From JingDaily, Chenyue Fu, June 29, 2020

The French cosmetic giant L’Oréal announced they will be removing words like “whitening” and “lightening” from all their skin care products. The move comes on the heels of a backlash that a number of beauty brands received for their skin lightening products amidst ongoing protests for racial equality. Another global cosmetic giant, Uniliver, has already announced similar measures, including for its Indian subsidiary, which will now rename its best-selling skin lightening cream to Fair & Lovely. Unilever’s decision comes after Johnson & Johnson announced last week that its brands Neutrogena and Clean & Clear would discontinue skin-whitening creams favored in Asia and the Middle East.

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FROM LUXURY DAILY | FROM SATRAH JONES | JANUARY 5, 2017

France’s Chanel is exploring the anti-aging secrets of three far-flung populations with a shared claim.

The beauty brand’s newly released Blue Serum took inspiration from Blue Zones around the world, places where the locals live remarkably longer lives. In an effort to prove the claims of its product, Chanel is inviting consumers to journey to these locales in a series of short films.

Chanel was reached for comment.

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Chanel’s Blue Serum is being touted by the brand as “a new horizon for skincare.”Explaining the inspiration and ingredient sourcing for this serum, Chanel filmed travel diaries to the Blue Zones that contributed to the product.

Against footage taken in Costa Rica, a female narrator says, “You can feel the life force in everything and everywhere.” Portraying this energy are images of waterfalls amid greenery.

Still from Chanel's Blue Serum film

The voiceover explains how Costa Rica’s green coffee can only be found in the country, which may contribute to the locals’ long lives.

In Italy, the Mediterranean locale is said to be the home of centuries’ old olive trees.

Chanel turns its attention to the sun in Greece, which it says is in everything. This includes soil, plants and the lentisk tree.

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All videos include the statement, “It’s something special. Some call it a mystery. It’s just life.”

These ingredients—sourced from Nicoya, Costa Rica; Sardinia, Italy and Ikaria, Greece, all hold antioxidant properties. According to the brand, a trial found the serum to reduce wrinkles, even skin tone and firm skin.

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Eye on the Trends in Asia: customisation

By Lucy Whitehouse +, 20-Jul-2016, cosmeticsdesign-asia

Four key trends are tipped to define the skin care market in Asia in the coming years, according to research from Euromonitor International. In this series of specials, Cosmetics Design takes a closer look at each, starting here with customisation.

According to a research analyst with Euromonitor based in Singapore, customization is defined as key trend, since the consumer demand for personalized skin care products is growing. Indeed, 50.5% of the respondents claimed ‘suited to my skin type’ as the decisive element during their last skin care purchase.

In China there are five key areas in which personalization is strongly demanded:

• Age
• Moisture balance
• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Lifestyle

Consequently, the article outlines the importance of catering to consumers’ specific needs related to ethnicity and offering products that correspond to the consumers’ local environments, climates and cultural beliefs and identities.

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Clarins targets Asian consumers with skin whitening range

By Lucy Whitehouse +, 30-Mar-2016, cosmeticsdesign-asia

Premium skin care brand Clarins has spoken of its focus on skin whitening in its strategy to target Asian consumers.

With their recent launch of the Clarins White Plus Pure Translucency Tri-Intensive Brightening Serum the management intended to meet Asian women’s needs.

According to Datamonitor, half of the interrogated Asian women declare skin whitening benefits as essential skin care products, whereas the percentage in North America accounts only for 24% and 22% in Western Europe.

Furthermore, Euromonitor has found out that the demand for male-specific skin care products in Asia is leading the rise of the segment globally. The firm’s analyst points out that “The majority of growth is coming from the skin care inclined Asia pacific region, however, upcoming emerging markets in men’s skin care include Latin America”.

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LF Beauty: meeting Asian consumers' needs has 'never been more challenging'

By Lucy Whitehouse +, 13-Jul-2016, cosmeticsdesign-asia

The president of LF Beauty, a third party manufacturer and supplier, has spoken of the challenges and opportunities being posed for beauty by the Asia market.

The article outlines that it has never been more challenging, while there have never been more opportunities for brands to satisfy the customers’ needs. According to Raymond “Asian beauty is now setting the pace for the world”. China’s customers have a rising demand for K-beauty products, whereby Korean brands face the challenge of acting with insider knowledge of the Chinese market.

Indeed, the Korean International Trade Association found out that Korean companies accounted for 22.1% of China’s imported cosmetics in 2015, closing the gap with the French who have a market share of 30.6%. During the first seven months of the year, China’s imports of cosmetics products rose 36.1% to $1.67 billion.

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Melanin synthesis discovery prompts hope of new cosmetics applications

By Simon Pitman+, cosmeticsdesign-europe, 07-Jul-2016

New research that has deciphered the formation process for melanin could lead to further development of its use in a number of applications, including cosmetics.

The article points out that melanin is well-known for falling into the categories: Anti-ageing, skin conditioning and tinting.
However, through advanced biotechnology, researchers found the secret enzyme tryosinase, a core trigger in the synthesis process, which has an important impact on the development of cosmetics, medicine and environmental technology.

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