All Beauty and cosmetics articles
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News
Toothpaste tablet maker Pärla closes in on £400k raise
The tablets are entirely plastic-free and can be chewed until they turn creamy
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Boots features Adjoa Andoh’s Mrs Claus in Christmas ad 2024
The ad sparked a wave of racist, misogynistic and transphobic comments calling Boots ‘woke’
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Events & Awards
The Grocer’s New Product & Packaging Awards 2024: Personal care
It’s clear that a huge amount of thought has gone into this winning product, said our judges
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News
Tesco adds hundreds of lines to online beauty range
The supermarket said Maybelline was the most searched for cosmetics brand on its website
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KinKind hits target for UK and US expansion
The business makes plastic and water-free bathroom products
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THG launches gen AI-powered ad creation offering iLab
THG Studios sits within the company’s end-to-end e-commerce and brand-building technology platform business THG Ingenuity
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Old Spice teams up with rapper Chip to inspire men with ‘diss track’
New grime track Big Man Ting is designed ‘to build a brand that young men associate with standing out from the crowd’
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KVI Tracker
Herbal Essences shrinks conditioners by 46% but shelf prices stick
The old 400ml bottles have been replaced with 275ml ones
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News
GenM launches campaign to promote menopause-friendly product logo
The push features GenM’s MTick logo, alongside ‘bold’, ‘authentic’ menopausal women
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News
Essity appoints Nicola Conway as UK & Ireland commercial director
Conway will work from Essity’s consumer goods office in Didsbury
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Category Report
Period care’s cool challengers: personal care category report 2024
Squeamishness about periods is going out of fashion – and brands that take a more frank approach are winning share
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Category Report
How oral care became beautiful: oral care trends 2024
After years of stagnation, oral care is now seeing demand for Instagrammable products. And it’s putting a smile on everyone’s faces
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News
M&S-backed reusable packaging initiative expands into Abel & Cole
It marks a breakthrough for a multi-brand coalition led by reusable packaging platform Reposit, whose ultimate aim is to enable shoppers to ‘buy anywhere, return anywhere’
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News
Just Eat partners with Boots for on-demand beauty and healthcare delivery
The launch today sees the service rolled out across major cities including London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, and Edinburgh
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Comment & Opinion
Toxic Influence: Greenpeace documentary dismantles Dove
The message was what you’d expect from Greenpeace. But the delivery was devastatingly different and effective
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News
Boots UK appoints new managing director Anthony Hemmerdinger
Hemmerdinger has occupied the retail and operations director role since September 2022
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Analysis & Features
How Unilever is redrawing its packaging strategy
Under new CEO Hein Schumacher, Unilever has dropped or pushed back most of its packaging targets. Is the new strategy a sustainability sellout?
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News
'Softest-ever' Cushelle Quilted loo roll given thumbs down by shoppers
Shoppers said the new Cushelle Quilted was ‘narrower’, ‘no longer soft’ and ‘exceptionally thin’
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News
Nivea launches TikTok Shop to tap younger demographic
Nivea launched its TikTok Shop with an influencer hosted live stream, which focused on its men and women’s skincare range
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News
Deliveroo continues non-food play with The Perfume Shop partnership
It follows deals struck with Screwfix and Ann Summers