Categories: Beauty, Fragrance, Promotion

The Soap Box Company is offering a 20% discount off the entire purchase for total purchases of $15.00 or more. This is an exclusive offer for readers of The Style Page.

The Soap Box Company offers natural, organic, handmade bath products from several indie brands. Select bath products from boutique brands including Bath Essence, Bella Lucce, Crazy Rumors, Just Soap, Khushi, Little Twig, MadGabs, Pompeii Street Soap Co., Sweet Petula, Whimsy, and WoodSprite.

To take advantage of this offer, enter “thestylepage20” in the promotion code box. This offer is good between August 1 and September 30, 2005.

The Soap Box Company is now listed on the Shopping page of The Style Page.

Categories: Beauty, Cosmetics, Fragrance

Crabtree wins Hilton toiletries contract – Crabtree & Evelyn wins contract to supply Hilton Hotels with La Source spa products. The collection will include shampoo, conditioner, body wash, body lotion, mouthwash, shower cap, sewing kit, vanity kit, aqua brush with pumice, shoe mitt and shoe horn.

Elle McPherson to launch New Cosmetics Line – the Australian model will launch a line of cosmetics to be called “The Body” after her nickname.

Estee Lauder mulls YSL buy – Estee Lauder is contemplating the purchase of YSL Beauty from France’s Pinault Printemps Redoute retail group (PPR owns La Redoute and the Printemps department store in Paris).

Japan’s KAO to buy Molton Brown – Japan’s top household products maker is buying British luxury consumer products maker Molton Brown. Molton Brown’s products include bath, body, skin and hair care products, and cosmetics.

Gap to re-launch personal care range – Gap will work with Inter Parfums to relaunch its fragrance and personal care products.  Inter Parfums markets a number of prestige fragrance and Diane von Furstenburg Beauty in addition to Aziza II and Intimate mass-market brands of cosmetics.

New Cosmetics Stores Open in the U.S. – Sweden’s Make Up Store opens in Miami, while Korea’s Missha opens in New York City.

Categories: Bookstand, Books, Media, Stationery

I’m back from vacation, and have updated the Bookstand pages. Check out the many new links for Books, Media, and Stationery. Notable sites include the Complete Review (for books) and ZOOZOOM “the original online glossy,” both of which were selected for Time Magazine’s 50 Coolest Websites for 2005. Also of interest is ConnectViaBooks, a website that enables readers to find other readers who share their particular interests.

Categories: Home

Greetings – I have just updated the Home and Design pages on The Style Page, using the new web page design provided by Tamara Parisio of SandDollar Cosmetics. Next, I will update the Bookstand pages using the new design – then, all pages will have a consistent look.

I’ve created a new subdirectory Home for all the Home and Design pages, but that created some challenges. Existing pages on the main directory have already been indexed by search engines, so I couldn’t merely blow them away – I replaced content with a short message redirecting users to the related page on the subdirectory: at the same time, I sent a request to Google to crawl the subdirectory. Also, I had to upload all pages on the web site, as the web site navigation bar in the left column is automatically generated through the navigation structure I set up in Microsoft FrontPage 2002: if I left the navigation bar “as is” for other pages, users would not be directed to the new subdirectory.

Lastly, I’ve created a RSS news feed just for the home:
http://thestylepage.com/Home/home.xml

Categories: Fashion, Bags

Less than two days after I posted The Style Page: Converting trash into bags, today’s DailyCandy feature was on a tote made out of green nylon and recycled orange plastic created by a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (which BTW is where Talking Heads came together).

Categories: Miscellany

In January 2005, I posted on how research sponsored by the Kingdom of Thailand is looking into uses of turmeric as a cosmetic ingredient. Turmeric is the spice that gives curry its yellow color.

Now comes news that turmeric might control the growth of cancer cells:

“Tests in mice showed that curcumin, an active compound found in turmeric, helped stop the spread of breast cancer tumor cells to the lungs.

Tests have already started in people, too, said Bharat Aggarwal of the Department of Experimental Therapeutics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, who led the study.”

Categories: Fashion, Accessories

Forwarded to The Style Page by The Candy Blog (who would have thought?):

“Hiya,

There’s an entry on my blog about an unusual outlet for fashion: The
Altoids Tin.

New York artist Tobias Wong designs fashionable, custom-made Altoids
tins for the stars, and now apparently the company is offering 3 of the
“Curiously Noir” tins to the public in a contest.

They’re all-black with gold chain, and a diamond-accented “Curiously.”

Pictures are on my blog and the Altoids website. Surprisingly not
tacky.”

PS You must register with altoids.com to enter the contest

Categories: Beauty, Cosmetics

FYLO (For Your Lips Only) Cosmetics is a new cosmetics line based in my hometown of Saint Louis, Missouri. It features “lip cubicles” that you can fill with your choice of “lip cubes” containing lip color, lip gloss, or lip treatment. You may select from 28 different lip colors, 12 lip glosses, 12 mini lip pencils, and a lip treatment. Colors, glosses, and lip treatment are all formulated with essential oils.

The regular sized cubicle (shown here in the “Flowers” design) may be filled with four lip cubes and two lip pencils.

The Urban Cowgirl mini cubicle may be filled with two lip cubes of your selction.

The box of FYLO products that I received was stamped “Confidential” and “For Your Lips Only.” The cubicles came wrapped in little organza drawstring bags. The cubicle and interchangeable cube concept is a new and modular approach to customizing one’s lip palette. Cubes are gently pushed into the cubicle; the cubes may be removed by popping them out with the end of the mini lip brush that comes with the cubicle. I’m wearing the Fantasia lip gloss (lavender shade, with lavender essential oil) as I write this, and I find that it’s very emollient, but not slick in its feel.

Lip cubes are $8 apiece, lip pencils are $7 apiece, the regular size cubicle is $14, and the mini cubicle is $10. A portion of profits go to organizations serving children. You may check out the full range of products via FYLO’s web site at www.fylocosmetics.com.

FYLO is now listed on our Cosmetics page.

Categories: Beauty, Cosmetics

Vivid Entertainment Group, the X-rated film company, has signed a licensing agreement with the WII Group and X-Girl Cosmetics to market a line of Vivid Girl cosmetics. To learn more, read the press release Vivid Signs With The WII Group for a Collection of Vivid Girl Cosmetics.

Dineh Mohajer, founder of Hard Candy cosmetics, has a new cosmetics line called Goldie, which has rolled out at Bath & Body Works stores nationwide. She’s teamed with Jeanne Chavez, whom she met after selling Hard Candy to luxury goods purveyor LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. I couldn’t find out anything about Goldie through the Bath & Body Works site or through the website of B&BW’s parent Limited Brands. The best source I could find was this cached article B&BW’s Golden Opportunity from WWD.com (Women’s Wear Daily).

Tom Ford, the designer who famously revitalized Gucci and left the Gucci Group a year ago, is entering into a partnership with the Estee Lauder Companies to update products of its flagship brand Estee Lauder and boost flagging sales. For more, see Estée Lauder inks deal with newly-formed fashion house.

Marionnaud is a chain of fragrance and cosmetics stores in Europe, primarily in France, but I also spotted one in Switzerland. The EU has cleared the way for A.S. Watson, part of the Hong Kong-based conglomerate Hutchinson Whampoa, to purchase Marionnaud. A.S. Watson owns a number of drugstore chains in Europe and Asia.

Oh, and finally, the Beauty pages of The Style Page have been updated and redesigned. Over twenty brands have been added to the Cosmetics page and twenty brands of products have been added to the Fragrance page – check them out!

Categories: Miscellany

In the 2005-03-18 entry Now Why Didn’t You Think Of That? Tracking Packages with RSS, I pointed to an article on xml.com that provided an implementation for tracking packages with RSS news feeds. Now Bloglines has enabled subscribers to track packages via RSS. Currently, the service is available for packages sent via UPS, FedEx, or the U.S. Postal Service.

Mail order catalogues and web sites are currently holding sales on spring clothes. Now is the right time to take advantage of the RSS services offered through Bloglines!