Brands

How Glow Recipe Became Sephora’s No. 1 Indie Brand
What does it take to be the No. 1 indie brand at Sephora globally? For Glow Recipe, which is also in the top five brands overall at the beauty specialty chain, seven years of an exclusive...

Unilever Closes Hair Towel Brand Aquis In The US
Unilever has closed Aquis, the microfiber hair towel brand from the co-founders of K18, in the United States, but it will continue to be available in Asia. Described by the publication

Opulus, Clarisonic Co-Founder’s Single-Serving Skincare Brand, Shutters
Opulus Beauty Labs, the skincare device brand Clarisonic co-founder Robb Akridge launched in 2020, has closed. The closure, which occurred on Dec. 30, was announced on Opulus’s website, where it addressed customers by...

Yendy Skin’s Adobe Advertising Partnership Drives Global Brand Recognition And 300% Sales Growth
Yendy Skin founder Julian Boaitey first discovered the Adobe advertising campaign he stars in had gone live through his friends and family, who blew up his phone with texts that they spotted it on Disney Plus, Netflix,...

5 New Sexual Wellness Products For A Steamy Valentine’s Day
The National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics predict record Valentine’s Day business this year of $27.5 billion, up from last year’s $25.8 billion and the previous record of $27.4 billion in 2020. Over half of...

Fresh Off Wander Beauty Exit, Serial Entrepreneur Divya Gugnani Talks Fundraising And Growing Fragrance Brand 5 Sens
Serial entrepreneur and investor Divya Gugnani has sold Wander Beauty, the brand of convenient beauty essentials she started with model Lindsay Ellingson in 2015, to holding company NamelessCPG, where it joins a portfolio with Everly, Wile,...