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This Beauty Entrepreneur Is A SNAP Recipient You Don’t Often Hear About
Amid the talk of beauty entrepreneurs achieving billion-dollar exits, entrepreneurs on the other, far larger end of the spectrum—those operating on passion rather than big paydays and often not compensating themselves at all—get overlooked. Colleen Poe,...
Verdoie Launches In Retail With Ambitions To Become A Major Mover In Mushroom Beauty And Wellness
After starting in direct-to-consumer distribution in January, Verdoie is putting down roots—or, the parlance of root-free mushrooms, hyphae—by entering retail at Credo Beauty and Pharmacie Continent 7ème. The mushroom-powered Paris-based skincare and wellness brand has arrived on...
Credo Beauty Says Oui To French Beauty With New Capsule Collection
With its high-touch customer education and ingredients focus, Credo Beauty may be one of the United States’ closest approximations of a French pharmacy—and now it’s leaning into that distinction with a new French beauty capsule assortment. Launching...
New Studio Bridges The Gap Between Indie Beauty Brands And Contract Manufacturing
Advising tens of indie beauty brands at her consultancy Beauty Founders Agency, Melissa Hibbért has discovered they struggle to secure contract manufacturers attentive to them and willing to take them on as customers at order...
In The AI Age, What Does The Beauty Factory Of The Future Look Like?
As artificial intelligence rapidly infiltrates every level of beauty, from ingredient sourcing to marketing, we want to explore how it—and other forces changing the industry—are impacting production. So, for the latest edition of our ongoing series...
Science-Driven Professional Skincare Brand Epicutis Raises $10M In Series B Funding To Fuel Expansion
Epicutis, the science-driven luxury professional skincare brand, has raised $10 million in series B funding to fuel its next phase of growth. The brand didn’t disclose the investor in its series...
Biotech Firm Cellugy Scores $9.25M Grant To Replace Petrochemicals In Beauty Products
An eco-friendly alternative is no good if it can’t perform like the cheap, eco-unfriendly material it’s substituting. Cellugy is fully aware of that—and its goal is to replace xanthan and cellulose gums and...
