Vitafoods Insights • 19th March 2025

Dietary phytochemicals for skin ageing ‘promising’ but research gaps remain

A scientific review published in Experimental Gerontology by researchers from across the APAC region investigated the potential of dietary phytochemicals in targeting premature skin ageing.Scanning data and literature from 1995 to 2024, the review looked at the significance of phytochemicals found in fruits, vegetables, and plant-based meals in neutralising free radicals and reducing inflammatory mediators linked to premature ageing of skin.According to their findings, cartenoids, flavonoids, po...

Beauty Matter • 18th March 2025

Unilever on Closing Beauty's Regulatory Science Gap

Personal care brand Unilever has restructured its science and regulatory teams—merging expertise under one group—to help foster more relevant and market-ready innovation.In January of this year, Unilever unveiled its newly formed Safety, Environmental & Regulatory Science (SERS) capability group, formally merging teams from safety, environmental assurance, and regulatory affairs after 18 months of transition. Led by Julia Fentem MBE, Fellow of the British Toxicology Society and EVP for Safety, E...

Beauty Matter • 2nd March 2025

The Next-Generation of Sleep Optimization

Neurotechnology start-up Elemind is tackling sleep as its first category in a wider push to advance health and well-being innovation around what it calls “electronic medicine.”Founded in 2019, US-based Elemind has developed a smart headband that is able to read and respond to an individual's electroencephalogram (EEG) brainwaves in real time and deliver precise acoustic stimulation to influence a person's brain state. The start-up says it is “building the future of electric medicine,”—developing...

Vitafoods Insights • 28th February 2025

Can omega-3 supplementation slow down biological ageing?

Daily omega-3 supplementation may slow biological ageing in older people, particularly when combined with vitamin D and exercise, according to analysis from a three-year European trial.

Beauty Matter • 27th February 2025

Beauty Science 2025 Trends and innovations in AI, Data, and Biomimicry

Digitalization of devices, supply chains, and laboratories will define innovation in beauty this year, with Artificial Intelligence (AI), biotech, and data feedback carving out significant change, say experts.As beauty kickstarts 2025, industry enters a new tech era—one set to empower innovators and creators like never before. Think analytical smart mirrors and wearables, AI-backed data and supply chains, and biotech-led skin models and ingredients, many showcasing at CES (The Consumer Electroni...

Beauty Matter • 25th February 2025

How the Exposome Contributes to Cumulative Hair Damage

Future haircare research and innovation should focus on mitigating the cumulative effects of external and internal environmental exposures known to negatively impact hair health, say scientists.Writing in Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, the official publication of the Brazilian Society of Dermatology, researchers from Italy and Spain outline how the exposome—the totality of external and internal environmental factors that can influence human health–critically influences hair health and hair a...

Beauty Matter • 23rd February 2025

L'Oréal on Beauty and Tech Trends in 2025 Highlighting Proactive Beauty

Beauty consumers today crave deeper knowledge and predictive insight on skin care needs and expect effective tools and products with a proactive approach, says Guive Balooch, L'Oréal's Head of Open Innovation.In January, this year, French beauty titan L'Oréal Group unveiled a flurry of tech innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show [CES] in Las Vegas, including its Cell BioPrint—a tabletop hardware device providing personalized skin analysis in minutes, including skin's biological age and ing...

Beauty Matter • 13th February 2025

Plant Metabolites Science for Cosmetics and Personalized Skincare

Specialized plant metabolites have the potential to revolutionize cosmeceuticals if used to develop targeted formulas for skin health, but scientific research and sustainable development must deepen, say scientists.Writing in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, researchers from Morocco, France, and India outlined the plethora of opportunities in advancing cosmeceutical applications of specialized plant metabolites (SPMs) for skin benefits in a scientific review.“SPMs hold great potenti...

Beauty Matter • 11th February 2025

EU Cosmetics Regulation Updates in 2025 Need Discussions on Essential Cosmetics and Competition in Industry

Beauty and personal care companies must push product essentiality and industry competitiveness in 2025 as the European Union braces for regulatory changes set to impact the sector, says John Chave, Director-General of Cosmetics Europe.The European Union (EU) kickstarted a new five-year regulatory cycle last year, with the formation of a new European Parliament in June 2024 and a new European Commission taking office in December 2024 —both set to run until 2029. So, as industries and citizens acr...

Premium Beauty News • 11th February 2025

UK beauty retail to see ’notable growth and transformation’ in 2025

Competition across UK beauty retail continues to ramp up, as brands work to enter new spaces and stores push to draw in new custom. But where exactly is the market headed in 2025?
Last year, the UK health and beauty market continued to grow despite the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, hitting EUR 53.6 billion (about GBP 45.4bn) after three years of consistent growth, according to data analytics firm GlobalData. Within this, beauty was forecast to continue growth at 3% CAGR between 2023 and 2028, l...

Vitafoods Insights • 10th February 2025

Meet the gut microbiome startup hoping its ‘quantum leap’ tech will accelerate the shift towards preventative health

Gut microbiome startup BIOMES wants to take its expertise further, into vaginal, skin, and oral microbiome health, as it edges towards a longer-term vision of preventative healthcare, its CEO and founder says.

Vitafoods Insights • 13th January 2025

‘Women are not a monolith’: Experts call on industry to close data gaps in women’s nutrition

Speaking last month during a Women in Nutraceuticals (WIN) webinar entitled Trends and Innovations in Developing Nutraceuticals for Women, a panel of industry experts brainstormed the opportunities and challenges in this category. All agreed there is a clear need to go back and build out the science for women from the ground up.“Women are not a monolith,” said Devon Gholam PhD, vice-president of science and innovation at the consultancy Step Change Innovations. “We are all at different phases of...

Beauty Independent • 2nd January 2025

Feel-Good Fragrance Startup The Heart Company Ready To Scale Globally

Launched in 2020, it has a line of vegan perfumes, including Happiness, Kindness, Positivity and Me Time. Housed in heart-shaped bottles, the perfumes were developed fragrance ingredient supplier Givaudan to spread good cheer. Available on Amazon, TikTok Shop, 1-800-Flowers, Walmart’s website and the brand’s own site, the perfumes retail at $57 for 2.5-oz. bottles.
“Our brand is completely ready to scale,” says Kristina Rasmussen, founder and CEO of The Heart Company. “We did a lot of A/B testin...

Premium Beauty News • 4th November 2024

Morrama: Beauty needs to innovate not iterate before refills can truly take off

Last year, UK industrial design agency Morrama unveiled a paper-based refillable packaging range for beauty, developed in collaboration with Chinese manufacturer PPK. The ’Maya’ range offered palettes, lipsticks, pumps and pots in various outer casing materials that could be customised by beauty brands, made with refills from renewable paper pulp. This year, the two companies were launching aluminium casing designs for the range, with the first aluminium lipstick with paper refill unveiled at Ma...

Premium Beauty News • 29th October 2024

Element Beauty debuts carbon-captured cosmetics packaging with Caliray

Element Beauty Group partnered with Oco, part of Canadian firm Carbon Upcycling Technologies, to develop the beauty packaging material from captured CO2 and post-consumer recycled material (PCR). Recently launched at Sephora with Californian makeup brand Caliray, the packaging boasted improved strength, durability and recycling potential whilst contributing to a reduction in greenhouse gases because of the captured carbon contained within it.
So, was this merge of waste materials the future for...

Premium Beauty News • 2nd September 2024

DECIEM CEO: The Ordinary ’will deliver’ on effective and functional body care

Following two years of development, DECIEM forayed into body care for the first time via its cult skin care brand The Ordinary. The skin care major aims to plug rising demands for “functional and efficacious full-body skin care,” Nicola Kilner, its CEO says.

Premium Beauty News • 27th August 2024

DECIEM plans TikTok Shop, pharmacy and flagship store expansion, says Kilner

Founded in 2013, DECIEM – the parent firm behind skin care brands The Ordinary and NIOD – was acquired in full this year by The Estée Lauder Companies, following accumulative stake investments totaling US$1.7 billion between 2017 and 2024. From small Canadian startup to global beauty behemoth, DECIEM was now on a mission to become the number-one skin care brand in the world. Premium Beauty News sat down with Nicola Kilner, CEO and co-founder of DECIEM, to talk about the company’s rise and its gl...

Beauty Independent • 17th June 2024

The Latest Gen Alpha Brand, Your Skin Stuff Aims To Kickstart Healthy Skincare Practices

Directed at 8- to 12-year-olds and their parents, the Dublin-based brand is launching next month with six products—Gentle Daily Cleanser, Daily Foam Cleanser, Hydration Station Serum, Skin Hug Serum, Sunshine Drops Serum and Morning Glow SPF—priced from 19.50 and 24.50 euros or roughly $21 to $26 at the current exchange rate. Dermatologically tested, cruelty-free and vegan, they’re housed in colorful packaging and formulated to contain ingredients like salicylic acid, aloe vera and vitamin C in...

Beauty Independent • 12th June 2024

Melanin-Rich Skincare Brand Juru Skin Strives To Boost Skin Hydration On The Global Stage

Launched in February 2023, Juru Skin is quenching skin dehydration with ingredients like Brazilian cupuaçu butter, West African plantain leaf, aloe vera and apricot kernel oil in a trio of products—Hydro Glow Bath & Body Oil, Rejuvenating Lightweight Cream and Rejuvenating Moisturizing Cream—designed for melanin-rich skin.

Premium Beauty News • 22nd April 2024

Nivea launches Q10 Dual Action serum to bring anti-glycation ’to the masses’

Launched under Beiersdorf’s flagship mega brand Nivea, across Europe and select global markets, the Q10 Dual Action serum was the result of 10+ years of in-house and collaborative research. Made from a blend of Beiersdorf’s existing patented active coenzyme Q10, alongside a newly patented ingredient NAHP, trademarked Glycostop by the company, the serum targets sugar-induced skin ageing and wrinkle formation. Specifically, the formula was designed to prevent protein glycation [1] in the dermis sk...

Premium Beauty News • 19th March 2024

’Game-changing’: Plant-based microcapsules offer beauty fresh fragrance promise

In January, 2024, Xampla raised US$7 million [EUR6.45 million] enabling it to push ahead with wider development of its next-generation plant-based materials, branded Morro. Made from an array of plant proteins, including pea and potato, the portfolio uses a patented technology to offer natural and fully biodegradable microcapsules, coatings, edible films and soluble films for the beauty, home care, nutrition, food and beverage industries. The microcapsule Morro product, specifically, is designed...

Beauty Independent • 22nd February 2024

Skincare Brand Reome Marries High Design And Biotechnology

Founded in January 2023 by Joanna Ellner, a beauty journalist and acupuncturist with a degree in traditional Chinese medicine, Reome has two skincare products—serum Active Recovery Broth and cleanser Three Suns Balm—priced at 110 and 75 pounds, respectively, or $140 and $95 for full sizes. A third product, Aerate Face Towel, is 25 pounds or $35. The brand is in the middle of raising a seed funding round for an undisclosed amount to bolster its biotech positioning and drive global expansion.

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Premium Beauty News • 30th January 2024

Seeking to capture a wider audience, luxury fashion brands enter beauty

In October 2023, global luxury titan Kering – the group behind Gucci, Saint Laurent, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen, among others – closed its acquisition of luxury fragrance house Creed; a deal considered significant in both fashion and beauty because of its scale and the price-tag attached. And transactions like this follow on from other major acquisitions and mergers in the space, such as Spanish fashion major Puig’s majority stake acquisition in British beauty brand Charlotte Tilbury back...

Beauty Independent • 25th January 2024

After Landing Investment On "Dragons' Den," Nini Organics Looks To Retail Partnerships

In an appearance on “Dragons’ Den” earlier this month, the British version of the business pitch competition show “Shark Tank,” the skincare brand scored 50,000 pounds or about $65,000 at the current exchange rate from entrepreneurs and investors Peter Jones and Steven Bartlett in exchange for 20% equity. Now, it’s out to achieve big distribution goals.
Within three to five years, co-founder, CEO and formulator Alex Nicolaou says Nini Organics aspires to secure listings at retailers the likes of...