Sally Beauty Holdings Inc's higher quarterly profit met expectations as the company opened more stores that sell beauty products and saw sales increase at its existing stores.
Cosmetics maker Revlon Inc erased almost all of its second-quarter profit, weighed down by restructuring charges and unfavorable foreign currency fluctuations.
Avon Products Inc, the world's largest direct seller of cosmetics, posted a lower quarterly profit, as the stronger dollar cut into sales overseas and the company spent money to cut costs.
Top Japanese model Yuri Ebihara has made her mark in Asia but now she wants to take her place on the global catwalk alongside the world's supermodels.
PT Unilever Indonesia, a unit of Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever, reported a 9.1 percent rise in second-quarter net profit, based on Reuters calculations, supported by robust sales.
Tanning beds have been ranked alongside cigarettes, arsenic and asbestos as posing the greatest threat of cancer to humans by an international cancer research group.
Procter & Gamble has found clients for the sale of its pharmaceutical brand. Investment group Cerberus Capital Management and pharmaceutical laboratory Warner Chilcott and “at least one other” company would be interested.
Hindustan Unilever Ltd, India's largest consumer goods company, reported a 2.7 percent fall in net profit for the June quarter, disappointing investors and knocking its shares down from a nine-year high touched earlier in the session.
Britain's Croda International Plc, a manufacturer of ingredients for cosmetics and personal care products, reported a 14% fall in first-half pretax profit as losses in its industrial specialties division offset growth from its core consumer care business.
If you look upon fitness addicts as shallow narcissists suffering grimly for the body beautiful, it may be time to look again; most dedicated exercisers view working out as their apple a day, not their path to preening perfection, a new poll showed.
Saudi beauty queen Aya Ali al-Mulla trounced 274 rivals to win a crown, jewellery, cash and a trip to Malaysia, and all without showing her face, Saudi media reported.
European Union nations adopted a ban on seal products, which can be used in cosmetics and medicine, from Canada, despite a threat from the Canadian government to take the matter to world trade's governing body.
American investment fund Catterton Partners has bought the cosmetics company StriVectin, “leader in the global skin-care market”, for an undisclosed amount.
Beiersdorf is advancing its position in Thailand, investing €10 million to double its production capacity in Bangplee. 60,000 tons of body care products should be produced in Thai factories this year.
Fragrance maker Inter Parfums Inc posted a 11 percent fall in second-quarter sales that still beat market view, and backed its full-year outlook as it expects a stronger second half.