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Shoppers Sip Champagne And Slather Lip Gloss At The New Elevé Cosmetics Flagship
Elevé Cosmetics is finding bubbly and beauty are a good pair. The three-year-old natural makeup brand has opened a 1,200-square-feet boutique-cum-champagne bar in Austin, Tex., to provide an environment where shoppers can put its high-performance makeup to...

Sahajan Marries Science With Traditional Medicine To Win Over Clean Beauty Customers
Growing up, Lisa Mattam was exposed to Ayurvedic practices, but, in her profession, pharmaceutical procedures were the norm. She decided to merge the two to create Sahajan, a natural skincare brand that has turned to...

Dominic Symes Follows In His Cosmetic Chemist Father’s Footsteps With The Launch Of SkinEscens
At 49-years-old, South African cosmetic chemist Paul Symes died after suffering a massive heart attack, leaving behind two sons and thriving beauty company Justine, which would go on to be acquired by Avon. More than three decades...

No Time For Hibernation: Ingestible Brand Bear Is Quickly Building A Global Presence
Bear is bullish on elevated vitamins in the beauty segment. The Australian ingestible brand has good reason to be confident as it’s rapidly expanded after premiering at Mecca last year to Net-a-porter, Mr Porter and Free People...

Toxicologist Christina Ross’s New Brand Troos Sticks To Rigorous Testing And Stays Away From Marketing Hype
Toxicologist Christina Ross is bringing scientific rigor to a clean beauty segment where unsubstantiated claims are common. Her new brand Troos Skincare + Apothecary is grounded in extensive testing, ingredient purity and formula potency. Its first product...

Ursa Major Aspires To Be The Patagonia Of Natural Skincare: Purposeful, Outdoorsy, Well-Crafted And Successful
At Ursa Major, basics aren’t boring. The nearly eight-year-old brand has proven well-crafted entry-level premium natural skincare products don’t generate exits to pricier fare. “We have a small, productive line. If someone is a newbie in this...

Queen V Hits $500K In Sales During A Month At Walmart And Secures Backing From Lightspeed
Talk about making the most out of a yeast infection. After Lauren Steinberg was repeatedly struck by the common plague – three out of four women suffer from at least one yeast infection in their lifetimes – she...