Skin Deep digs beneath the beauty industry's glamorous surface to find out how it makes its billions. The book looks at the history of the beauty industry, from ancient cosmetics through to poisonous products, and the extraordinary lengths people have gone to in order to look good. The book examines how the beauty industry today is worth billions, exploring its latest technological developments and just how much people will pay to be beautiful.

Discover the world's biggest money-making industries and the secrets of their success in Big-time Business. From the pharmaceutical industry and entertainment world through to the business of beauty, banking, social networking and energy, find out why these enterprising worlds have a grip on the global economy and are considered the biggest money-generators on the planet. A high-interest exploration of the business world for 9+ readers.

This book features in the following series: Big Time Business, Big-Time Business .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Hachette Children's Group .

Angela Royston has written and edited many books for children about science and nature.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Facing the future
• 1: Chapter 1: A long history
• 1: The industry today
• 1: Who's behind the product?
• 1: Looking good
• 1: Chapter 2: Make-over
• 1: Looking after skin
• 1: Darker or lighter?
• 1: Beauty treatments
• 1: Chapter 3: All about hair
• 1: Hair colourants
• 1: Straight or curly?
• 1: Unwanted hair
• 1: Shaving
• 1: Chapter 4: Under the knife
• 1: Improving on nature
• 1: Forever young
• 1: A full head of hair
• 1: The perfect smile
• 1: Challenges ahead
• 1: Glossary
• 1: For more information
• 1: Index