Color cosmetics brands of every size are leveraging app or site-based augmented reality and artificial intelligence to create consumer touch points where product discovery, data collection, marketing, and retail transactions exist simultaneously. Here...
By leveraging on the traditions and heritage of their culture, emerging brands can win the hearts on its local markets and also be a hit on the international stage too.
We round up of our most-read cosmetics regulation stories of the region, featuring the latest changes in China’s regulation laws, microbeads reduction and animal testing.
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.
The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership, (SGP) has set its goals for the print manufacturing on how to acheive higher levels of responsibility and sustainability.
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.
Consumers may pay a premium for bespoke beauty products, but Constance Mandefield, founder and COO of Singapore skincare firm alche{me}, personalisation should not be perceived as a luxury.
Croda has officially launched and certified its new ECO range of bio-based surfactants, offering ingredients designed to meet increasing market demand for sustainable, high-performance ingredient options.
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.
It’s fairly common practice in men’s grooming to improve manual razors by adding more blades for better benefits. Now, OneBlade—the brand building a business around single-edge shaving—has launched a mid-priced version of its popular razors, continuing...
From a German personal care brand explicitly called Stop The Water While Using Me! to L’Oréal’s recent partnership to rinse out shampoo with five times less water, water reduction in beauty is a trend causing a serious splash. We explore its potential...
The latest edition of Cosmoprof Asia saw attendance increase by 4.2%, with organisers hailing the industry’s ability to “continually push the boundaries of innovation and science.”
The three biggest cosmetic and personal care players in the world have just announced very different initiatives, but each one makes a big nod in the direction of sustainability.
At the start of the New Year, Alan Jope will take over as CEO of the multinational consumer goods company. Having most recently led the beauty and personal care business—Unilever’s largest division—and been with company his entire career, Jope has the...
In our round up of the top five stories trending online, we highlight the latest developments on Cannabis beauty in Australia, animal-free collagen, Halal’s appeal to non-Muslim consumers and more.
Lumen Bioscience announced today that the US Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent for its gene editing and insertion technology that makes the microorganism into a platform that can readily produce biologics, proteins, and other various molecules...
From L'Oréal's new recruitment chatbot to a new app in France that aims to tackle ingredient safety and transparency, we take a look at the latest innovations that have hit the market in November.
The winners of the Cosmoprof Asia and Cosmopack Asia Awards were announced at last week’s Hong Kong trade show in front of 200 guests, including finalists, buyers, and influencers.
Cosmoprof Asia 2018 marked its 23rd year by opening doors to its largest show ever – with opportunities for halal products and e-commerce in the spotlight.
While animal-derived ingredients are on the rise, these don’t cater to the huge potential for vegan beauty. Is the answer plant-based alternatives? We take a look in this Editor’s Spotlight feature.
We round up of our most-read cosmetics regulation stories of the region, featuring animal-testing, China’s import tax for luxury beauty, and sustainability in the supply chain.
Cargill Beauty introduces its Beauty System 1.0 at in-cosmetics Asia in Bangkok, in response to the growing consumer demand for simple, natural, sustainable and ethical beauty products in the region.
The specialty chemical maker is looking to the marine environment and biotechnology as a sustainable alternative to conventional personal care ingredient manufacturing. And having acquired Prince Edward Island – based Nautilus Biosciences at the start...
Consumers consistently demand more from their skin care and cosmetics products. In this dedicated feature, we ask whether multifunctionality still important, and what’s new?
Beauty brands are increasingly positioning themselves to align with consumers’ growing interest in physical exercise by creating products designed for an active lifestyle.
Active Beauty initially meant colour cosmetics you could wear in conditions where it would stay on the face, even when sweating. Now it has evolved in new directions, encompassing brands targeting sporty make-up wearers and safer natural brands.
Asia-Pacific accounts for 33% of global beauty and personal care products that help with de-stressing and relaxation, launched between January-September 2018.
BASF Personal Care says increasing its presence in sub-Saharan Africa allows it to respond to a personal care market that is “growing fast and holds great potential”.
The use of mushrooms in beauty product formulations has been an emerging for years. But now it seems that the prolific fungi are gaining real popularity with skin care consumers. Certainly, the natural cosmetics and personal care movement can take some...
Givaudan Active Beauty has won in-Cosmetics Asia’s Spotlight-On Formulation Award in the haircare actives category with its S3D Colourback concept product that claims to reverse signs of greying hair.
Conscious personal care consumers, mission-driven fragrance brands, and feel-good cosmetics marketing campaigns are hard to miss now days. So smart suppliers and distributors are not only helping beauty makers tell more nuanced ingredient stories, they...
The wellness trend across consumer goods industries has seen new avenues to engage consumers emerge: is the potential of beauty that works with the rhythms of the menstrual cycle one such area? We explore in this Editor’s Spotlight feature.
Blue light, stress and pollution were among the skin stressors under scrutiny at in-Cosmetics Asia, where companies showcased the latest innovations to combat the effects of urban living.
In an “unprecedented move” by one of the globe’s leading beauty brands, Humane Society International notes how these increasing efforts to ban animal testing in the cosmetics sphere may well be the “beginning of the end for cruel cosmetics”. We spoke...
Geltor CEO Alex Lorestani reveals more about the firm’s ‘cruelty-free’ alternative to collagen, N-Collage, and the wealth of possibilities it offers the cosmetics industry.
Here's a recap of the most-read beauty and cosmetic stories of September, featuring the latest in animal-testing, Halal trends as well as updates on Chinese import taxes.
Dr. U Devices aims to disrupt the hair care industry with its hair transplant technology, Dr. UGraft System, that utilises Follicular Unit Excision (FUE).
According to the Global Wellness Institute’s 2018 report, wellness is now a $4.2 trillion business; and the beauty, personal care, and anti-aging categories account for $1,083bn of that figure. Here, Cosmetics Design looks at brands and trends navigating...
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