Kao Expands Curél Into Nordic Markets and Finland
The Japanese skincare brand will launch in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland from September 2026 as Kao continues its European rollout.
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Beauty Brand thim beauty Lands Harrods Pharmacy Listing
The Korean brand has brought its full skincare range to Harrods’ Knightsbridge flagship, marking its first major UK department-store listing.
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Vietnamese Makeup Brands
Vietnam’s three best-known makeup brands are designed in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, named by Vietnamese founders, and built for Vietnamese skin tones. All three are manufactured in South Korea. That gap explains almost everything about V-beauty makeup – and it is the thing every English-language list gets wrong.
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Sunscreen for Motorbike
A white cotton shirt has a UPF of about 5. A pair of jeans is closer to 1,700. On a motorbike, what you wear matters more than what you apply. Motorbike sunscreen is a genuinely different problem from beach sunscreen, and almost nothing written about sun protection accounts for it. The advice is built for…
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Indonesia’s Halal Deadline Arrives Before Its Rulebook
Indonesia’s halal cosmetics certification becomes mandatory on 17 October 2026, and the technical guidelines defining what a compliant cosmetics ingredient chain actually looks like were still open for public comment on 2 August – eleven weeks before enforcement. That gap between the deadline and the rulebook is the part of this story that the compliance…
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Vietbeauty and Cosmobeauté Vietnam Bring Global Beauty Supply Chain to Ho Chi Minh City
The three-day trade event brought brands, manufacturers, suppliers, and buyers together as Vietnam’s beauty market attracts wider regional interest.
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K-Beauty Dermocosmetics Is Targeting SEA. V-Beauty Has No Answer
Aestura – Amorepacific’s dermatological skincare brand, distributed in 4,500 hospitals and clinics across South Korea – launched on Shopee Vietnam and in all 17 Beauty Box stores in January 2024. Its ATOBARRIER 365 Cream has exceeded 10 million cumulative units sold globally. By March 2026, Aestura was in 17 European countries through Sephora and ranked…
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Why Pharmacity and Long Châu Matter More Than Sephora for V-Beauty
Long Châu Pharmacy operates 2,640 stores across Vietnam and serves approximately 33 million customers – one-third of the country’s population. Guardian, Vietnam’s most internationally recognised beauty retail chain, operates around 170 stores. The footprint differential is not a rounding error. It describes two entirely different distribution logics, and the one that matters more for Vietnamese…
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C-Beauty’s SEA Expansion Is Not What It Looks Like
C-beauty’s Southeast Asia expansion is rewriting the region’s mass beauty market – and the numbers make it hard to ignore. Seven Chinese brands collectively held over 15% of Indonesia’s mass color cosmetics market in 2024, up from 2% in 2019. Skintific ranked first on Shopee Indonesia in Q1 2025. TikTok Shop captured 39% of Vietnam’s…
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Proya Wants a Global Top Ten: Its Core Market Just Contracted
The company that proved a Chinese skincare brand could lead its home market just posted the first revenue decline of its listed life – and chose the same moment to announce it wants to be a global top-ten beauty group. The two facts are not a coincidence. They are the same story told from opposite…
