This week, I checked in with L’Oréal Group exec Guive Balooch who recently unveiled the conglomerate’s latest tech investment: a tabletop hardware device called Cell BioPrint that quickly provides personalized skin analysis and recommendations to in-store shoppers. It’s part of a growing number of companies investing in, or expanding, diagnostic...

Longtime beauty executive Lori Singer discusses the secret sauce behind celeb fragrances with Billie Eilish and Paris Hilton, the evolving fragrance consumer, and 2025 industry predictions.

This week, I checked in with Juice Beauty CEO Lance Patterson to learn how the clean beauty trailblazer is using 20 years of insights to fuel its new rebrand. Additionally, Danish scalp clinic chain Hårklinikken partners with facialist Joanna Czech to fuel U.S. expansion, and L’Oréal Group plans for a...

E.l.f. Beauty reported its 24th consecutive quarter of net sales growth on Thursday during its Q3 fiscal 2025. Chairman and CEO Tarang Amin and CFO Mandy Fields shared the conglomerate’s plans for tackling tariffs, including supplier concessions, cost savings and select price increases.

L’Oréal Group, the largest beauty conglomerate in the world based on revenue, reported 5.1% growth for its full fiscal 2024 on Thursday.

Cosnova, the German beauty conglomerate behind value makeup brands Essence and Catrice, announced Thursday it had surpassed the $1 billion yearly sales threshold in 2024. It began targeting this sales goal last year amid U.S. expansion. Essence’s best-selling Lash Princess Mascara sells for $4.99 DTC and through Amazon, Target and...

Glossy+ members can listen in on a consultative rundown by Glossy’s beauty reporting team on the latest need-to-know beauty business trends. This includes shifts in social media marketing; the future of live shopping and social commerce; and insights into ways brick-and-mortar and digital retail are expected to evolve in 2025. A...

This week, I checked in with IBM execs and market analysts to learn about the industry-wide potential behind the new partnership between L'Oréal Group and tech juggernaut IBM. I also spoke with the founder of Silicon Valley start-up Potion AI, which is providing AI-powered formulation competition for smaller brands and...

ELC’s new long-term partnership with Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s renowned Langer Lab will center around the advancement of biodegradable polymers primed to replace common personal-care ingredients found in cleansers, sun-care, cosmetics and more. The partnership will also focus on studying new solutions to help combat the effects of visible sunlight...