Proctor & Gamble’s mass hair care brand Herbal Essences will expand tactile markings across all its shampoos and conditioners, kickstarting in January 2020 across the US and globally within two years.
Givaudan Active Beauty has developed an instant microbiome profiling system, opening up possibilities for hyper-personalised beauty product development in the future, it says.
Pharmedicom has developed an online survey tool enabling in-depth, real-time insights for cosmetic companies interested in understanding this increasingly important space, its CEO says.
One tech start-up thinks so. Artificial intelligence start-up Cherry Pick will launch its first beauty brand next year, created using technology that reads real-time consumer demands and identifies the ideal talent to front it.
Tech start-up Cherry Pick has developed an artificial intelligence program to track real-time consumer engagement in beauty, enabling highly targeted, demand-driven product development.
Independent beauty is a global, growing marketplace but start-up mindsets need to shift up a gear to consider collaboration and expansion from the get-go, says the founder of Indie Beauty Expo.
UK tech start-up Harley has developed an online platform enabling cosmetic practitioners to make personalised product recommendations to patients, and just months after going live is now looking to expand internationally.
Spain-based contract fragrance and cosmetics company Mixer & Pack says that in 2018 it recorded a record year-on-year growth for billing, increasing by 28% to reach €55 million.
This month, multinational bioprinting technologies company Cellink announced having reached a deal to acquire Cytena for €30.25 million. The Freiburg, Germany – based venture specialises in single-cell printing technology. And the deal will expand Cellink’s...
Amidst its strongest global sales growth in a decade, L'Oréal says fragrance innovation should liven up the relatively flat sales environment in Western Europe.
B2B prestige cosmetics platform Aqiok has secured a multi-year financing agreement to develop a lending app for smaller prestige beauty brands in Europe and North America.
Born This Way pop icon Lady Gaga will launch Haus Laboratories exclusively on Amazon next month, a move that has generated considerable buzz in the beauty world. So, is this e-commerce strategy a smart one to follow?
Pioneering programme Create Cosmetic Formulas is now live, enabling simple and quick formulation development – an offer set to draw in Indie Brands and drive up quality, says creator Belinda Carli.
As indies and multinationals navigate their way through launch, operations and the digital era, we ask self-proclaimed beauty fanatic and Match.com of warehousing. Indie Beauty Delivers’ Founder, Rachel Whittaker, all about beauty and logistics.
Following Beauty Matching Engine’s latest event, designed to bring together a community of beauty innovators, we caught up with the beauty prediction platform to find out more about the connection between beauty and data.
International beauty products retailer, Sally Beauty, engages with platform technology provider, Service Management Group (SMG), to launch customer experience management programme.
Shiseido has launched a new personalised skin care system, which combines an intelligent smartphone app and a dedicated product dispenser to provide optimal skin care tailored to current conditions.
Australia-based tech firm OBJ Limited has signalled its ambition to become the ‘Tesla of beauty devices’, arguing the sector is still very much in its infancy and ripe for innovation.
Today’s cosmetics consumers demand complete transparency on product claims and full-disclosure relating to labelling to ensure accurate and up-to-date information.
Global commerce consultancy, Wunderman Thompson Commerce, reveals how the retail giant’s market share dominance drops amongst the Gen Z demographic who do not have the same level of loyalty towards the e-tailer as older shoppers.
We caught up with the Director General of the European trade association for the cosmetics and personal care industry, John Chave, on the state of the industry today, and why it is a very good time to be an industry professional in beauty.
Euromonitor International, a leading market reasearch provider, has launched its latest report into the current state of the beauty market. Here, we take a look at some of the highlights.
In this Editor’s Spotlight, we pick out some of the key news from L’Oréal this year, including digital innovations like an acne app and its latest artificial intelligence on Amazon Beauty.
siHealth Ltd, a UK emerging company in the healthcare industry, has entered a strategic alliance, including an equity investment, with major ingredients and specialty chemicals player BASF on personalisation in personal care.
L’Oréal’s Modiface has announced that it will provide its AI-powered technology to enable the first virtual try-ons for cosmetics on Amazon, bringing together the e-retail giant and the rising potential of AI for beauty.
From pioneering new pigments for recycling packaging, to more major acquisitions in its sights, to commitments on gender equality and ingredients transparency, we take a look at what Unilever has been up to so far this year.
In what the companies are calling the first mobile acne analysis app powered by AI (artificial intelligence) on the market, global beauty giant L’Oréal has teamed up with Alibaba Group, a major international e-retailer, to launch Effaclar Spotscan on...
From its Virtual Hair Advisor to its new My Little Factory customisation tech, the global beauty player has put some of its most exciting new technologies on show.
One of the world’s leading online beauty and wellbeing businesses is pushing forward with its luxury natural offering with the acquisition of Christophe Robin, a luxury natural hair care brand.
A contender to the throne of leading global beauty retailer, The Hut Group (THG) has announced the latest extension to the capacity of its USD 1 billion banking facility.
Givaudan Fragrances is launching a new tool that is built around artificial intelligence aimed at giving perfumers new capabilities for the creation of next generation fragrances.
The beauty tech company promises to help consumers realize skin care product benefits, as demonstrated in clinical testing, in real life. Cutitronics devices are not yet on the market, but the company was at in-cosmetics Global this month talking with...
Belei is the new - and first-ever - skin care brand from global internet retailer Amazon. Based on consumer data insights, is this the future of brand development in beauty and personal care? We take a look in this Editor’s Spotlight.
We caught up with Andrew McDougall, Associate Director of Beauty & Personal Care at Mintel, on the big drivers currently defining the hair care market.
This is according to Euromonitor International’s recent Top 100 Megabrands report, revealing the world’s leading Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) brands ranked by retail sales value in 2017.
French consumers are using fewer personal care products, so being relevant to their specific demands is becoming essential. Here, Anaïs Dupuy, Business Development Manager, Kantar Worldpanel, reveals the key drivers for beauty in France and reveals exclusive...
The global beauty giant has, for the third consecutive year, teamed up with the Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge: a competition that aims to connect and empower the most promising scientific and technological startups.
Where can we see overlap between the rising key trends of halal and cannabis? The answer is in the ever-dominant market defining trend of naturals, which shows no sign of letting up when it comes to consumer demand. Both halal and cannabis trends tap...
In this guest post, in-cosmetics Global’s organisers reveal their top choices for trends set to be under the spotlight at this year’s major trade event for the beauty and personal care industry.
One of the leading trade shows for the whole beauty industry supply chain - covering new products, trends, innovative technologies and techniques - is set to open its doors this week.
We caught up with Edison Diaz, who is director of applied research in EAME (Fragrance Division), Symrise, to discuss the current state of the fragrance industry, its present major challenges and how the industry can move forward.
The internet-of-things sampling platform company announced the partnership last month—a deal that gives Aptar and its beauty dispensers business reach in the digital retail space as well as an additional service Aptar can offer existing and prospective...
Based on scientific research into skin profiles as the skin ages, beauty leader L’Oréal and Modiface, a digital platform company, have launched a new diagnostic technology.
