Global Cosmetic Industry

To win in today’s booming, competitive beauty market, brands need smart science, sustainable innovation, a broad palette of impactful ingredients, differentiating formulations, and trusted innovation partners.

4 Keys to a Total Beauty Solution

From sustainable ingredients to smart science to innovation services, Croda is optimized for a fast-moving market.

Thirty percent of millennial and Gen Z beauty buyers enjoy filming their unboxing experience and then posting the video on social media, casting an important spotlight—that could go viral—on the package itself.

Beauty Shoppers Reveal their Packaging Attitudes

Oral care has gone from basic standard hygiene to part of a thoughtful beauty and wellness routine.

Smart Mouths: Oral Care Gets Beautiful

“Toni is a true visionary who has built an impressive, high-growth business with strong, energizing brands that consumers love, rapidly growing distribution and a winning team,” said incoming CEO Stacey Tank.

Bespoke Beauty Brands is Getting a New CEO

Stacey Tank previously served as chief transformation officer and member of the global executive committee for Heineken and led Home Depot’s installation services and measurement services businesses.

Kindred Black Founder Discusses New Refill Program & Brand Refresh

To ensure reuse of its unique vessels, Kindred Black adopted wide-necked aluminum refills for 75% of its product range.

The biotech company's smart self-assembling technology reportedly allows 'previously impossible' combinations of ingredients, resulting in end-products with greater efficacy and sustainability.

L’Oréal Invests in China's Shinehigh Innovation to Overcome Conventional Ingredient Challenges

The company's technology has the capacity to address common ingredient challenges such as incompatibility, instability and delivery in skin, hair and scalp formulations.

Vantage® is proud to showcase its new Effortless Color Collection

Vantage® is proud to showcase its new Effortless Color Collection

The Effortless Color Collection features elevated prototypes that range from hybrid foundations, multi-use blushes, and bold lip products.

MiYé focuses on hormonal wellness via supplements and topicals.

Pierre Fabre Acquires Stake in Hormonal Wellness Brand MiYé

MiYé, cofounded in 2020, will tap Pierre Fabre Laboratories' medical expertise and background in the pharmacy market to drive innovation and growth.

H&M Beauty's upcoming makeup launches all feature vegan formulations.

H&M x Raoúl Alejandre Launching Color Cosmetics

Formulations across the range include skin care inspired ingredients such as hyaluronic acid and vitamin E.

Superdrug represents Avon's first expansion into UK retail, per a new report.

Avon Lands in UK Retail at Superdrug

Stores will feature more than 150 of the brands products, while some items will be featured on the retailer's website.

Virospack's annual sales reportedly total about €60 million.

Investindustrial Takes Majority Stake in Virospack: Report

The manufacturer is also on track to grow its production capacity by half in the coming years.

The partnership includes new product sizes (150 ml) and accessible prices exclusive to Walmart.

Bondi Sands CEO Discusses Walmart Expansion & Kao Acquisition

The Walmart expansion boosts Bondi Sands' sunless tanning products' availability within the United States.

The company previously sought to sell the unit in 2021 but, according to Reuters, 'pulled the process later that year, after cherry-picking of the brands for sale by other consumer companies led to offers that did not meet its valuation expectations...'

Unilever Resumes Sales Process of Elida Beauty: Report

The move comes following Q2 and first-half 2023 results that showed beauty and well-being sales jumped 9.1% year-over-year.

Color cosmetic and nail category sales were up 14%. Lip products and artificial nails were particular standouts.

Q2 2023 Beauty and Personal Care Sales Driven by Online Channel, Purchase Sizes & Key Categories: NIQ

Average unit prices have steadily risen from $6.38 in Q3 2022 to $6.93 in Q2 2023; purchase sizes are also on the rise, while frequency declined.