HBA 9-19-07_12 | Global Cosmetic Industry

Eye makeup continues to dominate the market today, with 90% of women wearing eye makeup three or more times per week.

Consumers Tell All on Eye & Brow Makeup

New data from 2,600-plus consumers on lashes, lids and brows.

Consumers are increasingly aware of the harms caused by sun exposure, but they still expect products to wear like conventional skin care.

Sun Care People Actually Want to Wear

SPF defense plus skin care benefits equals smart innovation for every niche.

EPOPACK's Ready-to-Go Program Offers Premium Packaging without MOQ

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The beauty industry is just starting to change and shift towards a consumer driven universal approach to defining products, categories, how we market, who we market to, and everything else that previously had a rigid gender-bound approach.

Univar Solutions Discusses Genderless Beauty

How inclusive beauty presents opportunities for brands, formulators and innovation.

Sixty-two percent of survey respondents note they use more than three products daily to improve or maintain hair health.

Inside Consumers’ Growing Awareness of Hair & Scalp Health

New survey data uncovers top concerns, product usage habits, unmet needs and more.

Healthy Aging

Age-hacking Beauty

Emerging anti-aging ingredients bring new claims & functionality, from filler alternatives to senescent-targeting technology.

Ninety-three percent of women who bathe in a bathtub do so to relax, 83% do so to pamper themselves, 67% do so for alone-time (make that 77% if she has one or more children under 18 years old in her household) and only 31% saying they bathe in a tub to get clean.

Baths, Showers & Beauty: Consumers Tell All

The importance of “me time” in the bath or shower rises with personal stress levels, as does the importance of the products consumers use when indulging themselves.

Lower-priced skin care brands have successfully leveled up with premiumized positioning, as well as ingredient and formulation transparency.

Skin Care Gets Democratized

Consumers have become savvy about ingredients and claims, challenging prestige and luxury brands to justify their price points.

Pills and tablets have long ruled the supplements sector, but an array of unique formats are taking over nutricosmetics.

Rethinking Nutricosmetics Inside Out

Lifestyle-friendly formats, unique hybrid claims and new ingredients are driving innovation in holistic beauty concepts.

“We have to go further than clean labels and greenwashing to create products that resonate with today’s consumers, who are more knowledgeable and engaged in discussions about their environmental impact than ever before,” says Chi Anigbogu, global marketing manager of Ingredion Beauty & Home.

The Future of Clean Label Beauty

New ingredients offer brands the opportunity to deliver sustainable, safe, natural and effective beauty to increasingly demanding consumers.

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15+ Trends in Cosmetics Innovation at in-cosmetics Global 2023

From greener processes and "baby Botox" alternatives, to biotech ingredients and care for hidden hair/skin damage, cosmetic innovators were out in full force at in-cosmetics Global 2023. Here are 15+ trends in innovations we spotted there.