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  • Lip, eye trends heat up beauty space

    Retailers are asking for fewer — but bigger and bolder — new products and fewer flankers.

    So what’s hot — and why?

  • Children’s Flonase offers 24-hour relief

    PARSIPPANY, N.J. — In March, GSK Consumer Healthcare launched Children’s Flonase. If sales of the children’s liquid versions of existing allergy brands are any indication — typically pediatric SKUs represent between 10% and 25% the sales of their parent brand — Children’s Flonase could reach as high as $85 million in its first year.

  • Static Nails offer pop-on, pop-off reusable nails

    CHICAGO — Last year, attendees couldn’t stop talking about the winner of the Discover Beauty award at Cosmoprof North America. That company was Static Nails, a reusable artificial nail. Now that talking has turned to purchasing with the line getting exposure in Sephora, Canada’s Murale and HSN. com. Created by Alexis Irene, Static Nails require only five minutes to apply and are easily removed and reusable. According to Irene, the nails can be worn 18 days straight or reapplied up to six separate times.

  • Emergence of gummies: Q&A with Pharmavite's Tim Toll

    The vitamins and dietary supplement category continues to perform well in retail pharmacy and represents a good companion category for those operators seeking to help their patients live healthier and achieve better outcomes.

  • Point-of-care initiative enhances brands

    Earlier this year, Brandperx announced the launch of its latest Bump Bag, a product sample bag targeting soon-to-be moms and hand-delivered to them by their trusted OB/GYN providers. With 4 million women becoming moms, that patient-provider relationship is a rich marketing opportunity.

  • Strip away aging with Contours Rx strips

    REDONDO BEACH, Calif. — What’s next for eyes? At least one company hopes it is a nonsurgical eyelift.

  • Rohto eye drops cool summer eyes

    ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.. — Mentholatum earlier this year identified a new purchase opportunity in eye care — summer eyes. The company introduced its Rohto Ice All-in-One Cooling Eye Drops to provide fast, cooling relief for eight symptoms — red, dry, itchy, irritated, burning, gritty, watery and stinging eyes. And unlike ordinary eye drops, it contains Rohto’s proprietary Freshkick technology, a freshness formula that relieves irritation and soothes and comforts eyes for up to eight hours.

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