Personal Care

Now's the time to sign up for "When It Comes To Your Skin...," the latest free webinar in the Norwood & BIC Graphic Selling Series, scheduled for May 16. Kevin Wicks, sales training and development manager for Norwood & BIC Graphic North America will guide you through everything you need to know to sell skincare products.

Inspiration for this piece came from a recent journey that made me realize I needed to stop and salute our Industry's Heroes—those road warriors that spend time away from home to help us.

Leashables by OraLabs Inc. is implementing new labeling standards to ensure compliance with the new FDA regulations for SPF products that will be in effect on June 18, 2012. Their new lip balm labels will be an extended wrap label to accommodate the additional requirement of disclosing skin cancer/skin aging alert.

HumphreyLine has hired a full-time quality assurance manager. Greg Fischesser joined the company to look after the firm's regulatory matters, including product safety issues and FDA regulations.

Custom HBC is in the process of being sold, Promo Marketing has learned. The health and beauty promotional product supplier is to be sold to an investment group with other interests in the promotional products industry.

Tekweld, the Farmingdale, New York-based personal care supplier, has announced the acquisition of Premier 1 Products, headquartered in Westhampton Beach, N.Y.

When applying lipstick—or puckering up to made-up lips—you might have more to worry about than stained teeth.

Four hundred of the most popular lipsticks on the market contain traces of lead according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration analysis.

The FDA's response? We know.

"Reports about lead in lipstick are not new," the FDA said on its website, referencing lab tests from the 1990s, as well as a 2007 report from the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. The campaign at the time tested 33 red lipsticks at the time and found that 60 percent of them contained lead.

Natural Trends, the personal care product supplier based in Provo, Utah, announced the appointment of Chris Dollar Marketing Group LLC to represent the company in the Southwest.

Promo Marketing spoke with Alexander Manufacturing and Solar Advertising to find the what, why, who and how of selling classic and new wellness products in 2012.

Don't leave home without these four travel-related promotional products.