(57) Recent improvements in cosmetics materials have included the development of certain
highly volatile binders for powder colouring compositions, e.g. facial blushers etc.;
these binders can be used to retain the composition in integral stick form, and have
the added advantage of possessing high slip coefficients, thus aiding application
of the cosmetic to the skin. However, being highly volatile, they tend to evaporate
from the stick and even in the close confines of the conventional twist- stick assembly
(e.g. as hitherto used for lipsticks) this evaporation would quite quickly result
in disintegration of the stick. The invention concerns a holder assembly for a cosmetics
stick incorporating such a binder and includes a base (3, 5) which is open at one
end and which has relatively rotatable inner (5) and outer (3) tubes and which houses
a stick holder cup (18) arranged to be axially movable by relative rotation of the
tubes, and a cap (2) which fits over the open end of the base. Respective seals (31,
41 ) are provided to seal between the cap and the base on the one hand, and between
the cup and the inner tube on the other hand so as to inhibit egress of vapour formed
within the assembly by evaporation of the binder.
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