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Dr. Robb Akridge’s Opulus Beauty Labs Whips Up Fresh Supercharged Skincare At Home In 90 Seconds
Humans have been drinking coffee for thousands of years and from a drip coffee maker for over a century. It took Keurig making a kitchen counter contraption quickly brewing up fresh coffee by the cup to change household...
Cannabis Beauty And Wellness Company Leaders On Where The CBD Market Is Heading
More than two years out from the federal Farm Bill that legalized the hemp trade in the United States and ushered in a beauty industry CBD boom, we wanted to check in with cannabis beauty and wellness brand...
Launching With A Single Product, New Brand State Of Kind Personifies The Skinimalist Approach To Skincare
In her mid- to late-20s, Sarah Battersby struggled with a procession of skin issues, including breakouts, dullness and inflammation. “Everything that was being marketed to me was to do more and more, and you need to buy this...
Beauty E-Tailer B-Glowing Brings Dawn Francisco On Board As CEO To Grow Awareness And Sales
Dawn Francisco, a former VP at Dermstore and Estée Lauder, has joined beauty e-tailer b-glowing as CEO to boost consumer awareness and growth. A beauty enthusiast who realized early that online sales would be important in the...
Six Steps Athr Beauty Is Taking To Scale Its Business
Tiila Abbitt took out a second mortgage on her house to start her brand Athr Beauty with $100,000 in 2018. She had a hunch makeup would be the next category transformed by the clean beauty movement, but...
An Autopsy Of Rodin Olio Lusso And The Challenges Conglomerates Face Taking Over Small Brands
From 2014 to 2016, Estée Lauder Cos. Inc. acquired seven brands—Rodin Olio Lusso, Becca Cosmetics, Too Faced, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, By Kilian, Le Labo and GlamGlow—and boosted the size of its minority stake in an eighth,...
From The Minds Behind Starface, Plus Greens The Shower With Waterless Body Wash Sheets And Dissolvable Packaging
Entrepreneurs often run away from the steep challenge of trying to persuade consumers to make a major behavior change. Julie Schott, Cathryn Woodruff and Brian Bordainick run toward it. With their brand Starface, co-founders Schott and Bordainick...
