Indie Beauty Brand Founders Share How They Overcame Major Business Obstacles

In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 12 founders and executives: What was the worst day at your business, and how did you recover from it?

Do The Skin-Fasting, Skip-Care, #NoBuy, #ShopMyStash And Sustainability Movements Add Up To A Pullback In Skincare Spending?

Last week, Alison Wu, the health and self-care guru behind Wu Haus, embarked on a seven-day break from beauty products in response to a Man Repeller article on skin fasting, a practice promoted by the company...

Do Your Skincare Products Live Up To The Hype? Le CultureClub’s New Digital Tool Will Find Out

Le CultureClub attempts to remove subjectivity from skincare shopping. Two years after it launched with a newsletter, the digital platform has introduced Rate Your Routine, an online tool intended to confirm whether skincare products meet consumers’...

Create The Perfect Trade Show Exhibition Space, IBE Style

As Indie Beauty Expo’s director of operations since 2015, I’ve seen hundreds and hundreds of trade show exhibition spaces from brands with sizable to small budgets, eye-popping to poor packaging, and simple to excessive assemblies. There have...

Indie Beauty Brand Founders On Finding The Right Fulfillment Partners

In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 10 founders and executives: How did you choose your fulfillment partner?

Don’t Know Your EDI From EBITDA? Here’s A Glossary Of Terms Every Beauty Entrepreneur Needs To Understand

Suzanne LeRoux, an attorney prior to launching One Love Organics, thought the legal profession was rife with jargon. But beauty retailers’ acronym-riddled vocabulary puts legalese to shame. “I’d hear things like 3PL and didn’t know anything they...