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New Mom Celestyna Higgins Gives Her Skincare Brand Moss A Younger, Playful Sister Named Ambar
Celestyna Higgins is showing her less serious side. Two years after launching acne-fighting brand Moss, she’s introducing Ambar with a colorful collection of four products that experiments with formula formats: Daily Antioxidant Primer, Hydrating Mineral...
Karmen Novak Spices Up The Skincare Market With New Brand Flower And Spice
Karmen Novak is an eclectic beauty entrepreneur if there ever was one. An early e-commerce buff backing independent fashion designers with a pre-recession online shop, she’s a Slovenian woman living in the Netherlands who adores cooking Thai and...
Smoke Founder Kathleen Currie On The Opportunities And Pitfalls Of Passion Projects
Smoke founder Kathleen Currie’s essential oils formulas are motivated by passion and imagination, and rarely the bottom line. That approach is helpful for producing beautiful fragrances, but not the best for supporting a sustainable company. Currie has been...
Credo Is Glowing Up With Ingestible Products And Growing Up With New Brand Messaging
Credo is taking care of customers’ internal health along with its own. The natural beauty retailer has jumped into the ingestible beauty category with the introduction of The Nue Co., The Beauty Chef and
Canadian Beauty Company And Venture Capital Firm Join Forces To Introduce Cannabis-Infused Beauty Products
BreakWater Venture Capital and Evio Beauty Group Ltd. are capitalizing on the mainstreaming of marijuana with a new partnership to bring cosmetics containing cannabis-derived ingredients to market. The Canadian venture capital firm and beauty company...
Lullabies In Bottles And Bags: Goodnight Darling Co. Develops Products To Foster Good Sleep
Goodnight Darling Co. is cozying up to retailers, particularly West Elm, where it’s launched at stores in Fairfax, Va., and the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by insomnia sufferer Aycee Brown, the all-things-slumber brand lulls customers to...
This Mother-And-Daughter Duo’s Cheerful Skincare Brand Will Make You Smile
Most women would tear their mothers to shreds if they had to work with them regularly. Micaela Hoo isn’t like most women and neither is her mother Dawn Marie. The spunky duo behind Drifter Organics manages to infuse...
