Packaging

L’Oréal Canada brings 5 tech startups into corporate accelerator program

18-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The technologies—voice, machine vision and location analytics, ecommerce advertising, multicloud broadcasting, and AI—aren’t exclusively beauty tech solutions. But L’Oréal Canada and the men leading these startups see great potential for their tech tools...

The Estée Lauder Companies creates a new role for Sara Moss

16-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This month, Moss became the beauty company’s vice chairman, a post that sees her advising executive management, collaborating with senior staff to advance women’s leadership, and coordinating communication between the board of directors and the Lauder...

6 indie brands helping define the mindful beauty movement

15-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Mindful beauty is a catchall term that describes the sorts of businesses and brands that conscious consumers want to support. Here, Cosmetics Design takes a look at 6 types of mindful beauty and a small selection of the indie brands that are envisioning...

2019 Indie Beauty Innovators Awards finalists announced

11-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This week, ICMAD, the Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers and Distributors association, released its list of 30+ finalist across 11 categories. Winners will be announced at a celebratory dinner later this month in Las Vegas, Nevada.

From The Editor's Desk

Why we are going to hear a lot more about biotech plastics

10-Jul-2019 By Simon Pitman

This was highlighted recently when L’Oréal confirmed that it was stepping up its investment in biotechnology recycled packaging provider Carbios.

Unilever advances zero-deforestation initiative

10-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This week, Unilever published lists of its paper and board product suppliers as well as of its soy suppliers. The beauty maker believes that this sort of transparency will compel partner companies along the supply chain to be accountable for practices...

5 big beauty makers rank on Forbes 2019 list of Best Employers for Women

10-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The list, published this month by Forbes Media, rates 300 US companies based on survey data that indicates which companies working women like most. The 2019 list includes 5 multinational cosmetics and personal care corporations as well as a handful of...

Cosmoprof North America is just 3 weeks away!

09-Jul-2019 By Simon Pitman

The Cosmoprof North America event will be opening its doors in less than three weeks, and this year it will incorporate a number of brand new innovations to the show floor.

Cosmopack puts beauty manufacturing on display with new Factory feature

02-Jul-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This month’s Cosmoprof North America event will include an event-within-an-event: Comopack, a tradeshow all about contract and private-label manufacturing, with exhibitors showing packaging, applicators, machinery, ingredients, and raw materials too....

L’Oréal invests in biotech plastics recycling initiative

27-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Yesterday, the beauty maker announced its minority stake investment in Carbios, a green chemistry company working to solve environmental sustainability problems in manufacturing. The funds will help the company move its PET recycling technologies closer...

Does indie beauty move first? a look at trend-driven innovation in 2019

24-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Ours is a notoriously fast-paced industry. Still, everything new has to start somewhere. And there is a fair amount of work to be done educating consumers, integrating novel ingredient tech, capitalizing on new industrial-scale opportunities. Here, Cosmetics...

Athletic apparel maker lululemon launches personal care

20-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The Canadian company announced its move into the new consumer goods sector just this week. lululemon’s initial personal care product portfolio is small but carefully targeted to meet the needs of the brand’s active consumers.

3 takeaways from The Global Beauty Tech Forum

19-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

At yesterday’s Global Beauty Tech Forum in New York City, technology leaders, brand executives, retail experts, and consumer media pros took the stage to discuss current and emerging digital technologies—technologies that are transforming the cosmetics,...

Capsum brings sustainable natural beauty supply chain indoors

18-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Each year, the formulation technology company hosts pop-up events in Paris, New York, and LA to showcase their unique microfluidic tech as well as a concept-of-the-year. Capsum’s innovation for 2019 is a self-contained facility where botanical ingredients...

In Conversation: Cosmetics Design interviews indie brand leaders

14-Jun-2019 By Deanna Utroske

Innovative cosmetics and personal care startups have been making headlines here on Cosmetics Design for years. But not all of our conversations with indie brand leaders are included in the weekly Indie Beauty Profile column. To highlight brands and innovations...