Credo Has Focused On The Ingredients In Beauty Products. Now, It’s Emphasizing How They Got There.

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...

The Beauty M&A Bubble Is In Full Effect. Will It Burst?

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...

Why Clark’s Botanicals Founder Francesco Clark Sold And Bought His Skincare Brand

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...

Skin Deep Wants To Bring Better Body Care To All Without Breaking The Bank

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...

How Beauty Brands Establish A Strong Foundation From Which To Scale

If people ignored the fetal stage of development, the adult population would be pretty dismal indeed. It’s the same for beauty businesses. Underappreciating the importance of their earliest phase can cause stunted growth. “The decisions made in the...

Uline Is The Beauty Industry’s SoulCycle

With a catalog of more than 36,000 items filling 750-plus pages, distribution centers in seven U.S. cities, 6,000 employees in North America, affordable prices, low minimums and commended customer service, Uline has become a preferred shipping supplies...

Plastic Pollution Is A Huge Problem, But Awake Organics Shows A Small Brand Can Do Something About It

Global environmental destruction is too big a problem for indie beauty brands to tackle on their own, but Awake Organics founder Melissa Kimbell doesn’t believe that’s an excuse for inaction. The British natural beauty brand has launched...