Taylor Bryant
Clean Beauty Brand Iyoba Launches At Target, Secures $15K Loan On Kiva To Support Rollout
Small-batch clean beauty brand Iyoba made its way onto 132 Target shelves this month thanks in part to a $15,000 loan it secured via micro-lending service Kiva. “I really like the idea of having a crowdfunding...
Four Emerging Swiss Beauty And Wellness Brands To Know
Outside of La Prairie, Switzerland isn’t as renowned for its beauty products as much as its chocolate, cheese and watches, but that might be changing. There are a handful of new indie beauty brands coming out of the...
Gen Z-Led Rosen Skincare Launches Acne Products At Gen Z’s Favorite Beauty Retailer Ulta Beauty
When Rosen Skincare founder Jamika Martin secured a partnership with Ulta Beauty earlier this year, she knew she wanted a fun display to show off her brand’s acne-focused products. “As far as younger consumers, there’s so much...
Beacon Award Winner Stimunail’s Device Uses Red Light, Heat And Vibration To Strengthen Nails
Stimunail founder Stacey Steinmetz was a senior marketing and retail manager at L’Oréal at a time in the mid-2010s that the company was riding the beauty device wave as the owner of now-defunct Clarisonic. “I saw that...
Feminine Hygiene Brand Kushae Raises $1.25M In An Oversubscribed Seed Round
Kushae has raised $1.25 million in seed funding to help make its feminine hygiene products a part of consumers’ everyday routines. The plant-based feminine care brand’s investors include Fearless Fund, TiE Global Angels, TiE Access, TiE...
Olaplex Is Definitely Not Alone: 10 Beauty Brand Founders And Execs Reflect On Reformulating Products
It’s not often a reformulation makes headlines, but that’s just what happened to Olaplex last week after concerns about the haircare brand’s usage of the fragrance additive butylphenyl methylpropional or lilial in its hit product No. 3 Hair...
How Potential Sunflower Oil Supply Disruptions Could Impact The Beauty Industry
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, industries across the globe are starting to feel the impact of the conflict, beauty included. Ukraine supplies over half of the world’s crude sunflower while Russia is the second-largest producer,...
