With the huge selection of brands and products available, it is easy to see why the cosmetic industry is one of the world’s largest industries. The following quirky facts will only confirm to you what a giant beauty really is in the big bad business world!

First launched in 1992 and hailed as one of the world’s most innovative and advanced products of its time is the YSL Touche Éclat. A truly magic pen that disguises those pesky dark under- eye circles. They are so popular that someone somewhere across the globe purchases one every 20 seconds!

Maybelline Great Lash Mascara was made famous due to the distinctive pink and green tube and the contents must also be pretty good, as there is one sold worldwide every 1.2 seconds.

Benefit is a huge cosmetic brand in USA, UK and many other parts of the world and has produced many iconic beauty items, but one in particular, named ‘Lip Plump’, is such a big seller that 32 tubes are filled per minute. If you lined up all the tubes produced in one day, there would be enough to span over 12 football fields!

Lancôme Juicy Tubes celebrated its 10th birthday in 2010, and it has been a very successful decade- 27 of the deliciously glossy tubes is now sold every minute worldwide.

L’Oreal is the world’s biggest cosmetic producer with many brands under their belt. In 2009, they had 64,600 employees in 66 countries. L’Oreal brands are sold in 130 countries around the globe and each year, 5000 formulas are developed to ensure that we really are ‘worth it’!

Finally, the cosmetic industry does not just sell and take our hard earned cash, they are also big givers. The beautiful industry gives twice as much as to charitable causes as any other industry.  For example, over one million individual products are donated for cancer patients every year through The ‘Look Good Feel Great’ program.

Article by Laura Hodge