Beauty Features
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
CTFA at 100: Ample Reasons for Celebration
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- An air of quiet confidence characterized last week's Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association convention here -- the organization's 100th such gathering.
Many cosmetics and fragrance manufacturers said retail results for...
— Mar 11, 1994
Arden to Sponsor Women's Singles at '94 U.S. Open
NEW YORK -- Elizabeth Arden will sponsor the women's singles at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships this fall at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park here, the company said Wednesday.
Arden did not disclose financial details, but industry sources...
— Mar 11, 1994
