Lotus Herbals’ Nitin Passi Breaks Down The Company’s Investment Strategy

With India surpassing China as the country with the world’s largest population, the rest of the globe is seeing rupees as the income of its nearly 1.43 billion citizens increases. The beauty industry is no exception, and...

Men’s Hair Color Customization Startup Cleverman Receives $1.8M In Seed Funding

Depending on estimates, anywhere from 7% to 15% of American men color their hair compared to 50% to 75% of American women. That leaves a lot of room for growth in the men’s...

Solésence’s Kevin Cureton On How Far Mineral Sunscreens Have Come—And What Their Future Holds

On Fast Company’s list of most innovative beauty companies this year, Nanophase Technologies was the only supplier amid well-known brands E.l.f Cosmetics, Lush Cosmetics and Colgate-Palmolive, and rising stars K18, Ourself, 4.5.6 Skin, Peace Out, The...

Sunscreen Brands Start To Challenge “Reef-Safe” Claims

In 2018, then Hawaii governor David Ige signed into law a bill banning the sunscreen ingredients oxybenzone and octinoxate from the state three years later. Motivated by biologist Craig Downs’ research connecting oxybenzone to destructive coral bleaching, the...

Credo’s Mia Davis Is Stepping Away From Beauty. We Talk To Her About Why And Where She Thinks Clean Beauty Will Go.

When the beauty industry takes stock of its history, there may be no single person as instrumental as Mia Davis in shaping its clean beauty push. At the beginning of 10-year-old Beautycounter, she orchestrated the brand’s The Never List...

HatchBeauty Brands Becomes HatchCollective, Doubles Down On Its Owned Brand Business

HatchBeauty Brands, the brand incubator born 14 years ago, has become HatchCollective to break from past instability and reflect its embrace of data to inform product creation directed at gaps in retail beauty assortments. Founded by Ben...

These Are The Next Big Sustainability Issues The Beauty Industry Should Address, According To Beauty Entrepreneurs

After the world celebrated the 53rd annual Earth Day last week, we decided it could be worthwhile to look forward to how the beauty industry might make future Earth Days better celebrations of progress. So, for the latest...