Beauty and Personal Care Products News and Trends

Find resources for beauty and personal care product industry news and trends

To grab a piece of the $40 billion-a-year personal care products industry, perform your due diligence and stay current on the latest beauty and personal care products news and trends. Never stagnant, the beauty and personal care products industry thrives on new developments, technologies, products, improvements and trends. As a beauty product distributor, formulator, manufacturer or packager, you can't get – or stay – ahead of your competition without staying current on industry topics.

Since the top personal care product manufacturers hail from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, the US, Russia and Brazil, strive for a big-picture understanding of the national and global industry to better grasp the implications on your business. Factors affecting trends and continued growth in the industry include:

1. Increasing health consciousness contributes to the rapid growth of herbal and organic beauty care and personal care products.

2. Both men and women actively search for new and improved personal care products like anti-aging creams, lotions and other concoctions that firm, tone, lift and reduce appearance of wrinkles.

3. Men now want more beauty skin care and personal care products designed for them.

 

Bookmark websites for the latest beauty skin care products news and trends

You can find just about all the information you need regarding personal care and beauty products brands, trends and successes from online websites devoted to the industry. Utilize the Internet to update your knowledge on the latest cosmetic, soap, moisturizer, toothpaste or hair care product.
Try: Visit CosmeticNews, a Cosmedias website for news, trends and events relevant to the global beauty care products industry. Cosmedias, based in France, publishes business information on its website and in several other publications. Stop at the Allured Publishing Corporation website to scope out the websites, magazines, books/media, directories and shows/conferences it puts its name on. Allured magazines reach nearly 100 countries and target the markets of cosmetics/personal care, flavor/fragrance and spa/healthy aging. To read up on the natural personal care products industry, save Soapwire to your list of favorites. Catch up on cosmetic industry news articles featured in the archive at CosmeticIndustry.com. The company's founder researches the cosmetic industry and publishes reports dealing with U.S. sales, activities and trends.

Subscribe to magazines offering the latest in beauty and personal care product news

Personal care and beauty products distributors, suppliers, manufacturers and others involved in the industry can all benefit from getting the latest information from online, digital and print magazines.
Try: Global Cosmetic Industry (GCI) serves readers looking for business information about the global beauty industry. Available in digital and print formats, it reports on business/markets/trend news, product launches and upcoming events. HAPPI (acronym for Household and Personal Products Industry) reaches out with its monthly publication to all involved in the industry. You can subscribe to the print version, but also bookmark the website which has news and features a buyer's guide, columnists, supplier's corner, videos, white papers, a blog and more. Book mark CPC Packaging and subscribe to the print magazine that deals with all aspects of cosmetic and personal care product packaging from concept to finished product.

Find meetings, education/training and conferences for the beauty and personal care product industry

Some of the best information on news and trends concerning retail and even wholesale personal care products comes from events you participate in. These events offer the chance for receiving and sharing information and forming networking opportunities that become new sources for future news and trend information.
Try: Turn to websites like Biztradeshows.com or professional organizations like the Personal Care Products Council for upcoming conferences, tradeshows, meetings, webinars and other events.

 

• Reach out to industry-related professional organizations like the Professional Beauty Association and Personal Care Products Council that often include the latest industry information on news, trends and events in the forms of articles, press releases, white papers, links and other formats.

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