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Beauty's Big secret
Shh. More and more women are buying their $70 face creams and allover bronzers from the land of carnival sweatshirts. By Cara Birnbaum
ne evening not long ago, Philosophy creator and CEO Cristina Carlino arrived at the studios of home-shopping channel QVC in West Chester, Pennsylvania, to do what she does best: turn a warehouse of scented lo-tions and tinted lip balm into cold, hard cash. During her second hour on the air, Carlino looked intently into a television camera, extolling the virtues of body scrubs. "Your shower needs to mean something to you," she said, sounding more like a preachy next-door neighbor than an imperious ...