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Article: Too Much, Too Little.
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- Global Cosmetic Industry
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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Treatment cosmetics. "Cosmeceuticals." Anti-aging products. Regardless the term, this category is dominating the industry
'Tis here!
'Tis here!
'Tis gone!
--Hamlet, Act I, Scene 1
Time magazine recently had an outside laboratory analyze the active ingredients in selected anti-aging creams.(1) Like the guards at Elsinore attempting to summon the ghost of Hamlet's father, the analytical chemists found it hard to grasp measurable amounts of some advertised materials. So, maybe there isn't a big dose of actives in some treatment cosmetics--but wait, the FDA has again realized(2) there are actives, the famed AHAs! The European ...