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Theresa Yee
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Sustainable Packaging: Brand Innovations & Key Trends 2024 Part 2 - Packaging Disappearance

Our annual packaging innovations trend report highlights the most innovative and interesting sustainable beauty packaging design concepts and initiatives launched in the last 12 months from niche to mass and luxury brands that have caught our attention. Part 2 of this series focuses on packaging that has been designed to


Theresa Yee
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Sustainable Packaging: Brand Innovations & Key Trends 2024 Part 1 - Eco Anxiety/Eco-Boredom

Our annual packaging innovations trend report highlights the most innovative and interesting sustainable beauty packaging design concepts and initiatives launched in the last 12 months from niche to mass and luxury brands that have caught our attention. Our Sustainable Packaging Design Innovations & Key Trends 2024 report is split into


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Eva Lagarde
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Beauty refills with pulp or how creativity can support a sustainable design approach

Imagine a lipstick refill where the cartridge does not carry any mechanism. Or imagine a cream jar that houses a refill made of moulded pulp? This is the inventive design created by Morrama, an agency based in London. The team is behind some of the most resounding launches like Wild


Eva Lagarde
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Packaging sorting info applicable to cosmetics

Here in this article, we detail the compulsory Sorting Information in France. These rules must be applied to all packaging of all products sold on French ground. This report is supported by content from CITEO. AGEC LAW MAJOR DATES (Loi Anti-Gaspillage et Economie Circulaire), the first of its kind in


Sarah Derdouri
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The French regulatory framework for green claims

Protecting consumers against greenwashing is a priority for European and French legislators. Although European authorities are working on a single framework, currently there is not yet a specific regulation for green claims in the European Union. That’s why each Member State can have its own specificities. In France, two


Claudie Guérin - Arcade Beauty
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How Science Based Targets can help set clear targets for the reduction of carbon emissions

According to a Quantis report on the future of beauty, 65% of consumers are interested in reducing their environmental footprint. This picture was taken in 2020, chances are that this figure has increased since! Environmental footprint is a very broad term though. What does it really mean, and how can


Eva Lagarde
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Sustainability in the beauty industry: navigating consumer demands in 2023

This article is accessible to free members of re-sources. Sign-up and select the free option to read the following content, and learn more about Sustainability Beauty Trends. Sustainability is a pressing issue for the beauty industry. Consumers are no longer content with merely purchasing products - they want to be


Eva Lagarde
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Sustainability in the beauty industry: Future Macro Trends

This article is accessible to free members of re-sources. Sign-up and select the free option to read the following content, and learn more about Sustainability Beauty Trends. Sustainability is a pressing issue for the beauty industry. Consumers are no longer content with merely purchasing products - they want to be


Eva Lagarde
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What's next in materials innovation

The event has been running in London for 3 years. In the third edition, there is an amazing array of speakers. I'm gutted to miss this event as I won't be in London, as I wish I could meet them in real life, but you should


Theresa Yee
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What consumers actually expect from brands when it comes to sustainability?

The Beauty Consumer & Sustainability Trends This introduction is an extract to our full report on sustainability and consumer trends. Sign-up and select the free option to access this article, and learn more about the Beauty Consumer & Sustainability Trends. Introduction to a three part report by Theresa Yee, a


Eva Lagarde
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Sustainability & Brand Marketing - intro

by author, Marie Cesbron Marie Cesbron has over two decades of experience in growing, transforming and future-proofing beauty & wellness brands.  First at l’Oreal group, where she took on various leadership roles in marketing, insight/foresight and innovation, based in Paris, New York and London. Then at Walgreens Boots


Eva Lagarde
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Improving emotional well-being, developing natural alternatives and fighting gravity, are the latest trends in cosmetics ingredients.

With a strong move to natural alternatives in cosmetics that has been happening for a few years now, we are seeing interesting functional and active ingredients for cosmetics. And with the advancement of biotechnology, I suspect a wide array of fascinating research. Imagine what potential seaweed could bring in actives


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Sustainability & Brand Marketing - part 3

3 - Cause marketing and brand activism: mutually beneficial for a brand and for a cause – if done right. This report provides beauty marketers with strategic frameworks, concrete tools and illustrative examples to improve the efficiency and relevancy of sustainable marketing claims by connecting them with what the brand stands


Marie Cesbron
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Sustainability & Brand Marketing - Brand Equity

Brand equity: the reciprocal contributions between sustainability claims and brand value. This report provides beauty marketers with strategic frameworks, concrete tools and illustrative examples to improve the efficiency and relevancy of sustainable marketing claims by connecting them with what the brand stands for. Conversely, it also highlights that what the