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How Juno & Co.’s $6 Makeup Sponge Went Viral
Juno & Co. sold 250,000 Velvet Microfiber Sponges within 30 days of the product’s launch. “It’s crazy how it just grew,” says Mira Torres, the brand’s co-founder. At first blush, the pale blue sponge appears to be...
Celebrity Facialist Georgia Louise And Her Beauty Brand Are Growing And GLO-ing Up
Georgia Louise was forced to start from scratch in 2010 when she left a London skincare practice she’d established over a dozen years to follow her future husband to New York City. In her adopted home, Linda...
At Savor Beauty, Women Don’t Have To Lavish Time On Self-Care To Lavish Their Skin With Good Ingredients
In an era in which no one has time for anything, Angela Jia Kim, founder of product line and Manhattan spa Savor Beauty, endeavors to make effective natural skincare as time-efficient as possible. Her natural, Korean-inspired treatments...
“The Most Powerful Word In The Retail Lexicon Is New”: Hello Products’ Craig Dubitsky Discusses Breaking Through The Sameness On Shelves
Craig Dubitsky is a one-man CPG incubator. His entrepreneurial and investor gift is to make routine stuff less so. Whether it’s laundry detergent at Method, lip balm at EOS or mouthwash at Hello Products, Dubitsky has had...
BFFs Jessica Frandson And Jill King Are Breathing New Life Into Aromatherapy With Well-Oiled Luxury Brand Campo
Jessica Frandson and Jill King, friends since teenagehood, didn’t realize they shared a love of aromatherapy until Frandson was visiting King a few years ago. “Jill saw the perfume bottle I had brought with me, said she had...
Lip Venom Inventor Cristina Bartolucci Channels Her Quirky Product Genius Into Building Peek With Merchandise That Couldn’t Come From Anyone Else
Cristina Bartolucci is best known for Lip Venom, the plumping product she invented while helming DuWop Cosmetics with former partner Laura LaRocca, but she’s no one-hit product wonder. Previously chief creative officer of NYX Cosmetics, Bartolucci developed a...
