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Rihanna’s New Beauty Line Forecasts the Future
Among the many trends powering the future of the global beauty and personal care products marketplace, there’s one that’s symbolized by the recent news that Rihanna (or “Riri,” as we semi-coolish types think of her) was launching a new makeup line, Fenty Beauty. The line, only available at Sephora, was designed by Rihanna expressly...
How Is AR Affecting Anti-Aging?
The big reveal of the new iPhone X and its augmented reality (AR) capabilities – an area where Apple is making a huge push – made us think of just how hot the topic of AR is becoming in cosmetics and personal care, including anti-aging. From sophisticated new in-store merchandising experiences, like...
Anti-Aging: The Trillion-Dollar Window
Frankly, the number is fairly mind-boggling. For a couple of years now, some analysts have been projecting the worldwide anti-aging market to grow to being worth one trillion dollars in sales – or more – by 2025. Is it unduly optimistic? By any measure, anti-aging is on an upswing that’s impressive, as we’ve noted before....
How Hurricane Harvey Showcased Chemical Industry Safety
We’ve been following developments around Hurricane Harvey closely, since we’ve got our own team in Texas. Thankfully, Arlington was far north of Harvey’s worst effects. But is anyone surprised that – as soon as an incident happened at a flooded Houston-area chemical plant in the wake of the storm – critics...
Ingredients of Controversy: The Parabens Panic
As more manufacturers and formulators develop an expanding range of cosmetic and personal care products to answer the call they’re getting from consumers worldwide, regulators around the world are beginning to exert their muscle when it comes to what they deem acceptable or unacceptable ingredients. That’s all well and good. Regulation isn’t inherently...
‘Allure’ Gets It Wrong About Anti-Aging
As GCI put it in their coverage of how Allure had banned a certain term from ever being used again in the magazine’s pages, “Anti-aging Is So 2016.” Allure‘s reasoning? The words “anti-aging” are “subtly reinforcing the message that aging is a condition we need to battle – think antianxiety (sic) meds, antivirus software, or antifungal...