Rachel Brown
Sustainability Leader LOLI Beauty Shutters
LOLI Beauty, a sustainability leader in the beauty industry with fair-trade food-grade organic ingredients, waterless formulas and recyclable, refillable and compostable packaging, has closed. Announced on its website, the closure comes after many months of pursuing a...
What Does It Mean To Be A “Responsible” Brand?
In a TikTok video, Abena Boamah, founder of Hanahana Beauty, shared notes from an Axios House event during the United Nations General Assembly last month where she listened to Lisa Williams, CEO of Eileen Fisher, and Ryan...
How L’Oréal-Backed Timeline Is Finding Fervent Fans With The Goal Of Becoming “The No. 1 Longevity Company”
Last year, when the Longevity Med Summit held its first-ever conference, Timeline president and co-founder Chris Rinsch spoke at it about his science-centered supplement and skincare company’s breakthrough in immune aging called mitopure, a proprietary form of...
Beauty Contract Manufacturer M&A Lull Expected To Be Short Term
As the supply chain was unkinking after the shock of the pandemic, beauty companies looked to onshore production and emerging beauty brands with outsourced production grabbed market share, mergers and acquisitions in the beauty contract manufacturing sector were...
How Hyperfocus Helped Captain Blankenship Enter Erewhon
In a market inundated with clean competitors, precision has been 15-year-old Captain Blankenship’s overriding strategy in the last few years. After a rebrand in 2022, the self-funded brand went from as many as 35 stockkeeping units across...
Sofie Pavitt Face Receives Seed Funding From True Beauty Ventures
Sofie Pavitt, the aesthetician-turned-brand founder who Nylon calls “the cool girl’s acne whisperer,” has a cool new investor. True Beauty Ventures, the beauty and wellness venture capital firm, has committed an...
Nostalgia-Soaked Sun Care Brand Standard Procedure Could Be Australia’s Hottest Beauty Export
After growing up with her parents operating Australian sun care manufacturer Concept Labs, Zepha Jackson was interested in getting far away from the sun care industry—and she did, literally and figuratively. Jackson flew from...
