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How Indie Beauty Brands Prevent Toxic Workplace Cultures From Developing
Over the last several days, Instagram account Estée Laundry has been posting anonymous accounts of bullying and toxic workplace cultures at beauty brands big and small. In light of those accounts, in this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing...

Indie Beauty Brand Founders Share Their Sampling Strategies
In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 16 brand founders and executives: What’s your approach to sampling?

How Indie Beauty Entrepreneurs Find The Right Graphic Designers To Shape The Look Of Their Brands
In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 12 brand founders and executives: Did you use graphic designers when creating your brand, and how did you find them?

Indie Beauty Brand Founders Weigh In On The Eco-Friendly Future of Beauty
In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 13 brand founders and executives: What do you think is the next great eco-friendly frontier in the beauty industry?

How Indie Beauty Brand Founders Hone Their Retail Pitch
In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 19 brand founders and executives: How did you hone your retail pitch?

Brand Founders Share What They’d Put On Clean Beauty Forbidden Ingredient Lists
In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 15 brand founders and executives: What ingredients do you think should be added to the original clean beauty ingredient no-no lists with parabans,...