Each story is written with context so you can see how it affects your brands, your market or your next move.
Journalism shaped by years of experience across consumer health, cosmetics and personal care.
Analysis that helps companies plan and act around ingredient rules, claim scrutiny and category shifts
Each story puts the news into perspective so you can see how it affects your goals, your market or your next move, across all three sectors.
HBW Insight’s reporters have covered these industries and their regulators for years, with the relationships that produce insight rather than restatement.
With rising operational costs, tightening scrutiny of claims and a push toward global harmonization, timely and accurate information is the basis for both strategic planning and compliance.
Articles published annually
Leading industry events reported on the ground annually
Over The Counter podcast conversations
FDA, EU and national rules across OTC medicines, supplements and cosmetics, including monograph and switch activity.
Ingredient reviews, restrictions, testing findings and the substantiation expected behind them.
Claim scrutiny, self-regulatory decisions and enforcement across all three sectors.
Class actions, enforcement and the litigation trends shaping how products are marketed.
Launches, reformulation and the technologies changing how products are developed and sold.
M&A, spinoffs, supply chain strategy and the retail dynamics behind category performance.
Regulatory and compliance teams use HBW Insight to follow evolving state, local and international requirements on ingredients, packaging and trade, so reformulation and labeling work starts before a deadline forces it.
With claim substantiation under scrutiny and class action litigators looking for new targets, marketing and legal teams use HBW Insight’s coverage of enforcement, self-regulatory decisions and litigation to understand where claim risk is concentrated.
Coverage of launches, reformulations and category performance across OTC, supplements and cosmetics gives brand and innovation teams a view of where demand is moving and which competitors are moving with it.
Tariffs, environmental regulation and the push toward global harmonization are remaking supply chain strategy. HBW Insight tracks these developments across markets so planning teams can see the full picture rather than one country’s view.
From regulatory affairs to commercial strategy, HBW Insight serves the people whose decisions depend on knowing how rules, claims and categories are changing.
Regulatory teams track ingredient rules, labeling requirements and enforcement across OTC, supplements and cosmetics.
Brand and marketing teams follow claim scrutiny, advertising decisions and the category trends shaping consumer demand.
Formulation teams monitor ingredient reviews, safety findings and the substantiation expected behind product claims.
Counsel use HBW Insight to follow class action activity, enforcement trends and self-regulatory decisions.
Suppliers and packagers track the regulation, trade policy and customer strategy that determine their own markets.
Industry associations, regulators and the consultants working with them rely on HBW Insight for a cross-sector view.
Norstella’s award-winning publications provide in-depth coverage of the life sciences and healthcare industry, thanks to 60+ in-house journalists who tackle the tough issues with precision, persistence and passion.
HBW Insight’s reporters cover consumer health and wellness, cosmetics and personal care across the US, Europe and APAC, with the combined experience to put each development in context and see its implications across all three sectors.
HBW Insight is Norstella’s publication for the consumer health, beauty and wellness industries. It is a single source of regulatory, legislative, legal and commercial news and analysis covering over-the-counter medicines, vitamins and dietary supplements, and cosmetics and personal care.
OTC medicines, supplements and cosmetics have increasing points of intersection, in ingredients, claims, retail and regulation. Covering them in one place means developments affecting more than one sector are reported as a single connected picture rather than three partial ones.
HBW Insight goes behind the news to explain the implications of worldwide industry developments for the reader’s business, drawing on journalists based in key markets and on exclusive interviews with executives, associations and technical experts.
Subscribers include executives, marketers, manufacturers, suppliers, packagers and regulatory affairs professionals across the consumer health, cosmetics and personal care industries, along with regulators themselves and the consultants, attorneys and associations working with them.
Yes. Coverage spans the US, Europe and rest of the world, including China, Korea, Brazil and other regions, including national regulation, global harmonization efforts and the trade and tariff developments affecting supply chains across all three sectors.
