Brands

Wunder Workshop Doesn’t Think Sustainable Packaging Should Be A Point Of Difference. For The Functional Food Brand, It’s Table Stakes.
Growing up, Zoe Lind van’t Hof was her naturopath mother’s travel companion during trips to Sri Lanka to study plants and Ayurveda. Those experiences were so formative that they drove her to create Wunder Workshop, a five-year-old...

Quip, Oral-B And Boka Sell Replaceable Toothbrush Heads. Now, Beautiac Is Bringing The Refill Concept To Makeup Brushes.
After a particularly bad bout of breakouts three years ago, a friend told Drea Gunness-Groeschel that her dirty makeup brushes could be to blame. Like most friends, Gunness-Groeschel’s was right, and she pledged to wash the brushes regularly...

Rae Co-Founders And Former Target Execs Angela Tebbe and Eric Carl Believe Cool, Effective Supplements Shouldn’t Cost A Ton
Emerging brands like Ritual, Seed, Moon Juice, Goop, WelleCo and The Beauty Chef have transformed the stodgy vitamin segment with chic packaging, sophisticated marketing, clean ingredients and advanced science, but Angela Tebbe and Eric Carl believe...

Nootropics’ March From Biohacking Bros To Beauty Lovers Continues With The Launch Of Antara
As a young New York City professional with a Wall Street job, Caroline Rasmussen was stressed and exhausted. Caffeine, cigarettes and adrenaline fueled her. Sure, she was burnt out by the tender age of 29, but so was...

Vanity Planet’s Alex Dastmalchi Has Gone From Being Smuggled Out Of Iran To Selling Over Two Million Skincare Devices
The status quo in the beauty industry isn’t eternal. At one point, Clarisonic was the king of skincare devices, but upstarts like Vanity Planet have challenged its reign. Powered by influencers such as Bretman Rock, Nikkie de...

The Success Of First Uplink Live Results In Expansion To Los Angeles And Berlin In 2020
On the third day of the Week of Independent Beauty New York 2019 in late August, Uplink Live was born. By the evening of the fourth, results were in: Uplink...