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How Can Early Clean Beauty Brands Make It Today?
Beauty industry prognosticators predict clean beauty will grow. For example, Research and Markets expects the worldwide clean beauty segment to accelerate at a compound annual growth rate of 12% from 2023 to 2028. That rate leads to...
What’s Lost As Pioneering Entrepreneurial Brands Vanish?
What was a slow trickle has become a tsunami. More and more niche beauty brands are closing as niche retailers struggle, people rearrange their spending post-pandemic and entrepreneurs reevaluate their priorities. The closures beg the question: What’s being...
Ulta Beauty, Verishop, The Detox Market And More Retailers Discuss How AI Will Shape Beauty Retail
Be it the next stage in human evolution or a harbinger of doom, there’s no denying that artificial intelligence is scaling at almost lightning speed. AI adoption in beauty is nothing...
Is The Wellness Industry Backsliding On Body Positivity?
Gwyneth Paltrow, perhaps today’s biggest celebrity wellness influencer, recently received backlash for stating on the podcast “The Art of Being Well” that she eats only two meals a day: “bone...
What It Really Means To Be A Profitable Beauty Brand
If beauty entrepreneurs are to be believed, virtually no one is building a brand to exit. Still, that doesn’t indicate they wouldn’t consider a lucrative deal should it be on the table, right? To situate themselves...
How LGBTQIA+ Beauty Brand Founders Are Feeling This Pride Month
This Pride Month, the movement for LGBTQIA+ rights has much to celebrate. In the United States, support for gay marriage stands at 71%, an all-time high according to analytics firm Gallup. Abroad, countries such as Slovenia, Taiwan,...
