Versed’s Deven Hopp And Clean Filter’s Helen Yang On Recycling, Refills, Takeback And The Holistic Approach Needed To Counter Beauty’s Environmental Effects

No single person, brand, store or strategy is going to fix the beauty industry’s environmental problem. It will take a myriad of stakeholders working together to set standards and objectives that incentivize a better market for solutions. And...

This New Indie Beauty Manufacturer Wants To Support Sustainable Beauty From The Ground Up

To help the planet, Marc Desmarais wants to change the beauty industry he was born into. The Toronto resident and son of Claude Desmarais, owner and president of beauty packaging company CYD Packaging Inc., has been working...

What Beauty Entrepreneurs Who Are Breast Cancer Survivors Really Think About Companies’ Breast Cancer Awareness Month Efforts

At the start of this month, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Cynthia Besteman, founder of the skincare brand Violets Are Blue and a breast cancer survivor, wrote in an Instagram post, “We sit back and...

New E-tailer Jalisia Collective Wants To Make Shopping For Luxury Niche Fragrances Easier

The perfume category can be super confusing. There are 3.4 billion views for #perfumetiktok and 1.4 billion views for #perfumetok on TikTok. There are 2,404 search results for fragrance on Sephora’s website. There’s perplexing terminology—who knows what chypre...

Why Beauty’s High End Is Getting Even Higher End

At Beauty Mark, a Jackson Hole, Wyo.-based luxury beauty e-tailer, Heraux’s $250 Molecular Anti-Inflammaging Serum is the bestselling serum. New to its selection, Ignae’s $232 Rich Night Serum, Beauty Mark’s priciest retinol, quickly sold out. “Price...

Rizos Curls And Kids Of Immigrants Spotlight The Stories Of Immigrants And First-Generation Immigrants With #SupportYourRoots Collaboration

According to the American Immigration Council, more than two out of every five companies on the Fortune 500 list were founded by immigrants or children of immigrants. Together, those companies produce revenues larger than all the economies...

New Skincare Brands Double Down On A Less-Is-More Approach With Two-Step Regimens

In the last decade, many skincare brands stretched the cleansing process with a pre-cleanser. To Sophia Lazare, former co-owner of a med spa, the additional step was a sign the beauty industry had gone too far pushing more...