The renewable chemistry company, backed by the likes of Chanel and BASF Venture Capital, launched its Citropol line of emollients late last week despite the postponement of all 2020 beauty ingredient tradeshows.
This week, the Good Housekeeping Institute began accepting submissions for its now annual awards program. This year the Institute will recognize sustainable packaging innovation in four industries: home care and cleaning, toys, food, and beauty and personal...
This month’s PCPC Annual Meeting was all about sustainability. At the event, Cosmetics Design caught up with Szaky to discuss the business of TerraCycle, the Loop platform, and sustainable beauty packaging more broadly.
At the start of March, the Personal Care Products Council held its annual meeting event, complete with educational panels, keynotes, and breakout sessions. This year’s topic was sustainability. And Cosmetics Design was there to connect with the experts,...
Beiersdorf has grown annual revenues and gained market share in face and skin care for 2019, despite facing profound societal changes and business challenges linked to climate change, its chairman says.
At this week’s INNOCOS event in Scottsdale, Arizona, the first Blue Beauty Award winners were announced, recognizing cosmetics, personal care, and wellness brands for business strategies and initiatives that have a positive environmental effect.
The New Year marked a new decade as well; and over the past two months news of environmentally sustainable cosmetics and personal care products, packaging, and business operations point to a future where green practices are built in rather than added...
“Cheekbone Beauty is all about empowering and enhancing the lives of Indigenous youth,” Founder Jenn Harper tells Cosmetics Design in this video interview, which goes on to explore the Canada-based color cosmetics brand’s vision, financing approach, and...
‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’ is beauty’s current sustainability mantra, but what if industry went one step further and considered carbon capture in packaging materials? One futurologist says it’s do-able.
Indie beauty has burst into the spotlight in recent years, bringing important brand values forward – areas big beauty can certainly draw inspiration from, says an indie beauty expert.
Several companies in the cosmetics and personal care sector have signed on to support the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in its development of an online tool to help businesses measure and track their progress toward economic circularity.
Clariant has developed a concentrated active from white mulberry tree root using a patented plant milking technology it says is a fundamental step towards ensuring beauty’s sustainable future.
Yes, if you ask Beauty Heroes and INNOCOS. The clean beauty discovery service and the global INNOCOS summit organizer have teamed up to launch a new awards program recognizing brands and products that are doing just that.
Natura & Co has finalised its Avon acquisition, creating a global pure-play beauty giant and direct-to-consumer leader – a mega-business it wants to use to fight the climate crisis, champion cruelty-free, female empowerment and local communities.
The makeup brand Tiila Abbitt founded in 2018 is educating consumers and setting a new standard for makeup packaging. Āether Beauty’s latest launch is “literally the only liquid lip component in all of Sephora that can be recycled.”
It has been an interesting year in the Latin American region, with economic and political volatility, environmental issues and sustainability all underpinning what has happened in the beauty industry.
Beauty biotechnology will gain importance in the coming years, driven by environmental concerns and limited natural resources, but industry will have to work hard at creating positive consumer perceptions, says Royal DSM.
Special Edition Newsletter: Water Reduction Formulation
The waterless and water reduction trend is definitely continuing to grow as consumers reach out for products that are both more convenient, particularly for on-the-go, as well as more environmentally friendly.
In light of criticism by the Brazil government towards NGOs working towards protecting the Amazon region, Natura has come out in defense of environmental protection the region.
The event, presented by The Eco Well, is an evening of conversation among cosmetic chemists, industry ingredient makers, and science communicators on the topic of sustainability.
Special Edition Newsletter: Water Reduction Formulation
Solids have gained plenty of traction as a sustainable alternative in personal care, requiring less water and packaging. And with innovation lathering up nicely, the future suggests innovative variants beyond the traditional soap bar may soon win shelf...
Special Edition Newsletter: Water Reduction Formulation
The results of the Sustainable Beauty Awards are in, revealing who is leading the field for sustainable products, ingredients, packaging and industry leadership, as well as who is the biggest pioneer.
Business is changing. Beauty consumers care about the social and environmental implications of the products they buy; and financial stakeholders see value in publicly responsible and truly sustainable companies. And so, the beauty maker is taking stock...
Special Edition: Biotechnology for Natural Formulation
Here, Cosmetics Design looks at a selection of ingredients, made possible through biotechnology, that have come to market in recent years and how those new inputs figure into the natural and green beauty movements.
Special Edition: Biotechnology for Natural Formulation
Consumer desire for sustainable and natural cosmetics continues to fuel the surge in interest around plant cell culture technology, with huge advances made in the past ten years, academics say.
Biotechnology has been heralded as a less costly, more efficient means of producing a range of active ingredients for beauty and personal care, but perhaps the biggest advantage is the sustainability factor.
The fragrance division of Swiss ingredients player Givaudan has taken another step towards more sustainable fragrance formulation with the launch of a new biotechnology breakthrough.
At last week’s Raise the Green Bar sustainability summit in New York City, Birnur Aral and Carolyn Forté of the Good Housekeeping Institute announced the winners from indie, niche, and legacy brands in 9 categories across bath and body, makeup and skin...
Personal care major Unilever will slash use of virgin plastic in half by 2025, cutting use completely or using alternatives such as cardboard, bamboo and recycled materials.
Everyday it seems there’s a new beauty product on the market claiming to be all-natural, clean, green, or otherwise remarkably sustainable. Here, in an effort to better understand the future of the industry, Cosmetics Design shares insights from emerging...
Special Edition Newsletter: Sustainability Local Sourcing
The demand for essential oils and the rising problem of adulteration is pushing Australia-based essential oil firm, Down Under Enterprises, to adopt blockchain technology to ensure traceability.
Ecovia is extending its deadline for the Sustainable Beauty Awards, allowing for final submissions on this Friday, September 27th, adding another week to the deadline.
The Latin American market for beauty and personal care has seen huge strides in both innovation and growth. And although it is not a world leader in trends, there is still plenty going on to keep the industry busy.
At last week’s tradeshow, international beauty packagers, brush makers, contract manufacturers, and more, were showcasing their latest and most innovative solutions for cosmetics and personal care industry insiders. Cosmetics Design was there, and here...
At yesterday’s Sparks & Honey culture briefing in New York City, Alex Lorestani, co-founder and CEO of a biotech company called Geltor, presented insights and information on the potential that biodesign has to disrupt and reinvigorate the cosmetics...
Significant opportunities exist for sustainable beauty development, from plastic-free and refillable packaging to circular raw materials, and the rethink must happen now, says Euromonitor International’s senior sustainability consultant.
One of the best ways of measuring future industry trends and innovation is a trip to in-cosmetics Global, an event that shines a light on what the next generation of products will look like. But this year, pinpointing something truly new was hard to do.
The company Suvi Haimi and Laura Kyllönen founded in Finland in 2016 has been gaining accolades, winning awards, and making headlines while continuing to innovate for a plastic-free future. This year, Sulapac announced that its Universal Recipe material...
This month the beauty packager published an 18-page report outlining the company's past, current, and future approach to environmental sustainability and, as part of the document, laid out 5 ways that Albéa is working toward a circular approach to...
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...
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...
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...
At this week’s NYSCC Suppliers’ Day event in New York City, Cosmetics Design spoke with Jane Sum, Covestro’s head of cosmetics, about that company’s Baycusan line of biodegradable film formers, as well as about Covestro’s first ingredient in a new collection...
At IBE LA last week, Āether Beauty founder Tiila Abbitt spoke with Cosmetics Design about environmentally sustainable beauty packaging, how international trade relationships affect recycling in the US, her brand’s approach to ingredient sourcing, and...
The New York Sustainable Cosmetics Summit will take place in May and the team at Ecovia lntelligence have chosen to focus on green materials, as well as sourcing and marketing issues as key features of the two-day conference.
The discount retailer has refreshed its policies around chemical ingredients in an effort to be a leader in the stainable chemistry movement as well as to provide transparent formulation information to consumers.
Canada-based seed oils specialist Botaneco has unveiled its newly opened innovation facility dedicated to skin, hair and sun care, in Lambertville, New Jersey.
