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How Can Early Clean Beauty Brands Make It Today?
Beauty industry prognosticators predict clean beauty will grow. For example, Research and Markets expects the worldwide clean beauty segment to accelerate at a compound annual growth rate of 12% from 2023 to 2028. That rate leads to...
Iris&Romeo’s Michele Gough Baril On Making Room In The Beauty Industry For Women In Their 40s And 50s
If one of your main responsibilities is shoveling horse poop, it becomes pretty clear that an onerous multistep beauty routine isn’t a necessity. That was impressed upon Michele Gough Baril in 2012, when the former head of consumer...
Ellis Brooklyn’s Bee Shapiro On The Body Mist Boom, Why She Doesn’t Do Blotter Scents, And Series A Fundraising
In the fragrance category, consumers increasingly don’t want to be categorized. “I grew up in the era where I was instructed what to do. I should smell like this, I should wear a scent like this, I should...
What It Really Means To Be A Profitable Beauty Brand
If beauty entrepreneurs are to be believed, virtually no one is building a brand to exit. Still, that doesn’t indicate they wouldn’t consider a lucrative deal should it be on the table, right? To situate themselves...
After Achieving Two Significant Beauty Brand Exits, Can Tula And Bobbi Brown Co-Founder Ken Landis Land A Third With DIBS Beauty?
Ken Landis could pull a beauty brand exit hat trick. He co-founded Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, which sold to Estée Lauder in 1995, and Tula Skincare, which sold to Procter & Gamble in 2022. Now, he’s on...
How LGBTQIA+ Beauty Brand Founders Are Feeling This Pride Month
This Pride Month, the movement for LGBTQIA+ rights has much to celebrate. In the United States, support for gay marriage stands at 71%, an all-time high according to analytics firm Gallup. Abroad, countries such as Slovenia, Taiwan,...
Capri Blue And Thymes Parent Company Curio Acquires Blazing Candle Brand Otherland
Otherland is venturing to another business land. The sizzling candle brand has been acquired by Curio, parent company of Thymes and Capri Blue, for an undisclosed amount. Otherland’s tight distribution and product range gives Curio an...
