Skin Care

Wendy Wang promoted to Chief Commercial Officer in APAC at Mary Kay

28-Oct-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The beauty maker’s former Vice President and Associate General Counsel is now leading commercial strategies and corporate objectives across sales, marketing, biz tech, and operations in the Asia Pacific region.

Omnichannel Upgrade: Avon opens a first brick-and-mortar beauty retail shop in Los Angeles, California

28-Oct-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Just when social sales and DTC brands seem to have a competitive edge in the cosmetics and personal care marketplace, the direct sales beauty maker opens an enormous shop called Studio 1886 in LA’s Koreatown.

Upcycled Cannabis Root: Jennifer Grant has a new idea about clean beauty ingredients

27-Oct-2020 By Deanna Utroske

This month, the biomedical engineer launched a clean skin care brand called empyri that leverages cannabis in a novel (if not entirely new) way in clean beauty product formulation.

Uplink relaunches to better connect indie brands with beauty packaging and ingredient suppliers

27-Oct-2020 By Deanna Utroske

The online and events platform launched an all new website this month, complete with a concierge service for brand leaders. Cosmetics Design checked in with Nader Naeymi-Rad of IBMG to learn more.

Can biotechnology make PFAS and other so-called forever chemicals degradable?

27-Oct-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Degradability is increasingly important in the cosmetics and personal care industry. And whether per- and poly-fluorinated compounds are in beauty formulations as an ingredient or a trace contaminant, they persist in the environment and are (as a result)...

Natural baby care boom? US brand Evereden eyes untapped potential in APAC among millennial parents

27-Oct-2020 By Amanda Lim

Mother and baby care brand Evereden is eyeing untapped opportunities in the Asia Pacific region where it believes younger parents are looking for more natural yet science-backed baby care products.

Cargill to boost natural beauty biz with Floratech acquisition

22-Oct-2020 By Deanna Utroske

This week, the global food corporation announced the signing of a deal to purchase Floratech, a decades-old natural ingredient supplier serving the cosmetics and personal care industry.

Province Apothecary Founder Julie Clark partners with District Ventures Capital

22-Oct-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Earlier this week, the venture capital fund announced an equity investment in Canada-based organic skin care brand Province Apothecary.

Dr Google: Getting under the skin of prebiotics

22-Oct-2020 By Nikki Hancocks

The interest in probiotics for immunity has passed its peak but a 24-month rise in internet searches for prebiotics and skin health is more than a passing trend, according to new insights from Lumina Intelligence.

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Live probiotics in cosmetics an ‘interesting' concept – but is it worth the effort?

21-Oct-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Processed probiotics are widely used in beauty products to target the skin microbiome, but few formulations contain live bacteria strains – a concept experts say is interesting from a marketing perspective but complicated to do.

At-home versions of pro beauty products increase as pandemic wears on

21-Oct-2020 By Deanna Utroske

This month, the Colgate-Palmolive brand PCA SKIN launched a Micro Peel At-Home Kit—it's just the latest DIY / pro skin treatment hybrid product to hit the market and help consumers keep up with their pre-pandemic routines.

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Raise the Green Bar Sustainability Summit is this Thursday

19-Oct-2020 By Deanna Utroske

On October 22, the cross-industry sustainability event (now in its fourth year) goes online with a half-day of programming meant to help corporations, brands, and consumers connect and coordinate on all things sustainability.

What’s New? the latest cosmetics and personal care ingredient launches of 2020

15-Oct-2020 By Deanna Utroske

With tradeshows going digital, ingredient supplies disrupted by the pandemic, and work-from-home precautions changing the way so many beauty industry insiders navigate the workday, keeping up on new ingredient launches can be a challenge. Here Cosmetics...

Sephora adds hormonal dermatology brand to product assortment

14-Oct-2020 By Deanna Utroske

This week, the multinational personal care and beauty retailer added the full Dr. Zenovia Skincare product portfolio to its ecommerce site.

New zeolite catalyst design tech to expedite production of specialty chemicals

14-Oct-2020 By Deanna Utroske

Cosmetics and personal care ingredient makers can likely benefit from recent research published in Nature Materials that shows synthesizing finned zeolites can increase catalyst efficiency by 3 times.