The Chef Behind Olive + M Whips Up Olive Oil Recipes For Your Skin

Olive + M founder Mariska Nicholson’s skincare feeds faces. With a keen understanding of the benefits of olive oil for people’s insides, the former professional chef created products to deliver the healthy liquid’s benefits to people’s outsides. Nicholson doesn’t...

Baré Alchemy’s Anoop Mohan On Biomimicry, Next-Level Beauty Product Customization And The Australian Bush

Not many beauty brands bridge the Australian bush and artificial intelligence, but Baré Alchemy is imprinted with the experiences of its founder Anoop Mohan, a former engineer with a predilection for technology and plants. Comprised of only one product –...

The Duo Behind Elysian Cosmetics Wants To Create Beatific Beauty Products For Boys And Girls

Michael Putman and David Rodrigues are makeup artists on a mission. They launched Elysian Cosmetics in 2016 to bring next generation cosmetics to their clients — and themselves. “The Elysian client is a working professional who doesn’t...

Lina Hanson Holds Back To Push Her Namesake Brand Forward

Lina Hanson inspires a serious beauty brand founder girl crush. Not only is she effortlessly gorgeous, but she juggles several professions (makeup artist, skincare formulator and, lately, documentary producer), jet sets to enviable international locales, dutifully manages her namesake...

An Ingenious Product And Appetite For Risk Catapulted Leticia Cabrera-Calvo From Humble Beginnings To The Helm Of A Million-Dollar Brand

Vera Mona founder Leticia Cabrera-Calvo doesn’t believe consumers’ lives should be cluttered with shoddy merchandise. She’s constantly pondering how to improve everyday items. “I even thought of a cool way to pull credit cards out of wallets by...

Biomilk’s Valerie Casagrande Is Banking On Good Bacteria To Build A Great Skincare Brand

Milk does skin good. That’s the premise of Biomilk, a probiotic-propelled beauty brand created by veteran marketer Valerie Casagrande. Not yet a year old, Biomilk is making headway in e-commerce driven by a growing hunger for helpful bacteria, eye-catching...