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Cosmetics or makeup are substances to enhance the beauty of the human body, apart from simple cleaning. Their use is widespread, especially among women in Western countries. The cosmetics industry is currently dominated by a small number of multinational corporations that orginated in the early 20th century.
The word cosmetic can refer to several things:
Cosmetic is sometimes used as a noun, to refer to a single item of cosmetics.
Cosmetic also refers to beauty or appearance, especially concerning the human body. For example, plastic surgery can be done either for practical reasons, such as to repair badly damaged body parts, or for cosmetic reasons, such as making someone's nose smaller so as to be more attractive.
Cosmetic may also refer to topical products that are not drugs. Thus, products worn to increase beauty may be cosmetic (no drug active) or they may be drugs (e.g. in the US and Canada skin creams containing SPF and some anti-acne ingrediants).
Also of note is that according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the words Cosmetic and Cosmos are both derived from the same Greek root, kosmos, which originally meant order, arrangement, and adornment. Noting the perfect order and arrangement of the heavens, Pythagoras began using the word cosmos, to mean the entire ordered, adorned and harmonious universe.
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Cosmetic hygiene: Cracking fresh
Your lipstick is like soft glue, your mascara is in rigor mortis, your powder brush feels like sandpaper and your make-up application makes your face look like a patchwork quilt. What’s going on? A lack of attention to cosmetic hygiene perhaps, suggests Carolina D’Souza.
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Beware of the price you may pay for beauty
Products consumers use to soothe, beautify and protect the body could cause harm, whether it is itchy, watering eyes, blotchy skin or scaly scalp. In rare cases, some products could cause cancer or sterility, according to the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.
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Cosmetics may come under new labelling norms
After the controversy surrounding the Johnson & Johnson baby oil, the indian government is likely to make it mandatory for manufacturers of cosmetics such as lipsticks, soaps, fairness creams, beauty oils and shaving products to adhere to new labelling norms
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China goes under the knife
"In China today, cosmetic surgeons can change a face beyond recognition - and the police are going to have to take notice," a highly qualified Shanghai plastic surgeon told Asia Times Online
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P&G To Close Online Cosmetics Business
Procter & Gamble Co. will shut down its online customized cosmetics business at the end of the month. The Cincinnati-based consumer products maker started its online cosmetics experiment, Reflect.com, in 1999. R
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