8 Indie Beauty Trends Spotted At Adit Live Los Angeles 2024

Nearly 60 brands from around the world convened at the Beauty Independent parent company Indie Beauty Media Group’s Adit Live Los Angeles trade show earlier this month to meet with buyers from Ulta Beauty, Formula Fig, QVC,...

Netflix’s “Mind Your Manners” Host Launches Intimate Care Brand Inspired By Traditional Chinese Medicine

With the launch of Antevorta, Sara Jane Ho wants to help you mind more than your manners.  Since 2022, the author, international etiquette expert and founder of Institute Sarita, a finishing school...

Menstruation Gets An M&A Moment. Will The Flow Continue?

Speaking to Beauty Independent in 2014, The Honey Pot Company founder Beatrice Dixon was candid about her ambition to sell the brand to Unilever for $1 billion. Although that ambition hasn’t been achieved yet, she took...

Nicotine Replacement Therapy Brand Jones Gets Underway With $1.1M From Warby Parker Founders’ VC Firm And Others

Fueled by $1.1 million in pre-seed funding, Jones has launched to ease people off of vaping, a challenge its creators know full well.  Striving to put a contemporary spin on the nicotine replacement...

AI-Powered Women’s Wellness Marketplace Unfabled Raises $1.6M To Expand International Reach And Data Insights

Unfabled has raised $1.6 million in funding from several backers, including Morgan Stanley Inclusive Ventures Group, Exceptional Ventures, Founders Factory, Chai Ventures, SyndicateRoom and 3 Sisters Ventures. Headquartered in London, the

Dame Acquires Fellow Sexual Wellness Brand Emojibator

Sexual wellness brand Dame has acquired sex toy maker Emojibator for an undisclosed sum. Alexandra Fine, co-founder and CEO of Dame, will oversee both brands, while Emojibator founder Joe Vela will transition...

Sōm Skin Is Bringing The Power Of Exosomes To People’s Homes

Sōm Skin founder Sophia Moradi has had a front-row seat to exosomes’ emergence as a star ingredient. Her mother, Silva Moradi, has been CEO of Avalon Surgery Center in Glendale,...