Business News explains the commerce behind cosmetics: who owns a brand, which laboratory produces the formula, what a retailer takes, and how much of a price is packaging and marketing. Coverage follows acquisitions, funding and sales results. Best used by readers curious what they are actually buying.
Bakuchiol is a plant-derived compound, extracted from the seeds and leaves of Psoralea corylifolia , that reduced wrinkles and hyperpigmentation about as effectively as retinol while causing less scaling and…
The two-year registration clock created by a 2022 cosmetics law is now coming due, and the FDA's own numbers show how much of the industry is still catching up.
Net sales jumped 36 percent to $479.4 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2027, and Hailey Bieber's brand is a bigger part of the story than the price tag suggested.
The fall/winter 2026-2027 couture shows leaned toward clothes, and faces, you could actually imagine living in, according to AP's read on the week.
With record temperatures over the city, houses are moving showtimes and makeup artists are working against sweat, SPF, and a melting runway.
Comparable sales climbed 5.3 percent and the retailer raised its profit forecast, a sign of where mass and prestige beauty demand actually sits.