Personalisation

Going global: Rationale gears up for overseas expansion following Amorepacific deal

03-Jun-2020 By Amanda Lim

Australian beauty brand Rationale is preparing to enter the international market with the help of K-beauty giant Amorepacific.

Digital, personal, health and climate: Trends born from indie beauty to continue in ‘year filled with uncertainty’

07-May-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Digitalisation, personalisation, wellness and sustainability have been popularised by independent beauty brands and with big beauty now onboard these trends will remain critical as 2020 evolves, says GlobalData.

L’Oréal: Customised experience and precision beauty the future of tech R&D

28-Jan-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Tech innovation will trigger important advances in customised consumer experiences and precision beauty in the coming years; the challenge will be making products with strong values, says the head of L’Oréal’s Technology Incubator.

Blockchain beauty: ‘For the moment, it remains relatively niche’, says GlobalData

17-Jan-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Blockchain remains expensive and emerging, used only in an experimental fashion across beauty, but the technology offers clear benefits around loyalty schemes and personalisation, says a GlobalData analyst.

L’Oréal on Perso device launch: ‘We intend for this to be an accessible beauty experience’

13-Jan-2020 By Kacey Culliney

L’Oréal will launch its artificial intelligence (AI) at-home skin care device Perso globally next year and the beauty major says it plans to make the product accessible to all.

‘Near limitless personalisation’: L’Oréal to launch AI at-home skin care device in 2021

06-Jan-2020 By Kacey Culliney

L’Oréal has unveiled its beauty device ‘Perso’ that provides at-home, personalised formulas based on real-time data and trend analysis; an official market launch in skin care is set for 2021.

The next Netflix of beauty? ‘We are yet to see a truly disruptive player’: Euromonitor

06-Dec-2019 By Kacey Culliney

Disruptive innovation in beauty is rare but industry can create fresh consumer needs and develop products that don’t currently exist, with the right thinking, says Euromonitor International.

The personalised beauty challenge? Safety assessment ‘more complex’, says expert

19-Nov-2019 By Kacey Culliney

The rise of personalised cosmetics and personal care products will continue to surge, and with this comes new challenges associated with safety assessment on ingredients and blends, says a consultant.

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That ‘signature scent’: Fragrances perfect to explore personalisation

06-Nov-2019 By Kacey Culliney

Consumers consider perfume an excellent way to express uniqueness and boost confidence, offering significant potential to develop personalised fragrances, says Mintel.

Personalised clean beauty: CEO of Singapore bespoke skin care start-up sees global potential

23-Oct-2019 By Amanda Lim

CEO and co-founder of Yours eyes rapid expansion to capitalise on the global demand for high-quality and affordable personalised skin care products.

The Vitamin Shoppe launches subscription service including beauty supplements

17-Sep-2019 By Deanna Utroske

This month, the nutrition retailer announced a new personalized supplement subscription service called Only Me. It’s an offering that is as much about individualized products as it is about convenience and wellness.

From The Editor's Desk

Has the cosmetics industry hit an innovation rut?

21-Aug-2019 By Simon Pitman

One of the best ways of measuring future industry trends and innovation is a trip to in-cosmetics Global, an event that shines a light on what the next generation of products will look like. But this year, pinpointing something truly new was hard to do.