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Exploring Outsourcing—Challenges and Opportunities

As companies’ needs for both innovation and building efficiencies accelerate, the benefits of outsourcing become clearer and clearer.

Ingestible Skin Care

Natural-based dietary ingredient designed to address mild to moderate skin conditions.

What’s Next for Cosmeceuticals and Nutricosmetics?

Skepticism still exists with regard to the efficacy of both cosmeceuticals and nutricosmetics, and questions remain as to how these products will fair within the unfolding economic climate.

Demand for Flavors & Fragrances to Reach $5.3 Billion

The Freedonia Group forecasts growth of 3.7% annually through 2012; fragrances will play an important role in product differentiation, aiding demand growth.

You Can Lead a Woman to Nutricosmetics and Cosmeceuticals, But Will She Try Them?

Nutricosmetics and cosmeceuticals serve consumers whose lifestyles lead them to naturals. Yet, the majority of consumers can’t define what these products are, even while willing to use them.

Cosmetic Hybrids Create Confusion Among Consumers

New cosmetics innovations are creating subcategories that cross over into industries outside of beauty, leading to hybrids of cosmetics that can confuse consumers.

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Nestle Introduces Beauty Drink

Nestle introduces daily beauty drink dietary supplement positioned as viable part of antiaging skin care regimen.

Absorbing Supplements

WEB exclusive from “Eat and Drink Your Skin Care,” August 2008 GCI magazine cover story.

Starting Point: Down a New Path

As the notion of wellness crept into our lives and into the industry vocabulary, cosmetic products with ingredients that went beyond texture, moisturization, color and fragrance made their way into spas, salons and physicians’ offices, and onto store shelves.

The FDA and Supplements

Until 1994, supplements were subject to the same regulatory requirements as were other foods.

Nutricosmetics: Facing the Obstacles

Brands explore the challenges posed by the ever-expanding nutricosmetics market.

Nutricosmetics: A New Way to Beauty

Euromonitor International examines the market for nutricosmetics in the wider context of cosmetics and toiletries and the emerging nutraceuticals market.

Nutricosmetics: Eat and Drink Your Skin Care

As consumers continue to incorporate appearance into their overall concept of wellness, nutricosmetics may prove to be a financially advantageous new frontier for the beauty industry.

NMI Announces 2007 Health and Wellness Market Stats

U.S. retail sales of consumer packaged goods in the category reached $102.75 billion…

Anheuser-Busch to Market and Distribute Skin Balance Water

Distribution and marketing of BORBA Skin Balance Waters and drinkable skin care line allows beer company to participate in the emerging nutraceutical beverage category; provides expansion opportunity...

Blyth Acquires Retailer; Supplement Brand

Acquisition of catalog/Internet retailer and entry into the health/wellness category called a fit for the company's strategy...

Green Convergence

The link between nutrition and beauty is inspiring a new breed of beauty products. Marketers are recognizing the value of rolling health care and beauty into overall treatment programs supported by eco-friendly products, and both manufacturers and consumers are feeling their way through a transition as conscience and economics converge.

Starting Point: Finding Common Ground

Power drinks and energy bars were ubiquitous among the food products sampled at Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, California, last month and it was all served up with a hearty side order of food for thought from the personal care side of the show.