For Sumaira Latif, distinguishing the shampoo bottle from the conditioner hasn't always been easy. Latif is blind and has used different methods — from a rubber band to a swath of cellophane — to tell ...

Beauty brands are notorious for their elaborate packaging. To stand out on crowded shelves, companies design elaborate bottles and tubes; the average person uses 11 bottles of shower gel and 10 ...

When shampoo manufacturers started switching from glass bottles to plastic in the 1960s, they weren’t thinking about how to make the new containers recyclable. And so the bottles that are now ...