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High demand for solid products
Water plays a key role in cosmetic products and how they are manufactured. But what happens if water is downgraded to a supporting role and its proportion of the end product is reduced or eliminated entirely? Liquid cosmetic products become solid products, known as bars. This trend is not new, though.