On the occasion of the visit to France on 16 and 17 February of Franz Timmermans, First Vice-President of the European Commission and the European Commissioner for the portfolio of Better Regulation, Jean-Marc Giroux, President of Cosmed, the trade association gathering many SMEs of the cosmetics industry in France, called for a simplification of EU regulations. Responsible for making concrete proposals to strengthen the competitiveness of European SMEs, Commissioner Timmermans met six (...)
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The 1st of February 2015 Dr. Christina Zech joined the German company Faber-Castell Cosmetics as Managing Director. She leads the company together with Countess Mary von Faber-Castell. After 20+ (...)
Many of the damage that ultraviolet radiation does to skin occurs hours after sun exposure, a Yale-led team of researchers concluded in a study that was published by the journal Science. This (...)
The 48th edition of Cosmoprof will take place from 20th-23rd March in Bologna, Italy. Cosmopack, the trade fair dedicated to the beauty sector’s production chain, will open a day earlier and run (...)
Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency (in Portuguese, Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária, ANVISA) recently published new rules simplifying and streamlining the administrative treatment (...)
While South Korea exports of cosmetic products surged in 2014, Amore Pacific, the country’s largest cosmetics maker has sold 26 million units of cushion products. A few weeks before the MakeUp in (...)
The Cosmetic Valley presented last Friday the main features of its new trade event which will open its doors on the 15th and 16th of October 2015 at the Carrousel du Louvre, as revealed by (...)
The American cosmetics market is getting back on track thanks to the dynamism of the American economy, a declining unemployment rate, and a consumer confidence index on the rise. Cosmetics (...)
After a funding round of five million euros, which is expected to close in June, Atelier Cologne will implement a new development plan, with the aim to grow the brand as the leader of the “niche (...)
Selective perfumery showed a -0.6% decline in France according to the NPD Group statistics. However, this figure hides much contrasted situations depending on product categories and types of (...)
Four months before the sixth edition of MakeUp in Paris (June 18 & 19, 2015 at the Carrousel du Louvre), the organisers said the event is already sold out. “The quota that we had set ourselves, Jean-Yves Bourgeois and myself, was reached in record times,” explains Sandra Maguarian, Show Manager. “During two days, visitors will be (...)
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Time doesn’t have the same effect on everyone; between cosmetic surgery, cosmeceuticals, and the satisfaction in showing one’s maturity – everyone now has the choice of aging or not aging. The International Master course on Aging Skin (IMCAS) has just published its yearly report about the world market of surgery and aesthetic medicine (...)
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