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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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The value of waste in the beauty industry

Imperfect products have long been, and are still considered a liability. In today's world, where every penny counts and every sustainable action is worthwhile, it might be time to transform discarded products into valuable items. TK Maxx (UK) or TJ Maxx (US) surfed on this concept of selling


Eva Lagarde
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Mono skincare, redefining beauty with a new skincare routine

Following two years of R&D and a complete reformulation, Mono Skincare re-launches the world's first waterless extemporaneous dermo-cosmetics range. Just add water and the magic happens! Easier said than done though. The story goes like this. After a successful launch in pre-sales at the end of


Eva Lagarde
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Easter eggs hidden at Bologna this year

Cosmoprof Bologna, is a bit like an Easter eggs hunt, when you know the scale of the event, you know that it requires strategy and hunting ability to find the right gems ;-) It’s this time of the year again, when a large part of the world flies to


Eva Lagarde
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A glimpse into British Beauty Trends

This week was the famous Beauty Awards demonstration evening of the CEW UK. Probably the most sought-after B2B beauty event of the year in London (I might be biased!). “ The CEW Beauty Awards were launched in 2006 to recognise outstanding product innovation and creativity. Voted for by over 1,000


Eva Lagarde
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Neo By Nature aims to new horizons all the way to Antarctica

After a successful rebranding at the end of 2023, Neo by Nature is now aiming further afield and just released a partnership with the French Polar Institute at the ends of the world. Neo by Nature is the story of Paulin and Hector, two cousins from the south-west of France,


Eva Lagarde
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A new edition of beauty business in Italy

This year Cosmoprof and Cosmopack will open on the same day. “The simultaneous opening of all pavilions on Thursday, March 21st, will facilitate interaction among operators from various sectors, allowing industry professionals attending the fair to gain a comprehensive view of the industry's evolution across all different product


Eva Lagarde
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Is sustainability ugly? A designer viewpoint.

The beauty industry has implemented more and more sustainable solutions within the last 2 to 3 years. The covid period has highlighted consumers' interest for cleaner, greener and healthier products. But it seems now that with the economic crisis and the general anxiety created within the market consumers do


Eva Lagarde
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A new tool to asses risk related to container/content interaction in cosmetics

CosmetoPack® is launching SafePAC, a new web application for risk assessment of container/content migration in cosmetics. The consortium is looking for new partners to co-fund the tests that will feed SafePAC with new data.  Intended to all players in the cosmetics industry - manufacturers of raw materials, packaging, cosmetic


Eva Lagarde
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Refillution - refillable beauty revolution

A new five-part report, available on specific subscription, detailing the state-of-play in the refillable beauty segment. Will refill become the norm in beauty? What brands have been doing successfully or not? 💡Subscribe as a FREE member to access this content 1 - Refillution - Global Picture & Market Figures 2


Eva Lagarde
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Guide Beauty, how universal design is becoming a competitive advantage

We met with founder Terri Bryant who developed the beauty brand Guide Beauty from her own experience as a makeup artist diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. She went on a journey to develop an inclusive makeup range with easy-to-handle tools that help application. In this article we hope to


Marie Dehlinger
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Latest Sustainable Beauty Formulations Innovations

This report reveals the innovations in formulation and ingredients that have genuine sustainability credentials, that have been released over the course of 2023. From upcycling ingredients, upgraded functional ingredient, polymer switch to green alternative, biotechnology to waterless beauty. Ingredients suppliers and solutions providers are changing the face of beauty. We


Eva Lagarde
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Sustainable Beauty Packaging Innovations - part2

In this four-parts, we release the innovations, we have identified from the supply side, on the market, over the course 2023. * Reduce - here * Reuse (this article) - here * Recycle - here * Recover - here PART 2 - REUSE There are different types of reuse solutions: * Refill through retail service