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Clean Beauty Mart Travels From Beverly Hills To Laguna Beach For Second Outpost
Three months after opening its first location in Beverly Hills, Clean Beauty Mart has graduated to a second outpost in Laguna Beach, Calif. The fast-moving retailer founded by Oliver Ifergan and Laurent Saint-Cricq, the hairstylists behind

Shade2Shade Guides Online Shoppers To The Right Foundation Shades For Them To Boost E-Commerce Sales
For all the convenience of the web, there are some things it just doesn’t make simpler. Choosing foundation is certainly one. Satisfying midnight ice cream cravings is another, but that might only be a concern for Beauty Independent....

Anthropologie Escalates Its Commitment To Wellness With New Section In Palo Alto
Anthropologie isn’t entering wellness with a whimper. The Urban Outfitters Inc.-owned lifestyle retailer is headed full throttle into the category with a new area at its Palo Alto store containing more than 100 brands and 500 products. Also...

Retailer Be Pure Beauty Isn’t Sticking To One Store For Long
Be Pure Beauty has a bold vision for growth. A year after opening in Chapel Hill, N.C., the natural beauty retailer has a second location on its radar in Charlotte and many more planned for the years to...

New Mom Celestyna Higgins Gives Her Skincare Brand Moss A Younger, Playful Sister Named Ambar
Celestyna Higgins is showing her less serious side. Two years after launching acne-fighting brand Moss, she’s introducing Ambar with a colorful collection of four products that experiments with formula formats: Daily Antioxidant Primer, Hydrating Mineral...

Karmen Novak Spices Up The Skincare Market With New Brand Flower And Spice
Karmen Novak is an eclectic beauty entrepreneur if there ever was one. An early e-commerce buff backing independent fashion designers with a pre-recession online shop, she’s a Slovenian woman living in the Netherlands who adores cooking Thai and...

Smoke Founder Kathleen Currie On The Opportunities And Pitfalls Of Passion Projects
Smoke founder Kathleen Currie’s essential oils formulas are motivated by passion and imagination, and rarely the bottom line. That approach is helpful for producing beautiful fragrances, but not the best for supporting a sustainable company. Currie has been...