Finding The Right Manufacturer For Your Brand

Many founders start their beauty brands in the kitchen. They whip up formulas from scratch, making products based on demand from friends and family. While that may be a noble beginning, there comes a point when...

Beauty’s Mental Health Connection

When Stephanie Lee, founder and CEO of Selfmade, created her multifunctional skincare brand to incorporate a psychodermatology approach bridging beauty and mental health, she was determined to construct products and tools exploring and promoting rituals that address...

These Are The Next Big Sustainability Issues The Beauty Industry Should Address, According To Beauty Entrepreneurs

After the world celebrated the 53rd annual Earth Day last week, we decided it could be worthwhile to look forward to how the beauty industry might make future Earth Days better celebrations of progress. So, for the latest...

With eSalon, Francisco Gimenez Customized At-Home Hair Color. Now, He’s Customizing And Automating Salon Hair Color With Yuv.

As the earth knows full well, humans have a waste problem. That waste problem isn’t simply bad for the environment, it can also be bad for business in settings like salons where wasted products eat into profits. Francisco...

Product-Market Fit Is An Oft-Uttered Business Term. How Does A Beauty Brand Actually Accomplish It?

Brand founders are being impressed upon to establish product-market fit during an economically precarious period in which business fundamentals are a focus. Exactly what constitutes product-market fit, however, is difficult to pin down. On Twitter, Sarah Moret, founder...

Three Emerging Beauty Brand Executives Demonstrate There’s No Single Path To Beauty Management Today

As indie beauty brands make market share inroads in the beauty industry, it’s not only founders that are bulldozing paths for them in a field long dominated by global conglomerates. They’re depending on versatile and...