Vital Proteins Plans Collagen Product Expansion With Funding From CAVU Venture Partners

Vital Proteins has secured a large dose of supplemental income. CAVU Venture Partners poured $19 million in Series A funding into the Chicago-based collagen-boosting nutrition company that sells products in over 8,000 doors at...

Gay Timmons, Godmother Of Beauty Ingredients, Is Aghast At The Rise Of Class-Action Lawsuits

Gay Timmons’ dander is up. The founder of organic and specialty ingredient distribution company Oh, Oh Organic, and president of the Natural and Organic Health & Beauty Alliance (

Indie Beauty Companies Give Good Gift This Holiday Shopping Season

While beauty conglomerates churn out slick beauty gift sets faster than you can say happy holidays, indie beauty brands bring more thought to the what and why of holiday gift sets. As this tumultuous...

Brenda Brock Brings Farmaesthetics’ Kitchen Chemistry To Japan This Spring

Farmaesthetics is significantly expanding its global footprint in the spring when a new distribution partner will introduce the brand to Asia. The plan for Farmaesthetics’ expansion into Japan was born in the treatment room. “My now-partner, Mariko Suzuki,...

Beauty And Wellness Pros On The Business Of Beauty Sleep

Businesses are waking up to the potential of beauty sleep. A fitting place to address the topic is mattress company Leesa’s New York showroom, where last Thursday online business community Radiche put together a panel of beauty and...

Christian Craven Takes 200 Pictures And Two Weeks To Product Test To Guarantee Worthwhile Reads

It was only a matter of time before Dallas-based fashion and lifestyle blogger Christian Craven moved into skincare-focused social. “I’ve always been a beauty junkie,” declares Craven. He started blogging for fun, but the online endeavor led to...

After Two Decades In The Beauty Industry, Angela Dubia Created The Online Green Beauty Shop She Wanted

Safe & Chic founder Angela Dubia knows prestige beauty. As an account executive for Parfums Givenchy, she managed over 100 California retail locations, including Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. While chicness was...