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Understanding Innovation, featuring goop Vice President of Product Development, Research & Innovation, Regulatory - Beauty and Wellness Akshay Talati
Cosmetic product development is a mix of art, science, and business. It also helps if you have built solid industry relationships, make time to attend tradeshows, and ...

Plant-Based Polymer Innovation, featuring P2 Science CEO Oihana Elizalde
Green Chemistry principles have relevance throughout the chemical sector. Along the cosmetic and personal care supply chain, they’re evident in new ingredient developm...

R&D for multinational direct sales, featuring Oriflame Director of Technology, Insights, and Innovation Emily Whelan
As beauty consumer expectations and manufacturer capabilities advance, technologies such as AI, machine learning, and predictive modeling are supporting product devel...

New Zealand’s Botanical Beauty, featuring Organic Bioactives Executive Director Andrea Taimana
Sustainable skincare actives sourced from New Zealand’s marine and forest plant life are a rarity in the cosmetic ingredient marketplace. But that’s changing thanks to...

Kids’ Personal Care, featuring Fairy Tales Hair Care and TBH Kids CEO Risa Barish and COO Abbie Mietz
Formulating products for young beauty consumers requires understanding key aspects of ingredient safety and efficacy. With the rise of the Sephora Kids phenomenon at t...

Cell Culture Tech and Cosmetic Actives, featuring Rubisco Biotechnology Co-Founder and CEO José Pablo García
Biotech cosmetic ingredient production methods are a promising alternative to both naturals and synthetics as we’ve understood them in the past. Which is why more and ...

Cosmetic Brush Design and Manufacturing, featuring Anisa International Founder and CEO Anisa Telwar Kaicker
It takes both hands-on craftsmanship and automated manufacturing processes to create quality makeup brushes and skincare application tools. Fiber extrusion, ferrule de...

Beauty Brands Distribution in the GCC and Indian Ocean Territories, featuring Division Manager for Beauty Distribution at Ali Bin Ali Holding Brooke Bergé
Retail buying and distribution for cosmetics and personal care involves a wide variety of skills: commercial awareness, market knowledge, relationship building, negoti...

Creating Personal Care Packaging, featuring Revlon Senior Director of Global Package Development and Engineering Tommy Hammond
This week on the CosmoFactory podcast, we examine structural packaging design, the visual and tactical and practical aspects of design, sustainability in the package d...

Tech-Powered Product Personalization and Skin Analysis, featuring Perfect Corp Chief Growth Officer and President Wayne Liu
Virtual skin analysis and product try-on technologies continue to advance, even as AI and AR powered beauty tech has already reshaped consumer product discovery and re...

Finding Beauty in Bacteria, featuring Gallinée Microbiome Skincare Founder Marie Drago
Skin microbiome science is disrupting how the cosmetics and personal care industry approaches product formulation, ingredient development, and ingredient testing. Know...

Consumer Beauty Brands, International Trade, and Cultural Connectivity, featuring Nordic Beauty Inc CEO Johanna Rönkkö
Consumer beauty brands, international trade, and cultural connectivity, featuring Nordic Beauty Inc CEO Johanna Rönkkö Every region within the global beauty economy ha...

The collective process of skincare NPD, featuring FaceGym’s Senior New Product Development Manager Sinéad Whyte
Skincare product development requires inspiration, an awareness of trends and consumer behavior, a talent for brand alignment, and knowledge of cosmetic science. Acces...

Transparency and Sustainability in Contract Manufacturing, featuring Ancorotti Cosmetics Communication Manager Arwen Imperatori
Beauty industry contract manufacturers are the product production partners of established multinationals, emerging startups, and every sort of beauty maker in between....

Advancements in Packaging and Dispensing, featuring President at Aptar Beauty EMEA Xavier Susterac and Marketing Manager Aptar Beauty EMEA Delphine Bony
Cosmetic dispensing solutions are fundamental to the functionality of product packaging and to consumer experience. With sustainable beauty packaging in increasingly h...

Sourcing a Zero-Waste Skincare Ingredient, featuring Macro Oceans Founder and CEO Matthew Perkins
Seaweed science is helping the beauty industry transition away from petrochemicals. Biotech entrepreneurs, producing natural polysaccharides for skincare, are reinvent...

Manufacturing Makeup with AI, featuring SEA Vision Cosmetic Business Development Manager Francesco Ringressi
AI has applications throughout the cosmetic and personal care supply chain. In color cosmetics manufacturing, Vision System technology, supported by AI, is being used ...

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