Brands
Urban Skin Rx Founder Rachel Roff Is Out To Prove It’s Possible To Be Successful In Both The Mass And Prestige Beauty Segments
In May 2017, medical aesthetician Rachel Roff received the news that Target decided to pick up Urban Skin Rx, the multicultural skincare brand she introduced six years earlier at her med-spa Urban Skin Solutions in Charlotte,...
Krystn Keller’s Effort To Stop Her Son’s Eczema Has Turned Into A Growing Brand That Caught YouTube’s Attention
Before Elliott Keller was a year old, he had been to 14 doctors, even one in California across the country from his home in Mobile, Ala., to find solutions for the intense eczema that covered his face and...
Once-Promising Niche Fragrance Brand Commodity Seems To Have Come To An End
In an astonishing turn of events, once-promising niche fragrance brand Commodity appears to have shuttered. On April 12, employees at the brand’s branches in the United States and United Kingdom, which operated under the corporate entities Commodity Inc....
New Incubator Haris Wellness Launches High-Powered CBD Brand Safi
Haris Wellness, a new beauty and wellness incubator, is packing a punch with its first brand Safi. Entering the exploding CBD field, Safi distinguishes itself with high concentrations of the cannabis ingredient in isolate form and thorough...
HiBar Addresses The Beauty Industry’s Plastic Problem By Encouraging Bottle-Free Showering
Dion Hughes calls the shower that sparked his brand HiBar an uh-oh moment rather than an aha moment. Returning home to Minneapolis after a trip to Mexico, where he was unnerved by the sight of a beach...
How DTC Startup The Flex Company Is Staying Close To Its Customers As It Enters Target
In Silicon Valley, where Lauren Schulte Wang was marketing and communications director for Upwork for two years prior to launching The Flex Company, she encountered greater interest in colonizing Mars than addressing menstruation. For her, though, improving...
