Beauty Independent’s Beacon Awards To Recognize Guiding Lights In The Indie Beauty Segment

We love beauty entrepreneurs. We love covering the brand founders, retailers, investors and solution providers driving this industry forward. We love celebrating the community bringing change to the beauty industry. After three years of chronicling the...

New Luxury Brand Monpure Takes A Skincare Approach To Scalp Care

As consumers wake up to the importance of scalp health, Monpure is staking a claim to being an upscale, sustainable solution for them. The new London brand joins an expanding roster of beauty companies such as Briogeo,...

As Shopping Moved Online, Perfume Sales Plunged. Here’s What One Indie Fragrance Brand Did To Stay Afloat.

For a perfume sector highly dependent on brick-and-mortar stores to drive sales, the pandemic has been dreadful for business. In the first quarter, The NPD Group estimates prestige fragrance sales in the United States dropped 13%...

Clean Skincare Brand Versed Ventures Into The Growing Adult Acne Segment

Once you have adult responsibilities, you should be able to forget about acne. Unfortunately, that’s not the case—and pimples rear their stubborn blackheads and whiteheads on the faces of people of all ages. At the very least,

P&G Ventures-Backed Bodewell Wants To Put An End To Eczema Sufferers Cycling Through Disappointing Products

In 2016, Jamie Duff had recently sold the brand he co-founded, Stolen Rum, to beverage investment company Liquid Asset Brands, and he was extremely stressed. The stress exacerbated eczema he usually kept at bay. “I had found...

How Glow By Daye Is Transitioning From Amazon Seller To Full-Fledged Beauty Brand

An entrepreneurial desire simmered inside Ranay Orton, but she wasn’t sure what to apply it to. She liked her job—she worked in sales for the pharmaceutical company Abbott from 2010 to 2014 before joining Roche in a similar...