Alice Mushrooms Closes Oversubscribed $8M Series A Round For Retail Expansion

Alice Mushrooms has secured $8 million in an oversubscribed series A round, $3 million more than the functional mushroom-infused chocolate maker’s target for it.  NewBound, backer of Mimikai and...

TikTok Star Tinx Collaborates With Saint Jane On The Sex Elixir

TikTok star Tinx has used her platform to speak frankly about relationships, intimacy and sex. Now, she’s deepened her commitment to sexual wellness with the launch of The Sex Elixir created in partnership with clean beauty...

10 Years Later, Where Indie Beauty Expo’s First Brand Exhibitors Are Now

In August 2015, 83 independently owned beauty and wellness brands came together in New York City for a new kind of trade show catering to emerging, founder-led brands that wanted to network with retail buyers, editors...

NeueHouse Veteran Opens Luxurious Members-Only Lore Bathing Club, Plans NYC Expansion

Manhattan’s got a stunning new sauna spot in the Lore Bathing Club, a membership-based contrast therapy studio in NoHo with a 15-person infrared sauna, dry Finnish sauna of alder wood and pool room fashioned with a cold...

British Brand Wype Raises $1.4M For “Bottom Care” Products In Oversubscribed Seed Round

Investors are getting bold about filling the hole in the market for modern butt care. Wype, the London-based maker of a gel that turns toilet paper into a soothing, sustainable wet...

Magic Molecule Secures Private Equity Funding And Acquires Hypochlorous Acid Manufacturer

Hypochlorous acid-powered skincare brand Magic Molecule has received funding from private equity firm NexPhase Capital and used the funding in part to acquire its manufacturing partner

Uoma Beauty And Pull Up For Change Founder Sharon Chuter Dies At 38

Sharon Chuter, the founder of inclusive color cosmetics brands Uoma Beauty and Uoma by Sharon C. and equity-focused nonprofit Pull Up For Change, died at her Los Angeles home on Aug. 14 at the age of...