DermaQuest Skin Therapy's new DermaLash Colors range offers the same lash-stimulating benefits as the original clear formula, while doubling as a liquid eyeliner.

"DermaLash Colors is very unique in that it is the only lash-enhancing product on the market with a cosmetics twist," DermaQuest founder and cosmeceutical chemist Sam Dhatt told "The Rose Sheet."

According to Dhatt, the original DermaLash formula - a clear liquid applied at night to stimulate eyelash follicles for longer, fuller and more youthful-looking lashes - was so successful that users began inquiring whether daytime use was also appropriate, prompting the company to launch the Colors line.

DermaLash Colors is similar to the original formula but contains mineral iron oxides which provide the line's four hues - black, cocoa, plum and indigo. Each tube retails for $90 and can be purchased on the company's Web site.

In addition to promoting growth, DermaLash offerings also are designed to strengthen lashes, preventing breakage and hair loss due to allergies, pulling, rubbing, lash curling, cosmetics and heat. Results are expected within 3-6 weeks after initial use, the company says.

DermaLash was launched last year as a drug-free alternative to other lash-conditioning products on the market. The line's "naturally-derived" performance ingredients include copper, biotin and amino acids. DermaQuest also lists tussilago farfara flower, achillea millefolium, and cinchona succirubra bark extracts among ingredients in its DermaLash Eyelash Growth Promoter Complex.

In January, DermaQuest was dismissed from a lawsuit filed by pharma firm Allergan against eight companies for allegedly infringing a patent for its Lumigan drug, which has been found to occasion eyelash growth in people using it to treat glaucoma (¹ 'The Rose Sheet' Jan. 21, 2008, In Brief).

DermaQuest was able to demonstrate that its product contained no drugs. Jan Marini was also targeted (² Also see "Jan Marini Ceases Eyelash Product Sales Due To Allergan Suit, FDA Threat" - HBW Insight, 14 January, 2008., p. 8).

- Louisa Tavlas (l.tavlas@elsevier.com)

New DermaLash Product Offers Lash Growth With Added Splash Of Color

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