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FLORENCE Globe trotters drop in at the Santa Maria Novella pharmacy for all-natural beauty products like cocoa-butter hand cream ($45) and pomegranate soap...
...container of Mrs. Meyer's dish soap and $18 for a 34oz. bottle of Good Home's Laundry fragrance, those are clearly luxury items. (A 25-oz. bottle of Palmolive or Joy dishwashing liquid can be had for just $1.99.) What customers are paying for is not only costly ingredients like French lavender oil and fancy packaging but also some fairly sophisticated chemistry. Combining aromatic oils with cleaning agents is not so easy to do, explains Avery Gilbert, president of Synesthetics Inc., a firm based in Montclair, N.J., that provides consultations to the fragrance industry. "The soap base has chemical...
That may explain the behavior some retailers are seeing in the soap-and-detergent aisle. "I don't like to use the word addiction, but customers become fanatical about this stuff," says Cindy Cooper, proprietor of 560 Main, the shop in Pleasanton where Kimberly Wendt replenishes her cleaning supplies. Customers "rant and rave," says Charles Conn, a merchandiser at Whole Foods Market in downtown New York City. "I hear them say that 'Mrs. Meyer's made me like doing the dishes...