Beauty Features
Last Year's Launches Buoy Midwest Sales
CHICAGO -- Midwest retailers reported healthy gains in treatment sales last year and cited signs of strength in early 1994, as alpha-hydroxy acid products continue to top the charts.
Results ranged up to mid-double-digit percentage increases...
— Mar 18, 1994
Beauty Companies Ride Acid Wave
Skin care companies are...
— Mar 18, 1994
Stand-Alone Products Stand Out in Southwest
DALLAS -- Acid and botanical-based items are turning up the volume of Southwest skin care sales, according to retailers here.
Store executives said the treatment business is ahead 5 to 20 percent over last year, adding that the category...
— Mar 18, 1994
Acid Items: the Engine that Drives N.Y. Sales
NEW YORK -- Alpha-hydroxy acid-based skin care is no fad, according to department store retailers here.
The merchants noted that last year's bevy of AHA launches continues to post strong sales, while customers are showing no signs of losing...
— Mar 18, 1994
Playing the Angles the Ruthless Way
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. -- Ruthless Health & Beauty Aids is breaking the rules.
While most of the nation's drugstores uniformly feature straight shelves and white tile floors, this new drugstore flouts convention with a provocative name,...
— Mar 18, 1994
de la Renta's Oscar Premiere
NEW YORK -- The 16-year-old Oscar de la Renta women's fragrance will make a second debut Monday night during the Academy Awards telecast.
It will take a bow with its name shortened to a more colloquial Oscar and a sexy new ad campaign...
— Mar 18, 1994
At the Counter
ATLANTA
The idea of aging freaks me out a little. OK, a lot. So I dragged Pamela, my close friend and colleague, to the mall to check out the hype on Elizabeth Arden's Alpha-Ceramide four-step treatment, the newest cure for...
— Mar 18, 1994
