Quip, Oral-B And Boka Sell Replaceable Toothbrush Heads. Now, Beautiac Is Bringing The Refill Concept To Makeup Brushes.

After a particularly bad bout of breakouts three years ago, a friend told Drea Gunness-Groeschel that her dirty makeup brushes could be to blame. Like most friends, Gunness-Groeschel’s was right, and she pledged to wash the brushes regularly...

Rae Co-Founders And Former Target Execs Angela Tebbe and Eric Carl Believe Cool, Effective Supplements Shouldn’t Cost A Ton

Emerging brands like Ritual, Seed, Moon Juice, Goop, WelleCo and The Beauty Chef have transformed the stodgy vitamin segment with chic packaging, sophisticated marketing, clean ingredients and advanced science, but Angela Tebbe and Eric Carl believe...

Nootropics’ March From Biohacking Bros To Beauty Lovers Continues With The Launch Of Antara

As a young New York City professional with a Wall Street job, Caroline Rasmussen was stressed and exhausted. Caffeine, cigarettes and adrenaline fueled her. Sure, she was burnt out by the tender age of 29, but so was...

The Success Of First Uplink Live Results In Expansion To Los Angeles And Berlin In 2020

On the third day of the Week of Independent Beauty New York 2019 in late August, Uplink Live was born. By the evening of the fourth, results were in: Uplink...

For New Clean Brand Eighth Aura, Skincare Goes Far Beneath The Surface

Brie Wilde started developing her brand Eighth Aura three years ago, but it was only when her severe asthma led to hospitalization in January that her concept for it crystallized. “It wasn’t just the physical that was...

Cool And Clean From The Start, TMF Rebrands To Be Affordable And Colorful, Too

Sometimes you have to pause to reset. Eight months ago, Jill Chambers notified the roughly 35 retailers carrying her Australian clean makeup brand TMF that she would stop selling products to them until it reemerged with an...