Packaging

Idea Couture event animates The Future of Beauty

01-Nov-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Last month in New York City, Idea Couture hosted an interactive and educational day-long event that brought the innovation and design firm’s new report on The Future of Beauty to life. The event and report highlighted 6 cosmetics and personal care trends...

Raise the Green Bar sustainability summit takes place November 8 in NYC

17-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The full-day event, hosted by The Good Housekeeping Institute and Made Safe, a non-profit certifying body, returns to New York City for a second year to help cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance brands (in fact, any FMCG brand) discover, understand,...

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Herbal Essences releases innovative bottle design for people with low or no vision

17-Oct-2018 By Natasha Spencer

The Procter & Gamble household brand becomes the very first mass hair care brand in the US to produce and market an inclusive bottle creation for people with low or no vision.

Fashion Snoops trend immersion event returns to NYC

15-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In early November, the trend forecasting agency Fashion Snoops is holding a full-day event in New York City, previewing coming color and culture trends that will impact fashion, home, design, and beauty in the years ahead. In-house FS experts and guest...

“There is nothing natural in this perfume!”

15-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Friday morning in New York City, Aurora Carrara, artistic director of the Italian fragrance brand UERMI, talked press, influencers, and bloggers through a collection of scents inspired by fabrics and materials such as latex (which provoked this article’s...

Editor’s Spotlight

4 independent brands that have disrupted the deo business

12-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Personal care isn’t the flashiest or most glamourous segment of the industry. But many an indie brand in recent years has launched with innovative versions of the daily staple that is underarm deodorant. Here, Cosmetics Design looks a small selection...

Persona launches a beauty supplement

11-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The customized vitamin brand, backed by L Catterton, launched two new dietary supplements and a mobile app this month. It’s the latest in a long line of recent pill and capsule launches from wellness and skin care brands getting in on the beauty-from-within...

This new Target brand includes affordable personal care basics

10-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The cheap-chic department store announced a new owned brand this week. Smartly will be available in stores starting Sunday and most of the products will cost less than $2—remarkable, considering some of the personal care items in the collection were “developed...

Around the World Beauty offers first US tours in New York City

01-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

This summer, the global travel venture, founded by blogger and makeup artist Stephanie Flor, began running short walking tours to some of NYC’s newest cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance shops. Cosmetics Design recently joined a tour to get a sense...

Indie Beauty Profile

Lishawn Lalonde, Uliv Skincare

01-Oct-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile, Lishawn Lalonde, founder of Uliv Skincare, suggests that, as a solo entrepreneur, taking slow but steady steps forward is the best way to build a plant-based skincare line.

Palette Naturals: year one as a startup fragrance supplier

26-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Last year, Miriam Vareldzis launched a new venture—a beauty industry supply business dedicated to natural fragrance and ingredient transparency. Today, Palette Naturals has clients in 8 countries and the company’s fragrance accords are used in skin care,...

Packaging maker Amcor invests millions in facility expansion and updates

24-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Late last week the company hosted a ground-breaking ceremony in Madison, Wisconsin, where Amcor will be improving and building on to its current production plant in the area. The company’s decision to invest in growth will augment not only Amcor’s packaging...

Avon cuts back US operations

20-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The direct-sales beauty, personal care, and wellness company announced plans this week to streamline operations in New York State. Avon is closing offices and reducing staff, all in an effort to “fuel growth,” according to company executives.

Sally Beauty gets into at-home hair color business

19-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The professional beauty supply retailer has added a consumer-friendly hair color box kit to its private label product portfolio and begun selling a similar kit from an existing national brand as well.

COSMOS evolves as unified certification for natural and organic beauty

19-Sep-2018 By Lucy Whitehouse

We catch up on how one of the leading certifications for natural and organic beauty is changing, and what brands need to do to keep up.

A short survey of sustainable cosmetics and personal care packaging strategies

17-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Brands, manufacturers, and suppliers all around the beauty industry are keen to use less energy, generate less waste, and reduce their overall carbon footprints. Here Cosmetics Design looks at a few of the packaging solutions that can help cosmetics and...

Indie Beauty Profile

Lindsay Knaak-Stuart, Meant

17-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile, Lindsay Knaak-Stuart founder of Meant, illustrates how she’s built a stylish yet simple body care brand that has—without an ad budget—captured the attention of discerning consumers and enviable retail buyers alike.

Faber-Castell Cosmetics to open production facility in the US

13-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Upon celebrating 40 years in the makeup pencil and pen supply business at a reception last night in New York City, the company announced plans for a first North American manufacturing facility.

eco + amour: A new concept shop in Canada combines green beauty and sustainable retail

12-Sep-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Open just this month in Toronto, Ontario, eco + amour is all about refillable and eco-friendly personal care and home care. It’s not a new approach to retail but it’s one that makes buying beauty and skin care products experiential and sharable. Plus...

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...

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.

The ADF&PCD packaging tradeshow returns to New York City in September

30-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Next week, a joint event, bridging the Aerosol and Dispensing Forum with a show dedicated to the packaging of Perfume, Cosmetics, and Design, returns to New York City for the third time, and comprises exhibits, awards, and educational programing—programming...

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Aptar introduces Indie Boutique beauty packaging at BeautyX Summit

29-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Indie cosmetics, personal care, and fragrance brands (and their agency allies) have been speaking up about the packaging services they need for success. Industry suppliers are responding. At last week’s BeautyX Summit in New York City, Cosmetics Design...

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LBK Nails features new color-match packaging design at Cosmoprof NA

28-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

At last month’s beauty and personal care industry tradeshow in Las Vegas, Nevada, Cosmetics Design sat down with Tony Kemeny, founder and inventor at LBK Nails to discuss his reinvention of the nail polish bottle cap—a version that lets consumers test...

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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Dermelect showcases new packaging and product kits at CPNA

27-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The cosmeceuticals brand was showing both nail care and skin care kits at Cosmoprof North America this year. And a key feature of both kits is the imagery, icons, and text that Dermelect is using to share benefit, safety, and ingredient information with...

Saverglass opens glass packaging facility in Mexico

23-Aug-2018 By Simon Pitman

Luxury glass bottle manufacturer Saveglass Group has confirmed the opening of its new multi-service factory in Mexico, following a $120 million investment.

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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...

Indie Beauty Profile

Tina Hedges, LOLI Beauty

13-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile, Tina Hedges, founder of LOLI Beauty, offers advice that she’s gained over the course of several entrepreneurial ventures; enumerates how LOLI takes sustainability to the far end of possibility; and explains why the seed of...

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6 Indie Beauty Trends You Missed at Project Beauty Expo

13-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

This past Sunday at PBE in New York City, there were plenty of compelling concepts and innovations to be seen; including new ingredient trends such as avocado oil and purée, cucumber seed oil, and alternative sugars like molasses. In this video montage,...

Resource Label acquires Ingenious Packaging, expanding personal care capabilities in North America

08-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The private equity – backed label maker has, since 2011, been distinctly acquisitive. Resource Label Group’s deal to acquire Ingenious Packaging is the company’s 11th acquisition in that time.

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Feminine wellness and beauty are all about feeling good, says brand founder Lauren Steinberg

08-Aug-2018 By Deanna Utroske

At last week’s Cosmoprof North America tradeshow in Las Vegas, Nevada, Steinberg spoke with Cosmetics Design editor Deanna Utroske about her new brand’s impressive retail reach; what young women expect from packaging and formulation; how millennials approach...

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Eco-Friendly cosmetics and personal care packaging is in high demand

31-Jul-2018 By Deanna Utroske

“Our customers are really demanding more environmentally friendly options,” Sari Sternschein, VP of Marketing at Qosmedix, tells Cosmetics Design in this video interview (filmed at Cosmoprof North America). She describes the recycled and recyclable solutions...

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...

Indie Beauty Profile

Jessica Postiglione, OLIKA

30-Jul-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile, Jessica Postiglione, CEO of OLIKA, details the strategy behind the first brand from a company that’s laser-focused on differentiation in the personal care industry. Her company’s Birdie and Minnie are known as much for their...

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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.

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...

L’Oréal and Camila Cabello team up on launch of Havana makeup collection

10-Jul-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The singer songwriter has been working with L’Oréal since 2017; and this is the first time she’s co-created a beauty product collection with the company. Her limited-edition Havana color cosmetics line launches exclusively at Ulta later this month and...

LUXE Brands still investing in celebrity scents

05-Jul-2018 By Deanna Utroske

This fall, the company will launch a new fragrance from Ariana Grande.

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...

Indie Beauty Profile

Eric Fallon, Rebels Refinery

02-Jul-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In his Indie Beauty Profile, Eric Fallon, founder of the grooming and personal care brand Rebels Refinery, stresses the importance of knowledgeable mentors and revels in the joy of media and celebrity acclaim.

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....