Blogger Dena Smith’s Battle Against Cancer Is Beating Up Her Skin – And She’s Fighting Back With Leo Oil

Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer isn’t preventing Dena Smith from seeing beauty in herself or others. It is, however, preventing her from having irritation-free skin. The freelance beauty writer and blogger behind Leo With Cancer has created...

How Fatboy’s Perfect Putty Crossed Gender Barriers To Advance Second-Day Hair For All

When Tyson Kennedy created Fatboy’s first offering Perfect Putty, he didn’t classify the matte finish pomade as only perfect for one gender. The longtime hairstylist, partner in the salon Cutler Brooklyn and lead singer of New...

Sonäge Pushes Into Spas And Beyond With A Focus On Replenishment

Anisha Khanna, president and CEO of Sonäge, brings many of the lessons she learned from the 15 years she spent helping build Equinox to her current skincare endeavor. She zeroes in on customers returning to products regularly, getting them...

Five-Star Spas Around The World Are Salty, Thanks To Saltability

Saltability founder and CEO Ann Brown is an innovator and entrepreneur worth her salt. While working at luxury spas all over the U.S., she was constantly dissatisfied with the heaters used to warm traditional massage...

La Bella Figura Cuts A Fine Figure In The Clean Beauty Landscape

Victoria Fantauzzi is celebrated by clean beauty cognoscenti as the mastermind behind 2015’s A Night For Green Beauty events in New York and Chicago, but the co-founder of La Bella Figura has spent...

Phlur Reimagines Fragrance With Clicks Driving Sniffs

In a tricky direct-to-consumer scent segment, Phlur has been anointed by none other Symrise as a startup to contend with. The fragrance supplier recently led a series A round that’s filling Phlur’s coffers with $6 million. Symrise,...