Firm recently announced a partnership with Taiwan-based augmented reality and artificial intelligence firm Perfect Corp., which should help drive digital engagement, bolster online sales, and provide data-driven personalization for brands including CoverGirl, Sally Hansen and philosophy, Coty says.

Firm extends invitation to startups in livestream commerce, shoppable media, group buying, and gaming commerce to submit for the chance to pitch to Unilever beauty brands as part of the company’s Positive Beauty Growth Platform.

Sale is among options it’s considering for materials business, which is currently “managed largely on a standalone basis.” Its health, nutrition and bioscience segments account for 80% to 85% of total sales and will operate as individual business groups.

Sequential Skin, whose genetic and microbiome home test kit sells for $149, raised $1.65m in a seed round announced on 11 October. The UK/Singapore biotech will use the funds to roll out the kit in the US while extending its B2B offering to skin care, hair care and health care companies for clinical trial and product validation purposes.

Firm recently announced a partnership with Taiwan-based augmented reality and artificial intelligence firm Perfect Corp., which should help drive digital engagement, bolster online sales, and provide data-driven personalization for brands including CoverGirl, Sally Hansen and philosophy, Coty says.

Garnier is formulating with less water, packaging with less virgin plastic, and kicking off a consumer outreach campaign to educate consumers and encourage them to take green steps as well. Recent launches from the brand include a Whole Blends Shampoo Bar range and new Fructis meeting of hair care with skin care.

Germany's PharmaSGP blamed ongoing lockdowns for falling first-half sales, but said it could see light at the end of the tunnel, with the OTC market expected to recover in the second half of the year.

Procter & Gamble Co.’s Beauty division has weathered COVID challenges exceptionally well thanks to its portfolio mix and the health of its brands going into the pandemic, Beauty CEO R. Alexandra Keith said at the Barclay Global Consumer Staples Conference on 9 September.

Inc. 5000 ranks the fastest-growing privately held companies in the US. With three-year growth of nearly 2,200%, Soapbox came in at No. 198 on the 2021 list, outpacing other beauty and personal-care companies that had enviable showings nevertheless in a year of unprecedented challenges.