New Products

NEW YORK — Natural beauty brand Mineral Fusion is ramping up its hair care portfolio with new packaging for its existing products, as well as new offerings.

NEW YORK — Building on the international success of the Protect & Perfect and Protect & Perfect Intense Serums, No7 from Boots has introduced Lift & Luminate Day & Night Serum.

The two-step system targets the three main signs of aging — uneven skin tone, the appearance of lines and wrinkles and loss of skin firmness — and according to the company, is clinically proven to diminish the appearance of age spots. It will appear in stores in September.  

PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. — Psi Bands on Tuesday announced the addition of a sixth design to its line of acupressure wristbands — a new blue and black plaid unisex design called “Fast Track.” 

Psi Bands acupressure wristbands for the relief of nausea due to travel, pregnancy, chemotherapy or anesthesia and are worn on both wrists at the Nei-kuan acupressure point. 

MISSION, Kan. — The pharmacy automation and management systems made by ScriptPro will begin using biometric authentication technology from Xelios Biometrics, under a multi-year licensing agreement between the two companies.

The companies said such biometric identifiers as fingerprints would be more reliable in verifying identity than identification cards or personal identification numbers, which are currently used in ScriptPro's systems. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

MADISON, N.J. — Pfizer Consumer Healthcare on Monday introduced Advil Film Coated tablets featuring a new, fast-dissolving technology, along with a specially formulated ultra-thin coating, that speeds the ibuprofen mode of action. According to the company, the new tablet provides the speed and power of a liquid filled capsule in the more popular tablet form.

MALVERN, Pa. — The Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug made by Ceptaris Therapeutics for treating a type of lymphoma, the company said Monday.

ORRVILLE, Ohio — Jif Peanut Butter announced on Monday the beginning of the company's 12th Annual Jif Most Creative Sandwich Contest, and to help celebrate the new marketing promotion, the company unveiled new peanut butter spreads.

The new peanut butter spreads include:

NEW YORK — Coty Inc. has introduced the new Halle Berry Exotic Jasmine fragrance.

According to the company, the fragrance has a backdrop of wood notes and skin musks that embraces the star note — Jasmine — in its purest form. Top notes of fresh violet leaf, bright neroli and airy cyclamen lead to blossoming jasmine sambac, plumeria blossom and fluid hedione. The fragrance dries down to a warm base of white cedar, soft vetiver and skin musk that lingers on the skin.