After a successful 2022, Cosmoprof Worldwide Bologna’s highly anticipated beauty trade show returned to its annual March slot. The event featured three shows: CosmoPack, Cosmo Perfumery & Cosmetics and Cosmo Hair & Nail & Beauty Salon. Cosmoprof and Cosmopack Awards accolades got out to declare the perfect beauty products and packaging for the upcoming 12 months.

After returning to the fair’s original spring showcase, Cosmoprof has seen a rise in exhibitors post pandemic and a successful 12 months of revolutionary leaders in the sweetness space. BolognaFiere President Gianpiero Calzolari says, “Cosmoprof is once more the reference showcase for the industry on the planet. The outcomes of this edition well represent the state of health of the industry.”

This 12 months’s edition marked its 54th 12 months, featured over 2,984 exhibitors from 64 countries and welcomed over 250,000 visitors from 153 countries world wide. Held on March 16-20, 2023, exhibitors inside the beauty supply chain showcased in over 200,000 square meters of space in Bologna’s Fair District.

The CosmoTrends Report, created and curated exclusively by Beautystreams, provides an evaluation of essentially the most revolutionary products on view on the fair. After taking a look at over 600 submissions before the event was held, the corporate’s senior vp creative director Michael Nolte says, “One interesting upcycling packaging innovation that caught our eye is known as ‘earth beet denim lipstik’ by Italian company COSMEI.”

As a finalist for the Cosmoprof Awards, “earth beet denim lipstik” is a refillable lipstick based on 70 percent of recycled denim. “In upcycling, you look into other industries — on this case, fashion into materials which are quite harmful to the environment, like denim, and provides them a second life,” said Nolte.

At Cosmopack, Dario Ferrari, Intercos Group founder and president, reflected on how its company has been working nonstop despite the challenges of the pandemic. “We’ve been working the last 3 years, even when COVID was on, we were closed within the lab and offices with no customers.”

The exertions has paid off as the corporate has made strides in its innovations for powder and lipstick products while homing in on the Asia market. Intercos has moved forward with its plans in Korea for developing an R&D center focused on foundation and skincare. Looking ahead, the cosmetic manufacturers are tapping into the Indian market — they recently bought a plant and are aiming to create unique products for the South Asian subcontinent.

Perfect Corp. Europe Business Development Director, Laurent Bouttier, shared the invention of many trends, including the importance of personalization. “Individuals are unique and are in search of personalized experiences and products to get radiant skin health and adapt to their skin,” he says. “From a tablet or your iPhone, you’ll be able to scan your face and get a diagnostic of how the health of your face is and what are the weaknesses of your face — when it comes to wrinkles, redness, texture.”

Medical spas and esthetician centers were similarly desirous to use skin evaluation that consolidates accurate data quickly to offer their customers with further explanation and recommend products to deal with a client’s concerns.

The corporate provides technology with AI skin evaluation and shade finders which consumers can use to personalize their beauty experience. Bouttier says sustainability for products, packages and formulas is one other big trend. The corporate’s AI technology helps to avoid having wasteful samples in stores.

Bigelow Trading’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Daina Nadler, attended Cosmoprof from a wholesale distributor’s perspective whilst keeping an eye fixed out for intriguing trends that her company’s retail team mentioned. Nadler says she all the time starts her time on the event by taking a look at the Extraordinary Gallery — which features recent, small and emerging brands.

One in all the products that captured Nadler’s attention was mood-enhancing fragrances, which give beyond only a nose sensory experience. Inside the clean product categories, Nadler thinks that the French laundry company, Kerzon, is poised to fill the gap available in the market left behind by recent product recalls.

Hybrid beauty products have also been on Nadler’s radar as of late. “I’m really fascinated about the trend of skincare ingredients in makeup and haircare,” she told WWD. “We began talking about this a number of years ago, but we’re seeing more prominently. Hydronics, peptides and things like that.”