JFA Christmas-themed flocked applicators: To carry some of the winter celebration with us all year round, JFA has designed their Christmas collection. Winter is an enchanting time that lifts the spirits. Wouldn’t it be nice to add beauty to the festive season? Christmas is also a time of surprises and that is why you will … Read more
“Timeless beauty” is one chapter in SILAB’s commitment to address cell senescence, through the selection of natural, high performance active ingredients. We now have the power to unravel skin aging mechanisms, and brands offer groundbreaking strategies in prevention and treatment. The unique “Timeless beauty” trio of natural active ingredients, SENEVISIUM®, LONGEVICELL®, and EPIGENOMYL®, targets the mechanisms of … Read more
As more people spend more time outside and the awareness of sun damage grows, the „sunification“ trend will penetrate other beauty categories. Just as we need a sunscreen to protect the skin from UV rays, it is also important to protect the hair from UV-induced oxidation processes and damage to the hair surface. Destroyed hair … Read more
This month Mintel looks at products with specific focus on unual packaging details in their design process. Naturally, the environment plays a significant part with new packaging development.
Hair care consumers today are increasingly focused on selecting products that contain natural ingredients without sacrificing performance. However, the development of naturally derived ingredients which have the same performance as synthetic ingredients is not an easy task. Redesigning products starts with their ingredients…
For several years, the market for counterfeit goods has been growing rapidly. Counterfeits reduce the intangible value of a company, its turnover, and competitiveness. Consumers face an increasing risk – the more counterfeit car parts, electrical components, medical products, cosmetic products, fashion or headphones, the greater the damage to society.
The company has “revolutionized” the concept of luxury with its paper airless packaging with a pouch, putting paper in the spotlight. XPaper takes sustainability to the next level. It’s consistent with the principles of the circular economy (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) because once the product inside is finished, the plastic components can be separated from … Read more
Challenge the team of experts with your specific needs and find out more about how to lower the carbon footprint of your packaging. Or discover how to boost your packaging design by means of the unique co-creation workshops hosted by Metsä Board at their Excellence Centre. You can do all of this at the company’s … Read more
The companyis taking the classic drawstring bag for hygiene and cosmetic products to a new level: the enhanced EcoString bag contains 80% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content, making it more sustainable than regular drawstring bags. This innovative single-material solution, in which both the bag and the drawstring are made of easily printable polyethylene, enables full recyclability … Read more
Following the first signs of cooling prices for flexible packaging materials seen at the end of 2022, the first quarter of 2023 saw a drop across the basket of materials, with only aluminium foil ticking up further (from 179% to 187% v Q4 2020)* due to higher conversion costs. Only 60gsm one sided coated paper … Read more
Pure Trade apppointed Cyrille LY as Director of Sustainable Development, CSR and Innovation. Based in Bangkok, Cyrille LY’s mission is to formalize and extend the CSR and Innovation vision of Pure Trade, internally and externally, and to manage industrial partnerships in Southeast Asia. www.pure-trade.com
Evonik has acquired Novachem, an Argentinian sustainable cosmetic actives innovator. Novachem offers a strong, innovative portfolio of biotechnological, natural and sustainable cosmetic active ingredients with scientifically proven claims that will boost Evonik’s portfolio of System Solutions. The company is based in Buenos Aires in Argentina and has 20 employees. Signing and closing took place on … Read more
Technically sound, beautiful and tactile, wood has grown from being an experimental to now mainstream material for cosmetics packaging, embraced by some of world’s largest beauty brands. Quadpack proofs with its Woodacity line, that the material is a stunning combination of sustainability and design. Now lipstick packages and caps for fragrance bottles widen the range … Read more
Codif Technologie Naturelle (CTN) solution to gravity comes from a plant that grows out of the ground and rises more than 2m towards the sky. This plant is the Isodon japonicus also called Enmei-so, meaning “the plant that prolongs life”. Inspired by this plant, CTN obtains an anti-gravity active ingredient, J-DERMIST, which stimulates the synthesis … Read more
The company has designed the whole packaging collection in the perfect alignement with the Sholo brand’s slow fashion philosophy to offer timeless, sustainable and superior quality products, that are completely made in Europe. For both luxury boxes (1 size, 6 colours) and shopping bags (size S, M, L), Rissmann has selected the elegant leather-like Gmund … Read more
After nearly 30 years with the company, Matthew North, Commercial Director at Kelheim Fibres, will retire on July 1st, 2023. Mark von der Becke will assume the position of Sales Director and become part of the management team at Kelheim Fibres. Dr Marina Crnoja-Cosic, who has been serving as Director of New Business Development and … Read more
With immediate effect, Nobilis Group GmbH will take over the exclusive distribution partnership for the fragrances of the Brunello Cucinelli brand. Brunello Cucinelli once again complements the Nobilis portfolio with a renowned brand from and fashion sector from the house of EuroItalia. www.nobilis-group.com
The company pushes the limits of the E-Com Box by offering a unique box whose inner height is adjustable, thanks to one or more flexible dividers, to accommodate one or more products, in different sizes. Notches make it possible to fix and maintain the product(s) with ribbons or rubber bands during transport, without additional cushioning … Read more
Since alterations in our circadian biorhythm can affect the skin’s physiological metabolism, leading to signs of skin fatigue and aging, Provital presents Circanblue: a natural biotech ingredient that truly ‘resets’ the paradigm of the effects of digital stress on the skin to achieve an integrated well-aging. Circanblue is a biotechnological cosmetic ingredient obtained via a … Read more
They pose a threat to health and the enviroment: microplastics. That makes it especially necessary to develop and design cosmetic products – specifically colour cosmetics – without that ingredient. Katrin Steinbach, Technical Unit Expert Corporate responsibility of Cosnova, and Ariane Saiko, Director Catrice, talk about the difficulties and advantages of new developing processes.