Apr 5, 2006 | Article
A preservative is defined by The European Cosmetic Directive 76/768, amended for the 7th time in 2003 according to Appendix IV, as being: "any substance added as an ingredient to a cosmetic product...
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Apr 4, 2006 | Article
By SpecialChem
Francis Quin, researcher at L'Oréal: "L'Oréal launched into nanosciences very early, starting in the 1970s. But in a very original way we developed tools for analyzing and observing very small...
Since the early Fifties, long before mankind started "hunting cool", Parisian "bureaux de style" gathered and presented fashion trend information to industrial manufacturers. It all started when an...
Apr 3, 2006 | Article
From car colors with the pearly sheen of lipstick to skincare creams that look like jars of yoghurt, not to mention architecture-inspired perfume bottles or unusual approaches for advertisements...
Around the beginning of the 1990s the sun tanning market took a dramatic turn of events. The trend for a deep mahogany tan, so popular with American television soap stars, no longer held the same...
By Mort Westman
Life used to be simple. You knew who your friends and enemies were, and there were three categories of hair dyes: Temporary, Semi-Permanent and Permanent. * Temporary Hair Dyes -- are based on...
Apr 1, 2006 | Article
My father used to tell me a story about a farmer who wanted to save money by feeding his horse less food. He set out to determine the smallest amount of food he could feed the horse by giving him...
Mar 29, 2006 | Article
The function of all skin cosmetic products is to improve the inherent beauty of the skin, hiding all defaults, such as wrinkles, fine lines, dischromas... At the same time there is a strong consumer...
Mar 8, 2006 | Article
By Wouter Wiels
11 'secret' collaborations between creative structures and beauty manufacturers/suppliers. 11 results that were being unveiled during the three days of Creative Beyond Beauty, the international...
By Ava Caridad
For years, there was the notion of the "healthy tan," where the concept of baking brown in the sun was considered youthful, attractive and a sign of prosperity. That notion, thankfully, was...