L’Oréal teams up with Boots to beef up AI offer in the skin care realm
L’Oréal has partnered with Boots to build on its AI / AR offer, according to a report published by Net Imperative. The French beauty giant has unveiled a face-scanning app that can advise users on the best treatments for their skin concerns. The Effaclar Spotscan tool...
CLICK HEREAlibaba’s Taobao reports livestreaming beauty boom
Alibaba’s Taobao is predicting that livestreaming will be the next big thing in e-commerce. The e-commerce giant reports, quoting figures from Deloitte, that China is the largest livestreaming audience in the world, at 456 million people, with the medium racking up...
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Could the EU be about to bring the ‘free from’ trend to a premature end?
A European Union guidance document could have far-reaching implications for one of the beauty industry’s favourite new marketing trends – free-from claims – according to a report published by Chemical Watch. The guidance (in Annexes III and IV) sets out criteria for...
CLICK HERELululab launches AI skin care assistant at Beautyworld Middle East
AI beauty start-up lululab debuted its AI skin care assistant, LUMINI, at Beautyworld Middle East this week. The Samsung spin-off’s latest launch is said to provide customers with bespoke skin care solutions via a three-step service (face scanning, skin analysis and...
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Could Bieber Beauty be the next big celebrity cosmetics launch?
The wife of Justin Bieber, Hailey Bieber has filed a trademark application for the term ‘Bieber Beauty’, according to a report published by Hypebae, quoting TMZ. Hailey is a brand ambassador for Shiseido-owned bareMinerals and has also released a collab make-up...
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The Estee Lauder Companies announces promotion of Bari Seiden-Young
The Estee Lauder Companies has announced the promotion of Bari Seiden-Young to SVP Global Corporate Communications, Citizenship and Sustainability, effective immediately. Seiden-Young will take on responsibility for overseeing communications for Lauder’s Global...
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Chanel prevails in UK trademark battle over Coco name
Chanel has successfully prevented a Vietnamese company from registering CocoGoodsCo as a trademark in the UK, according to a report published by the World Intellectual Property Review. The UK Intellectual Property Office agreed with the French luxury brand that Luong...
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Watch out Alibaba! Qoo10 to launch blockchain site across South-East Asia
Singapore’s biggest e-commerce company is harnessing blockchain technology to launch an e-commerce site across the South-East Asian region that could give Alibaba a run for its money, according to a report published by The Malaysian Reserve. QuuBe as the marketplace...
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Khiron Life Sciences announces clinical research partnership with Colombian hospital
Khiron Life Sciences has announced that it has entered into an agreement with a prominent Colombian research hospital to explore the potential of medical cannabis to support treatment of dermatological conditions. Centro Dermatologico Federico Lleras Acosta (CDFLLA)...
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California’s Toxic Free Cosmetics Act delayed until 2020
A bill that aims to ban the sale of cosmetics containing ‘toxic’ substances such as formaldehyde, asbestos, lead, triclosan, parabens and phthalates (among other nasties) in California has been postponed until at least 2020, according to a report published by Chemical...
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