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Shop Good Serves Up Self-Care Staples In San Diego
The clean beauty boss has a new domain. Leah Kirpalani, who started Good Life in 2015 as a health coaching venture, is opening the 750-square-foot store Shop Good in San Diego showcasing brands such as...
Scrupulous Sourcing, Careful Store Selection, Spam Email And A Single SKU Spark The Rise Of Vintner’s Daughter
Much of the skincare on the market is the equivalent of boxed wine. Its contents are of questionable origins. It might get the job done in a pinch, but doesn’t inspire loyalty. It’s a disposable buy and looks...
Stem Cell Scientist Hans Keirstead Battles Crow’s Feet And Vies For A Congressional Seat
Hans Keirstead is campaigning for good looks and good government: the first with new skincare brand Root of Skin and the second with a congressional run. An outgrowth of AiVita Biomedical, the brand is launching after four years...
Beauty Companies Join The Menstrual Realness Movement
The elevation of menstruation is upon us.
When Claire Zhao got her period at age 15, she broke down in tears. “I was very scared. There was a stigma and...
How To Climb The Walls Of Amazon
For an emerging beauty brand, passing through the pearly gates of Amazon could very well be trickier than passing through the pearly gates of heaven. The e-commerce giant has come down hard on Amazon aspirants with...
Move Over Millennials, Gen X’er Jenny Patinkin Is Making Waves In The Makeup Brush Business
Jenny Patinkin doesn’t waste time on the insecurities of youth. Pushing 40-years-old when she began training as a makeup artist and pushing 50-years-old now, she plows past rejections to propel her namesake cosmetics brush brand...
Scentbird Upends The Department Store Fragrance Experience By Shipping Scents Monthly To Millennials
In the absence of smell-o-cellphones, selling fragrances has been notoriously difficult to accomplish outside of physical locations. Addressing the persistent proboscis problem, subscription service Scentbird has cracked the code of the digital scent business by...
