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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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What happened at Cosmoprof Asia 2022

After 3 years of hiatus Cosmoprof was able to come back to life, in Singapore this time, for 3 days of exhibition, with a strong international presence and multi sectors with Cosmetics & Toiletries, Beauty Salon, Clean & Hygiene, Hair Salon, Nail & Accessories, Natural & Organic. The tradeshow will


Eva Lagarde
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European Green Deal: Putting an end to wasteful packaging, boosting reuse and recycling

Today, the Commission is proposing new EU-wide rules on packaging, to tackle this constantly growing source of waste and of consumer frustration. On average, each European generates almost 180 kg of packaging waste per year. Packaging is one of the main users of virgin materials as 40% of plastics and


Eva Lagarde
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Shall we look for convenience first when developing refillable beauty?

The economic model of beauty products on the market is based on innovation appeal. In other words, we mostly attract consumers with newness to invite them to purchase our products. In an effort to become more sustainable, and in order to follow upcoming regulations (AGEC law in France for instance)


Eva Lagarde
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How to report on sustainability

Coty has just released its sustainability report, and more reports will be released on the market soon. These reports offer a different interpretation on what brands and companies are actively doing or changing when it comes to sustainability actions. Business model There are many ways you can look into sustainability.


Eva Lagarde
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How Clarins is tackling transparency within the beauty sphere

With a pilot launch in the US market, Clarins has just released the Clarins TRUST platform with a focus on formulation transparency and discloses the origin of its natural ingredients backed by blockchain technology. T.R.U.S.T - which stands for Traceability, Responsibility, Uniqueness, Security & Transparency -


Sonia Haulet
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Heading towards a revolution in cosmetic pigments?

Many cosmetic brands are dreaming of it: finding a vegan alternative to the pigments available on the beauty market. Can we imagine replacing synthetic and mineral pigments tomorrow with natural alternatives. Current natural, organic or "clean"  make-up formulas are still made with iron, chromium or zinc oxides, titanium


Eva Lagarde
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welcome to the new re/sources

Bonjour, It's been a long time coming - hence being silent for the last few weeks -. We are moving away from online courses to offer you educational & informative content on a subscription basis. You will have access to in-depth reports about sustainable beauty for marketing and


Eva Lagarde
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Three main trends identified at LuxePack Monaco 22

This year again  " sustainability " was a key buzz word. It's not even a trend anymore but a market requirement. Anybody launching a new product on the market as to input some sort of sustainable option into its innovation whether through material or format. In this article


Eva Lagarde
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How creativity can level up your innovations in sustainability

Sustainability is not just a buzz word but an actual requirement for brands globally. Consumers are demanding it! The beauty industry has taken up the challenge head on with new ideas and innovations which are now invading the market, and more will come. It’s only the beginning. Sustainability brings


Eva Lagarde
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Key trends from refillable cosmetics to anhydrous formulas...

What are the current trends to make your beauty products more sustainable and how can you truly engage with consumers. We'll take you first to the definition of sustainable beauty, so we make it clear, what sustainability in beauty stands for. Then we'll demonstrate the trend


Eva Lagarde
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PACKAGING INNOVATIONS - Brand side

KEY LEARNING OBJECTIVES * To gain an understanding of the waste hierarchy and application to the beauty industry * To gain knowledge of the application of the 5Rs - Re-duce for different sustainable materials * To gain knowledge of the application of the 5Rs - Re-use - refillable applications * To gain knowledge of


Eva Lagarde
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PACKAGING INNOVATIONS -Supply side

In this presentation we will show you the innovations coming from suppliers of beauty solutions. We will focus on the 3R’s (reduce, reuse, recycle) to help you classify the innovations. Some innovations are more recent than others, and we have selected the one we deem interesting in terms of