News & Analysis on Cosmetics Innovation
Consumer goods multinational L’Oreal has announced a partnership with water treatment service provider, Veolia, which will tackle the problem of wastewater discharged from the beauty giant’s factories in Indonesia.
Five leading skin care brands have agreed to re-label or remove titanium dioxide (TiO2) from those products which contain it, as part of efforts to settle a recent lawsuit in California.
Univar says that it is using its first time exhibiting at the forthcoming MakeUp Paris event to demonstrate a rapidly emerging trend for specific textures in colour cosmetic products.
A new coating technology developed by Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company LiquiGlide is being heralded as a way to make formulation flow faster and more easily, minimizing waste but encouraging the consumer to use more.
Following on from bans across the US on the tiny plastic particles in personal care goods, recent pledges from brands in Europe to remove microbeads from products suggests companies are keen to pre-empt any comparable ban on the continent.