Innovation in Action: Lip Balm from...Fruit Waste? When Terence Chung was a schoolteacher, he realized his students were on board with sustainability as a practice they should observe in and out of the classroom. He also saw, though, how sustainability didn't seem to be a concern of theirs when it came to the cosmetics [...]
Anti-Aging? It's More and More a Man's World Has is really been over two decades since the portmanteau "metrosexual" was coined? Just how did its originator, British writer Mark Simpson, describe this archtype when he launched it upon an unsuspecting world? Metrosexual man, the single young man with a high disposable income, living or [...]
What Do These "5 Beauty Buys" Say About World Cosmetics Growth? This week, as we attend in-cosmetics Global 2017 in London, there are (obviously) countless conversations happening about an always-dynamic industry, but one that seems especially fluid and electric right now. Just some of the topics of various sessions at this year's event? Winds of change: [...]
International growth looms in beauty & cosmetics in 2010 French marketing firm Eurostaf projects that the beauty products market fought this years' global downturn, and that prospects for 2010 are much better thanks to continued growth in markets in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia. Natural and organic products are a particular bright spot, [...]
Investment dollars are finding their way back into the natural personal care category, according to this recent story via CGI Magazine.