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OWA Haircare’s Water-Free Powder Shampoo Offers A Sustainable Alternative To The Usual Stuff Of Showers
Kailey Bradt suggests conventional shampoos aren’t that different from Evian and Aquafina. She says, “Once people hear shampoo is 80% water on average and learn companies are shipping mostly bottled water, they ask, ‘Why are we doing that?’”...
K Banana Celebrates K-Beauty At Its New Store In Seattle—And Possibly Elsewhere In The Future
Mall shopping has gotten a whole lot cuter with the arrival of K Banana, a K-Beauty retailer that’s launched at Seattle’s open-air lifestyle center University Village. The brainchild of Liz Kang Yates, K-Banana is showcasing the sheet...
New Customization Concept Mxt Puts Consumers In Charge Of Their Skincare Products
No one knows your skin better than you. Mxt allows you to construct products just for it. The new artificial intelligence-powered customization concept turns its customers into formulators with two tools: One is a quiz guiding them...
New York Shop Consigliere Is On A Mission To Be Men’s Beauty BFF
While they don’t announce it, most beauty stores target women and cater to their preferences. Chad Beightol has opened Consigliere, a New York beauty shop specifically targeting men, to put guys at ease as they keep up...
New Brand Cardon Harnesses K-Beauty Technology To Make Men’s Skincare Better
While classmates at University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School MBA program, Narae Chung tried to convince Jacqueline Oak to join her embryonic men’s skincare brand. Busy building a small business financial planning tool, Oak kindly declined, but agreed to...
French Brand Merci Handy’s Hand Sanitizers Kill Germs While Looking Pretty Killer
Louis Marty is busy listening. In March, the co-founder of Paris-based Merci Handy, a brand that turned boring hand sanitizers into the cheery stuff of social media, moved to New York to learn about American shoppers and...
Don’t Bullsh*t The Buyer: 10 Tips For Building Your Wholesale Business
If a distribution partnership is akin to a marriage, a dishonest party can lead to a pretty nasty divorce. With indie beauty brands chattering a ton about transparency these days, buyers are beseeching them to extend the concept...
