July 2018 – Cosmetic PFA

Replica Cosmetics

Posted on July 31, 2018 by blogger

Ever bought products online and the price seem too good to be true. In todays market counterfeits are not only getting produced in designer brands such as Gucci and Jimmy Choo. Replica items are getting made from every product imaginable. Everybody loves to save a penny or two but when buying products that can harm the exterior of your body. Is it really worth taking the chance? The beauty industry is rife with counterfeits. You will find these cheap branded fakes in everything from mascara, lipstick, lip gloss, blusher, foundation, moisturizers, perfume and many more.

According to the Vietnam Standard and Consumer Association (Vinastas) about 60% of consumers buy counterfeit goods without realizing they are black market products

Brands most affected by these fraudsters are famous brand names. These goods are produced in mass quantities in countries such as China because of the the cheap labour. The items can be produced at a very fast speed. Ten times faster than 10 years ago. Allowing them to hit our streets at the same time as the genuine merchandise.

Why you should not waste your money buying? The items have not been safety checked; this gives us minimal information where the item has been made and the ingredients added. The harmful reactions can leave your skin looking aged and permanently damaged, scarred in some cases.

Where does the money go? To illegal operations all over the world, fact has shown money is used to help fund terrorist groups and shady operations.
Who is responsible? Manufacturers and the countries legal system: Most businesses are not making people aware that these products are out there. There is never anything shown on advertisements or websites of the legal items that make the consumer aware that there product is being falsely used. Also, fines and prison sentences for people producing counterfeit products are not heavy enough making the countrys legal system very much to blame.
Today it is a lot harder to distinguish between the real thing and the copy. Counterfeits are getting harder to spot. Long gone are the times when you went to Spain and seen products with typing errors and badly transferred prints. The operators of these operations are getting more sophisticated. Packaging is in most cases identical. The detail on the products there selfs are hard to distinguish between.

If you really want to save some money with skin care and makeup, beware when youre buying on eBay as about 50 – 70% of the products are counterfeit. Always check feedback and be really cautious. Send the seller a message and ask were they are buying their products? Ask if it is from a licensed wholesaler. Beware of anyone who is buying direct from China with products such as Mac, Benefit, Nars and Bobbi brown as these are the most copied beauty products on the market. If you find the latest products 50% -75% less than the shop price. Always check what the item looks like on the manufacturers sites and compare.

Celebrities Who Have Had Cosmetic Surgery

Posted on July 25, 2018 by blogger

There are plenty of celebrities who have had cosmetic surgery. Maybe some of your favorite personalities may have gone under the knife too. If they wont admit it through the words that come out of their mouth, the difference in their appearance tells everything. Some of the most famous people in the world of politics, movies or even sports have their own stories and reasons why they decided to have a cosmetic surgery. Here are some of the lists of the celebrities who considered having a cosmetic surgery:

Madonna the queen of pop who was very popular in 1980s for her music, concerts, and movies had several reports of undergoing a cosmetic surgery. A face lift, nose job, chin fix, jaw reduction, and filling injections are few surgical procedures she has had. Her nose also trimmed down a few notches compared before. Her figure remains as natural looking as it always has. Her side initially tried to deny the procedures but the results were hard to cover up.

Marilyn Monroe is an oldie and she has been gone for quite sometime, but she had rhinoplasty surgery sometime between being a brunette and becoming a blonde. She was considered one of the most beautiful women who ever walked the earth. Whats relieving is she may not have achieved the title without some nose and chin work.

Michael Jackson the King of Pop, had a few cheek implants, some jaw redesigning, a lot of nose jobs and some permanent skin lightening techniques. He began investing in nose job during his teen years. He shocked the world when he underwent skin lightening cosmetic surgery for his whole body.

Pamela Anderson is quite obvious with the breast implants and it has been rumored that she has had some work done on her face as well.

Hillary Clinton the wife of former President Bill Clinton has allegedly undergone several cosmetic surgeries. The politician has had eyelid surgery, laser skin resurfacing, filling injections, and neck lifts based on unconfirmed results. Repots also say that Clinton spent a huge sum of money investing in cosmetic procedures to enhance her appearance.

Nicole Kidman nose changed completely. Her surgery is more on the rumor side of things, but she has changed in the past fifteen years or so. She has gotten older, but she is still beautiful.

Victoria Beckham the wife of English soccer icon is still gorgeous although she has had some work done. She reportedly underwent breast implants and lip augmentation. It is quite obvious that she is different from what she used to be.

There are more celebrities who underwent plastic surgeries. The most beautiful faces in the world during the past and present may not be as natural as you think. It seems that more celebrities take the risk just to look better than the rest.

New Fashion Trend Of Cosmetic Raw Materials Market

Posted on July 23, 2018 by blogger

On the latest research report of cosmetic raw materials market, it says that with the requirements of cosmetics from consumers, not only with cleansing, moisturizing and other functions, but also the cosmetics should be anti-wrinkle and enhance skin elasticity; cosmetic manufacturers begin large-scale using natural actives. And because of the increasing demand for natural ingredients, and the anti-aging cosmetics, the vitamins, actives and plant extracts will dominate the cosmetics raw materials market in future.
Experts note that the consumer trend will be the future trend of aglobal cosmetics market, the U.S and increases the demand of vitamin E acetate, grape seed extract, soybean isoflavones and green tea polyphenols in American market over the past decade. These natural active ingredients can be used as antioxidants, skin conditioners and moisturizers. The other for skin and hair care, as well as shrimp extract chitosan, astaxanthin seaweed extract and yeast or fungi algae polysaccharide extract -xylanase. Cosmetics and skin care manufacturers to add vitamins and botanical products, pharmaceutical ingredients, in order to fight the natural, health-care brand, and now the effect of these active compounds have been confirmed in use. Such as vitamin E as an effective antioxidant, is usually added to a series of anti-aging products, but also for hair care products, so that these products are more nutritional. As extracted from the wild mango triglycerides and sterols can be used for skin care cosmetics, rice bran wax extract can prevent the skin cracking, extracted from the fermentation of milk, “galactan” can promote hair growth, it can be used for the preparation of germinal agent.
Development of new cosmetics must have the backing of new cosmetic ingredients. Therefore outside the cosmetics manufacturers are sparing no effort to find new cosmetic raw materials. Has developed a new type of cosmetic ingredients listed are about hundreds of different kinds, listed below are some of the main raw material of cosmetics or new R & D materials.
1 Yellow gentian: 5 to 10 years to mature high tolerance — gentian extract the precious plant, both to strengthen the moisturizing effect, and also increased the skin absorption of whitening cream can get rid of pigmentation, depth stratum corneum, from the basement whitening, pigmentation, dark sallow skin conditions improve.
2 Almonds: almonds may moisturizing beauty, the ancient home health soothing beauty of the main drug. Almond oil is rich in fat and protein, with a moist skin, pass through the Lee network effects.
3 Apple: Apple in the acid spots for Dodge has a good effect.
4 Red grapes: the seeds of red grapes from Australia to extract from the Australian source grape seed extract, rich in OPC (Oligomeric Proanthocyanidins Procyanidins) super anti-oxidant. OPC antioxidant vitamin E is 50 times, 20 times more vitamin C, biotin can prevent over 80 kinds of diseases caused by free radicals, as the best natural skin protection star.
5 Olive: Olive oil is rich in vitamins, including vitamin E content than other plants, both nourish dry skin, oily skin can inhibit the secretion of sebum, the skin for a variety of state regulation. Strong when the sun, painted cream with olive oil sunscreen products may take longer time to keep the skin moisture, skin, while Bu Zhiyu effective sunscreen too dry. The olive leaf extract from the activity of compound ingredients, rich in antioxidants, smooth skin of fine lines, anti-aging with good results.
6 Licorice: Licorice solvent extraction separation and purification of flavonoids in licorice ingredient, with moderate inhibition of tyrosinase enzyme, licorice extract has been proven to be the most effective plant whitening agent. As the active ingredient in licorice content is not high and purification is very difficult, so it is one of the most expensive cosmetic raw materials. Recently, the solvent extraction separation and purification of glycyrrhizic acid in licorice search to be successful, and adopted by the Institute of High Technology Research and Development Bureau and the technical appraisal.
In all, these new cosmetic raw materials extracting from natural plants and marine organisms, are mainly natural proteins, peptides, polysaccharides, polyphenols and other extracts. Natural extract is widely used in cosmetics, such as to prevent the aging of skin cells, absorbs ultraviolet light, resistance to cold stimulation and to keep the skin delicate and so on. So it is not hard to believe that: as technology continues develops, a variety of vitamins, actives, plant extracts will be separated from animals and plants and be more widely used associating with the mainstream of the times.

The Top Ten Cosmetic Companies

Posted on July 13, 2018 by blogger

There are many cosmetic companies which are special in their own way. The ingredients used in the cosmetic products are put through many tests before a product is sold to the customer. I would like to give you a list of ten companies which I think are the best. I use their products on a regular basis and am happy with their results.

My Personal Favorites

1.Revlon: Revlon is a multimillion dollar company. It started with just one product i.e. lipstick, but over a period of six years they have added many other make up products.
2.LOreal: Their products are trusted world wide and are distributed in 130 countries.
3.Avon: This Company is not only famous for the products for their female clients, but also for male and childrens products.
4.Clinique: People having sensitive skin can use all the products of this company without any hassle.
5.Estee Lauder: This Company started out with only 4 products. However, now they sell almost every makeup product.
6.LR: This is a German Company. Its products are reasonably priced and are of high quality.
7.MAC Cosmetics: Make-up Art Cosmetics used to sell products only to make up artists initially. However, now they sell even to consumers across the world.
8.Oriflame: A trusted name in the world of make up products. This company uses natural ingredients like plant extracts for their skin products.
9.Artistry: This Company believes in natural products and hence has no side-effects.
10.Mary Kay: The products of this Company are made keeping in mind the geographical conditions of the country. The products are top-quality and reasonably priced.

You also get free advice in the pamphlet that you get along with their products.

China’s Men’s Cosmetics Market Needs To Be Developed

Posted on July 8, 2018 by blogger

In the early of the reform and opening up, China’s cosmetics sales was 350 million. In 2006 China’s cosmetics sales exceeded 100 billion for the first time. Subsequently, the sales of cosmetics industry grow rapidly. In 2009 the sales were 400 times of that in 1980.

From the January to August in 2010, the sales value of China’s cosmetics industry reached 124.309 billion yuan, an increase of 23%. In 2009, China’s cosmetic sales value reached 150.52 billion yuan, an increase of 11.2%.

From the January to August in 2010, the total profits of China’s cosmetics industry reached 10.459 billion yuan, an increase of 9.1%. In 2009, the total profits of China’s cosmetics industry reached 15.495 yuan, an increase of 12.5%.

The per capita consumption level of Guangdong, Shanghai and Beijing is significantly higher than the national average level. While the per capita consumption level of cosmetics in developed countries is much higher. China’s cosmetics market has great room for growth. China has become the third largest cosmetics sales market only after the United States and Japan. The current kinds of men’s cosmetics are still relatively few. Few brands can truly win the customer’s trust. Few large brands have launched men’s grooming products.

But clearly this simple skin care products can not meet the requirements of many men. But foreign brands are too expensive and small domestic brand is too cheap. Therefore, the major domestic manufacturers have started to develop technology for beauty products that are needed by more men. They also began to introduce some foreign beauty equipment.

Now there are more and more professional beauty services for men. Men’s grooming items will be more detailed, professional, no longer just facial care and foot massage. It has been refined out tens to hundreds of different series of facial care, body care and foot care.

The requirements of some women on the beauty are often beauty and character, but basically most of the men were concerned about the actual quality of their skin, whether the perfume is suited to their temperament and how to do more to cover up their beauty weaknesses. So men are more practical. The effect is gradually revealed, so their beauty consumption is more lasting.

At present, male skin care market is like nursing infants. It is still in its infancy. Both the domestic and international brands have launched their own skin care products for men to seize the market. In the next few years, the market competition of the Chinese men’s skin care products will be more intense.