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2014 Beauty Packaging Identity Trends

The first goal in strategizing and designing packaging identity should be to authentically reflect the brand’s core identity, and cross-checking the strategy across relevant trends can help inform whether to follow or contrast trends.

Back in August, the pharmaceutical, wellness and food worlds gathered for the highly anticipated National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Total Store Expo at the San Diego Convention Center, providing a platform for retailers and suppliers to engage in conversations focused on health and wellness products and services. The event showcased everything from DIY wellness to generative AI, from nasal, ear, and eye health solutions to superfoods and organic medicine.

NACDS Reveals Where Health & Wellness is Going Next

"The products showcased on the expo floor clearly demonstrated the industry's forward-looking approach, highlighting the innovation in health and wellness within and beyond the pharmacy."

Generative AI tools can provide rapid iteration on a wide range of designs, textures, materials, sustainability specifications and more; image courtesy of ckybe at Adobe Stock.

Beauty Manufacturing Tracker: Next-level Innovation

From AI design to clean and sustainable turnkey services, beauty manufacturers are tackling the industry's biggest challenges.

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15 Beauty Innovation Trends

A sampling of highlights from this year's NYSCC Suppliers’ Day and Luxe Pack New York.

Avoiding the Unavoidable

With sun exposure as the most common cause of premature aging, innovative companies continue to research and provide ever more technologically advanced solutions.

Top Cosmetic Packaging, Ingredient & Turnkey Trends for 2025

Recent beauty events offered a look at the ways in which suppliers and contract/turnkey manufacturers can deliver newness to the industry.

From stress to environmental conditions to congenital issues, sensitive skin is a multi-dimensional condition that affects large swaths of consumers across the globe.

The Gentle Skin Care Revolution

How sensitive skin is reshaping beauty R&D.

Mark Prausnitz of Georgia Tech’s school of chemical and biomolecular engineering, one of the professors leading a U.S. team in finding a new mass delivery method for the flu vaccine, holds an array of polymer microneedles 1,000 microns tall. This photo, taken by Gary Meek and duplicated from the cover, is used with permission from Georgia Tech.

Skin Care Thinks Small to Deliver Big

High-tech delivery systems and active ingredients that slow signs of aging have prompted advanced marketing claims. Yet the future of skin care depends on further advancements in delivery methods, such as medical microneedles.

It’s all about what we need as we evolve, and this natural and high-tech fusion will continue to shape the spa industry.

The Spa Industry Has Become A Fusion of Natural And High Tech

The spa world is going through a mountain of changes from technological advancements to self-care improvements to redefined medicine to cleaner materials to inclusive sexual wellness to spiritual awakening and more.

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Top 15 Beauty Predictions for 2025: Insider Insights

We prompted a variety of leaders within the beauty industry to share their thoughts on the oncoming trend forecast for 2025.

Live From New York: State of the Fragrance Industry

Innovative fragrance partnerships, collaborations and marketing methods are hot topics going into 2008. Items include: Fashion Group Presents Runway Trends; Pangea Organics Holds Benefit; Sniffapalooza Fall Ball; Givaudan Collaboration; CEW Welcomes Brand Innovators; Virtual Scents at Hearst Tower; Fragrance New Market Findings...

Kojic acid has become increasingly popular, as seen in Peace Out Skincare's Dark Spots Serum, featuring kojic acid alongside 3% tranexamic acid and alpha-arbutin.

2025 Beauty Ingredient Trend Preview: What’s Next?

From silk-derived biotech to microbiome sexual wellness and beyond, new ingredients point to future innovation opportunities.

Woman seated on rock in ocean under the sun.

Skin & Hair Care’s Protein-Based Revolution

Emerging technologies are driving a biology-first wave of innovation; here’s what that means for beauty innovation.

A new report from Kline argues that the application of emollients and moisturizers, delivery systems, fragrances and essential oils, texture modifiers, and exfoliants can boost sensorial experiences to elevate everyday products and create “indulgent rituals that engage the senses” and emotions while also differentiating products in a crowded and dupe-riddled beauty market.

Clinical Eclipses Clean: Ingredient Trend Tracker

Efficacy, expert-backed claims and third-party certifications are the keys to beauty shopper engagement in 2024.

For athletes who face intense sun exposure and sweat conditions, sunscreen development requires careful formulation to achieve effective protection, durability, and a cosmetically elegant feel.

SPF Sunscreen: A Run Towards Healthier Sunscreen by Sun Deep Cosmetics

Nikita Gill and Jocelyn Manfut from Sun Deep Cosmetics explain the difference in sun protection ingredients and emphasize the importance of using the right formulas for athletic consumers.

The uptick in prestige skin care sales comes at a time when brands are tapping clinically effective ingredients, holistic wellness concepts and more.

What’s Driving the Prestige Skin Care Boom and How Can Brands Get in on the Growth?

A potent blend of wellness, Gen Alpha shopping habits, emerging high-efficacy ingredients and professionally inspired beauty are creating significant growth opportunities.

While overall makeup growth is slow, several key segments are growing—notably lip and cheek products, setting sprays, and other select categories.

7 Top Makeup Growth Sectors for 2025

A close read of recent consumer data reveals areas of opportunity to tap growth in the color cosmetic sector.

“As we get older, there are biological changes that being to happen to our hair,” says Michelle Chavez, vice president of innovation, Accupac/Cobalt Labs. “The scalp gets dehydrated faster, oil glands slow down sebum production and the skin has trouble holding on to moisture, leading to thinner, flatter skin on the scalp. Simultaneously, the length of the hair growth cycle gets shorter, and the follicle diameter gets smaller, resulting in hair thinning and loss.”

Consumers’ Top Hair Care Concerns Point to Brands’ Next Innovation Opportunities

Emerging claims associated with hormonal shifts, aging, styling stressors and more point to growth ahead for hair health brands.

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