Brands & Products | Global Cosmetic Industry

OliX is currently developing RNAi candidates for hair loss, hypertrophic scars, metabolic disorders and other conditions, leveraging its proprietary OASIS delivery platform.

L'Oréal Backs RNAi Drug Developer in $80M Bet on the Future Convergence of Beauty and Health

The funding will support OliX's pipeline across multiple therapeutic categories, including projects focused on skin and hair applications.

With the launch of Beauty Crush Skincare, Karen Behnke appears to be betting that beauty consumers want something more than clean—they want clinically driven regenerative biotechnology.

From 'Juice In, Junk Out' to Exosomes: Karen Behnke's Beauty Crush Signals Clean Beauty's Next Chapter

If Juice Beauty helped establish clean beauty's first era, Beauty Crush offers a glimpse of what the category's next chapter may look like.

AI-Inspired Beauty: Accelerating Innovation Through Intelligence

AI-Inspired Beauty: Accelerating Innovation Through Intelligence

Discover how AI is transforming cosmetic innovation. Grant Industries’ AI-Inspired Beauty Formulary explores data-driven formulation strategies, advanced ingredient technologies, and new pathways to accelerate product development.

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Moving cosmetic formulation, product development and packaging workflows onto AI-driven platforms can potentially offer advantages in speed, efficiency and decision-making.

The AI Gold Rush in Beauty R&D

According to the company, Jasmine Blues, Ôrəbella’s sixth scent and first limited-edition launch, is selling at twice forecast in the U.S. market, underscoring the continued commercial power of emotionally driven fragrance storytelling and Hadid’s influence with younger prestige consumers.

Ôrəbella Secures Series A, Installs CEO as Bella Hadid’s Fragrance Brand Shifts Into Global Scale Mode

AI-Inspired Beauty: Accelerating Innovation Through Intelligence

AI-Inspired Beauty: Accelerating Innovation Through Intelligence

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AXE Brings Fine Fragrance to The World’s Biggest Cultural Moment

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The industry shift is moving from formula-centric thinking to active beauty systems that combine formulation with technology.

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Packaging speaks volumes about a brand’s ethos, quality and commitment to sustainability. Having the NEENAH® Folding Board sample book in hand helps bridge the gap between a creative vision and real-world production.

e.l.f. Cosmetics has engaged in a partnership with Survivor with the 'e.l.f.ie Advantage,' a vignette series airing surrounding the live broadcast starring content creator Delaney Rowe and Survivor contestant Tiffany Ervin.

e.l.f. Beauty Delivers 35% Q4 Growth, Tops $1.6B FY Sales as rhode & Naturium Drive Portfolio Surge

e.l.f. Beauty is forecasting 2027 net sales of $1.835-1.865 billion (12–14% growth).

Charlotte Tilbury Renegotiation Emerges as New Wrinkle in Puig–Estée Lauder Talks

Tilbury wants to revisit contractual provisions linked to the remaining 21.5% stake she still holds in Charlotte Tilbury.

'Primers, balms, and skin-first formats extend wear, enhance layering, and create more intimate scent experiences without displacing the core fragrance,' says Abby Wallach, CEO and creative architect of Scentinvent.

Swipe, Layer, Wear: Inside the Rise of Fragrance’s New Ritual Opportunity

"Today's consumer is increasingly interested in intimacy, layering, proximity, and personalization."

The relaunch of Marc Jacobs Beauty is “a joyful, maximalist celebration of color and creativity.'

Marc Jacobs Beauty Returns With Maximalist Makeup Push, Sephora Rollout and Coty Prestige Ambitions

Coty executives are framing the return as a major prestige growth driver at a time when makeup momentum continues to rebound globally.

The deal reflects several of the sector’s most important macro shifts converging at once: the continued premiumization of gummies, the growing overlap between OTC wellness and beauty positioning, and the increasing importance of creator-driven consumer acquisition.

Inside the Imaraïs Deal: Why Precision-Dose Gummies Are the Next Beauty Battleground

"Retail expansion is the near-term driver, but product innovation and future wellness/OTC-adjacent opportunities are important to the longer-term growth curve."

Kayali’s Eden Sweet Peach | 35 and Eden Plush Pear | 23 launch exemplifies a playful approach to the category, positioning fragrance not just as scent but as a curated cultural experience.

Fragrance in Flux: How Packaging, Formats and Experience Are Redefining the Category

Brands are rethinking format, functionality and storytelling, signaling a category defined less by traditional perfume codes and more by fluid, lifestyle-led consumption.

While microneedling creates the pathways, other integrated technologies prepare the biological environment, including Integrated Phototherapy (LED) and Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields (PEMF).

Precision Systems: Closing the Efficacy Gap through Functional Packaging Architecture

Holding a portfolio of more than 800 patents, Nuon Medical provides B2B partners with the hardware and diagnostic sensors necessary to maximize formula efficacy. From calibrated microneedling and phototherapy to energy-assisted delivery, Nuon’s mission is to bridge the gap between clinical science and the consumer’s daily routine.

As brands accelerate into scalp-first, longevity-led innovation, the hairspan is emerging as a defining structure for formulation strategy, functional claims and consumer education, and positioning the hair and scalp as a biological system designed to be preserved over time.

Hairspan: Defining the Next Frontier of Hair Longevity

A new movement is emerging as a defining structure for formulation strategy, functional claims and consumer education, and positions the hair and scalp as a biological system designed to be preserved over time.

Taiki headquarter building in Osaka, Japan; the company's reorganization is intended to create a more integrated and scalable platform for international beauty brands while strengthening coordination between Asian and Western markets.

Taiki Group Consolidates Western Operations Under European Hub Ahead of Global Expansion Push

Under the new structure, Taiki USA will cease operations, with all activities related to the U.S. market transitioning to Taiki Cosmetics Europe.

Ilia Beauty’s Sun Serum Mineral Sunscreen SPF 50 further underscores how sunscreen is being redefined through the rise of hybrid formats that merge protection, skin care treatment and sensorial experience into a single step.

The Innovations Tackling the SPF Confidence Gap