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Nigeria has imposed a six-month ban on the export of raw shea nuts with the goal of boosting local processing and ensuring more of the ingredient’s value stays in the country before it’s shipped abroad. The stakes...

Louis Vuitton wants to refashion how consumers define luxury beauty. The brand revealed its first makeup collection, La Beauté Louis Vuitton, created alongside legendary artist Pat McGrath, last week with 55 lipsticks and 10 tinted lip balms,...

MakeupAlley, a 26-year-old online community and message board that served as a trusted source of user-generated product reviews and gathering place for beauty fans, announced on Sunday that it will shutter on Sept. 27.

In today’s hyper-digital beauty landscape, science and storytelling have collided, providing compelling content, yet leaving consumers confused on skincare facts. A growing wave of cosmetic chemists are pushing back against a select group of highly visible...

On social media, Allison Kent-Gunn, aka Allison Turquoise, is an ebullient translator of packaging from people’s favorite beauty brands. She informs her 90,000-plus fans that Summer Fridays’ squishy applicator is made from thermoplastic...

With another summer ready to wrap up, many consumers are coming to terms with what months in the sun have wrought on their skin. Some may be noticing their tans are accompanied by dehydration, discoloration...