Quw’utsun’ Made Founder Arianna Johnny-Wadsworth Honors Indigenous Plant Medicines With Her Skincare Products

A salve can tell an awe-inspiring story. Take Quw’utsun’ Made Devil’s Club Salve. It contains extracts from native plants founder Arianna Johnny-Wadsworth harvests in the mountains of Washington and judiciously transforms into a healing product. The ingredient devil’s club...

Melody Bockelman Reveals The Best-Kept Secrets Of Successful Beauty Brand Launches

Melody Bockelman is tearing down the wall of beauty industry secrecy. With several years working in contract manufacturing and launching e-commerce sites on her resume, she introduced the blog Private Label Insider in 2010 to answer questions founder...

Natural Beauty Retailer Aillea Advances To Charleston And Raleigh

After stretching from Denver to Atlanta last year, clean beauty retailer Aillea is amplifying its presence in the Southeast with two store openings by the spring. The upcoming locations — a 1,100-square-foot unit in Raleigh’s Cameron Village and...

Digital Platform Imbeau Is Out To Strengthen The Bonds Between Beauty Professionals And Their Clients

If spas, salons and cosmetics stores only interact with customers when they visit, the beauty businesses are severely limiting sales. Imbeau extends interactions well beyond physical locations to improve customer retention and revenues. The new cloud-based...

No Appointment Necessary: Makeup Artists And Hairstylists Dole Out Tips To Women Everywhere On Beauty Advisor

Girlfriends and social media gurus don’t always supply the right beauty and health tips for you. When that happens, it’s time to bring in the professionals, and Beauty Advisor steps ups to the plate with informed hacks from...

Lady Suite Spotlights The Vulva With Sophisticated Skincare For Down There

In the beauty business, premium body care has largely skipped lady bits. Lady Suite is rectifying that oversight. The new brand from Therese Clark, a partner in Crème Collective and co-founder of Glowbiotics, addresses vulvar...

Volar Beauty Flies Into Free People

Volar Beauty is soaring, but founder Josh Beeler isn’t anxious for it to skyrocket. The natural beauty brand that gets its name from the Spanish word “to fly” has landed on Free People’s website after entering