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Meet The Under-The-Radar Beauty Platform That’s Becoming A Powerhouse Incubator And Investor
Volta Digital Brands has been pretty busy lately. Over the past two years, the incubator and investor has launched three brands (Geneva Naturals, No B.S. and NootroBoost) and sold one of them (Geneva Naturals), acquired another (Earth...
Ingestible Brand Majka Hits The Market To Nourish New Mothers
After giving birth to her son in June 2016, Lorena Garcia quickly realized that the social media depiction of motherhood isn’t exactly reality. “I went back to work in two weeks because I own my own business and,...
Nazan Schnapp Journeys From Switzerland To The U.S. To Enter The Detox Market
For a long time, beauty was a passion that Nazan Schnapp didn’t want to turn into a profession. As a teenager, the Swiss native with Turkish roots started whipping up natural skincare remedies, notably the toner Rose Otto...
The Good Face Project Grades Product Safety And Suggests Alternatives To Products With Low Grades
Rating beauty products for their safety is great, but rating them and finding replacements for products that rate low is even better. That’s the aim of The Good Face Project, a startup kicking off May 15 with a...
Fox Naturals Finds A Retail Home In Grand Rapids
After a decade of working at stores such as Bath & Body Works, Forever 21, PacSun and Banana Republic, Fox Naturals founder Patrick Stoffel has opened one of his own. The 27-year-old’s beauty brand has taken root...
Why A Growing Number Of Skincare Brands Questions Skin Types
Dermatologist Harold Lancer’s practice has reached 35,000 patients and, amazingly, almost all of them report to have a single skin type: sensitive. He isn’t convinced by their self-identification. “I spend much of my time consulting them to...
Ristrah Heads To H-E-B With Its Natural Antidote To Stubborn Hair-Color Stains
Of all the messes caused by beauty products, those from at-home hair color may be the worst. When Kamakshi Kata’s engineering expertise didn’t help her avoid hair-dye debacles, she set out to stave them off by creating Schild...
