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...Creating cosmetics – which in di Praglia’s case sits alongside book restoration, wine making and a conference centre in the monastery’s roster of small businesses – is important for the survival of a way...
...Cheap bills were the other benefit of decades of underinvestment in UK water infrastructure…That era of cosmetic, short term good times is over....
...They share 60 cosmetic industry awards between them, with 85 per cent of customers signed up to restock products around every eight weeks....
...The bestselling Plum Elixir, for example, uses discarded plum kernels for a serum that is “more powerful for skin or hair than marula and argan oil”....
...In my kit, I don’t carry a single jar of a wonder elixir....
...Her earliest ambitions were to evoke an English country garden, and a personal elixir, Sacred Mist....
...In 2021, NMC recorded gross revenue of 4.51bn UAE dirhams ($1.23bn) and ebitda of Dh755mn, with a strong performance from its cosmetic surgery and fertility hospitals....
...In this small window of time, Isabelle and Margaret serve their customers like they are selling elixirs for the soul....
...The UK and large parts of the world were already in lockdown by the time Charlotte Tilbury launched her Magic Serum Crystal Elixir last month....
...U Beauty is her answer to what she calls the “cosmetic confusion”....
...Nevertheless, the group, which owns the Elixir and Maquillage brands, has yet to stem losses in the US....
...The damaging exchange rates could not have come at a worse time for the 144-year-old Japanese group, which owns the Elixir, Maquillage and top-of-the-range Clé de Peau brands....
...While you no longer need jump on the Eurostar for a fix, for these elixirs to go mainstream, consumers need to get to grips with the unique French approach to skincare....
...Shiseido is one of the best-known names in global cosmetics with brands such as Elixir, Maquillage and top-of-the-range Clé de Peau....
...A nut oil, harvested and used by north-African Berbers for culinary and cosmetic purposes, argan has since been adopted as a universal cosmetic ingredient (its latest incarnation is in Rimmel London Wonder...
...Angeles-based company, has a Wine Hydrating Mask (£25.20/$40) with grape seed and wine extracts, which, it says, stimulates cellular renewal and reduces wrinkles, while Greek brand Apivita offers a Wine Elixir...
...The soaring demand for skin creams and cosmetic surgery to make people look younger has been driven more by changing social attitudes than by any fundamental scientific advances....
...Cosmetic surgery accounted for the other 25 per cent, with anti-ageing facial creams worth about £270m....
...On the other hand, Kidman had the benefits of a little soft focus, benign colour lighting and ample cosmetics as Gellhorn. Plus, most of us look better than our ancestors did in 1943....
...The product: Kerastase Elixir Ultime. In the cosmetics business, calling a spade a spade goes severely against the “hope in a jar” ethos but, in real terms, this is a hair oil....
...if only in some instances – to take advantage of susceptible, try-anything consumers; bull’s semen to counteract baldness, snake-venom face cream and nightingale-dropping facials, are just some of the elixirs...
...But why should expensive cosmetics – not to mention the women who use them – be viewed as the devil’s own work?...
...Congress, in response, passed the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to regulate drug safety testing including mandatory safety studies....
...Time was when a woman had her regular face creams, her tried-and-tested cosmetics, even her signature fragrance, and nothing new that appeared on the market could drive her off course....
...Beijing’s trendy Xidan shopping area bustles with the after-work crowd: young women browsing for the latest cosmetic elixirs....
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