New Products

From the hot color segments to new product launches, here is what you need to know about the beauty business in 2017.

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Mass market color cosmetics sales continue to climb, driven primarily by adventurous millennials.

There is perhaps a latent opportunity for retailers to create a new destination center out of three existing categories that would appeal to a new millennial mom — products boosting preconception health; products supporting a pregnant woman’s health; and products supporting lactation and breast feeding following her pregnancy.

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LAS VEGAS  — A&D Medical is set to feature its new line of ULTRACONNECT blood pressure monitors at the CES exhibit, the company announced Wednesday. On display in A&D Medical's special CES Exhibit Suite, the new upper arm and wrist smart blood pressure monitors represent the ongoing expansion of the company's WellnessConnected product platform.

Rather than watch the nail category continue to evaporate, retailers and brands are bonding together with innovative launches and impactful in-store presentations.

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For the 52-week period ended Oct. 30, nail color sales were down 11.4% across multi-outlets, according to IRI. That’s prompting action.

LAS VEGAS — Kérastase in partnership with Withings on Tuesday announced the Kérastase Hair Coach Powered by Withings — the world’s first-ever smart hairbrush. Developed in collaboration with L’Oréal’s Research and Innovation Technology Incubator, the brush features Withings’ advanced sensors and seamless product design along with L’Oréal’s patent-pending signal analysis algorithms to score the quality of hair and monitor the effects of different hair care routines.

SAN FRANCISCO — McKesson and Change Healthcare Holdings moved one step closer to creating a new healthcare information technology company after receiving notification the U.S. Department of Justice closed its review and terminated the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Act of 1976.

NEW YORK — TJA Health, the manufacturer of Plaque HD Plaque-Identifying Anticavity Toothpaste, is expanding its oral health product portfolio.

The brand is launching Plaque HD Remineralizing Mouth Rinse, which completes its first-ever Plaque HD Health Defined Two-Step Regimen for oral health.

According to the brand, Plaque HD Remineralizing Mouth Rinse promotes the highest level of oral hygiene by strengthening and re-mineralizing tooth enamel, while also gently whitening teeth, preventing news stains, and freshening breath.