Beauty Formula Pricing Still Runs On Excel. Sleek Flow Labs Wants To Change That
Beauty manufacturing may be moving to newfangled robots, but many parts of the industry remain antiquated, including formula costing and price quoting largely conducted on Excel spreadsheets and reliant on manual vendor outreach and accumulated internal know-how....
A Future Where Every Beauty Brand Has Its Own AI-Powered Factory
In the future, the engine of beauty product customization will move from individuals, who’ve dabbled in it through online quizzes and DIY’ing formulas at home, to the manufacturing infrastructure, where micro-factories will enable brands to produce...
The Mid-Sized Squeeze: Why Beauty Brands Are Getting Stuck In The Middle
They call it stuck in the middle for a reason. In beauty, mid-sized brands are feeling the squeeze. That pressure is showing up in growth expectations. One beauty industry consultant told us that,...
After Sales Dip, Eco-Conscious Haircare Brand Flora Flora Lands Nationwide Whole Foods Rollout
Flora Flora Co. is rolling out to about 370 Whole Foods Market stores nationwide, and sales for the sustainable haircare company founded in 2021 are on an upward trajectory for 2026. It’s a scenario founder Sarah Cloes...
Lyma’s Luxury At-Home Laser Devices Power A $48M Business
The beauty device market is notoriously tough, with high upfront development costs, tricky margin profiles and the reality that many products end up unused in a customer’s bottom drawer or are returned. Lyma, which started with...
