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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...

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...

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...

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...

Beauty contract manufacturing is Warren Becker’s legacy—and he’s continuing to build that legacy. The former CEO of Cosmetic Solutions, the copacker his father Mervyn started in 1991 after his uncle Hilton began formulating skincare for doctors’...

While the beauty industry launches tens of thousands of new products each year, very few are revolutionary, and genuine breakthroughs have become increasingly rare. The problem is exacerbated by large beauty conglomerates’ pressing operational challenges, the small...