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Baralan advances usability-driven design with a push-button applicator system that extends product reach to minimize waste, improve evacuation rates and enhance end-of-life efficiency across makeup categories.

Packaging Look Book: Where Structural Design, Smart Dispensing and Circular Engineering Converge

Rethinking packaging as a multi-sensory, engineered brand system where form, materiality and user experience are inseparable.

Beyond Time: Intelligent Longevity for Skin and Hair

Beyond Time: Intelligent Longevity for Skin and Hair

Discover how Peptid4® Light MB and BioTech4 AntiGray redefine beauty longevity by acting at the biological origin of pigmentation, delivering even skin tone and restoring natural hair color with long-lasting, science-driven results.

The transaction underscores a broader shift in the packaging landscape: mid-sized, design-led suppliers are moving aggressively to build critical mass in response to rising client expectations around innovation, speed to market and sustainability.

Cosmogen Acquires Asquan, Signaling Acceleration in Premium Beauty Packaging Consolidation

Suppliers are under pressure to move beyond commoditized components.

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Precision Systems: Closing the Efficacy Gap through Functional Packaging Architecture

Precision Systems: Closing the Efficacy Gap through Functional Packaging Architecture

The applicator is engineered for compatibility across multiple formats, including nail polish, lip products, mascara and concealer, enabling broad adoption across color cosmetics portfolios.

Baralan Targets Makeup Waste With Push-Button Applicator Debut at Luxe Pack New York

Berlin Packaging's sun care formats demonstrate the company’s focus on usability, sensory experience and contemporary design.

Berlin Packaging Beauty Unveils Trend-Driven, Sustainable Packaging Innovations at Cosmoprof 2026

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Baralan: Concrete Innovation and Craftsmanship in Beauty Packaging

Any increased costs could theoretically inspire reformulations to cheaper and/or more supply-stable ingredient options.

Beauty, Flavor and Fragrance Brace for Oil Shock

When crude prices spike, the ripple effects hit everything from ingredient sourcing to packaging and freight.

Precision Systems: Closing the Efficacy Gap through Functional Packaging Architecture

Precision Systems: Closing the Efficacy Gap through Functional Packaging Architecture

From passive packaging to precision delivery, discover how beauty brands are closing the “Efficacy Gap” with smart microneedling, integrated LED therapy, and next-gen skincare technology designed to maximize real results.

Aptar Beauty has partnered with Dubai-based fragrance house Kayali to launch a new collection of body and hair mists utilizing high-performance aerosol and dispensing technology.

The 2026 Packaging Edit: Droppers, Minis, Dispensing & More

As beauty insiders navigate the demands of e-commerce, increasingly stringent recycling standards, the dermocosmetic boom and more, the packaging supply chain has stepped up.

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Packaging Beauty with Precision and Style

The Pockii packaging platform is expanding to address high-rotation and emerging product formats.

Metal-Free Dispensing & Upcycled Materials Lead the Way in Berlin Packaging's Sneak Peek of Paris Packaging Week

Among the most technically significant launches are Berlin Packaging Beauty’s new metal-free and POM-free dispensing engines.

Nominees must have at least 20 years of experience, a proven track record of impact, and industry-wide recognition.

NJPEC Opens Nominations for 2026 Packaging Hall of Fame

Submit nominations by March 12, 2026.

The demand is clear. Hybrid makeup that puts skin first is key, allowing users a clearer base that enhances color cosmetics.

Makeup + More: Hybrids that Have it All

Makeup hybrids are here to stay. Meet the brands making waves in makeup that does more with less.

To celebrate packaging's place in beauty, Global Cosmetic Industry spoke to experts across the packaging industry to ask one key question: What is a key trend you see coming in 2026?

Practical, Powerful and Personal: Beauty Insiders' Packaging Predictions for 2026

Beauty is evolving, and so is packaging. Hear from experts in the packaging industry on what trends are coming for 2026.

As we head out of the holidays and step into 2026, the time has come to make our New Year's beauty resolutions, big and small.

Beauty Resolutions: What to Manifest in 2026

Global Cosmetic Industry's first edition of the year is covering everything from packaging, skin care, sun care and makeup, reporting the latest trends in hybrid-everything and hyper-personalization across categories.

Fig.1 Skincare: Featuring Berlin Packaging’s Airglass collection

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.

For its POREfessional Smoothing & Blurring Matte Foundation, Benefit chose the 30 ml frosted bottle with full rounded base and 20/400 neck and paired it with the AB226 pump with PEARL 175 actuator in white.

Benefit Cosmetics' Newest Blurring Foundation Has an Italian Touch

Behind the foundation is an Italian touch: both the bottle and the pump were created by Lumson, a cosmetic packaging maker since 1975.

The collection comes to life through a collaboration with Pininfarina, the Italian design house.

Lancome Celebrates 90 Years with New Italian-Designed Collection

Lancôme celebrates 90 years with a new collection of classic products redesigned by Italian design house Pininfarina.