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The Newest Outlook on Anti-Aging & Cosmetics Growth
The cosmetics market is expected to garner $429.8 billion USD globally by 2022, according to new research. There are several factors contributing to the sustained boom of the cosmetics and anti-aging sectors, including a shift in disposable income spending habits and lifestyle priorities, an augmented consumer interest in purchasing new and...
Join Us at SCCC Suppliers’ Day 17 in Long Beach!
We’d be glad to see you if you’re planning to attend the Society of Cosmetic Chemists California Suppliers’ Day 17event coming up October 25-26 at the Long Beach Convention Center. Even if you hadn’t been planning it, it’s an event that’s well worth your time. Coast Southwest will be in Booth 341,...
Beauty Brands Embrace New Attitudes About Anti-Aging
As each generation ages, so do attitudes about how to regard aging, and what “anti-aging” products and treatments really represent. Cover Girl’s brand and positioning “makeover” with a new campaign line, “I Am What I Make Up,” is a sign of how this is playing out. “Easy, Breezy, Beautiful” is now...
DNA Skincare & Anti-Aging: How Big is Big?
The ultimate in personal care personalization will involve formulations practically tailored to each and every individual, if science keeps up its pace of discovery and advancement. How big a market will that be? Already, analysts are making lofty predictions about the overall direct-to-consumer “genomics market,” which includes companies ranging from...
Saluting Private Sector Support for STEM
Sooner than you know, it’ll be time for another You Be The Chemist!® program, aimed at instilling K-8 students with understanding and appreciation of the sciences. It’s a great program that we’re happy to be a supported of in California, but we also have to salute anyone supporting STEM education and promotion efforts, and more...
Anti-Aging Update: Innovations & Oddities
Every so often, we like to take a look around to see what’s new in the world of anti-aging personal care products and science. There’s a constant stream of new formulations, research, products and more, and it’s exciting to witness what’s happening. Sometimes, though, it seems as though events are pushing the...