Market Report | The State of Cosmetic Compliance and Product Innovation 2025-2030

The global cosmetics industry is heading into its most transformative decade yet - with stricter regulations, fast-evolving sustainability standards, AI integration, and scientific breakthroughs like neurocosmetics and NAD+ skincare. Are you prepared for what is coming next?

What's Inside?

• Regulatory Overhaul in the EU and UK: Understand how upcoming bans on key ingredients like Retinol and 4-MBC, plus new safety standards, will impact formulation strategies and compliance deadlines through 2030.
• The Rise of Sustainable Cosmetics: Learn how new packaging laws, green claims directives, and environmental labelling requirements are pushing brands to embrace full-spectrum sustainability - or face penalties.
• Innovation Through Science: Neurocosmetics & Microbiome Skincare Discover why products targeting the skin-brain axis and skin microbiota are set to dominate the next decade - and how to position your brand early in these emerging markets.
• The Real Risks of Non-Compliance: Explore the most common pitfalls brands face (from banned substances to unsubstantiated claims), and how to mitigate the financial and reputational damage of enforcement actions.
• AI, AR & Data Privacy in Tech: Dive into the explosive rise of AI in product personalisation and marketing - and learn how to stay compliant with biometric data regulations and the incoming EU AI Act.

Plus so much more!

Did you know?

• 6.4% of cosmetics sold in the EEA fail to meet compliance standards.
• By 2030, all packaging in the EU must be recyclable.
• The neurocosmetics market is forecast to hit $2.7B - are you positioned for it?

Whether you’re in product development and innovation, regulatory affairs, R&D, brand strategy, or sustainability, this report is your roadmap to staying competitive and compliant through 2030.