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Mar 25, 2008 -
Natural Ingredients
by Nick Morante
There will be an e-training course coming up in April based on Natural Ingredients and Products. This trend has become the wave of the future and is here now. The course, which will be held on Thursday, April 22nd, 2008 (check the time in your particular location), will focus on key aspects of the natural ingredient market and products that are making all natural claims. It will examine these claims and show how they can differ from product to product...
Feb 27, 2008 -
Antiperspirant Deodorant Trends and Innovation
by Vispi Kanga
In the past, the usage rate of antiperspirants and deodorants for men was low. Men tended to use products for women with abundant variations.
Feb 15, 2008 -
Natural Products and Fragrances
by Nick Morante
Perfume and fragrance development began in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt but was developed and further refined by the Romans and Persians in approximately the second millennium BC...
Jan 11, 2008 -
Celebrity boom or burnout?
by Imogen Matthews
A key driver in today’s beauty markets is celebrity endorsement as companies rush to sign up the latest hot name. A well-known name is a guaranteed way of creating instant brand awareness and in many cases can galvanise a company’s sales and profits...
Oct 25, 2007 -
Interview with George Hammer, founder of Urban Retreat and U R Beautiful
by Imogen Matthews
George Hammer could be described as a visionary. He was the man who brought Jane Fonda's aerobic dance concept from California to London in 1975, pioneering the fitness craze that is still in full swing today...
Mar 9, 2007 -
Fragrance Chemicals Overview
by Vispi Kanga
The chemicals isolated from natural material derived from plant or animal sources and synthetics represent a broad spectrum of functional groups and a variety of hydrocarbon roots. Aromatic substances are formed and stored in certain organs of the plant such as leaves, flowers, fruits or roots...
Feb 28, 2007 -
Soap and Detergent Association Meets in Florida
by Nancy Jeffries
The 81st Annual Meeting of the Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) took place in Boca Raton, Florida on January 30 through February 2, 2007...
Feb 9, 2007 -
Home Fragrance Plus Philanthropy Extend the Medium
by Nancy Jeffries
Scented candles, sachets, oils, potpourris and incense, electric air fresheners and gels have become staples of the home fragrance market...
Feb 2, 2007 -
Children's Products - Part 3
by Nick Morante
I was very lucky to find some articles that dealt with the contents and fragrance allergens that can be found in almost every children's cosmetic products. Children's products usually do contain fragrances or maskants of some type...
Dec 11, 2006 -
Probiotics get personal
by Doris De Guzman
PROBIOTIC BACTERIA is invading the cosmetic and personal care market. BASF and its venture partner OrganoBalance GmbH have identified several probiotic cultures particularly of the Lactobacilli genus (lactic acid bacteria) for use in personal care and oral care products.
Dec 4, 2006 -
Smell of Success
by Doris De Guzman
Fragrance consumption increases as manufacturers sniff out new growth avenues within the cosmetics & toiletries and household markets...
Nov 20, 2006 -
Fine Fragrance Trends
by LaToyah Burke
Fragrance has the ability to make a good first impression. Whether it's that cute guy who just walked by or grandma coming to stay for the holidays, the scents that we wear can have a lasting effect on our perceptions of each other...
Nov 8, 2006 -
The History of Fragrances and Flavors
by Nick Morante
The history of Fragrances and Flavors can be dated back to antiquity. The earliest commercial items, around 3000 BC, were likely to have been spices, gums, aromatic & fragrant plants and fruits...
Nov 1, 2006 -
Fragrance and Odor Evaluation
by Nick Morante
Like color, fragrance and odor is a very sensory human function. In the animal kingdom, odor can even be involved with life or death situations, for protection of species and even for reproduction. That is how important fragrance and odor is...
Oct 23, 2006 -
High End European Beauty Lines Come to Walgreens
by Lindsay Elkins
Shopping for luxury beauty products once meant time spent at a department store counter speaking with an advisor and trying to find the best products to address certain skin concerns...
Aug 3, 2006 -
Quality Specifications? . . .
Not really!
by Mort Westman
There were no indignant calls from Marketing or Sales. No finger pointing among QA, R&D, Operations and Purchasing. Wal-Mart’s biggest order of the decade was not shipped because the batch of body wash compounded for that purpose failed to meet quality standards...
Apr 19, 2006 -
Is innovation lacking in the perfumes and fragrances market?
by Imogen Matthews
In the rush to get new brand launches to market, it is inevitable that innovation is compromised in the creation of new fragrances. Launch frenzy means that many fragrance brands now add flankers to existing brands, such as Pleasures Exotic by Estée Lauder, or seasonally focused limited editions...
Mar 29, 2006 -
Making Sense of Scents
by Susan A. Eliya
Sales of home fragrances continue to burn brightly. Here's why.
Mar 28, 2006 -
Perfume marketing tools: from reason to emotion
by Sabine Chabbert
If there is a sector in which creative marketing is still in its adolescence, it's perfume. yet new tools are created year after year to spur the creativity of those involved both inside companies and out. what tomorrow’s fragrances will be is already the subject of research...
Dec 21, 2005 -
Uncommon Scents
by Melanie Henson
Thanks to some novel fragrance ideas, the sales drought may be over for the fragrance industry.
Nov 23, 2005 -
Fine Fragrance Trends
by Susan A. Eliya
More culinary-based notes are finding their way into fine fragrances. Celebrity scents are expected to dominate this holiday season.
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