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BUSINESS, Page 84Business NotesCOSMETICSSmog Screen For the Skin
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.
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."