Head to Toe Launches Meet Demand for Whole Body Care

Posted: March 13, 2006

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New to Avon's Sleeptherapy collection is Body Cocoon, a body lotion to moisturize and soften skin, leaving it ready for bed.

Palmolive Thermal Spa Softening Shower Creme is a shower cream with thermal minerals designed to re-create the sensation of a thermal spa in the shower. Its creamy formula leaves skin feeling soft and smooth.

Boots’s Karmatherapy Spa Escape Ritual is a bath soak of mineral salts containing essential oils of yuzu, ylang-ylang and ginger, and is said to help ease tense muscles and calm frayed nerves. The mineral rich sea salt blend has the extract of aloe leaves to keep skin feeling soft and smooth.

American soldiers could soon benefit from tooth-cleaning chewing gum. An army research team has developed an active ingredient that can be included in gum to keep mouths clean when toothpaste and brushing are out of the question. U.S. Army researchers developed a protein called KSL that attacks the bacteria that causes plaque, which can easily be incorporated into the gum, making it an alternative to a toothbrush and toothpaste. The discovery could also prove to be a major discovery for the oral care industry, which has experienced huge growth from the sale oral of care chewing gum lines. However, the product is still only in the very early stages of trials.

-Group Technical Centre (GTC)