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Women are buying between 51% and 100% of their beauty products online now

The Beauty E-commerce Packaging Playbook

What 2,000-plus surveyed consumers want, from delivery timelines to hygiene to sustainability and beyond.

Consumers are becoming more conscious of their carbon and plastic footprints

Insider Insights: Sustainable Packaging & Clean Beauty

Top trends in 2021 and beyond.

Beauty sampling is primed for an at-home market

Beauty Sampling in a Low-touch World

One year into COVID-19, beauty sampling is evolving for the long haul: at home, in store and online.

Sustainable and clean brands have attracted significant investments.

The Clean & Sustainable Beauty Agenda, 2021

From ingredients to novel delivery systems to packaging innovations to offset partnerships, the industry is making major strides forward.

'Our data suggests that the current crisis actually created a more immediate need for consumers to invest in self-care and their own health and happiness in everyday rituals that include skin care regimens,' says TULA CEO Savannah Sachs.

The Skin Care Effect: A Case Study

How COVID-19 has reinvented the lipstick effect for TULA.

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Acrylates are out, natural polyesters are in: A case study of greener chemistry

Conscious consumers are concerned with microplastics, nano-plastics, and persistent and non-biodegradable materials. Polymers based on acrylate or other vinyl monomers (e.g. VP) fall under this bucket and are targets for reformulation.

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Covid-19 Causes Packaging Switch to Shrink Sleeves

Printing directly on containers means high minimums and costs unless produced overseas. When Chinese factories shutdown, brands found domestic alternatives with shrink sleeve packaging. Now, they realize the benefits and are sticking to it for good.

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Exploring Microbiome-friendly Product Protection Solutions

Keeping formulations safe from microbial contamination AND at the same time creating a product that is suited for microbiome-related claims? Multifunctional ingredients are the perfect fit for safe, effective and microbiome-friendly products!

Consumer Well-being & Brand Strategies

To remain relevant, beauty brands must understand where their consumer falls on the wellness spectrum.

Pandemic-era grooming's “less is more” mindset is about cutting back on “unnecessary” products

Beauty’s DIY Self-care Revolution

Consumers are literally taking matters into their own hands as a result of the pandemic.

How Beauty and Wellness Brands Can Get Under Customers’ Skin

Packaging matters, but authenticity is indispensable.

As the weather gets colder and the air gets drier, non-foaming face cleansers are an option for consumers who suffer from dry, sensitive skin or who have severe skin conditions such as psoriasis and eczema.

Formulating on Trend: No-foam Facial Cleanser

No-foam cleansers are a great alternative to anionic surfactant-containing formulas that may affect the integrity of the skin barrier, especially in users with psoriasis, eczema, dry and/or sensitive skin.

Beauty Collection has locations in West Hollywood, Malibu and Marina Del Rey.

Q&A: Wellness is Booming at Beauty Collection

What’s trending at the high-end beauty retailer.

Q3 2020 U.S. prestige color cosmetic sales totaled $1.4 billion, down 31% year-over-year

Conscious Color Has Arrived

From suppliers to brands to retailers, sustainable, safe and ethical color is defying a tough market.

SeaCliff Beauty offers turnkey services to its clients

Turnkey & Packaging: Innovating in the New Normal

How turnkey companies are shifting their services to meet new demands.

Pantone’s 2021 colors of the year.

Let’s Begin Again

There is much to be hopeful for in 2021.

Oral care can tap into beauty trends to advance deeper into on-trend wellness

Beauty x Oral Care: Ready for Disruption

A sometimes conservative category gets a shakeup with new claims and technologies.

Color cosmetics brands are expanding into skin care ranges.

3 Color Cosmetics & Packaging Realities

Insiders chime in on the new normal.