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Catch up on some popular articles on CosmeticsDesign this week

23-Sep-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Learn about CBD ingredients, packaging and movements in the market with some of the popular articles on CosmeticsDesign.

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More plastic, more sustainable: FusionPKG on mono-material airless pumps

22-Sep-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

In the search for more sustainable packaging, suppliers like FusionPKG are trading in metal components for plastic to improve recyclability.

Euromonitor’s four supply chain risks and what they may look like now, long term

22-Sep-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

The world has seen massive supply chain interruptions over the past few years, and Euromonitor says industries may be facing more challenges.

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Beauty and the brain: ‘Multisensory experiences are happening all the time’, says Professor Charles Spence

22-Sep-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Consumers live in a multisensory world where perception and experiences are defined by the human senses, and the beauty industry must keep this front-of-mind during product design and development, says a leading experimental psychologist.

Recycle Awareness Week: Catch up on recycling in the cosmetics industry

20-Sep-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

It's Recycle Awareness Week, making it a great time to catch up on recycling in the cosmetics industry.

The future of beauty tech is here! Sephora, Shiseido and Orveon share 5-year visions

19-Sep-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Leading executives from Sephora, Shiseido and Orveon will join forces to brainstorm the future of beauty tech – discussing opportunities and challenges today and revealing their five-year vision.

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Sustainability: Coverage on every facet of sustainability in cosmetics

13-Sep-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

It should be no surprise sustainability is one of CosmeticsDesign's new Hot Topics, and under this new item you can learn about all the complicated issues involved in a greener cosmetics industry.

‘Go above and beyond’: Why recycling is beauty’s biggest misinformation problem – Emma Lewisham CEO

13-Sep-2022 By Amanda Lim

The overreliance on recycling is the chief piece of green misinformation in the beauty industry, which has to move faster towards a circular model, says the founder and CEO of Emma Lewisham.

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Editor's Spotlight: Sustainable packaging regulation to keep your eyes peeled for

12-Sep-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Hear from CosmeticsDesign's editor about her article recommendation for this week on sustainable packaging regulation in the US.

Making the world a better place: Read this week's top CosmeticsDesign articles

08-Sep-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

This week's most read CosmeticsDesign articles are all about what the industry is doing to solve some of the industry's wicked problems, from plastic waste to animal testing.

Beauty 4.0 future: Global innovators brainstorm tech promise beyond 2022

08-Sep-2022 By CosmeticsDesign-Europe Reporter

Technology in beauty is continuing its meteoric rise at supersonic pace, but as consumers look for more innovative and immersive stories, stores, tools and apps, how can beauty stay smart in this space?

Seacliff Beauty bringing next level of recycled plastic packaging to beauty

06-Sep-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

While some packaging suppliers rely on offsets to claim to remove ocean plastic, Seacliff Beauty is doing it quite literally.

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Sustainable packaging regulation at the federal level not budging, future of the regulations

01-Sep-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

States across the US are enacting sustainable packaging laws, but Ameripen is also clocking increased dialog and stagnant action at the federal level.

Dive deeper into the newly announced Pact Collective, Eastman Renew partnership

31-Aug-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Eastman Renew and Pact Collective have announced a new partnership in the pursuit of circularity in beauty packaging, but there is more to know about both organizations and the mission.

Three types of sustainable packaging regulations Ameripen is keeping its eye on

24-Aug-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

As consumers are hungering for sustainable packaging, state legislators are pushing the consumer packaged goods industry to change how it does business.

Tech, packaging, innovation: Read this week's most popular CosmeticsDesign articles

19-Aug-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Catch up on this weeks hottest articles, including expert Q&As, tech innovations, the latest in packaging solutions and more.

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Pact Collective on how they want to help the beauty industry work towards circularity

18-Aug-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Pact Collective started around a year ago with a mission to help beauty become more circular, and the non-profit has several plans to tackle the industry's biggest waste problems.

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Boox wants to take the single-use out of beauty DTC product shipping

11-Aug-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

While beauty brands are working to remove single-use plastic from their products, a new packaging supplier is working to remove it from shipping as well.

Tradeshow trends: A roundup of the trends CosmeticsDesign saw at this year's tradeshows

02-Aug-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Spring and summer have been filled with tradeshows, and at tradeshows CosmeticsDesign sees trends.

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People, plants, products: 9 stats for cosmetics professionals from plant-based product report

27-Jul-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Cosmetics professionals have heard that consumers are increasingly interested in botanicals, and recent consumer studies back that up.

The Long Read: Everything beauty needs to consider in the Metaverse

The beauty metaverse: ‘We are at the beginning of something that is huge’

25-Jul-2022 By Lynda Searby

The lucrative potential of virtual beauty products, the complexities of crypto transactions and the sustainable and social challenges surrounding the metaverse must be front of mind as innovation in this fragmented space evolves, say industry experts.

Read these hot CosmeticsDesign articles this weekend while you stay out of the heat

22-Jul-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

It's that time of the week again! Catch up on the hottest CosmeticsDesign articles this week and learn what industry experts have on their minds right now.

Post-pandemic brand strategy: Simplification and sophistication – Research

21-Jul-2022 By Nurul Ain Razali

Simplification and sophistication are key strategies to drive cosmetics sales in the post-pandemic era, with consumers willing to spend more on natural, sustainable care and tech beauty.

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Beautycounter launches partnership with Pact Collective to improve packaging circularity

19-Jul-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Even if a package has a recycling symbol on it, it may not be easily recyclable and beauty brand Beautycounter wants to help its consumers close that loop.

Reusable, lightweight or recyclable beauty? ‘Reusability should be prioritised’, say researchers

18-Jul-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Design to reuse should be prioritised as a sustainable beauty strategy because its overall positive impact far outweighs working with reduced or recyclable materials, according to European researchers.

Catch up on plastic waste solutions for Plastic Free July with CosmeticsDesign

07-Jul-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

While Plastic Free July is primarily a consumer initiative, it's a good time to learn more about what the industry is doing about plastic waste.

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Plastic pollution problems: Three takeaways from The Body Shop plastic waste study

29-Jun-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Plastic is both an important packaging material and a prevalent pollutant, and The Body Shop wanted to know what cosmetic plastic Americans throw away the most.

WWP Beauty on bringing “future-focused materials” to cosmetics packaging

24-Jun-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Packaging suppliers like WWP Beauty are introducing sustainable packaging collections that go past traditional PCR plastic, with both plastic and plants.

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Kits, calendars, customers: How product kits fit into the cosmetics world

23-Jun-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

Cosmetics brands and retailers build kits to create customer engagements, but in a DTC world kits also offer a shopping experience outside of a physical store.

Wrapping it up: Catch up on the world of cosmetics packaging

13-Jun-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

This week is LUXE PACK NYC, which means it's a perfect time to catch up on packaging trends and developments in the cosmetics industry.

Last chance to submit meeting requests for LUXE PACK NYC

07-Jun-2022 By Ravyn Cullor

LUXE PACK NYC is next week, which means there is alone a week left to submit a meeting request with CosmeticsDesign.

‘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.

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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.

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

Kao: ‘Maximising and minimising’ key to zero-waste circular beauty future

07-Apr-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Japanese personal care major Kao Corporation believes achieving a circular society will require a delicate balance of minimising beauty materials and maximising use, with thin-film packaging offering plenty of promise.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.