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havana8
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Mon Jun 02, 2008 3:43 pm  |
Eyelash Enhancement Gets Another Look
California cosmetics entrepreneur Jan Marini is getting back into the eyelash business.
Next week, she is launching a new eyelash-enhancement product, called Marini Lash. It uses “an entirely new technology that yields phenomenal results,” she tells the Health Blog. Supercharged eyelashes? Yup, there are such things.
Marini’s original eyelash conditioner, introduced in 2005, was an instant hit with beauty-conscious consumers seeking longer, thicker lashes. The product, applied using a mascara-like wand, blurred the line between cosmetic and drug because it contained an ingredient similar to one found in Allergan’s glaucoma drug Lumigan. (See the images at right for the effects of Lumigan on one patient.)
The FDA claimed the Marini product was an “unapproved and misbranded drug.” In a lawsuit, drugmaker Allergan accused Marini of violating patents for so-called prostaglandins.
In November, the FDA sent federal marshals to a San Jose, Calif. warehouse to confiscate tubes of the product, Age Intervention Eyelash. Marini, founder and CEO of Jan Marini Skin Research, had by then already reformulated the product to remove a certain ingredient, but questions emerged about the second version. In January, to avoid being a target of the FDA and Allergan, she quit the eyelash business.
“But there was never an ebb in interest,” Marini says “We were still inundated with inquiries on our Web site.”
After she made her decision to abandon the market, she says, she “gained access” to a “peptide blend” that is “specific to hair.” She didn’t think it would work, she says, and was “astounded” when it did. She says the product has been tested on about 100 people in Australia, Japan and the U.S.
“I brought people in who had used either one or both of the original formulas and we have not had anyone who hasn’t said the new one is equal to or better than those,” she says.
The new product is advertised as a “non-prostaglandin” that gives users the “eyelashes of your dreams.” One thing that hasn’t change is the retail list price: $160.
May 30, 2008, 4:57 pm | Posted by Rhonda Rundle
http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/05/30/eyelash-enhancement-gets-another-look/ |
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Fri Jun 06, 2008 6:39 pm |
For the curious, ingredients of the new formulation...
Jan Marini Lash
Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Sodium Hyaluronate, Hydrolyzed Glycosaminoglycans, Diazolidinyl Urea, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, C12-C15 Alkyl Benzoate, Panthenol, Acrylates/ C10-C30 Alkyl Acrylate Crosspolymer, Myristoyl Pentapeptide-17, Myristoyl Tetrapeptide-12, Linoleic Acid, Linolenic Acid, Tocopherol, Biotin, Camellia Sinensis (White Tea) Leaf Extract, Aesculus Hippocastanum (Horse Chestnut) Seed Extract, Cinnamomum Zeylanicum (Cinnamon) Bark Extract, Butylene Glycol, Saccharomyces/Copper Ferment, Sodium Phosphate Dibasic, Sodium Chloride, Triethanolamine, Vitamin B-12, Folic Acid |
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