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McCartney was also determined to rule out petrochemicals and parabens; the latter are preservatives red-flagged by those who suspect that they cause cancer (a direct link remains unproved). "Your skin is your largest organ, and up to 60% of what you put on it is absorbed into the system. Lots of skin products use the same petrochemicals as the antifreeze in your car!" says McCartney...
...this launch "quite unpredictable; it is the beginning of a new era," she is confident that the line?which for now is available in the U.S. only at Sephora?will meet a growing demand for natural yet luxurious products. "Stella McCartney has a great legitimacy in launching an organic skin-care line. Plus, the program is simple and serious, and those are two success factors for skin care." The CEO also cites the range's Ecocert label, "which is a guarantee of seriousness and honesty for the consumer in a market segment where codes are still blurry...
...McCartney, she is thrilled with the joint venture. "I want to have good skin," she states, "but I do think people are increasingly discriminating and want to protect the environment. Why not do that with products that are really sexy...
...find evidence of these changes, look no further than the cosmetics counter. To coincide with its launch of Cell Defense, an antioxidant skin-care treatment that helps reverse damage caused by environmental pollutants, Lancôme is supporting CarbonFund.org an organization that focuses on renewable energy and reforestation projects. "With the launch of Cell Defense, we're planting one tree for each of the first 10,000 products sold through CarbonFund," says Nina White, Lancôme's U.S. general manager. "The whole thing came about because one of our spokesmodels, Elettra Wiedemann, brought it to our attention...
Robin, 35, is the go-to guy among Parisian stars and fashionistas for hair-color treatments (he is also the brains behind Preference, L'Oréal Paris' popular hair-color line). Now, thanks to a new collaboration with skin specialist Joëlle Ciocco, pedicurist Bastien Gonzalez, osteopath Grégor Schultze, makeup artist Mina Matsumura and vintage expert Dorothy Barrick, Robin and his business partner Hélène Limoges are opening the doors to Autour de Christophe Robin, a three-story beauty space in Paris' 6th arrondissement...