Vietnam’s latest cosmetics draft proposes a new Management Number, risk-based surveillance, and more digital enforcement. The real shift is not simply tighter regulation – it is more selective regulation.
Ju Rhyu and dermatologist Aimee Paik are launching a U.S. sun care brand built around the lightweight textures and skincare-first approach associated with Korean sunscreen.
China’s recombinant collagen sector is moving beyond serums and masks. Giant Biogene and Jinbo Bio show how skincare, synthetic biology, and medical aesthetics are beginning to converge.
Vietnam does not use cosmetic product notification as a pre-market safety or efficacy approval. The company placing the product on the market remains responsible for compliance, while labels such as vegan, cruelty-free, natural and Made in Vietnam can follow very different verification systems.
THG identified K-beauty as a significant acquisition driver as its Beauty division reached £500.2 million in first-half revenue.
The Japanese skincare brand will launch in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland from September 2026 as Kao continues its European rollout.
The Korean brand has brought its full skincare range to Harrods’ Knightsbridge flagship, marking its first major UK department-store listing.
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.
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…
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…