The skin microbiome continues to ignite interest as science fast advances and product innovations hit shelves, but where exactly are the biggest opportunities for industry and what will be the key challenges moving forward?
MCTco is competing in the highly-competitive snack bar category, addressing major consumer demands around protein and sugar content as well as emerging ‘beauty-from-within’ and immunity trends with its line of products containing collagen protein and...
Marine-derived collagen continues to gain significant scientific attention, given its sustainable and versatile attributes, but interest for use beyond topical cosmetics is bubbling fast, say researchers.
Twelve weeks of supplementation with hydrolyzed eggshell membrane may improve hair thickness and growth, while also improving facial skin appearance, according to a randomized, double‐blind placebo‐controlled study.
The agricultural processing company has completed a clinical study, recently accepted for publication in the international peer-reviewed journal Acta Dermato-Venereologica (which covers the fields of dermatology and venereology) that shows ingestible...
In an article published this month in Phytotherapy Research, an international peer-reviewed journal on medicinal plant research, a team of researchers from the University of California Davis share data that indicates almonds may have antiaging benefits...
This week, RenewAlliance launched a beauty vitamin, vegan hyaluronic acid in capsule, form that promises to moisturize and plump skin from the inside out.
The recently launched Paragon Vitamins business promises to personalize consumer vitamin plans using a hair sample, a quiz, and an algorithm. While not a beauty supplement brand, per se, Paragon is the latest in a long line of new nutrient brands encouraging...
Persona relies on genetic data, individual consumer assessments, and algorithmic technology to customize vitamins and supplements. And late last year, the relatively new company added beauty supplements with hair and skin benefits to its product portfolio....
The monthly subscription and discovery service has moved beyond its core business of fragrance in recent months—adding color cosmetics and skin care. And now, Scentbird has entered the wellness category, partnering with bands like Perfect V, Golde, and...
At in-cosmetics Global in Paris this month Cosmetics Design sat down with Tamara Rausch, Product Manager of Lycored, a wellness and supplement company that’s moving in to the skin care ingredient supply business.
Most skin care tools coming to market now are high-tech electronics or digital devices. However at this month’s BeautyX Summit and Indie Beauty Expo events in Los Angeles, California, Cosmetics Design learned about 3 beauty tools made of simple metals...
Combining genomics, microbiome profiles, and blood analysis, the new company is gathering consumers’ personal molecular information and providing product recommendations in return.
The first ever Indie Beauty Expo (IBE) to take place in Europe has just been wrapped up in London, a small event that showcased some of the leading brands targeting the market there.
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...
Last month in New York City, Idea Couture hosted an interactive and educational day-long event that brought the innovation and design firm’s new report on The Future of Beauty to life. The event and report highlighted 6 cosmetics and personal care trends...
Today’s personal care consumer believes that the body, effectively, eats whatever comes into contact with the skin. And this means that the quality and origin of skin care, hair care, fragrance, and beauty ingredients are all the more significant. Edible...
Nutraceuticals, nutricosmetics, beauty vitamins, supplements, ingestibles, beauty-from-within products, functional foods and beverages, collagen tablets; the list goes on. Regardless of what they’re being called, natural health supplements have gone mainstream....
A fair number of brands exhibiting at this year’s Indie Beauty Expo in New York City were dedicated to wellness. One such brand, Australia-based Tonik makes single-ingredient supplements. Cosmetics Design spoke with Tonik founder Pip Summerville at IBE...
At next month’s in-cosmetics Latin America, Andrew McDougall, global analyst at Mintel, will be giving a presentation that touches on the growing market for probiotic- and microbiome-based hair and scalp care products.
The beauty wellness brand has until now been focused on skin care formulated with natural ingredients. But this summer (as is increasingly common among personal care brands) Well Within added two skin care supplements to their product portfolio.
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Rose-Marie Swift, founder of RMS Beauty, explains why green beauty brands should focus first on consumer education (and only later on sales and marketing). And, she describes her experience moving from life as makeup artist...
The global beauty name has a long-standing commitment to learning more from focus groups such as the Young Women’s Leadership Schools Network (YWLN) in a bid to support market research and product development.
Holobiome Corporation and J&J are collaborating on the new project; and in a recent exchange with Cosmetics Design, Stefanie Dhanda, senior director of consumer scientific innovation at the health and beauty company’s Innovation Center, affirms, “there...
The Cosmetics Design team is dedicating itself to providing the most cutting edge and informative news for the cosmetics and personal care industry throughout Latin America, so, naturally, we want to hear about all the news from your business in the region!
We have always been swift to report on what is happening in the fast-moving Latin American cosmetics and personal care market, but now we are offering more targeted and in-depth coverage.
The developers of sciadonic acid—a new to the market anti-inflammatory fatty acid—have pivoted to topical products as they search for partners to more fully develop the substance as a dietary ingredient.
Cosmetics Design's Simon Pitman recently guested on the Just Ask David show, to discuss some of the hottest trends driving the US beauty and personal care market at the moment.
The Cosmetics Design team is proud to announce the launch of the 2018 Beauty Industry Awards, the second edition of this prestigious competition highlighting achievements in the development of both beauty ingredients and finished products.
This month Clorox, the company that now owns Burt’s Bees, gave an update to the investment community that highlighted the brand’s recent move into makeup as well as the Clorox company’s penchant for innovation and increased speed-to-market.
Courtney Adeleye, CEO of The Mane Choice, spoke with Cosmetics Design senior correspondent Deanna Utroske at Cosmoprof North America this month about how the wellness movement is influencing hair care, how her company is changing the way retailers think...
We caught up with BeBe & Bella probiotics skin care founder Allison Krebs-Bensch to find out more about what it takes to launch a brand in this rapidly evolving space.
As part of our seventh annual edition of the Skincare Ingredients online conference, we are bringing you a carefully curated discussion panel to shine the spotlight on the fast evolving probiotic trend.
Cosmetics Design is readying its seventh annual edition of the Skincare Ingredients online conference, a chance to keep up to date on trends, network and stay on top of this fast-moving category.
In her Indie Beauty Profile Camille Varlet, founder of All Beauty Inc, tells how her years of food and beauty industry experience converged in a single brand and why topical products aren’t the be-all and end-all of skin care.
Reed Exhibitions says its second in-cosmetics North America will be expanded, with a new marketing-focused educational program, marketing trails and makeup and sensory bars.
Our latest CD Buzz highlights the not-to-miss bits at in-cosmetics Global 2017. When the doors open in London's Docklands next week there will be a focus on sustainability, a special feature on colour cosmetics, a packed educational programme and...
The beauty-from-within beverage maker has been selected to join a food-focused business accelerator with the aim of making products like All Beauty Water part of women’s everyday beauty routines.
The count down to the first ever Cosmetics Design Beauty Industry Awards is well under way and there are now less than four weeks to go for the cut off date for submissions to the three regional competitions.
The personal care and cosmetics brand announced this week its move into the functional food category. It’s a significant initiative for the Clorox-owned brand, one that could help determine what a successful beauty-from-within brand looks like in the...
The most comprehensive and far-reaching awards for the global beauty industry are now open for submissions that will recognize the most outstanding achievements.
This weekend the L’Oréal brand is running a skin hydration promotion that emphasizes the importance of healthy living and the potential of beauty from within.
