Drug & Cosmetic Industry articles from December 1993

Drug & Cosmetic Industry archives from December 1993

World Congress on Alternatives. (first World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences held) (Column)
December 1, 1993... The first World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences was held in November in Baltimore. Over 700 attendees from all over the world, including the United States, came to hear plenary sessions on "the Concepts of...

China's Yue-Sai Kan. (Chinese cosmetics entrepreneur)
December 1, 1993... Founders of the cosmetic industry were, as a whole, struggling, little-known men and women who helped to gain a foothold in the market when they started out the fought tooth and nail to carve their particular niches in the industry. However,...

Higher entry fee. (cosmetics suppliers and new materials) (Editorial)
December 1, 1993... It used to be relatively easy to become a supplier in the costmetic business. If you are able to discover, develop a process to make, or find a material in a foreign commodity market, and of course if it had any cosmestic application at all,...

Suppliers disgorge new hair care additives.
December 1, 1993... Of all major product categories, none has been so segmented and re-segmented as hair care products. This process of narrowing down market segments to increasingly smaller slices began, of course, with shampoos in the 1970s, accelerated with...

Defining the sunscreen market.
December 1, 1993... Although for decades conventional wisdom in the cosmetic indistry, especially among marketers of prestige products, has dictated against impetuous venturing into over-the-counter drug territory (except where legally unavoidable or there is...

Fragrance marketer dilemma: defining the essence of masculinity in the '90s. (includes related article on men's fragrances)
December 1, 1993... The macho man of the 1970s isn't seen much these days, nor is the "sensitive guy" of the 1980s. Today, through polls and focus groups and all sorts of sophisticated research techniques, fragrance marketers are tracking new definitions of...

CTFA conference weighs "natural" versus synthetic. (Cosmetic, Toiletry & Fragrance Association; debate over natural and synthetic cosmetic ingredients)
December 1, 1993... Whether "natural" cosmetic ingredients constitute the best possible choice or the one most predicated on current consumer preferences was the point of a debate at the Cosmetic, Toiletry & Fragrance Association's 50th annual Scientific...

Supplier show seminars assay controversial subjects. (10th annual International Cosmetic & Fragrance Supplier Show)
December 1, 1993... The supplier's role in new product development, sunscreens and the new Monograph, alpha hydroxy acids, direct response marketing--those were just a few of the "hot" subjects that dominated seminars at the 10th anniversary International...

Ingredient claims. (cosmetics industry) (Column)
December 1, 1993... I suppose that by now most of you have heard of the shopper who passed up a packaged food on sale in the supermarket because its label indicated that "the product is full of ingredients." That's a problem for us in the cosmetic industry...