Rachel Brown

Do The Skin-Fasting, Skip-Care, #NoBuy, #ShopMyStash And Sustainability Movements Add Up To A Pullback In Skincare Spending?
Last week, Alison Wu, the health and self-care guru behind Wu Haus, embarked on a seven-day break from beauty products in response to a Man Repeller article on skin fasting, a practice promoted by the company...

Canadian Retail Concept The Girl Floral Pairs Bouquets With Clean Beauty Products
Clean beauty brands have entered juice bars, yoga studios, groceries, fashion boutiques and more. Floral shops, with their deep connections to plants, are a fitting distribution partner to add to the retail mix. The Girl Floral, a...

Do Your Skincare Products Live Up To The Hype? Le CultureClub’s New Digital Tool Will Find Out
Le CultureClub attempts to remove subjectivity from skincare shopping. Two years after it launched with a newsletter, the digital platform has introduced Rate Your Routine, an online tool intended to confirm whether skincare products meet consumers’...

Cosmetic Chemists And Chemist Confessions Founders Victoria Fu And Gloria Lu Turn To Science To Take The BS Out Of Skincare
Makeup artists have long come to the fore to lead beauty companies. Perfumers are increasingly stepping out from behind the bottle. But cosmetic chemists concocting skincare products rarely enter the spotlight. Former L’Oréal formulators Victoria Fu and Gloria...

Haircare Brand Many Ethnicities Grows Distribution As Its Multicultural Customer Base Grows Nationally
When Ena Hennegan was growing up in the ’70s and ’80s as a biracial kid in Philadelphia, her mom was baffled by which products to put on her hair. “My mom was Caucasian, and she had straight red...

Beauty Industry Veteran Joan Sutton Brings Serious Skincare To The CBD Beauty Segment With New Brand 707 Flora
Almost everyone who comes across Joan Sutton tells her she absolutely must start a beauty brand. She has the kind of skin dermatologists dream about. She can explain complex formulas to unschooled beauty consumers and does so regularly...

Forget Sketchy Pot Shops: Cannabis Retail Is Going Experiential At Standard Dose’s Upcoming Store
Cannabis retail is flowering. Online CBD emporium Standard Dose is taking its concept to the street with the first of several planned locations scheduled to open in Manhattan’s NoMad neighborhood by the spring. It joins Barneys New...