Photoshop-Inspired Beauty: Cellulite Creams

Send to KindleTweet The baby boomer generation of women don’t understand why generation X cares so much about cellulite. I guess that’s because they weren’t dating in the age of Photoshop. We are supposed to feel like men appreciate women with curves but everyone prefers firm to flabby. Genes do ultimately define our shape but [...]

Starbucks: A LEED Store, Happy Hour & Custom Drinks

Send to KindleTweet Though the country may still suffer from nearly 10% unemployment, we have begun a recovery and so has Starbucks. Late last month, the company announced that its SoHo, NYC, store on Spring Street is registered for LEED certification as part of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Volume chrome://foxytunes-public/content/signatures/signature-button.pngCertification pilot program. The design [...]

The Coffee Placebo

Send to KindleTweet Stressful times call for legal vices, and coffee is usually the last addiction to be tackled. People may give up alcohol, soda, sugar, even nicotine, but coffee seems to have both neurological and emotional effects that are hard to abandon. Coffee is like a security blanket for most Americans putting in too [...]

Bamboo: Sustainable Ingredient Du Jour

Send to KindleTweet Bamboo is quickly becoming ingredient of choice for companies in the cosmetics and personal care industry looking to improve their sustainability credentials, according to the recent Consumer Packaged Goods trend report from market researcher Datamonitor. According to Datamonitor’s Product Launch Analytics, the number of new products utilizing bamboo both within packaging and [...]

Jamba Juice Adds Hot Drinks

Send to KindleTweet Smoothie company Jamba Juice announced that it will begin selling hot drinks on March 1, 2010, in more than 340 stores. The launch includes 10 new hot beverage items, including four unique to Jamba Juice and six organic Mighty Leaf Tea. The company will also add some baked goods and a new [...]

Borojo: Our Link to the Next Superfruit?

Send to KindleTweet The superfruit industry is a competitive trend-driven sector of the food and beverage industry that is dependent on three groups: customers to consume it; scientists to prove its efficacy; and farmers in the developing world to provide it. Even with studies here and there showing preliminary data of a fruit’s supposed super-properties, [...]

The Good Caffeine

Send to KindleTweet Tammy Olsson and Anne Yeo were acquaintances until a chance conversation led to a new business idea. Both Vancouver residents, Olsson worked in a tea shop and Yeo was in advertising. The duo joined forces and created a Matcha tea product, Domo Tea, which they push as a way for coffee addicts [...]

You Are What You Eat What:The raw food diet takes healthy to a new and questionable level where nature’s bounty is appreciated as is.

Send to KindleTweet The Dirt:Is raw just another nutritional trend or a food theory that could improve the eating habits of Americans? Peruse a European grocery store and you won’t find the extensive options we have in America, such as 20 types of cookies, milk forms in the soy, hemp, rice and cow-derived varieties and [...]

The Supplemental Beverage

Send to KindleTweet The Dirt: The latest in beverage trends isn’t another malt variety but the merging of low-calorie juices with homeopathic-type supplements. One of our favorite companies in this sector is a United Kingdom outlet called Firefly, which is widely distributed all across the U.K. and Ireland, and gaining wider distribution in the United [...]

Drinkable Beauty

Send to KindleTweet Nestle is joining the ranks of nutraceutical makers with a new drink that promises to beautify the outside through a supplement drink. The beauty beverage sector was pioneered a few years back by the Borba brand, which is now owned by Anheuser-Busch, the maker of 180-Energy, whose varieties include goji and acai [...]

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