“Cannabis Will Be Like Lavender in Five Years,” and Other Top Takeaways from Cosmoprof North America 2018

Executive Summary

Last week, the Coresight Research team was in Las Vegas to attend Cosmoprof North America 2018, where our CEO and Founder, Deborah Weinswig, presented at a panel session called “Rise of Pop-Ups (Pop-Up Push).” Cosmoprof is the leading B2B beauty trade show in North America, drawing over 33,000 attendees and 1,015 exhibitors from 39 countries. Here are our key takeaways from the third day of the event:

• Cosmoprof created “Discover Green,” a floor space dedicated to green, eco-friendly, clean, organic and natural products in beauty, showcasing innovative ideas from beauty marketers in the growing environmentally-conscious market.
• High-performing plant-based skincare products are on the rise.
• Beauty brands are creating solutions to reduce the waste of resources and damage to the environment; the brand Reise is using packaging that replaces plastics with rice bran.
• Beauty brands are becoming more innovative with natural ingredients, using never-heard-of before ingredients to solve consumer problems.
• There was a lot of conversation about cannabis beauty products, although very few products containing CBD were actually at the show.