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A Future Where Every Beauty Brand Has Its Own AI-Powered Factory
In the future, the engine of beauty product customization will move from individuals, who’ve dabbled in it through online quizzes and DIY’ing formulas at home, to the manufacturing infrastructure, where micro-factories will enable brands to produce...
Lyma’s Luxury At-Home Laser Devices Power A $48M Business
The beauty device market is notoriously tough, with high upfront development costs, tricky margin profiles and the reality that many products end up unused in a customer’s bottom drawer or are returned. Lyma, which started with...
The Nue Co. Defied Investor Advice And Transformed Its Business With Functional Fragrance
As founders go, there are few as prescient as The Nue Co.’s Jules Miller. She started her wellness-cum-beauty brand with supplements nearly a decade ago, way before “inside-out beauty” was an established subcategory. She also anticipated...
AS Beauty Co-Founder Joey Shamah On Beauty M&A, Shuttering Mally Beauty And Cover FX And What Comes Next
Around for more than a quarter century, Laura Geller Beauty has had four owners and countless pivots, but one core demographic: gen X and baby boomer women. After AS Beauty acquired assets from...
How Nearly 50-Year-Old WishGarden Herbs Resonates With Everyone From MAHA Followers To Erewhon Shoppers
Family-owned and -operated wellness brand WishGarden Herbs has already gone through an acquisition—way back in 1987. That year, Boulder, Colo.-based midwife Catherine Hunziker bought the women’s wellness business, a literal closet’s worth of herbal tinctures designed to...
Ritual’s Lindsay Dahl Navigates Deep Political Divides To Find Common Ground On Product Safety
Consumer safety advocate Lindsay Dahl, chief impact officer at Ritual and former head of mission at Beautycounter, starts her new book, “Cleaning House: The Fight to Rid Our Homes of Toxic Chemicals,” with a Target run...
