Exploring the Nutricosmetic Market
09/15/2009 -
Understanding key ingredients, marketing challenges and regulatory requirements are essential to successfully entering the nutricosmetic market.
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The Science Behind Nutritional Cosmetics
09/10/2009 -
Nutritional cosmetics, or nutricosmetics, embrace the basic idea that what we eat impacts how we look. There is a rapidly growing interest in foods and dietary supplements that support healthier, better-looking skin, hair and nails.
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From Botox to Photoshop
08/25/2009 -
Diagonal Reports, argues in its latest research report a new beauty culture is emerging. It is shaped by a combination of factors such as significant technological innovations and contemporary consumer lifestyles.
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Understanding Women—At Least Their Buying Habits
08/12/2009 -
Women love their personal care products. They love what they do, or sometimes, what they’re supposed to do. Whether it be youth-driven creams, oil-fighting toners or silky moisturizers—women love buying beauty goods. But a new wave of products, nutricosmetics, is throwing some women for a loop. They are confused and uncertain on what exactly constitutes as a “nutricosmetic”, and the concept of...
Gluten Free Inside and Out
06/29/2009 -
Celiac disease (CD)/gluten intolerance (GI) affects 1 out of 133 Americans, or about 3 million people. This autoimmune disorder is genetic and leaves one unable to digest gluten properly. The result of this autoimmune disorder is damage and flattening to the villi that are responsible for absorption of nutrients. Those with CD have more advanced damage to their intestine as compared to those with...
Kitchen Treats in Cosmetics
06/10/2009 -
I’m sure your grocery list is chock full of healthful ingredients to create culinary fusions in the kitchen, but the latest trend is taking those good-for-you grocery items and formulating natural and organic cosmetics. Companies like Yes to Carrots, The Body Shop and Lush are already capitalizing on this concept with their food ingredient products.
As consumers become more interested in...
Beauty from Within … Enhancing Natural Beauty with Nutrition
05/28/2009 - The words “you are what you eat” could not be truer. Eating a diet as “clean” and free of toxins as possible protects the body from damage and disease, increases longevity, and keeps us looking and feeling younger. A few simple changes go a long way to improving the skin, and provide added benefits of having more energy and fewer aches and pains, which means less frowning and...