DermaQuest is now a member of 'Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics'

We are proud to announce that DermaQuest & DermaMinerals have been accepted as members of the CCIC.

CCIC is an organisation that supports and promotes companies who manufacture cruelty-free products.  Because DermaQuest (and it's parent company Allure Labs) do not conduct animal testing our company will be added to the Compassionate Shopping Guide with other approved vendors. 

DermaQuest will be listed under Skin Care & Sun Care alongside only three other professional skin care companies.

DermaMinerals will be included under the Colour Cosmetics & Lip Care categories. 

DermaQuest are committed to manufacturing products with compassion!

NEW DERMAMINERALS LINE FEATURES DERMAXYL PEPTIDE, ARCHIPELAGO SEA MINERALS, HONEYSUCKLE EXTRACT, AND MORE

DermaQuest launches high-end mineral makeup with restorative and rejuvenating properties from a combination of healthy and science-based ingredients

Hayward, CA – Science has never looked so beautiful! With ingredients like Archipelago Sea Minerals, Dermaxyl Peptide, Mica-Wrapped Cotton Fibers, Boron Nitride, Honeysuckle Extract, Kombucha, Chamomile, and Green Tea, leading cosmeceutical brand DermaQuest’s new DermaMinerals line is the next generation of mineral makeup, designed to provide superior mineral coverage and therapeutic skin care.

Combining good-for-your-skin elements with premium, long-wearing natural minerals, DermaMinerals is a complete line of high-quality, luxury mineral makeup that makes skin look and feel healthy and radiant. An extension of DermaQuest’s skincare line and designed to optimize a healthy skincare regimen, the DermaMinerals line is free of talcs, synthetic dyes, artificial fragrance, and parabens, and is packed full of premium, triple-milled pure minerals.   

DermaMinerals features Dermaxyl Peptide to minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and Archipelago Sea Minerals, a unique combination of 92 trace elements, to rebalance and soothe the skin and help improve skin barrier function. The reflective and light-scattering properties of Mica-Wrapped Cotton Fibers and Boron Nitride, an oil-absorbing mineral, restore the skin’s luminosity and impart a youthful glow. Anti-inflammatory Green Tea and Chamomile, as well as the natural preservative Honeysuckle Extract, are also featured in select DermaMinerals products.

Mally Roncal — celebrity makeup artist, beauty entrepreneur and mother of young twins—— looked bright eyed, and enviably polished during a recent early-morning event at Henri Bendel, where she was updating editors on her cosmetics line, Mally Beauty. Her secret for hiding fatigue? "False eyelashes," she proclaimed. "They make me look awake and lifted."

Roncal's self-proclaimed eyelash obsession is beginning to be shared with a growing legion of consumers, who, after having perfected their pouts, are now turning attention to their eyes.

Last year, prestige mascara sales reached $294 million, surpassing lipstick sales — which totaled $286 million — for the first time, said Karen Grant, senior beauty industry analyst at The NPD Group. Mascara's growth spurt makes it the third leading prestige makeup category, behind foundation and eye shadow.

"The lip is out, and there is nowhere else to go," said beauty futurologist Jeanine Recckio, owner of the Mirror Mirror Imagination Group. "We are sick of lip plumpers, and we're Botoxed to oblivion," she added, explaining consumers' interest in Bambi-like lashes.

Women's renewed focus on the peepers have revived an old category, false eyelashes, and carved out a new, controversial one, eyelash growth products.

The controversy began in November when Allergan Inc., the maker of Botox, filed a patent infringement lawsuit against seven companies alleging that the firms were marketing and selling eyelash growth products with a prostaglandin (a category of compounds) called bimatoprost — the active ingredient in Allergan's glaucoma drug Lumigan.

The current defendants in the suit include Cayman Chemical Co.; Jan Marini Skin Research Inc., which makes Age Intervention Eyelash Conditioner; Athena Cosmetics Corp., which sells RevitaLash; Intuit Beauty Inc., the manufacturer of MassiveLash, and PhotoMedex Inc., which sells MD Lash Factor. Civic Center Pharmacy, which markets Luxette, settled with Allergan, and DermaQuest Inc., the maker of DermaLash, was dismissed from the suit in December.

Sam Dhatt, founder of DermaQuest, said, "We were the only ones included in the lawsuit whose product did not contain pharmaceutical ingredients," adding that Cayman Chemical, a supplier of biochemicals, provided the other beauty firms with the chemical in question, prostaglandin. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration combed through DermaQuest files earlier this month, and cleared the firm of the charge that it used drugs in its £72 DermaLash product.