Alongside biotechnologies, green chemistry is a key transformation driver when it comes to helping the perfume sector shift towards more naturalness and sustainability. Promising alternatives to molecules derived from petrochemistry, the new resulting ingredients will soon be produced at an industrial scale, as pioneer manufacturer Afyren explains. According to perfumer-creator Antoine Lie, green chemistry also paves the way for the creation of new, original olfactory notes. The...
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No slowdown for Cosmogen during the Covid-19 pandemic! If the French company very quickly anticipated the risks and took all the measures needed to protect its teams, the business remained...
Inspired by Bollywood actors and cricket superstars, Indian men are splashing out on grooming products and subverting macho stereotypes that have long defined ideas of masculinity in the...
The French company has developed a new active ingredient using upcycled avocado by-products sourced from Peru to reduce dark circles and under-eye puffiness. Number 6 is therefore the sixth...
The demand for more sustainable packaging was one of the main beauty trends before the Covid-19 pandemic and is likely to remain a key market driver once the crisis is over. Aptar Beauty + Home...
With most physical brick-and-mortar stores being temporary closed around the world, consumers have repositioned their consumption habits online. After initial difficulties, online sales of beauty...
With an agenda of professional events completely upset by the Covid-19 pandemic, organizers of the MakeUp in Paris show decided to hold a 100% virtual event. Meanwhile the Shanghai and New York...
The threefold health, economic and ecological crisis that we are experiencing is more conducive to anxiety than to the feeling often associated with happiness. For the time being most people fear...
California’s legislature has moved forward in the approval process of the Toxic-Free Cosmetics Act that aims to ban a series chemicals from being used in cosmetic products sold in California. On...
Strongly dependent from “global shoppers”, the personal luxury goods market is expected to be hit hardest across all FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) markets in 2020 by the economic consequences...
The French government’s decision to ban all gatherings of more than 100 people until this summer put an end to the last has finally put an end to the last hopes of the organizers of MakeUp in Paris. The B2B event, which was originally scheduled on 18-19 June 2020 at the Carrousel du Louvre, will finally be replaced by a virtual...
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Currently, in China, the fundamental regulation guiding the cosmetic sector is the outdated Cosmetics Hygiene Supervision Regulations (CHSR), which has been implemented for 30 years and only subtle refinements were made during the period. Since 2013 China has been in the process of amending the overarching regulation and renamed it...
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