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- <title>
- Nov. 13, 1989: Business Notes:Cosmetics
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 13, 1989 Arsenio Hall
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 84
- Business Notes
- COSMETICS
- Smog Screen For the Skin
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- <p> The usual selling point of skin-care products is to protect
- against sun, wind and weather. Now trend-alert cosmetic
- companies hope to wage a profitable war against an additional
- foe: pollution. Chanel touts the ability of its new Prevention
- Serum (price: $50 for 1.35 oz.) to counteract "environmental
- impurities." Estee Lauder's Skin Defender lotion ($45 for 0.9
- oz.) promises to shield against the "onslaught of irritants from
- pollution." The treatments typically contain sunscreen plus
- ingredients designed to neutralize so-called free radicals, the
- highly reactive molecules found in some air pollutants.
- </p>
- <p> Even so, health experts are skeptical. Says Arthur Balin,
- a dermatologist at New York City's Rockefeller University:
- "While these neutralizers are effective, there is no evidence
- that free radicals on the skin's surface even cause damage."
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- </body></article>
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