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Spa Software Company Rhodium Acquires SiO Beauty, Rootine And Solomomo
Rhodium, a data and machine learning platform for spas, has acquired three beauty and wellness companies—SiO Beauty, Rootine and Solomomo—for undisclosed prices to expand its suite of offerings to spas. The three brands...
Scalp Care Brand Jupiter Launches At Target With A New Look And Lower Prices
From the beginning, nearly 5-year-old brand Jupiter has always believed it can disrupt the established order in the dandruff category. Now, it’s going to where the established order reigns at Target. In its first mass-market retail launch,...
The Lukewarm Expectations For The Growth Of Beauty Products “Made In The USA”
NielsenIQ estimates 7% of beauty products sold in the United States are manufactured domestically. President Donald Trump’s institution of a 10% tariff on goods from China, the largest single manufacturing source of beauty products bought...
Busy Millennial Mom-Favorite Curie Takes Its Clean Deodorants To Target After Launching At Walmart
Less than two months into being a parent, Sarah Moret has a newfound appreciation for the convenience of Target, the shopping refuge for busy millennial moms. She’s placing multiple Target pickup orders per week and can now add...
Stagnation Or Evolution?: The Fierce Debate Over Beauty’s Sputtering Ingredient Innovation
Beauty industry insiders have been chewing and stewing over ingredient innovation stagnation. In a recent piece in the publication Happi, for example, Akshay Talati, chief innovation officer at Supergoop, and marketer Maya Sarin address this concern....
Unilever Closes Hair Towel Brand Aquis In The US
Unilever has closed Aquis, the microfiber hair towel brand from the co-founders of K18, in the United States, but it will continue to be available in Asia. Described by the publication
Opulus, Clarisonic Co-Founder’s Single-Serving Skincare Brand, Shutters
Opulus Beauty Labs, the skincare device brand Clarisonic co-founder Robb Akridge launched in 2020, has closed. The closure, which occurred on Dec. 30, was announced on Opulus’s website, where it addressed customers by...
