Global Cosmetic Industry

With the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics approaching, Gillette Venus recently announced partnerships with U.S. figure skaters Alysa Liu, Isabeau Levito and Starr Andrews, extending its long-standing “ritual” positioning into cold-weather performance conditions.

Ulta Beauty Formalizes Its Playbook as Beauty-Sports Partnerships Go Pro

The strategy reflects a broader recalibration underway across beauty: sports partnerships are no longer about visibility alone.

Consumers are increasingly gravitating toward niche scent profiles, limited launches and storytelling-led olfactive identities—moving away from mass-recognizable designer fragrances.

Indies Set the Pace, Conglomerates Hold the Shelf—2026 Lessons for Beauty

From groundbreaking cosmetic ingredients to cutting-edge beauty devices, this year’s finalists represent the pinnacle of creativity, science and vision in cosmetics R&D.

Meet the 2026 C&T Allē Awards Finalists – Trailblazers in Beauty Innovation

Management raised fiscal 2026 guidance, signaling confidence that the turnaround is gaining traction even as tariffs and macro volatility persist.

Estée Lauder’s Turnaround Takes Hold: Margin Repair, Category Momentum and a Clearer Path Back to Growth

Net sales rose 6% to $4.2B (organic +4%), with strength across prestige skin care, fragrance and hair care offsetting near-term makeup disruption.

e.l.f. Cosmetics teases its telenovela-inspired Big Game spot, starring Melissa McCarthy alongside iconic telenovela talent in a dramatic, tongue-in-cheek celebration of positivity, inclusivity and accessible beauty.

e.l.f. Beauty Posts 38% Q3 Growth, Lifts FY26 Outlook as rhode Fuels International Momentum

A standout contributor to the quarter was rhode’s record-breaking launch at Sephora in the U.K., which management cited as a key highlight alongside continued U.S. momentum.

The company has already advanced its first INCI submission, clearing a regulatory path for formulators.

Carbon-to-Cream: Savor Leverages Food-Tech Platform to Enter Beauty Ingredients

Using proprietary thermochemical processes and inputs like captured CO₂, green hydrogen and methane, Savor can tune fatty acid profiles for consistency and performance, a persistent pain point for plant-derived oils.

The Perfect Packaging Partnership is a Thing of Beauty: How to Find the Right Packaging Supplier

The Perfect Packaging Partnership is a Thing of Beauty: How to Find the Right Packaging Supplier

Today, the right packaging partner does far more than supply components—they help shape brand success from concept to launch.

ViscoPure improves texture and sensory properties, producing smooth, non-stringy and transparent gels that meet current minimalist aesthetic trends.

Minimalist, Natural, Mighty: ViscoPure Reinvents Gel Texture

ViscoPure improves texture and sensory properties, producing smooth, non-stringy and transparent gels that meet current minimalist aesthetic trends.

Supergoop! Names Lauren Weinberg Chief Marketing Officer to Accelerate Growth of SPF-First Skin Care

Former Peloton and Square CMO joins as Supergoop! sharpens brand, product innovation, and consumer growth strategy.

By preventing direct contact between the formula and the applicator, the system significantly reduces bacterial exposure, an increasingly critical requirement for dermocosmetic, sensitive-skin and active-driven skin care formulas, per Aptar.

Aptar Beauty Unveils NeoDropper Autoload, the Next Generation of Precision Dropper Packaging

The system automatically fills the applicator upon opening, eliminating manual pipette squeezing and reducing user error.

More than 50% of women learned about menopause’s impact on skin only by experiencing it themselves, notes a recent Galderma study.

Menopause Skin Care: The Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity Hiding in Plain Sight

New global survey data from Galderma, presented at IMCAS 2026, reveals a striking gap between what women experience, what they understand and when they act.

Silicone remains the most widely recommended non-invasive topical treatment for scar management across international clinical guidelines, and BIOCORNEUM is leaning into that consensus with a format aimed at everyday recovery and long-term compliance.

BIOCORNEUM Expands Scar Recovery Line with Non-SPF Professional-Grade SiliSilk Gel

Clinically proven launch taps into fast-growing global scar treatment market.

Wealthier, asset-confident consumers tend to trade up, seeking science-backed efficacy, personalization, and experiential value, while less wealthy or paycheck-tight consumers trade down, prioritizing clarity, reliability, affordability, and multifunctional performance—though many shoppers move fluidly between the two, mixing premium hero items with value-focused everyday purchases. Across income tiers, both groups increasingly demand transparency, demonstrable results, and smart, efficient solutions, making performance the ultimate currency in a barbell-shaped market.

Beauty in Two Worlds: K-shaped Strategies to Capture Both Premium and Value Consumers

Across tiers, transparency, multifunctionality, and demonstrable performance are non-negotiable.

McKinsey Health Institute calls this gap a $1 trillion industry opportunity, one that can dramatically improve the health and lives of women everywhere.

Can Beauty Bridge the Gap Between Women and Wellness?

As the gap between wellness and beauty shrinks, women are demanding products that speak to their specific needs and lifecycles.