The Price of Anti Aging

A $1.1 billion market in 2006, the U.S. anti-aging skincare treatment market. This healthy market is largely due to an aging population, and marketing that promise to ward off the signs of aging and give people a younger-looking complexion and younger-feeling skin.

The increasing ubiquity of formerly “prestige” products at FDM channels allows for an expanding consumer base and wider exposure. The multi-billion-dollar global cosmetics and skin-care-product industry is more concerned with the competition rather than applying sound science to improve products, a scientist told the 234th national meeting of the American Chemical Society.

Where does that leave us? We have been the guineepigs for so many products from breast implants to cancer causing pills to reduce morning sickness, to diet pills that destory our livers. What is the ultimate cost of looking beautiful?






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