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IFF opens new global service centre in Budapest

17-Apr-2019 By Simon Pitman

International Flavors & Fragrances has opened a new service centre in Budapest, Hungary, in a move that consolidates key finance processes for its worldwide operations.

BASF wins two innovation BSB awards

16-Apr-2019 By Simon Pitman

BASF has won two innovation BSB awards, one for a mask concept and the other for its Eurperlan OP White biodegradable opacifier.

Schwan Cosmetics ups sustainability efforts

16-Apr-2019 By Simon Pitman

Schwan Cosmetics has increased its sustainability initiatives thanks to the introduction of a wooden eye pencils and the opening of a more sustainably designed production facility to produce them.

Colour is China's biggest design trend: Centdegrés highlights multi-sensory experience at Luxepack Shanghai

16-Apr-2019 By Amanda Lim

Creative agency Centdegrés collaborated with tradeshow Luxepack Shanghai to stage INKside Colours, a sensorial experience that explored the role of colour in China’s history, and tapped into what it believes is China's number one design trend.

WATCH: Sam Farmer on unisex products for gender neutral teen personal care

12-Apr-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

In this exclusive interview, we caught up with Sam Farmer, whose personal care products are designed to offer young consumers products that avoid limiting gender stereotypes.

Gattefossé’s Emulium Illustro picks up Gold at in-cosmetics Global

11-Apr-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

The company’s new water-in-oil (W/O) emulsifier of natural origin, designed principally for pigmented formulations, won this year’s Gold Innovation Award in the Functional Ingredient category.

From The Editor's Desk

The multiuse trend spells opportunity and headaches

10-Apr-2019 By Simon Pitman

The in-cosmetics Global event is always a major platform for new and emerging trends. And plenty of new trends were in evidence at the Paris event, but one in particular caught my eye – the move towards multiuse or multipurpose products.

in-cosmetics Global Paris, in photos

09-Apr-2019 By Simon Pitman

The in-cosmetics Paris appears to be the best attended event in almost to date, if preliminary figures prove to be an accurate representation. In this photo gallery we bring you some of the most interesting developments from the biggest formulation players....

Omya launches cellulosic beads for active delivery

09-Apr-2019 By Simon Pitman

Swiss specialty ingredients player Omya is about to unveil Cosmospheares, cellulosic beads that are designed to enhance the delivery of cosmetic actives.

6 top highlights from in-cosmetics Global 2019

08-Apr-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

This year’s major industry event, in-cosmetics Global, took place in Paris last week. In this Editor’s Spotlight, we reveal the biggest things we learned for beauty and personal care at the 2019 show.

Beauty Industry Awards 2019 winners revealed!

05-Apr-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

We reveal the winners of this year’s Beauty Industry Awards, honouring some of the best innovations in the formulation and ingredients arena, and the leading independent beauty brands.

DSM makes diversity in beauty its trend focus

02-Apr-2019 By Simon Pitman

The Swiss fine chemicals player is set to make a big splash at this year’s in-cosmetics Global event in Paris, which opens today, with the unveiling of new ingredients and its focus on the diversity in beauty trend.

ICMAD teams up with Beauty Cluster Barcelona on international collaboration

28-Mar-2019 By Simon Pitman

US-based beauty and personal care trade body ICMAD has joined forces with Beauty Cluster Barcelona to help promote greater international collaboration.

in-cosmetics launches Global Beauty Day to celebrate diversity

28-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

In a new feature for its 2019 edition, the in-cosmetics Global organisers are launching the first ever Global Beauty Day on 3 April, set to honour diversity in the industry.

Exclusive Interview

‘Redefining the premium beauty segment’: Euromonitor International expert

28-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

We caught up with Hannah Symons, Research Manager Beauty and Fashion at Euromonitor International, to hear more about the premium beauty segment: why it’s now outstripping the mass market for growth, and what she thinks will be next.

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How to make the most out of in-cosmetics Global

27-Mar-2019 By Simon Pitman

It is the biggest event on the calendar for the worldwide cosmetics and personal care ingredients market, but the fact that is so enormous can also make it daunting and difficult to navigate.

L’Oréal named as the world’s fifth ‘megabrand’

26-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

This is according to Euromonitor International’s recent Top 100 Megabrands report, revealing the world’s leading Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) brands ranked by retail sales value in 2017.

5 top regulation and safety updates to know about

25-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

From controversy over skin whitening products to The Body Shop’s recent animal testing alternative appointment, we round up the biggest recent headlines in regulation and safety in this Editor’s Spotlight.

WATCH: Animal testing bans around the world in 2019

22-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

Animal testing bans for cosmetics are in place in a large number of countries and regional states, but some are still delaying in introducing these. We take a look and consider how far there is left to go with animal testing alternatives too. Watch in...

Kao launches sustainable packaging with hair care brand Guhl

21-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

In a sign that the Japanese beauty giant is keen to push forward its presence in Europe, Kao’s hair care brand in the region, Guhl, is tapping into rising demand for sustainable products.

Market insights: The new beauty routines shaping 2019

21-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

We caught up with Emmanuelle Bassmann, founder of In-Trends, to hear how consumer beauty routines are evolving in 2019, and how brands can keep up.

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What does soil health have to do with the Cosmetics Industry?

20-Mar-2019 By Simon Pitman

A huge body of scientific evidence makes it hard to deny that pollution from the agricultural industry has contributed significantly to global climate change, but what might perplex some is how this is connected to the cosmetics and personal care industry.

Beauty: Cosmoprof 2019 award winners announced

20-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

The winner’s of this year’s Cosmoprof Awards have been announced, with leading companies within the perfumery, cosmetics, hair, nail, beauty salon segments of the beauty market picked out as winners. We shine a spotlight on them.

PCHi 2019

Important and meaningful: Cargill underlines importance of sustainability programmes for consumers

20-Mar-2019 By Amanda Lim

Cargill Beauty is placing emphasis on sustainability programmes as natural and sustainable beauty become mainstream concerns for consumers.

The finalists for the 2019 Beauty Industry Awards are…

19-Mar-2019 By Simon Pitman

Our third annual Beauty Industry Awards has been another huge success, with a tremendous number of high quality entries making the judges’ decisions harder than ever.

Exploring the key drivers of the French beauty market: interview

19-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

French consumers are using fewer personal care products, so being relevant to their specific demands is becoming essential. Here, Anaïs Dupuy, Business Development Manager, Kantar Worldpanel, reveals the key drivers for beauty in France and reveals exclusive...

Our top highlights from Cosmoprof 2019

19-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

We attended this year’s Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna 2019, the global edition of the Cosmoprof series of trade events for the beauty industry. From probiotic claims, to CBD oil, to high end male grooming including colour cosmetics for men, the show played...

Responsible Mica Initiative releases first annual report

18-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

The first such annual report of its kind, the Responsible Mica Initiative (RMI) has released the latest information around the sustainability and child labour problem in India’s mica sector, and RMI’s efforts to address it. We take a look in this Editor’s...

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As opportunities in naturals explode, so do the responsibilities

13-Mar-2019 By Simon Pitman

The naturals trend continues to go from strength to strength, but as the category continues to evolve, the rise in consumer demand is also giving way to added responsibilities.

Gattefossé launches new natural emulsifier for pigmented options

13-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

Using its established knowledge in lipid chemistry, Gattefossé is set to release its new water-in-oil (W/O) emulsifier of natural origin, designed principally for pigmented formulations.

L’Oréal partners with Hello Tomorrow international deep-tech competition

13-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

The global beauty giant has, for the third consecutive year, teamed up with the Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge: a competition that aims to connect and empower the most promising scientific and technological startups.

Trends to watch at in-cosmetics: Spotlight on halal, naturals, and cannabis

12-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

Where can we see overlap between the rising key trends of halal and cannabis? The answer is in the ever-dominant market defining trend of naturals, which shows no sign of letting up when it comes to consumer demand. Both halal and cannabis trends tap...

in-cosmetics global organisers reveal their top picks for trends at the show

12-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

In this guest post, in-cosmetics Global’s organisers reveal their top choices for trends set to be under the spotlight at this year’s major trade event for the beauty and personal care industry.

Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna opens its doors this week!

12-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

One of the leading trade shows for the whole beauty industry supply chain - covering new products, trends, innovative technologies and techniques - is set to open its doors this week.

LATAM Beauty Brands Profile

LATAM Beauty Brands Profile: Ere Perez Natural Cosmetics

07-Mar-2019 By Simon Pitman

Ere Perez Natural Cosmetics is a Latino-owned natural cosmetics business, based in Australia and serving the Latin American market with its lines of color cosmetic and skin care products.

Animal testing alternatives: The Body Shop appoints XCellR8

06-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

The Body Shop has appointed a UK contract testing organisation, XCellR8, to provide the company with skin and eye irritation tests for cosmetic ingredients and formulations across the Body Shop’s product portfolio.

Mintel: Microbiome skin care, clean makeup and gluten-free hair care drive UK market

05-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

New research from Mintel highlights the trends driving innovation in skincare, colour cosmetics and haircare in the UK beauty market, with the leading defining trends being clean makeup, gluten-free hair care and microbiome skin care.

Guest Article

Global ban on animal testing: where are we in 2019?

05-Mar-2019 By Tjaša Grum, CE.way Regulatory Consultants

In this guest article, a regulatory expert takes us through the global situation for animal testing for cosmetics. What are the rules for markets across the world, and how do they differ from each other?

5 latest innovations in formulation and science for beauty: March

04-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

From a new fermented-honey prebiotic ingredient to a ‘groundbreaking’ new soap noodle, in this Editor’s Spotlight, we look back at the biggest innovations seen recently within formulation and science for the beauty and personal care industry.

WATCH: Plastic packaging and beauty: what’s the next step?

01-Mar-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

We shine a spotlight on the steps being made by beauty to reduce plastic packaging and plastic waste in this video edition of the Editor’s spotlight.

Cosmetics regulation: dive into the latest with COSMED’s next meeting

28-Feb-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

Cosmed, a professional association for the beauty industry, is hosting its next annual meeting dedicated to regulatory concerns for the industry.

Customised beauty, anti-ageing, emotions and neuroscience: in-cosmetics workshops investigate

27-Feb-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

Further to the in-cosmetics Global free education programme and pre-show Regulatory Conference, the event is also playing host to a series of eight in-depth workshops. We take a look at the highlights of the programme.

in-cosmetics Global education programme revealed

27-Feb-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

Heading back to France for this year’s in-cosmetics Global edition, the major beauty and personal care ingredients trade show says it is returning to ‘the cosmetics heartland’.

First in vitro SPF method accepted onto ISO standardisation process

26-Feb-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

The Cosmetics Europe trade association has announced that its new SPF method is now under review by the ISO, with the view to it potentially becoming a new international reference method.

5 big headlines from the naturals and organics space

25-Feb-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

In this Editor’s spotlight, we take a closer look at five of the top stories that have recently emerged in natural and organic beauty and personal care.

Sillages, L’Oréal-backed startup, talks customisation and fragrance: interview

22-Feb-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

Sillages is a rising independent fragrance startup working in the customisation space that recently caught L’Oréal’s eye - the multinational has backed it via its recently launched BOLD corporate venture capital fund. We caught up with the brand’s founder,...

Charlotte Tilbury to open first US store this summer

21-Feb-2019 By Deanna Utroske

The color cosmetics, skin care, and fragrance brand led by makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury announced the location of its first own-brand retail shop in North America this week. The flagship store is a next step in what has been a steady progression of...

Tropic opens new UK headquarters: Natural, vegan and cruelty-free

20-Feb-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

A UK beauty player founded in 2004 - when its founder Susie Ma was just 15 years old - has announced the opening of its new headquarters.

Future of natural cosmetics uncovered: Masterclass approaches

20-Feb-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

A leading research and consultancy firm for the sustainable and natural market within beauty and personal care is planning its second Masterclass dedicated to the future of natural cosmetics.

Trends to watch at in-cosmetics: Spotlight on the microbiome

19-Feb-2019 By Lucy Whitehouse

With the skin’s microbiome a rising trend with the potential to define the direction of skin care and scalp care into the future, exhibitors and visitors will be keeping a keen eye on the latest innovations, launches and research in the space at the upcoming...