NutriBeauty

During this Webinar we will size the market for beauty & personal care products, wherever they intersect with natural products. Receive the latest trends & challenges arising from our recent reporting on this topic in our March 2011 NutriBeauty Issue complete with forecasts of the NutriBeauty & healthy-aging market through 2013....More

Sales of natural & organic personal care (N&OPC) and household products continued on an upward trajectory in 2008- even though many of these offerings represent what one industry executive called "down the drain products." According to Nutrition Business Journal research, U.S. consumer sales of N&OPC products- which NBJ classifies as including everything from cosmetics and hair-care items to deodorants and shaving supplies- grew 8.4% to $7.6 billion in 2008....More

According to OTA estimates, U.S. consumer sales of organic foods, beverages and non-food products increased 5.3% to $26.6 billion in 2009. The U.S. organic industry grew 17% in 2008 and 19% in 2007. Some organic categories, including snack foods and beverages, could barely tread water last year, while organic dairy and packaged & prepared foods actually slipped into negative sales territory....More

Historical and forecasted sales & growth rates of natural & organic personal products and sales channels NBJ tracks, breakdowns of natural & organic personal care (N&OPC) revenues by channel, breakdowns of natural & organic household product and conventional household product revenues, breakdowns of natural & organic personal care (N&OPC) and total health and beauty care (HBC) revenues, Product Sales data from the 2008 Nutrition Business Journal/Natural Foods Merchandiser survey of natural products retailers, top 38 ‘Core’ Natural Personal Care Companies and historical and current sales of the 12 natural personal care (NPC) product categories....More

NBJ broadens the scope of its N&OPC coverage to include conventional beauty products with natural, functional claims and ingestibles, from supplements to food & beverage. NutriBeauty represents a $15 billion market driven largely by innovations in gene expression and a growing focus on healthy aging....More

Growing consumer interest in products that are green, local and sustainable, along with the increasing popularity of farmers’ markets, points toward systemic growth for the flower segment, but major obstacles remain....More

Whole Foods takes regulatory matters into its own hands, raises organic claims standards for personal care to those of food....More

Supply market for natural preservatives and antimicrobials could benefit from closer EPA and FDA scrutiny of triclosan....More

Baby Boomers still buy into anti-aging topicals as category broadens to include nutricosmetics targeting healthy aging and prevention....More

New management and new influx of capital, same old Kiss My Face. Company looks to take command of natural channel with capital infusion from Caltius Equity Partners....More

Seventh Generation is another company leading the charge for sustainability. According to Cara Bondi, the company’s senior research chemist, Seventh Generation’s R&D department has made its focus the reduction of carbon content across the board, from packaging to product formulation to supply....More

Beauty still driven by global market, especially Japan and growth prospects in developing middle classes of BRIC countries....More

NBJ March 2011 NutriBeauty Issue...More