Superdrug celebrates five years of loyalty

Superdrug celebrates five years of its Health & BeautyCard loyalty card scheme next month (May), and will mark the occasion by offering customers its biggest ever package of benefits. This includes making more than 5,000 products cheaper or featuring bonus points exclusively for Health & BeautyCard members.

Since launching in 2011, the Superdrug Health & BeautyCard card has become a fixture in handbags and wallets across the nation and currently has more than ten million members in the UK and Ireland.

Estée Lauder and Victoria Beckham: a perfect make-up partnership

Estée Lauder has announced a partnership with style icon and acclaimed fashion designer Victoria Beckham to create a limited-edition make-up collection, Victoria Beckham Estée Lauder.

Are you a retail star?

Do you work in retail? Do you love what you do and exude passion and ambition? If so, you could be rewarded for your passion. Nominations are now open for the 2016 Worldpay Everywoman in Retail Ambassador programme, so get your entry in as soon as possible!

BOSS signs six of the world’s greatest footballers

BOSS Parfums has signed not one but six of the world’s best footballers to front the launch of a new, emotionally charged promotional campaign for BOSS Bottled.

England striker Daniel Sturridge, Germany defender Mats Hummels and Spain midfielder Isco are stepping out of their football jerseys into BOSS Menswear to front the global campaign. James Rodriguez, Yohan Cabaye and Robin van Persie will represent campaigns in Latin America and Asia, France and the Netherlands respectively.

Find out about truly natural beauty

When is a beauty product really natural? And when is it just pretending?

Visitors to the Natural & Organic Products Europe show, which opens its doors at London’s ExCel this weekend, will be able to find answers to this thorny question at the NATRUE Pavilion, which will make its debut at the event this year.

Manuka Doctor signs Kourtney Kardashian as global ambassador

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Manuka Doctor has signed up Kourtney Kardashian to help promote the brand in a series of high profile marketing and PR activities around the world for the next two years.

Live life, but live it better

Living a hectic lifestyle and burning the candle at both ends can take its toll on our beauty and wellbeing. But a new British company believes it may have come up with a solution, and it’s calling it “the antidote to modern living”.

Equi London has created what it describes as “a new generation of multivitamins to counteract stress, sleep deprivation and fatigue”. According to company co-founder Rosie Speight: “We’re about carrying on living the life you live, but helping you live it better.”

Ellie Goulding spreads Pantene’s “Strong is Beautiful” message

P&G’s global number one haircare brand Pantene Pro-V has partnered with singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding to spearhead its “Strong is Beautiful” campaign.

Here comes a really sun smart idea!

L’Oréal has become the first beauty company to enter the stretchable electronics field with its La Roche-Posay “My UV Patch”, an ingenious device that should help raise consumer awareness about the need for year-round sun protection.

The Beauty Symposium sheds light on #Quantumbeauty

The Magic Circle is the world’s leading magic society, and it was also the venue for The 2016 Beauty Symposium, which explored the suitably magical theme of  “#Quantumbeauty – being everywhere at once”.

A packed audience listened to an eclectic mix of industry leaders who shared their thoughts, inspirations and insights into how to navigate a profitable way through the sometimes bewildering mix of new web-based retail channels and communication platforms.

In-cosmetics 2016: inspiring product innovation

The future for the global market for cosmetics and personal care looks bright. With positive growth forecast and consumers hungry for innovation, manufacturers have it all to play for. The in-cosmetics exhibition in Paris next month looks like the place to be to find out more.

Isabella Rossellini returns to Lancôme

Isabella Rossellini makes an emotional return to Lancôme as a muse who will spread the French beauty house's particular brand of femininity around the world

This latest joint venture renews the thread of a story that began in 1983 when Rossellini became the very first face of Lancôme, proclaiming the brand's values loud and clear in her own unique way.

Isabella Rossellini returns to Lancôme

Isabella Rossellini makes an emotional return to Lancôme as a muse who will spread the French beauty house's particular brand of femininity around the world

This latest joint venture renews the thread of a story that began in 1983 when Rossellini became the very first face of Lancôme, proclaiming the brand's values loud and clear in her own unique way.

Backstage at Britain’s Next Top Model

Wella's new styling range EIMI is the official hairstyling brand of this year's Britain’s Next Top Model. And Wella distributor Salons Direct was delighted to be exclusively invited to head backstage to the filming of the show, to find out more about the stylists and inspirations for their looks.

LGFB spreads the magic of make-up

A range of fab new antibacterial make-up brushes raise money for Look Good Feel Better workshops and masterclasses. Find out more and volunteer too

Help kick start a make-up revolution

Forward thinking Scottish make-up artist Lynne Mills is inviting women everywhere to be part of her make-up revolution by helping to fund a range of innovative ideas in return for discounts on a range of products and services.