Rachel Brown

E-commerce accounts for an estimated nearly 11% of beauty sales in the United Kingdom. Charlie Munton believes it can be much, much larger. He created the e-tailer Skinspace to draw skincare-obsessed shoppers as they migrate their purchases from high street to the information highway. The website is designed to be a tightly-edited ...

A decade into what would become a dozen-year infertility struggle that included three cycles of IVF, six miscarriages and four surgeries, Rachel Daugherty, depressed following a failed adoption, settled into a bath that was fizzing as a Mary’s Nutritionals bath bomb with Epsom salt and full-spectrum CBD melted into the hot water. “This was ...

Credo is going beyond labels. The clean beauty retailer is paying close attention to the supply chain to ensure the 120-plus brands in its assortment are doing as much as possible to avoid damage to the planet and people as they produce the merchandise it carries. In particular, it’s zeroing in on palm ...

Outfitted in a sleek white jumpsuit, Elena DiGiovanni wasn’t much for shades of gray in her assessment of the state of mergers and acquisitions in the beauty industry at the conference BeautyX Capital Summit on Tuesday in New York meeting venue Convene. “Is everyone and their mother investing in beauty right now? Check. ...

In 2016, Clark’s Botanicals was struggling to meet soaring consumer demand. The natural skincare brand was increasing its presence at Space NK in the United Kingdom, had expanded to Harvey Nichols in Hong Kong and sold through products during seven appearances on QVC. To ramp up production and further push growth, founder Francesco ...

During a brutal winter in Chicago seven years ago, human rights attorney Dominique Covington Boseman’s eczema just wouldn’t go away. She slathered on store-bought creams, but they were no help. Boseman resorted to researching ingredients that might do the trick and concocted a recipe in her kitchen in a desperate attempt to relieve her ...