Jenny Berg
With New Brand Esas, Two Givaudan Alums Aim To Disrupt Beauty Manufacturing
Seda Bilginer and Amanda Sichon, co-founders of Esas, are self-confessed product junkies, but it’s the production floor that ignited their entrepreneurial spirit. As colleagues at Givaudan, the global fragrance and flavor manufacturer, they bonded over “a lot,...
Inspired By Fifties-Era Milkmen, Naked Frankie Brings A Closed-Loop Beauty Retail Model To Los Angeles
Milkmen aren’t generally the bellwether of beauty trends, but they’re the inspiration behind Naked Frankie. “When we launched, we started out as a delivery service for bath and body essentials,” says Jennifer Zhao, who founded the company...
This Brand Generated $2.6M In Sales Last Year While Sticking To Small-Batch Manufacturing
When Terran Lewis was a student at Georgia State University, she saw a flier advertising a farming internship at Atlanta’s Urban Sprout Farms that would ultimately put her on the path to founding Herb’n Eden, a rapidly...
“Dragon’s Den” Contestant Bushbalm Is On Track To Hit $15 Million In Sales This Year And $30 Million Next Year
While on his honeymoon in 2016, Bushbalm co-founder Tim Burns needed a product he couldn’t exactly get from room service. In short, he wanted to clean up his pubic area. On a whim, Burns decided to task...
This Emerging Cosmetics Brand Designed For Sensitive Skin Is Heading To Nordstrom
Based on Julie Rice’s resume, it seems almost inevitable that she’d pursue a beauty brand of her own. After graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a degree in cosmetics and fragrance marketing in 2003, Rice had...
The Essentials Of EU And UK Beauty Product Regulatory Compliance
“Get your compliance right. Then, get your marketing off the ground,” said Peter Mudahy, CEO of Pak Group, speaking about beauty product regulatory compliance in the European Union and United Kingdom. “Without compliance, you don’t have a...
Native American-Owned Cosmetics Brand Ah-Shi Beauty Is Carefully Reopening Its Stores After Pandemic Closures
Last year, only months after founder Ahsaki Báá LaFrance-Chachere opened Ah-Shi Beauty’s studio, showroom, distribution center and gift shop in Gallup, N.M., and days after it opened a store in Navajo Nation capital Window Rock, Ariz., a...
