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Sep 29, 2010 | Article
By Nancy Jeffries
Eye makeup and treatment products are strong performers in today's burgeoning eye care market. Enhanced lashes, featuring lash growth and volumizing formulations, and the reduction of fine lines...
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Sep 1, 2010 | Article
Multi-hued beauty is one of the most dynamic growth areas in the cosmetics arena today. No longer the domain of any single group, the multicultural or ethnic consumer, which includes, but is not...
Aug 11, 2010 | Article
By Karen
There is an increasing synergy between personal care formulations and their packaging.Whether it’s fragile ingredients that need special handling or the consumer demanding innovation,marketers are...
Jul 14, 2010 | Article
By Yoshiko Kasuga
BB creams are booming in Japan. Every drugstore and variety store seems to have BB cream corner and it seems all the Japanese females are using at least one. BB creams provide multiple functions...
Jun 2, 2010 | Article
What does the post recession beauty consumer in North American look like? Today's consumer is emerging from the recession with a radically new definition of the American Dream and a renewed...
May 19, 2010 | Article
By Nick Morante
Nitrocellulose-based nail lacquers still remain one of the most popular decorative products with consumers. Even with the bad press that some ingredients (butyl phthalate for example) in these...
Dec 16, 2009 | Article
Putting a cream in a stock jar is about as contemporary as an answering machine. Not only do the air and light degrade many of the active ingredients in the formula, but the packaging world is...
Aug 19, 2009 | Article
The use of treatment ingredients in makeup and other decorative cosmetics has become more prevalent in recent times. But what do we consider treatment ingredients? On many occasions I have been...
Aug 5, 2009 | Article
On June 11, 2009, ICMAD, the Independent Cosmetic Manufacturers and Distributors, held its annual C.I.T.Y. Awards, for the Cosmetic Innovators of the Year, in New York City. Following a welcome by...
Jun 17, 2009 | Article
One of the best ways to show the growth of the men's cosmetics market is to evaluate it on a global basis. In recent presentations I have indicated that the growth in some strategic markets of the...