Beauty Packaging Isn’t Recycled As Much As It Should Be. Here Are Six Steps Brands Can Take To Help It Get Recycled More.

In April of this year, a Fast Company article heralded TerraCycle as “a company that can recycle just about anything.” Nearly four months later, a Vox piece dug into a lawsuit against TerraCycle, which has claimed...

Six Tips For Succeeding At Retail As An Indie Beauty Brand 

“A brand’s job isn’t over once they have that first purchase order in hand,” says Natasha Goldberg, who heads the retail success team at Adit, a program from Beauty Independent parent...

How Indie Beauty Brand Founders Protect Their Companies And Customers From Cyber Threats

In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 15 founders and executives: With the incredible importance of digital strategies since the pandemic started, how are you protecting your brand from cyber...

What Beauty Industry Insiders Make Of Recent Retail Partnerships And Acquisitions

In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions relevant to indie beauty, we ask 40 beauty brand founders, executives and consultants: There have been a slew of acquisitions and partnerships in the retail and e-tail portion...

Beauty Entrepreneurs’ (Surprising) Reactions To The Great Celebrity Bathing Controversy Of 2021

There’s something about being squeaky clean that Americans really value. It’s at least part of the reason why personal hygiene is a huge priority for them, two-thirds shower daily, and oil-based cleansers light on suds have...

How Beauty Brands Think The Delta Variant Will Impact Business—And What They’re Doing As A Result

In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs and executives, we ask 19 of them: How do you think the Delta variant could affect your business and the beauty business more...