Gallery: Our top 10 most-read cosmetic stories in August

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Here's a recap of the most-read beauty stories in August, featuring the rise in C-Beauty, cosmetic safety, Halal ingredients, new product innovations, and more.

Read more about the rise in C-Beauty, cosmetic safety, Halal ingredients, new product innovations in our 10 most-read APAC cosmetics stories for August.

Top 10 most-read stories for August
Top 10 most-read stories for August

Here's a recap of the most-read beauty stories in August, featuring the rise in C-Beauty, cosmetic safety, Halal ingredients, new product innovations, and more.

Click through the gallery to see them all.

Kanebo agrees to pay more damages for skin-whitening lawsuit
Kanebo agrees to pay more damages for skin-whitening lawsuit (Micha? Chodyra/Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Japanese cosmetics company Kanebo has settled with 44 more women affected by their defective skin-whitening products which contained Rhododenol.

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Shiseido redesigns innovation and texture in make up
Shiseido redesigns innovation and texture in make up

Releasing its new makeup collection, the Japanese personal care influencer celebrates the release of its four cutting-edge textures.

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Collagen combined with glutathione for skin health supplement
Collagen combined with glutathione for skin health supplement

A new dietary supplement containing collagen and glutathione promises to both fight against skin ageing and to lighten skin tone.

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How safe are cosmetics?
How safe are cosmetics?

In today's regulatory landscape, it is vital that consumers receive reliable and truthful information about cosmetic items.

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Shiseido reveals new make up collection launch date
Shiseido reveals new make up collection launch date

On 1st September 2018, the Japanese beauty and personal care giant will formally unveil its latest make up range to the global consumer market.

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C-beauty is on its way
C-beauty is on its way

Hot on the footsteps of its Asian predecessors, K-beauty and J-beauty, is the Chinese beauty sphere set to be the next phenomenon making waves around the globe?

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Are you buying truly natural products
Are you buying truly natural products

So prolific and commonplace is the natural trend on our shelves and e-commerce pages that it is about time we stopped to consider 'What Is Natural?'. Belinda Carli, Director of the Personal Care Institute of Science certainly we should.

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Breathable nail varnish enables Muslim women to pray without worry
Breathable nail varnish enables Muslim women to pray without worry (© Royalty-Free/Corbis)

Breathable nail polish which Muslims can wear while performing prayers is becoming a big hit in Islamic communities.

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Beauty products among US goods affected by tariffs as China strikes back in trade war
Beauty products among US goods affected by tariffs as China strikes back in trade war (zhuyufang/Getty Images/iStockphoto)

China has hit back in the escalating trade war with the US by imposing tariffs of up to 25% on $60bn worth of US goods which include cosmetics, fragrances, and ingredients like mica powder and zinc oxide.

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Halal cosmetics ingredients to avoid and what to replace them with
Halal cosmetics ingredients to avoid and what to replace them with

Here, we take a look at some of the major traditional beauty ingredients that are not permitted under halal regulations, and what they can be replaced with.

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