THE COST OF BEAUTY.
Statistics just published by the Department of Commerce at Washington show that the nation's bill for cosmetics, toilet preparations and perfumes for 1927 reached the colossal total of £35,418.200. Among the items of expenditure are the following:—
Face powders, £5,385,000; creams, £5.995.600: perfumes, .£3,055.000; hair dyes, £2,912.400. An unclassified, item called " Other toilet preparations" accounts for £6,043,000.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20171, 4 February 1929, Page 5
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61THE COST OF BEAUTY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20171, 4 February 1929, Page 5
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