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  • CVS Pharmacy to introduce curated K-Beauty HQ

    WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Pharmacy, looking to meet growing shopper demand for Korean beauty products, is launching its K-Beauty HQ at 2,100 stores nationwide starting in April, the company announced Wednesday.

    K-Beauty HQ will include more than 100 new products from South Korean beauty brands, several of which are exclusive to CVS. To curate the collection of skin care and makeup products, CVS Pharmacy said it worked with Korean beauty expert Alicia Yoon, who founded online beauty store Peach & Lily.

  • Vermont’s Original adds to its Bag Balm line

    LYNDONVILLE, Vt. — Vermont’s Original, maker of skin moisturizer Bag Balm, has launched the newest product in its line, Bag Balm Mega Moisturizing Soap.
     
    The Mega Moisturizing Soap is a bar soap enriched with such original balm ingredients as lanolin, and scented with rosemary mint, and it has a suggested retail price of  $4.99. 
     
  • Unilever promotes new Dove Shower Foam with its first branded Snapchat lens

    NEW YORK — Unilever, to promote the launch of Dove’s new Shower Foam, is trying out a new form of social marketing with its foray into the world of branded Snapchat lenses. 
     
  • SheaMoisture introduces skin and hair care line

    NEW YORK — SheaMoisture’s new Dragon’s Blood & Coffee Cherry skin and hair care collection features Dragon’s Blood, aka Sangre de Drago, a resinous sap sourced from the Peruvian Amazon.

    According to the manufacturer, when applied topically, the sap dries quickly to form a protective barrier, much like a second skin, to shield skin from daily stressors, as well as revive it. Applied to hair, it coats the strands, adding density and volume, making it look fuller and thicker without the inclusion of synthetic ingredients, SheaMoisture added.

  • SK-II hot seller for Procter & Gamble

    CINCINNATI — The continued growth of the super-premium SK-II skin care brand was a main component that led Procter & Gamble to enjoy a 3% rise year over year in beauty segment sales for its 2017 fiscal second quarter ended Dec. 31.

    Also rising to the occasion was innovation and marketing support for the Pantene and Head & Shoulders brands, P&G announced Friday.

  • Dove celebrates 60th anniversary with limited-edition bar and video

    ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — Unilever is celebrating the 6oth anniversary of its Dove brand with the release of a limited-edition 60th anniversary beauty bar and retrospective video as part of its Dove Celebrates 60 Years of Care campaign.

  • Beauty app-splosion

    Beauty brands are rushing to add apps as a ploy to allow shoppers to experiment with beauty more often, while also eliminating the need for consumers to return products because of disappointment in shades. If a brand doesn’t have an app now, it probably will this year.

    (To view the full Beauty Trends Report, click here.)

    L’Oréal kicked off the trend two years ago with Makeup Genius, but many others have been quick on its heels.

  • These beauty products may be flying off shelves this winter

    NBC's Today show spoke with some of Hollywood's top celebrity beauty experts to get the scoop on the best drug store beauty products to help battle the winter elements.

    The network also highlighted the beauty products in one of its beauty segments and in a feature online.

    The majority of the products can be found at drug and mass retailers.

    To see the list, click here.

     

     

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