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New Prestige Body Care Brand Nerra Brings Bathhouse Culture To Beauty Consumers’ Homes

Growing up in Carthage, Tunisia, Teyma Touati visited hammams once a week with her grandmother. “[Hammam] is a place where we go to laugh. There are young and old ladies, and it is a place...
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Drunk Elephant Says Many Of Its Products Are Designed For Kids

Drunk Elephant is going on the offensive amid criticism that young kids are inappropriately using its products. In an Instagram post uploaded Friday on its account, the brand asked, “Can kids & tweens use Drunk Elephant?”...
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NIQ And Kline: 25 Indie Beauty Brands Ripe For Acquisition

Market research firms Kline and NIQ have identified 25 indie beauty brands ripe for acquisition, including Rare Beauty, Danessa Myricks Beauty, Jones Road, OSEA, Good Molecules, Dr. Squatch, Dossier...
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“Bargain Basement”: The Beauty Industry Reacts To THG’s Biossance Acquisition

Biossance, the brand that raised awareness of Amyris’s lab-brewed squalane, has found a new home. THG Beauty, also known as The Hut Group, snapped up the brand for $20 million in...
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Spate: 15 Indie Beauty Brands Leading In Sustained Search Volume Growth

It’s great to suddenly go viral on TikTok, but it’s even better to have sustained momentum over time. To pinpoint drivers of prolonged growth in consumer awareness, we turned to machine intelligence beauty platform Spate to identify...