Rachel Brown
What Does It Really Cost To Launch A Beauty Product Today?
In recent discussions with beauty brands, we’ve heard a lot about the soaring costs of product launches. To quantify those costs, for the latest edition of our ongoing series posing questions relevant to indie beauty, we asked 11...
Beauty Contract Manufacturers Step Out Of The Shadows To Make Names For Themselves
KJH.Brand’s new product, Soft Smudge Lip & Cheek, is manufactured by Cosmetica Laboratories, and Katie Jane Hughes, the makeup artist who founded the brand, has taken to social media to give a peek at how it...
Fair-Trade Marketplace Beautyologie Launches Giftable Brand WOO To Spread Its Message
When you have your hands in all parts of a business, you can’t help but learn a thing or two about its customers. As she was working on search engine optimization for Beautyologie, the fair-trade e-commerce destination...
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...
