Skin

Engineers at The Ohio State University have invented a coating to help shampoo and other soaps pour out of plastic bottles more easily. (The New York Times)

CINCINNATI -- Procter & Gamble is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its My Black Is Beautiful platform by spearheading a broad dialogue about black beauty at the Essence Festival in New Orleans. 

Innovation remains the name of the game in personal care, with new options surfacing in the feminine hygiene, deodorant and shaving categories alike.

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — Last year, Unilever’s Simple Skincare ushered micellar cleansing water into mass with great success. This year, it is adding cleansing oil — but not just any oil. Next month, Simple Skincare is adding a Hydrating Cleansing Oil featuring pure grapeseed oil. Admitting it isn’t the first oil to market, the company said it is taking oils to a whole new level with a high-quality grape seed.

Altruism and sustainable profits aren’t always concepts you’ll find in the same sentence, but don’t tell that to Dave Simnick.

Drug store retailers sense a shift in skin care. While for many years they enjoyed the glowing results of anti-aging, that segment has plateaued. Instead, they are looking to growth from cleansers and therapeutic offers.

WATERBURY, Vt. -- Canus, a leading provider of fresh goat's milk skin care products in North America, is launching its Caprina by Canus line at Meijer.

The Caprina line includes a variety of soaps, body washes and foaming milk baths in several fragrances as well as a fragrance-free version for soaps.

Canus is currently the best selling goat's milk soap in North America and launched Caprina in Canada in early 2009 with great success.  

The ethnic category is perhaps now undergoing the most seismic changes it has experienced in the past 20 years.