Supply Chain

Special Edition Newsletter: Sustainability Local Sourcing

Overcoming hurdles: Cosmetics has a ‘massive opportunity’ to utilise waste ingredients

02-Oct-2019 By Kacey Culliney

Food and agricultural side streams are extremely rich in components suitable for cosmetic applications, but a lack of extraction expertise, handling know-how and finance is holding back industry advances, say experts.

Best practice: Gattefossé renews its ISO 9001 certification

19-Jul-2018 By Lucy Whitehouse

Gattefossé has been audited and certified for its design, development, manufacture, marketing and sales of oleochemical excipients and plant derived products, designed for personal care applications.

Inolex offers RSPO certified mass-balanced palm across full product line

02-Feb-2018 By Lucy Whitehouse

The specialty chemicals player has announced that it now offers RSPO certified mass-balanced palm oil in a comprehensive programme across its whole portfolio.

Guest Article

Today, choosing the right cosmetic ingredients goes far beyond their chemistry

23-Nov-2017 By Barbara Brockway

We caught up with expert formulator, Barbara Brockway, head of personal care at Applied DNA Sciences, on her insights from the show floor at this year’s SCS Formulate event in the UK.

Collaborating for sustainable palm oil: Cargill gives perspective

13-Jun-2017 By Lucy Whitehouse

Ahead of this week’s 2017 European edition of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, held in London, we caught up with Cargill, one major player in personal care set to participate.

Is truly sustainable manufacture possible for beauty and personal care?

09-Nov-2016 By Lucy Whitehouse

Our special newsletter focus on sustainable manufacturing in beauty and personal care comes at a pertinent time: sustainability is high on the industry agenda, and the signs of this are everywhere.

How BASF is keeping at the forefront of supply chain management

07-Oct-2016 By Lucy Whitehouse

Leading chemicals manufacturer BASF recently came in seventh in the European league table for supply chains, and has spoken to Cosmetics Design about how it got there.

IFF and Unilever partner to help vetiver farmers in Haiti

19-Jul-2016 By Simon Pitman

International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF) and Unilever have teamed up on a project that also involves leading non-governmental agencies to enhance the lives of vetiver farmers in Haiti.

Sourcing and distributing naturals can be tricky business

13-May-2015 By Deanna Utroske

AAK, the Swedish vegetable oil company, supplies products to the cosmetics industry and beyond. Henrik Vingaard, AAK’s director of sourcing and trading for Europe and West Africa spoke with Cosmetics Design about supply chain sustainability.   

LVMH highlights the importance of the Supply Chain

10-Mar-2015 By Andrew MCDOUGALL

In a large company that is involved in many sectors like LVMH, from luxury skin care and make-up to high-end fashion such as Louis Vuitton leather, the Supply Chain is of increased importance and is the centre of all operations.

Procter & Gamble sets new sustainability objectives across the supply chain

15-Oct-2014 By Deanna Utroske

The company announced this week its intentions to further limit water use and packaging as well as to take advantage of more renewable materials by 2020.

Mica and child labour in focus due to Lush’s latest stand

14-Mar-2014 By Lucy Whitehouse

The recent commitment by British cosmetics brand Lush to replace the mica in its products with a synthetic alternative has thrown a spotlight onto the sourcing of the popular iridescent ingredient.

Cosmetics Valley mini conference to focus on supply chain optimisation

26-Jan-2010

The first meeting of the year for French industry association Cosmetics Valley will concentrate on how to enhance supply chain efficiencies.

Fashion Fair Cosmetics ups logistics capabilities

19-Aug-2009

Global colour cosmetics provider Fashion Fair Cosmetics has increased its logistics capabilities with the adoption of SPS' Trading Partner Intelligence.

Suppliers express concern about climate change regulations

02-May-2008 By Guy Montague-Jones

The vast majority of large suppliers fear the impact of greenhouse
gas regulations on their businesses, according to a survey by the
Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP).