With Cases of Eczema on the Rise, HSN and Other Marketers Offer Relief
February 26th, 2009 Posted in Beauty products
Cosmedicine is a niche brand sold on HSN and in Sephora stores that touts a “Hydra Healer” moisturizer as ideal for people with eczema and other skin problems. It retails for about $75 per one-ounce jar. Clinique’s new offering — Comfort on Call cream — is less expensive. But Dermatologists say that even cheaper, drugstore creams are often as effective as those from the luxury skin-care companies. Fortunately, however, eczema sufferers will go to great lengths (and spend considerable amounts) in search of relief. So, let’s chalk one up to marketing. The New York Times Feb. 25, 2009
