From Boob Jobs To Breast Wellness: A New Generation Of Brands Is Evolving The Beauty Industry’s Relationship With Breasts

The beauty industry has long preyed on insecurities about breasts with products and procedures designed to have them fit a narrow societal ideal. To this day, most of the beauty offerings for breasts...

New Sexual Wellness Brand Playground Creates Lubricants To Enhance Different Sexual Sensations

Playground recognizes that pleasure isn’t one size fits all.  With the thesis that different libidos should have different lubricants, the sexual wellness brand launches today with four varieties of lube aimed at women available on...

Post-Acquisition RMS Beauty Has Billion-Dollar Ambitions

A lot has changed for RMS Beauty since Beauty Independent’s Full Disclosure on founder Rose-Marie Swift in January 2019. Last August, investment firm Highlander Partners acquired the clean beauty brand, and Highlander managing director David...

The Honey Pot Company’s Reformulation Of Intimate Washes Sparks A Social Media Backlash

An unannounced formulation change has led to a sticky situation for The Honey Pot Company. Upset to discover the brand inserted preservatives into its range of foaming intimate area washes, customers took...

Womaness Becomes Ulta Beauty’s First Menopause Brand

Ulta Beauty may be gen Z’s favorite beauty retailer, but the specialty chain wants to make sure their moms are taken care of, too. Today, Womaness is entering Ulta...

The Dental Dam Gets Competition As Lorals’ Latex “Undies” Receive FDA Clearance As An Oral Sex Barrier

Finally some good news in the realm of women’s sexual wellness equality: Lorals’ Lorals for Protection latex “undies” have secured clearance from the United States Food and Drug Administration as a barrier to protect against...

Prestige Haircare Is As Frothy As Ever, But Frédéric Fekkai Doesn’t Plan To Sell (Again)

In his three decades in the beauty industry, entrepreneur and celebrity hairstylist Frédéric Fekkai has been both acquirer and acquiree. In 1989, he opened his first namesake salon in New York City luxury...