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Aptar Reboul x Lush Towards ever more ethical cosmetics

One of the world’s leading packaging dispensing systems for the cosmetics industry, Aptar Beauty + Home has adopted an ambitious approach to managing environmental challenges and is now developing a range of solutions with reduced environmental impacts, particularly in the area of make-up.

12 Jun 19

A boom in skincare cosmetics inspired by traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine

It is impossible to escape the current trends of going back to tradition and nature along with the quest for well-being in body and soul. Cosmetic brands are now drawing inspiration from ancestral Asian knowledge. Somewhere between philosophy and science, traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine teach the art of caring for your skin through a holistic approach.

07 May 19

From invisible to visible: The risks of contaminating cosmetic formulas during use and how to prevent them with airtight containers

As the preservative-free movement gains traction, more fragile cosmetic formulas face a greater risk of bacterial contamination, even when that contamination cannot be seen by the naked eye. How does this occur? Let’s take look at this microscopic world…

02 May 19

Aptar Beauty + Home launches Disc Top GO

E-commerce sales are projected to exceed $905 billion in the US and $5.8 trillion globally by 2022. With Disc Top GO, Aptar leads the industry with the first disc top specifically designed to withstand the challenges of e-commerce.

05 Apr 19

Insert technologies: The new aerosol technology that adapts to every product use

Luigi Garofalo, Market Development Director EMEA Homecare at Aptar, tells us more about the trends sweeping the industry and, in particular, Aptar’s innovative use of insert technologies: “To provide novelty and delight consumers, we need to add value. Therefore, we invest a lot of time and energy in market research to grasp and capitalize on key areas of focus like e-commerce."

13 Mar 19

Let’s get digital: Aptar Beauty + Home’s IndieBoutique debuts online at LuxePack LA

Aptar Beauty + Home, the global dispensing company, launched IndieBoutique – a custom tailored program that offers Indie Beauty brands short lead times, stock color options, and low minimum order quantities on Aptar’s top-selling dispensing products. To make it even easier Indie brands can utilize the same level of dispensing expertise, industry knowledge, and technical support that Aptar provides to all customers.

05 Mar 19

Increasingly natural solutions for the baby care product market

Expectations for innovation within the fast-growing baby care product market have translated into more safe, natural formulas and practical packaging.

15 Feb 19

Aptar & Ecover are launching their first dispensing closure made of PCR resin

Aptar Beauty + Home is proud to announce its first launch of a dispensing closure in Europe made from 50% Post-consumer recycled resin (PCR), confirming its leading position in the global transition to a circular economy and a sustainable future.

11 Feb 19

30 years of innovation for ultra-protective packaging

Packaging innovation, a driver of growth in the cosmetics industry, has skyrocketed in recent decades. As consumers seek out more natural products with clear, easily understandable ingredient lists, they are not prepared to make the switch to daily single use solutions. This means that packaging must pick up the slack!

08 Feb 19

Skin Protect: A cutting-edge mechanical system for unrivalled protection

To meet the needs of a market using fewer and fewer preservatives, Aptar’s Skin Protect is an innovative and ultra-protective tube solution. Skin Protect offers consumers with sensitive skin a way to keep their product free of contamination over time using a practical, easy-to-use packaging solution.

08 Feb 19

Aptar Beauty + Home creates a made-to-measure packaging solution for Guerlain’s Abeille Royale Double R

For its new high-performance skincare product, the luxury brand was looking for exclusive packaging that would both visually recall the cells of the hive and dispense two distinct formulas that could merge in the bottle pump. The result is a made-to-measure creation for this new serum and its bee seal stamped double pump bottle which dispenses the perfect amount of the brand’s antiageing corrective formulas with each actuation.

08 Feb 19

The return of vitamin C in anti-aging formulas

Vitamin C, already well known for its energizing and anti-oxidant virtues, is back front and center in the cosmetic world in ultra-concentrated formulas. Vitamin C has been able to make a comeback thanks to new innovations in packaging that help stabilize this fragile active ingredient.

21 Jan 19

Testing ergonomic and practical design to give consumers what they want

In the field of cosmetics and dermatology, consumers’ subjective concerns are crucial. Consumers have certain expectations when it comes to texture, color and fragrance, and packaging plays a major role in ensuring product quality. Aptar conducts qualitative studies to create packaging solutions that meet market needs.

14 Jan 19

Testing to ensure airtightness

Skin Protect has undergone microbiological lab testing to ensure its container remains airtight to prevent microbial contamination through contact with air or skin.

14 Jan 19

Note, a new fragrance application ritual for women with cancer

Applying perfume is a way of asserting oneself, expressing one’s personality, one’s singularity, existing socially, either by allowing a trail to blossom, or more intimately when the fragrance lingers close to the skin. For women with cancer, this simple gesture is often impossible, prevented by the treatments which affect sense of smell or scars that do not allow the use of sprays. For the launch of the first perfume designed for these women, the Ozalys brand has chosen Aptar Beauty + Home and its NOTE system.

18 Dec 18

Organic cosmetics: A key market

Driven by the growth of preservative-free and clean cosmetics, organic products are boosting their market share. While still considered a niche market, sales of organic personal care products are growing at 10% a year and are expected to account for more than US$25 billion by 2025! However, many consumers have found themselves confused between these products and those called “natural”.

18 Dec 18

Regulations: the end of “Free From” claims

“Paraben-free”, “allergen-free”, “preservative-free”… these negative claims will soon belong to the past thanks to stricter European regulations on this type of statement. Here’s how that will work.

13 Dec 18

Sterile Filling: a Crucial Priority against Bacterial Contamination

At a time when “preservative-free” products are in high demand, filling poses a crucial challenge for product manufacturers because the process needs to protect the formula from the time it is packaged. Learn more about our solution to ensure product integrity before it hits store shelves.

13 Dec 18

A boom in anti-pollution barrier formulas

With urban pollution worsening and aggravated by climate change, consumers have become more aware that they need to protect their skin from the harmful combined effects of UV rays and fine particles. Brands have started addressing this need with “shield” formulas.

11 Dec 18

Pre- and probiotics: from niche to mainstream

If our gut is our “second brain”, our skin flora is the natural shield for our skin! Formulas enriched with pre- and probiotics are becoming more widespread and promise a more natural approach to skincare.

11 Dec 18

Welcome to the golden age of Clean Cosmetics

Just like the agrifood industry, the dermocosmetic sector is experiencing a real paradigm shift. The trend is leaning towards cleaner, preservative-free formulas. Please welcome “clean cosmetics” – a phenomenon that can be explained and interpreted in the following three ways.

10 Dec 18

Skin Protect by Aptar Beauty + Home: the ideal packaging to protect your preservative-free formulas

Skin Protect is a revolutionary airless packaging designed to dispense and preserve any kind of fluid. It offers an extreme protection against all types of external contaminations. A three-point ventilation of the overcap prevents any surface moisture or air containment. The tubes are submitted to heavy tests against microbiological contaminants, in both dry and humid environments, and in both static and moving positions.

10 Dec 18

CLEAN Reserve chooses Aptar Easy Clip Card for Avant Garden Collection

CLEAN Reserve is sampling the Avant Garden Collection using Aptar’s Easy Spray and Clip Card. Easy Spray is Aptar’s most widely used sampler, with a metal free product path, discreet dip-tube and available in 1.5 and 2ml.

22 May 18

La Petite by Aptar Beauty + Home on behalf of Amo, the new Ferragamo fragrance

There is a way of applying perfume to match any personality, culture or occasion. Aptar Beauty + Home is always inventing new application methods, with sprays ranging from the traditional to the ultra-sensory. Today, Salvatore Ferragamo has chosen Aptar to offer the ideal spray for its new fragrance, a bold and rebellious Floral Oriental.

03 May 18

With Auriga City, Aptar Beauty + Home puts Uriage’s new anti-ageing range under high protection

Uriage chose Aptar Beauty + Home’s Auriga City airless solution to effectively protect its AGE PROTECT range, whose multi-action formulas combat both the signs of ageing and external aggressors (pollution, stress, blue light, etc.). A logical step as it needs to preserve highly sensitive formulas intended for fragile skin.

24 Apr 18

Arquiste selects Easy Spray, Aptar Beauty + Home’s full-service sampling & promotion solution for two new fragrance launches

Artisanal perfumer Carlos Huber introduces two new fragrances to the Arquiste line: Esencia Del Palacio Limoneros and Esencia Del Palacio Guayabos using Aptar Easy Spray 1.5 ml vial on card fragrance sampler.

17 Apr 18

Discreet and stylish: Breaking the taboos around sexual well-being packaging

In the past, sexual well-being products such as personal lubricants and vibrators were perceived as inappropriate and immoral. Those days are long gone. The sexual well-being market is growing every year, thanks to a growing acceptance and a change in perception by the end consumer. In partnership with Precise Plastic, Aptar leveraged its expertise into a custom solution using a PAV/U pump for the 10ml on-the-go pack, for her.

10 Apr 18

Driving sustainability through dispenser pump and closure launches

Aptar beauty + home is driving sustainability by launching closures made of Post Consumer Resin (PCR) and the first dispenser pump made of bio-based material. The first tangible outcome from Aptar's strong commitment to sustainable materials is the recent launch of Aptar’s tube top, snap top and disc top closures made of PCR resin.

10 Mar 18

Valvoline selects Aptar to bring a better consumer experience to motor oil packaging

Valvoline set out to make changing oil easier, faster and cleaner for users of its Do It Yourself “DIY” motor oil products with their new, highly functional five-liter “Easy Pour Bottle” package. An exceptional user experience was at the heart of the bottle’s development, as Valvoline invited consumers to share feedback throughout the process, which was used to inform the most user-friendly package design possible.

26 Feb 18

Introducing the New SheerMist Insert

Aptar launched SheerMist – the new mechanical break-up insert that creates a gentle, fine mist spray. The SheerMist insert provides key benefits* to consumers including a soft, uniform and quick drying spray – the result of low spray flow rate and fine particle size dispersion.

20 Feb 18

Aptar Beauty + Home creates the "Sample of the Future" for Yves Saint Laurent

By reproducing the product’s application experience on a smaller scale, Aptar Beauty + Home has transformed a promotional tool into an engaging experience that delivers Yves Saint Laurent’s luxurious, design-forward world to potential customers, staying true to the original product and offering an incentive to buy.

17 Feb 18

“I Love My Planet” shower gel by Yves Rocher, the new challenge met by Aptar Beauty + Home

To allow Yves Rocher to develop its ultra-concentrated I Love My Planet Shower Gel, Aptar Beauty + Home devised a custom SimpliSqueeze closure with superior dispensing control that improves consumer convenience and reduces environmental impact.

15 Feb 18

Olfactive neutrality: Dispensing technologies that foster olfactive creation

Brands nowadays, are faced with the challenge of providing dispensing that ensures the integrity of the contents. A new generation of sprays, like Aptar's La petite, provide perfect olfactive neutrality – meaning that the fragrance is never in contact with components that might modify even the most subtle notes of the perfumer’s original creation.

10 Feb 18

Aptar Beauty + Home, a custom partner for IOMA’s personalized cosmetics

Sleek, refined design, unique, high-precision application: Aptar Beauty + Home helps promote the pioneer of personalized cosmetics by tailoring its packaging solution Serumony to IOMA, the expert in custom skincare.

01 Dec 17

Aptar Beauty + Home offers Clarins innovative new packaging for the 8th generation of its legendary Double Serum

If Double Serum is unquestionably the Clarins brand’s iconic product, it is because it is made up of the best scientific and technological formulas.

01 Nov 17

Aptar Beauty + Home, the pick of the innovations presented at the LUXE PACK MONACO 2017 trade fair!

Aptar Beauty + Home, worldwide leader in fragrance and facial skin care packaging delivery systems (sprays, aerosols, pump bottles, etc.) supports brands throughout the project process from design to creation, drawing on its accurate knowledge of trends and new consumer habits.

01 Oct 17

With Serumony, L‘oreal stays ahead of current hair care solutions with the first personalized colour care

The new launch Kerastase Touche Chromatique, a highly concentrated colour pigment for long lasting colour enhancement and refinement, is an answer to the key consumer trend of high-end personalization.

01 Jun 17

Runway: dual spray, dual convenience

Runway is a bold, dramatic innovation providing choice for convenient dispensing: Actuate vertically or via trigger.

17 May 17

PZ series welcomes LARK: an elegant design pump with a lockable actuator

The new PZ Lark enlarges our lotion pump offering a new cosmetic and elegant design targeted for high end products in Hair Care and Body Care.

01 May 17

Aptar Beauty + Home in the stars with Mugler

Mugler’s Angel range is expanding even further with a delicious new oriental fragrance called ANGEL ETOILE DES REVES. For this new eau de parfum, Angel has created a brand new night time ritual.

01 Feb 17

SERUMONY, a technological and precious showcase for the brand new ultra-premium Cure from La Colline

Women are constantly searching for ultra-performaning skincare treatments and are always on the look out for new dispensing systems. To address these demanding requirements, La Colline is launching NativAge La Cure, a complete treatment consisting of a super powerful formula, Essence.

01 Nov 16

PZ Heaven: New spray technology by Aptar Beauty + Home

PZ Heaven delivers an enriched sensorial experience, longer duration, and dryer feeling spray.

01 Oct 16

L’Oréal and Aptar collaboration – Hair mousse format with exclusive design and superior dispensing functionality

L’Oréal has launched their new Elnett Crème de Mousse styling foam. Not only does the product deliver a delightful rich mousse with satin touch, but the total package is a real standout, redefining this hair styling category!

01 Sep 16

Lionel de Benetti’s New Brand Features Aptar Beauty + Home

Lionel de Benetti has created his first facial skincare product by teaming with Aptar Beauty + Home

01 May 16

Glacier by Aptar Launches in Argentina

Glacier is Aptar’s new, mono-injected closure with a smooth and modern style, highlighted by an elegant gloss finish. Glacier offers a renewed design of the 25mm closure, adaptable to most of the standard bottles in the market.

10 Mar 16

POISON GIRL «I am not a girl, I am poison.» The enchanting softness of the «Precious» spray for Poison Girl

Christian Dior’s legendary Poison has been reinvented in the form of a new daring and audacious signature fragrance. Poison Girl is intended for today’s rebellious, sexy woman.

01 Mar 16

Vague de Fraîcheur Selects Glencoe Twist-Lock Aerosol Accessory from Aptar Beauty + Home

With Aptar’s twist-lock actuator, consumers are delighted about the capability to lock their deodorant and throw it into their handbag for on-the-go use.

29 Feb 16

Softips: a direct, soft and controlled way to dispense

Consumers are looking for innovative packaging solutions for Personal Care that simplify their life and enhance their user experience. Aptar Beauty + Home developed Softips - an innovative closure that integrates the Aptar patented silicone valves.

17 Feb 16

Glide is the new Aptar hoodless accessory technology using the popular glide motion

Create a fun, interactive accessory that uses the MOST COMMON gesture of today – the sliding motion of digital technology like iPods and smartphones. It engages consumers with fun, interactive movement and sensory cues.

09 Feb 16

Proteo: The Next Dispensing Revolution for Flexible Packaging

Our new Proteo platform is for Personal care marketers, who want to grow their sales of on-the-go products such as Hair Care, Body Care, Baby Care and Sun Care

01 Feb 16

Serumony Featured in the PhysioLift Skin Care Range from Laboratoires Dermatologiques Avène

Aptar Beauty + Home is contributing to the success of Laboratoires Dermatologiques Avène’s PhysioLift range with its premium airless Serumony packaging.

27 Jan 16

AptarGroup to Acquire Mega Airless, a leading airless systems innovator

Aptar Group, Inc. has signed an agreement to acquire Mega Airless, a leading provider of innovative airless dispensing systems for the beauty, personal care and pharmaceutical markets. This strategic acquisition adds complementary products and market coverage to AptarGroup's existing diversified portfolio of business.

25 Jan 16