Brand Report
Restorsea Sweeps Race For Shelf Space Buyer And Audience Awards At The BeautyX Retail Summit
Clean clinical skincare brand Restorsea captured the audience and buyer prizes at the second annual Race For Shelf Space competition capping off BeautyX Retail Summit last week. Held at the Fashion Institute Gallery in Dallas, the competition featured three brands exhibiting at Indie Beauty Expo Dallas—new sun-care company Tropic Labs and ...
Retail Report
Ulta Beauty Launches Wellness Sections At 350 Stores
Ulta Beauty is defining the amorphous concept of wellness for beauty customers with new sections launching this week at 350 stores featuring butt sheet masks, dry brushes, anti-chafing sticks and pubic haircare. Doubling their store count in the summer, the wellness sections located within bath and body assortments include the brands Yuni, Bawdy, ...
Brand Report
Anthology Of Independent Beauty Reveals Buyers’ And Consumers’ Favorite Brands From IBE Berlin
If the recent New York Times spotlight on G-Beauty wasn’t sufficient evidence that it’s on the rise, Indie Beauty Expo Berlin attendees’ fascination with Germany’s burgeoning beauty business verifies that the country is a hot commodity on the beauty scene. Post-expo survey results show German brands were the favorite ...
Beneath the Surface
A Dose Of Digital Drama: Why Selling CBD Online Is Still A Struggle
Less than six months after the much-lauded passage of the Farm Bill legalizing the hemp trade, it’s proving not to be the panacea for CBD product selling many thought it would be. Beauty and wellness brands marketing CBD-infused merchandise online continue to be shut out by digital payment processors and shunned by social ...
Retail Report
The Best Places To Buy Bone Broth, Break A Sweat, Buff Your Nails And More In Dallas
The independent beauty and wellness industry will descend upon Dallas from May 13 to 16 for the second BeautyX Retail Summit and third Indie Beauty Expo Dallas. To identify places worth checking out in the city, we tapped some of the most plugged-in Dallas dwellers to share their favorite ...
Full Disclosure
SPF Everything At Every Time: Supergoop Founder Holly Thaggard Extends Sun Care Beyond The Summer
Naiveté can be a beauty entrepreneur’s best friend. When Sephora offered Supergoop summer placement nine years ago, founder and former teacher Holly Thaggard demurred. She wanted to upend assumptions that interest in sun-care was confined to the warmest months and show Supergoop could drive sales throughout the year. “I didn’t know, not ...
Brand Report
Moon + Leaf Bets On Crowdfunding To Support The Development And Marketing Of Its CBD Cramp Relief Products
Rather than reach for an extra painkiller to ward off period cramps, Shaina Kandel prefers women look to plant-based solutions. Her brand Moon + Leaf gives them those solutions: Its products mix CBD with organic extracts to address the effects of menstruation naturally. To create merchandise and fuel marketing, San Francisco-based Moon + ...