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Eva Lagarde
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Beauty Innovations from sunny Los Angeles!

Along with the sun, MakeUp in Los Angeles brought us interesting beauty innovations. The main trend this year was metalisation across the categories. From formulas to packaging, shine is back, and you would ask, what is sustainable about this? Well read on! Check out our live reviews on our instagram


Eva Lagarde
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Sustainable Beauty Innovations - Packaging & Formulations (EN)

As we are starting 2024 with a dash, we are releasing a report on all the innovations seen in 2023 in Ingredients and Formulation as well as packaging. We have identified 5 main trends in Ingredients & Formulations : * Upcycling * Not a new concept but a growing one. Similar to waste


Eva Lagarde
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Innovations Durables et Beauté - Emballage et Formulations (FR)

Alors que nous entamons 2024 sur les chapeaux de roues, nous publions un rapport sur toutes les innovations observées en 2023 en matière d'ingrédients et de formulations, ainsi que d'emballages. Nous avons identifié 5 grandes tendances en matière d'ingrédients et de formulations : * Upcycling * Le


Eva Lagarde
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Mimétique or using biomimetics to enhance the skin properties

Mimétique is the French skincare brand that works on imitating the skin's natural activity so it can regenerate it. It's the new generation of French dermocosmetics 3.0 using the concept of biomimetism. Backed by science, MIMÉTIQUE is changing the codes of traditional cosmetics with its


Eva Lagarde
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Romilly Wilde and the Science of Beauty

This week, we met with the founder of biotech beauty brand Romilly Wilde, Susie Willis, who started the project back in 2016, when very little was developed in green science. Green science or Biotech was already existing but it wasn’t as trendy as it has become now, and finding


Theresa Yee
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Sustainable formulation Innovations: Brands

This report showcases all the latest beauty launches in 2023 - from luxury to mass brands in the sustainability space - with a focus on “green” formulations.  We have split the report into the following sections: 1. RECREATE: lab-grown ingredients using biotechnology 2. REDUCE: waterless beauty products and single-dose skincare


Eva Lagarde
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Beauty Innovations released in Paris - Jan 24

Attending Cosmet'Agora followed by Paris Packaging Week has been a busy start to the year. Watch our live reviews of the shows on Instagram: LINK and read more below. At Cosmetagora, notable innovations include * Flake-like formulations for mono-dose skincare, with just an addition of water or serum: with


Eva Lagarde
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TiL: 4 years of development around the Linden tree - uncovering nature’s wealth

When sisters & cosmetics professionals Sylvie and Odile Polette decided to explore the benefits of the Linden tree they did not expect to uncover so many actives and benefits applicable to a beautycare line. And TiL was born (TiL means Linden tree in old French) after 4 years of rich


Eva Lagarde
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A year in the life of beauty trends

Beauty is always changing, and new untapped territories have been unveiled recently. We released several reports this year, with Univar Solutions Beauty and Personal Care, demonstrating the potential of different beauty segments. * Textured haircare shows a lot of potential, with a global haircare estimated to reach over 100,000 million


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Textured hair, an untapped territory

The global haircare is estimated to reach over 100,000 million USD of retail value by 2026, which represents a 6.9% year-on-year growth when it is currently valued at 83,363 million USD - according to Euromonitor (figures 2022). In order of importance, shampoo, conditioners and treatments are the


Eva Lagarde
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Seaweed is the future of Beauty?

Two innovations in seaweed have caught our eyes this week. We believe that research and innovation in this field will bring a new - and wide - avenue for cosmetics applications. Notpla, who received the Earth Shot prize in 2022, is now "plastic-free approved" in the Netherlands -


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Clean Tech at the heart of Paris in 2023

Today, in the face of the climate emergency and the resulting change in our habits, naturalness is no longer enough to make the cosmetics industry more virtuous. The general public often perceives natural cosmetics as more sustainable, but this is not always the case. For greater sustainability, we need to