Brand Report

Anima Mundi Acquires Essential Oil Company Floracopeia, Opens Second Apothecary

Botanical beauty and wellness brand Anima Mundi has opened a second location and acquired essential oil company Floracopeia. The new apothecary and tonic bar in Los Angeles’s Venice neighborhood...
Retail Report

Sephora UK Partners With E-Tailer SheSpot To Curate Online Sexual Wellness Assortment

Sephora UK has partnered with British e-tailer SheSpot on a sexual wellness curation for its online marketplace.  The sexual wellness offering is launching today with over 50 products, including sex toys,...
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Sephora Branches Into Wellness Tech With HigherDose Launch

Sephora wants in on the wellness device market.  Today, the specialty retailer has introduced 13 products from HigherDose to its online assortment. Co-founders Katie Kaps and Lauren Berlingeri view the at-home recovery...
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Sexpot Apothecary Is Expanding The Medicine Cabinet With Herbal Sexual Wellness Remedies

The relationship between sexual health brand founders and their customers is often deeper and more complicated than simply buying and selling merchandise. As far as society has come in destigmatizing sex, it’s still shrouded...
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Sephora US Launched Smile Makers’ Sex Toys—And Seemingly Everyone Freaked Out

“We have from the start been very single-mindedly focused on the beauty channel,” says Mattias Hulting, co-founder of Ramblin’ Brands, parent company of sex toy brand Smile Makers. That focus is paying...
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Cryo-Inspired Luxury Skincare Brand Ameōn Picks Up Steam At Retail

Ice-centered skincare range Ameōn has skated into its first retail partnerships. The 3-year-old brand has launched on Neiman Marcus’s website and at the department store company’s locations in Beverly Hills, Dallas, Short...
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Dermatologist, Brand Founder And “Super Believer In Skincare” Loretta Ciraldo Pushes Products (But Not Too Many) Over Procedures

Loretta Ciraldo, founder of skincare brand Dr Loretta, was exploring what makes skin tick before many TikTok skin docs were born. In 1975, the now 70-year-old dermatologist was at Harvard Medical...