Skin Care

Avon is launching a K Beauty collection

17-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In partnership with the Korea-based beauty platform management company Bonne, Avon has developed a K Beauty product line. It’s an example of the direct sales beauty maker’s strategic decision to work with more industry partners and cater to regional market...

Indie Beauty Profile

Laura Rudoe, Evolve Beauty

17-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile, Laura Rudoe, founder of the small-batch, artisan personal care brand Evolve Beauty, gives us a good insider understanding of why independent brands are so ingenious. And, she describes building a hand-made products business...

Editor’s Spotlight

What is indie beauty anyway?

14-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Recently, brands featured on the Indie Beauty Profile column have been asked to define or explain their thinking on what makes a cosmetics, personal care, or fragrance brand independent. Here, Cosmetics Design has complied a selection of the replies in...

Trend Watch: pre-sport probiotic skin care

13-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

At this week’s SCC Annual Meeting and Technology Showcase in New York City, Roelmi HPC launched its latest personal care and beauty ingredient. Aective is a biotech-derived molecule that provides microbial defense as well as skin moisturization and elasticity...

From The Editor's Desk

Global ingredients players are helping indie beauty, but competing too

12-Dec-2018 By Simon Pitman

Everyone wants a slice of the fast-growing indie beauty market right now, and while it has never been easier to launch a brand, the competition is getting all the more fierce.

Cover Girl’s newest makeup line designed for women of color

12-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

This month the Coty brand launched a new line of color cosmetics on Ulta.com. The Full Spectrum Collection of complexion and color products are “specifically designed to address the skin and color needs of WOC,” according to Cover Girl.

Amyris and ADL expand production of fermentation-derived ingredients

11-Dec-2018 By Simon Pitman

Amyris, a leading player in fermentation derived ingredient, has confirmed that it is expanding production of with its contract partner ADL Bionatur.

Editor’s Spotlight

2018 cosmetics and personal care ingredient launches

10-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Certainly no year passes in the beauty industry without a significant number of new ingredient technologies coming to market. Here, we look at selection of standout ingredients that made headlines on Cosmetics Design over the last 12 months.

Indie Beauty Profile

Stacia Guzzo, SmartyPits

10-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

In her Indie Beauty Profile, Stacia Guzzo, co-founder of SmartyPits, outlines how she shuttered one personal care business venture to launch the brand her customers were clamoring for. And, she shares wise and thorough advice, suggesting that the company...

Univar adds Sino Lion ingredients in US

10-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The personal care and cosmetics ingredient distributor announced a new partnership this month, one that not only expands Univar’s sustainable ingredients portfolio but that will also generate new so-called green prototype product formulations for beauty...

Editor’s Spotlight

These 4 indie brands are going all in on marine ingredients

07-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

At next month’s Indie Beauty Expo in Los Angeles, California, numerous new cosmetics and personal care trends will be visible. Chief among them, the emerging marine ingredients trend. Here Cosmetics Design looks at 4 brands, exhibiting at IBE, that are...

NaturaNectar to launch bee propolis skin care line in 2019

06-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

The Florida-based company has been in business for 10 years, harvesting propolis, processing it with green extraction technology, and developing products for the wellness market. Now, NaturaNectar has announced plans to get into the beauty business.

CEW event highlights beauty retail’s shift to psychographics

06-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

At a CEW Speakers Series event this week in New York City, Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette spoke one-on-one with Jill Scalamandre, chairwoman of Cosmetic Executive Women, about how the company is updating its approach to beauty, what the acquisitions of Blue...

Cosmetics Design’s new column: From The Editor’s Desk

05-Dec-2018 By Simon Pitman

Cosmetics Design is bringing you a new regular column, From The Editor’s Desk, designed to offer our readers a more in depth perspective on matters that are impacting our industry.

Supplier Case Study

From the Ground Up: how Brazilian Kimberlite Clay is building a global beauty ingredient business

05-Dec-2018 By Deanna Utroske

Founded just three years ago, Brazilian Kimberlite Clay has been supplying beauty makers since first exhibiting at the Dubai Beauty World Middle East event in 2016. This month, Cosmetics Design caught up with the company’s international business director...