State Of Change Is Completely Transparent About Its Perfume Ingredients—And Wants The Fragrance Industry To Be, Too

When Ashlee Posner, a longtime fragrance entrepreneur who started customization concepts Aromachology and The Perfume & Cologne Bar, asked the fragrance house she was using for safety information on the perfume ingredients in her products, she was...

Nopalera Opens LA Pop-Up, Launches Personal Care Products That Can Live In Hotels And Restaurants

Not coincidently timed with Hispanic Heritage Month, Nopalera is kicking off two initiatives that could have long-term ramifications for the Latina-owned bath and body care brand: a pop-up store in Los Angeles and its first products not...

Has Any Retailer Replaced Barneys New York As The Go-To Beauty Brand Builder?

In a Wall Street Journal article that ran earlier this month, reporter Chavie Lieber wrote, “Barneys New York was always more than a department store. With a flagship on Madison Avenue and a dozen more locations across...

How Indie Beauty Brands Predict They’ll Do This Holiday Season

Earlier this month, we prodded beauty analysts and investors for holiday sales forecasts. They expressed optimism laced with concern about the state of the economy and the appetite for spending. “The season may be healthy, but not...

True Beauty Ventures And View From 32 On Why Brands Have To Be Much More Than Retail Ready To Enter Chains Today

While their domains are undoubtedly distinct, beauty retailers and beauty investors are becoming much more alike. “We’re making bets on which brands might be successful scaling,” says Rich Gersten, co-founder and managing partner of True Beauty Ventures,...

Ritual’s Lindsay Dahl Busts 5 Of The Biggest Sustainability Myths In CPG

Conventional wisdom often doesn’t hold up when the assumptions underlying it are put to the test. While scrutinizing the consumer packaged goods industry’s sustainability assumptions wasn’t the goal of product-level carbon footprint assessments commissioned by supplement brand

Ritual Becomes First Supplement Brand To Go Public With Each Of Its Products’ Carbon Footprints

Furthering its sustainability leadership, Ritual has become the first supplement brand to share product-level carbon emissions with consumers. The product-level emissions data, which is included in sustainability scorecards within product image carousals on...