Engineering cosmetic credibility: How biotech is maturing marine beauty
Ocean-derived beauty is moving from niche positioning and into the mainstream, where biotechnological advancements and clinical validation are key to the category’s claim to fame. As consumers...
New York’s Beauty Justice Act could force companies “out of state or out of business”
New York, US, lawmakers are advancing the Beauty Justice Act, which would ban or strictly limit certain chemicals and trace substances in cosmetic products sold statewide. The bill is positioned as a...
Beauty’s new battleground? AI and data drive skin care tech race
Beauty has entered a technology race, and cosmetic companies that do not control their own computing power and data risk becoming dependent on those who do. As AI powers product design,...
Tariffs and K-beauty bruise French cosmetic exports to US
Tariffs and K-beauty’s global popularity have led to a contraction in French cosmetic exports to the US for the first time since 2008, excluding the pandemic. Meanwhile, French imports of beauty...
ECHA lists cosmetic botanical extract and packaging chemicals as “very high concern”
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has added two chemicals to its Candidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHC). Cosmetics companies that use n-hexane or bisphenol AF (BPAF) substances...
Coty cleans up balance sheet and bets on a new sales strategy
Coty has achieved its lowest debt-to-earnings level in nearly a decade and reported that its Q2 results for fiscal 2026 were broadly in line with its expectations. The global beauty company says it...
US states push against toxic cosmetic chemicals as federal laws fall short
Individual states, advocacy groups, and civil society organizations are taking the lead in removing toxic cosmetic ingredients from the US market, as federal ingredient bans and enforcement are said...
Estée Lauder pleads guilty to Canada PFAS violation amid US tech lawsuit
Estée Lauder is currently facing legal pressure on two fronts — a violation of PFAS regulations in Canada and a separate civil lawsuit in the US. In Canada, an Ontario court has fined Estée Lauder...
