FUTURE PROMISE

Innerbottle pilots closed-loop beauty e-commerce platform in South Korea

07-Apr-2022 By Amanda Lim

Circular beauty start-up Innerbottle has linked-up with LG Chem and CJ Logistics to pilot a new B2C beauty platform that will allow consumers to recycle their cosmetic packaging easily and effectively.

rePurpose wants beauty brands to think about plastic beyond the recycling bin

07-Apr-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Plastic packaging is important in the beauty industry and rePurpose Global wants to create impactful accountability for plastic waste made by personal care brands.

Rigorous safety testing important in selecting sustainable packaging says Eurofins

16-Mar-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

To meet consumer demand for sustainability many brands are switching to more sustainable packaging, but Eurofins says rigorous safety testing is important before taking the leap.

Albéa CEO: ‘We need to transfer from linear to circular to be forever’

14-Mar-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Transitioning beauty business models from linear to circular will be critical in creating a sustainable future, and change requires close collaboration at every stage of the supply chain, says the president and CEO of French packaging firm Albéa Group.

Unilever invites ‘disruptive’ sustainable innovators to join its collaboration initiative

10-Mar-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Personal care major Unilever has widened the call for startups, scaleups and entrepreneurs to engage with its collaboration initiative, inviting those specialised in sustainable ingredients and packaging to join.

Beiersdorf sets out ambition to ‘reinvent’ Nivea as leading global skin care brand

08-Mar-2022 By Kacey Culliney

International skin care major Beiersdorf wants to reinvent its flagship Nivea brand over the next financial year, carving out a more global, digital and sustainable offering, its CEO says.

BIG BRAND TALKS – IN CONVERSATION WITH TODAY’S BEAUTY LEADERS

L’Oréal exec: The future of beauty packaging is ‘eco-desirability’

03-Mar-2022 By Kacey Culliney

The future of beauty packaging will centre on blending sustainability with desirability and rely on innovative industry partnerships and advances in material science, lifecycle analysis and smart product design, says L’Oréal’s global director of sustainable...

Five things CosmeticsDesign saw at Luxe Pack and MakeUp LA 2022

28-Feb-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Luxe Pack LA and MakeUp LA took place last week, and between packaging and contract manufacturing exhibitors, sustainability and style were prevalent across the trade show.

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Eastman Renew expanding into France with support of 5 beauty companies

11-Feb-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Advanced-recycling plastic resin supplier Eastman Renew is expanding into France by 2025 with the support of five beauty companies committing to supply contracts. CosmeticsDesign spoke with to Tara Cary, segment market manager for Cosmetics and Personal...

Sustainable packaging roundup: What to keep in mind when choosing non-virgin plastic packaging

01-Feb-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

More sustainable packaging is on the cosmetics industry agenda, and there are a number of options on the market today.

Sustainable packaging roundup

Luxury, quality, fragility: Glass is highly recyclable packaging option, increases expense

28-Jan-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Glass containers may be the most breakable and heavy non-virgin-plastic packaging option, but the material also communicates quality to consumers.

Sustainable packaging roundup

Aluminum packaging is endlessly recyclable, but malleable, can have supply chain concerns

19-Jan-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Aluminum packaging is on the rise as a sustainable packaging option because it’s not just highly recyclable, but infinitely recyclable, but it’s also dentable and is implicated in environmental toxicity.

Digital-proof packaging: Labels are the ‘last marketing opportunity’ for beauty brands

13-Jan-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Aesthetics in beauty is hugely important and labelling is a key design component that brands must closely consider, particularly when working in the booming online space, a specialist supplier says.

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Cosmetics brands performing well in shift to recycled plastic, require wholistic goals for real results

03-Jan-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Environmental solutions platform Ubuntoo recently released their 2021 report on corporate plastic packaging goals, with three cosmetics companies or cosmetics-owning multinationals among the best performing.

Sustainable Packaging Roundup

Recycled plastic packaging can be versatile, poses quality and environmental issues

15-Dec-2021 By Ravyn Cullor

Plastic is a versatile packaging material, but it is also a pollutant found across the world, from the deepest parts of the ocean to the highest peaks in the world.

12-MINUTE WATCH

WATCH – 15 Global beauty trends 2022: Key cosmetic insights from CosmeticsDesign editors

15-Dec-2021 By Amanda Lim

From hybrid cosmetics to menopause beauty to upcycled ingredients, CosmeticsDesign’s global editors take you through the top 15 global trends to watch for 2022.

Chew on this: Dentist develops eco-friendly toothpaste tablets that meet dental care standards

07-Dec-2021 By Amanda Lim

A dentist in Australia has developed environmentally friendly toothpaste tablets to meet the consumer desire for elevated oral care products that achieve dental care standards.

Consumer interest in waterless, solid driven by environmental, packing, money concerns, says Mintel

19-Nov-2021 By Ravyn Cullor

Water scarcity and desire for products with eco-ethical claims are driving forces behind consumer interest in waterless formulas.

Herbal Essences to use new recycling technology in packaging to decrease use of virgin plastic

18-Nov-2021 By Ravyn Cullor

Haircare brand Herbal Essences announced they will be implementing a resin derived from an advanced-recycling technology which turns waste plastic in molecularly virgin plastic.

Counterfeit cosmetics pose reputation, financial, litigation risks for name brands

28-Oct-2021 By Ravyn Cullor

While many industries grapple with counterfeit products, the nature of personal care products put cosmetics companies at risk of undermined reputations and litigation, but something can be done.

European Patent Office: Cosmetics and detergents ‘innovating most intensely’ in bioplastics

21-Oct-2021 By Kacey Culliney

The cosmetic and detergent categories are innovating most intensely in bioplastic technologies worldwide, with Europe and the US leading the charge, finds a study from the European Patent Office (EPO).

Special Edition: DEGRADABLE INGREDIENTS

Indie beauty well positioned to integrate biodegradables: Expert

20-Oct-2021 By Ravyn Cullor

Concerns over climate change and pollution are pushing cosmetics producers to become more eco-friendly, and indie brands are well positioned to pivot towards biodegradable ingredients and packaging, says the co-founder of Indie Beauty Expo.

HENKEL, L’OREAL, LVMH, NATURA &CO AND UNILEVER EXECUTIVES WEIGH IN

Beauty majors say brand-agnostic environmental impact system will make industry more 'transparent' and 'comparable'

07-Oct-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Executives from Henkel, L’Oréal, LVMH, Natura &Co and Unilever say co-developing an industry-wide environmental impact assessment system is critical for the sustainable future of cosmetics.

Zero+ collection: waterless, plant-based and plastic-free

29-Sep-2021 By Asia Sherman

WWP Beauty is zeroing in on beauty trends by helping brands deliver clean, inclusive and multi-tasking waterless products in plastic-free, plant-based packaging.

WGSN ‘big ideas’ for beauty in 2023: Progress, frugality, wellbeing, tech and community to shape the future

24-Sep-2021 By Kacey Culliney

As beauty edges out of the COVID-19 pandemic, brands and retailers must take the opportunity to reset and recreate an industry that is more ethical, inclusive and sustainable, says a WGSN exec.

Beauty giants to form consortium for ‘brand-agnostic’ and 'transparent' global environmental impact system

20-Sep-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Henkel, L’Oréal, LVMH, Natura &Co and Unilever are forming a global beauty consortium to co-develop an industry-wide environmental impact assessment and scoring system for cosmetics.

Eco prestige: Estée Lauder to launch ‘more responsible’ Clinique bottles

16-Sep-2021 By Kacey Culliney

International beauty major Estée Lauder Companies has partnered with French moulding specialist Roctool and packaging firm Pinard Beauty Pack to develop a reduced-waste prestige skin care bottle.

Beauty packaging future? ‘Smarter, simpler and more sustainable’: WGSN

01-Sep-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Packaging and product designs that simplify beauty routines and reduce consumption will be key moving forward, as consumers turn to brands for help limiting impact on the planet, says WGSN.

Herbal Essences and TerraCycle ready to ‘Renew the Forest’

01-Sep-2021 By Asia Sherman

Herbal Essences and Terracycle are delivering on their Spring commitment to give back to nature through their Renew the Forest initiative.

Waste not: Unilever files patent on coloured post-consumer resin beauty packaging

12-Aug-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Personal care major Unilever has developed sustainable black packaging made from layered post-consumer resin materials, breathing new life into plastic previously treated as waste.

Beauty Tradeshow Info: Previewing Cosmoprof NA 2021

11-Aug-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This year’s CPNA tradeshow opens August 29 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and will (as usual) feature exhibitors from all sectors of the beauty industry: cosmetics and personal care consumer brands; supply side companies offering ingredients, product dev solutions,...

COVID-19 and APAC's cosmetics industry: All our coronavirus news... in one place

09-Aug-2021 By Gary Scattergood

Here's your comprehensive round-up of all our COVID-19 coverage from CosmeticsDesign-Asia.

PODCAST

Speaking of Beauty: LanzaTech, CEO Jennifer Holmgren

28-Jul-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Innovating for the circular beauty economy is expensive. And it requires cross-industry collaboration. In this episode of the Speaking of Beauty podcast, LanzaTech CEO Jennifer Holmgren talks about carbon capture technology and how beauty industry suppliers...

Amyris joins the menopause beauty movement

27-Jul-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This month, the biotech company announced plans to add yet another consumer-facing business to its portfolio of cosmetics and personal care brands.

Innovations in Color Cosmetics: 2021 made makeup more sustainable

23-Jul-2021 By Deanna Utroske

So far, the year has seen Sun Chemical acquire the Colors & Effects business from BASF, the launch of Be A 10 Cosmetics, biotech company Amyris buying and launching color brands, Coty taking Kyle Cosmetics vegan, and more. But recent headlines about...

Waste Not: Innersense Organic’s new approach to the plastic beauty packaging problem

20-Jul-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This month the hair care brand announced its latest conscious beauty initiative, a partnership with rePurpose Global that certifies Innersense as a Plastic Neutral beauty brand.

An Abundance of Caution: J&J recalls 5 sun care products found to contain Benzene

15-Jul-2021 By Deanna Utroske

The multinational health care and consumer goods company issued a voluntary recall this week for 4 Neutrogena brand sunscreens and 1 Aveeno brand sunscreen.

Colgate-Palmolive brings hand soap refill tablets to US personal care market

14-Jul-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This week, the multinational consumer goods company launched its Softsoap Foaming Tablet Starter Kits and Refill Kits. The aluminum bottles and solid product refills are helping Colgate-Palmolive meet its 2025 sustainability goals.

Beauty packaging manufacturer CPP Global acquired

13-Jul-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This month, plastic parts and packaging maker Westfall Technik announced the acquisition of Carolina Precision Plastics. The deal gives Westfall access to prominent cosmetics and personal care companies including L’Oréal, Estée Lauder, and Clorox (which...

Piyush Jain joins personal care company Hand in Hand as CEO

06-Jul-2021 By Deanna Utroske

Following a recent growth investment from the impact-investing strategy division of Bain Capital, the personal care product company announced changes in leadership, including the hire of former Unilever executive Piyush Jain.

Mintel is seeing a spike in demand for beauty market intelligence, here is why

30-Jun-2021

With pandemic lockdowns slowly being lifted, the beauty and personal care industry is starting is emerging from its hibernation. This means innovation pipelines are being fired up again, but for what? We contacted Mintel to find out more.

L’Oréal to launch ‘infinitely recyclable’ Biotherm bottle in 2025

24-Jun-2021 By Kacey Culliney

International beauty major L’Oréal has co-developed a plastic cosmetics bottle with French biotech specialist Carbios, made using fully recycled PET via an enzymatic recycling technology that also makes it infinitely recyclable.

Natura &Co - one year in to the Commitment to Life

23-Jun-2021 By Deanna Utroske

This month, the Brazil-based multinational beauty maker shared an update on its Commitment to Life, a corporate social responsibility initiative focused on “some of the world’s most pressing issues” first announced in June 2020.

‘A strong signal’: Beiersdorf, Henkel, L’Oréal and Unilever sign Ellen MacArthur statement for mandatory industry responsibility in recycling

22-Jun-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Several beauty and personal care majors have joined 100+ businesses in signing a statement from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation calling for recycling costs and responsibilities to be extended to industry.

Carbon neutrality ‘still emerging’ in beauty but the race is on: GlobalData

18-Jun-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Carbon neutrality remains relatively nascent in beauty and personal care, but extensive and long-standing green efforts and a strong consumer appetite will propel the sector in the ongoing race, says a GlobalData analyst.