Producers Raise High-Tech Stakes In Personal Care Ingredients, Markets

摘要

Trend toward long-lasting, multifunctional products drives constant demand for newer and better toiletries, cosmetics. Time was when a clever marketer could package a waste product of oil refining and let customers develop its use in personal care. That refined waste product, petroleum jelly, is still a big seller in the personal care field, but suppliers to the cosmetics and toiletry industries are putting more scientific research into designing their offerings and into the way they test and market them.