Personal care
Personal care or toiletries is the industry which manufactures consumer products used in personal hygiene and for beautification.
Subsectors
Subsectors of personal care include personal hygiene and cosmetics.
There is a distinction between personal hygienic items, which are necessities, and cosmetics, which are luxury goods solely used for beautification. In practice such sundries are often intermixed in retail store aisles.
Products
Personal care includes products as diverse as cleansing pads, colognes, cotton swabs, cotton pads, deodorant, eye liner, facial tissue, hair clippers, lip gloss, lipstick, lotion, makeup, nail files, pomade, perfumes, razors, shaving cream, moisturizer, talcum powder, toilet paper, toothpaste, facial treatments and wet wipes.
Hotel application
Typical toiletries offered at many hotels include:
- small bar of soap
- disposable shower cap
- small bottle of moisturizer
- small bottles of shampoo and conditioner
- toilet paper
- box of facial tissue
- face towels
- disposable shoe polishing cloth
- Toothpaste
Corporations
A few examples of the major corporations in the personal care industry, illustrating the great diversity in the industry, include:
- PZ Cussons
Other corporations, such as pharmacies (e.g. CVS/pharmacy, Walgreens) primarily retail in personal care rather than manufacture personal care products themselves.