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Safety and Efficacy Testing, featuring Genemarkers Senior Technical Sales Manager Jocelyn Kearsley
Biomarker analysis provides cosmetics industry suppliers and manufacturers with useful data that supports innovation in both raw materials and finished products. In re...
The Menopause Beauty Market, featuring CEO and Co-Founder of Gen M Heather Jackson
Personal care and cosmetic launches account for the majority of products that mention menopause on the label.* But experts agree that there is much more to learn about...
Packaging Design Trends, featuring Berlin Packaging, Design Director EMEA Andrea Ucchino
Cosmetic and personal care packaging is not only function and fashionable; it describes the product, the brand, and the user experience through thoughtfully curated vi...
Artivism in Fashion and Beauty, featuring Earth Partner Sustainability Strategist Marina Testino
Every day, creative commercial photography helps sell beauty products. What if that same artistic approach to marketing could be used to educate and motivate consumers...
Emerging Skin Microbiome Science, featuring Holobiont Medical Research Foundation Co-Founders Julia Durack and Larry Weiss
Scientific knowledge of the human skin microbiome is advancing every day. Newly published research that incorporates pre-industrialized populations reminds us that for...
Slow Beauty, Slow Fragrance, featuring freelance beauty writer and consultant Katie Becker
In the fast-paced cosmetics and personal care industry, a subset of brands and consumers are intentionally slowing down. With a focus on high value rather than high vo...
Consistently Recycled Packaging, featuring Verity CEO Kerri Leslie
Aluminum and stainless steel are readily recycled materials. These metals are valuable commodities; and they are often easier to identify and sort than other materials...
Cascading Brand Impact, featuring Formulae Prescott Skincare CEO and Founder Pauline Prescott
Some of today’s pioneering beauty brand founders are not only measuring success differently but are also hoping to inspire industry change by recalibrating consumer ex...
Virtual Skin Modeling, featuring Haut AI CEO and Co-Founder Anastasia Georgievskaya
Cosmetic ingredient makers, product manufacturers, and brands are using AI technologies to visualize, analyze, and simulate data—clinical data, consumer perception dat...
Ingredient Intelligence, featuring Gravel AI Co-Founder and CEO Karen Ho
With the help of AI, our industry is becoming more transparent. And platform-powered solutions are changing the way that cosmetic ingredient makers, contract manufactu...
Tech in the Pack Top, featuring Nuon CEO Alain Dijkstra
Skin treatment and skin diagnostic devices are more effective and popular than ever. Does building these technologies into beauty product packaging make them a more ac...
Luxury in Transition, featuring Borghese Inc. Chief Operating Officer Dawn Hilarczyk
Quality and exclusivity are the defining characteristics of luxury. As beauty consumer values shift, so to do the product, packaging, and promotional attributes that s...
Skincare and Longevity, featuring SkinModerne CEO Richard Purvis
Longevity is a movement because consumers understand that with the right skincare, nutrition, and lifestyle choices better ageing is possible. This week on the CosmoF...
Water-Based Fragrance Technology, featuring Cosmo International Fragrances, Perfumer Arnaud Winter and Account Manager Pedro da Costa
Fine fragrance, body mists, hair fragrance, and other scented cosmetics and personal care products have conventionally been blended with alcohol. As consumer expectati...
Brand Artistry, featuring ARTDECO Cosmetic Group Vice President of Marketing, Anna Blasco Salvat
In color cosmetics, product function is the priority. Creating a makeup brand that looks and feels expressive, statement making, and attuned to consumer preferences is...
Augmented Intelligence and Consumer Insights, featuring The Estée Lauder Companies Global Vice President of Consumer Foresight & Predictive Analytics Kalindi Mehta
AI helps cosmetic and personal care brands conduct social listening analysis, identify and respond to trends, personalize product recommendations, support retail servi...
Sustainability Through Coalition, Featuring Beauty Kitchen and Reposit Founder Jo Chidley
In the transition to a circular economy, can the cosmetics and personal care sector step into a leadership role among CPG industries? This week on the CosmoFactory pod...
Intelligent Perfumery, featuring Scentmate by dsm-firmenich, Fragrance Development Manager Federica Libralon
The business of fragrance creation is an artistic business. Nevertheless, opportunities to enhance the perfumery and scented personal care product creation process thr...
Beauty that Begins in Kenya, featuring O’Bao CEO Suzie Wokabi
Local cosmetic ingredient supply chains, local brand leadership, and local beauty tech are all on the rise in the East African nation of Kenya—a country known for its ...
Pens, Pencils and Crayons, featuring Faber-Castell Cosmetics Vice President of Global Sales & Innovation Christian Eisen
The familiar gesture of pencils have made this classic component format a mainstay in beauty. Pencils, as well as pens and crayons, are at once fun and functional. But...
