Of the hundreds of new beauty products released last year, a foundation that doubles as skin care generated the most sales. Nars’ Light Reflecting Foundation was the biggest prestige launch in the US in 2022 by dollars, according to data from The NPD Group. Julia Sloan, deputy general manager of global marketing at Nars, said 70 percent of the ingredients in the Nars foundation are skin-care ingredients, including cacao peptides, milk thistle, biomimetic oat and Japanese lilyturf. As such, the product was marketed just like skin care. Nars’ website emphasises what the formula is made without (parabens, mineral oil and silicones) and lists the purported benefits of individual ingredients (less…