MILLIONS FOR COSMETICS
Millions of pounds are being poured into the greatest of British post-war businesses —the cosmetic trade. Latest figures disclose that the industr- has an annual turnover of £120,000.000. In 1919 just 20 per cent, of British women used face powder. To-day 85 per cent, use it. Lipstick users have increased from 6 per cent, to 45 per cent, of British women in the same period. New factories are opening every year, and beauty preparations, which used to come from abroad, are now being made almost entirely in this country- So noticeable has been the advance of this industry (says the Sunday Dispatch) that it is now believed the Chancellor of the Exchequer may at last impose a tax on cosmetics. The sale of lipsticks would yield him a revenue that might help with Britain's tremendous armaments bill. Mr Chamberlain did not have recourse to a cosmetics tax-
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23202, 28 May 1937, Page 10
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