Global cosmetics spending exceeds the UN’s entire annual budget

Evidence

Cosmetics are still vitally important for “good grooming” in the twenty-first century. Women spend more money on makeup and skin care every year than the United Nations spends for all its agencies and funds. New cosmetics, new styles, and new fads come and go, but they all result in part from the age-old universal human disdain for bodies in their natural state. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 571

Categorization

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