Indie Beauty Media Group Unveils Entrepreneurial Education Platform BeautyX

Indie Beauty Media Group is enhancing its educational programming with the introduction of BeautyX, an evolution of its CONNECT INDIE initiative providing knowledge and resources to beauty entrepreneurs through panel discussions and classes. BeautyX will kick off in...

Lau Botanicals Is (Almost) A Hawaiian Vacation In A Bottle

Lau Botanicals is bringing the spirit of Kauai to skincare. Launching late February, the brand from aesthetician Hillary Navarrette will release four products – Island Glow Serum, Awakening Cleansing Oil, Goddess Body Oil and Healing Propolis Balm –...

Attention Target Shoppers: Fatco Arrives At Natural Beauty Aisles Next Month

Cassy Burnside has found courting stores challenging, but now her tallow-centered skincare brand Fatco is breaking into retail in a big way by entering Target. Four Fatco products — Fat Stick, Cleansing Oil for Normal/Combo Skin, Calming Body Butta...

True Wild Botanics Tells A Personal And Personal Care Story Through Plants

Plants are intimately intertwined with the professional and personal lives of husband-and-wife Nisreen Azar and Scott Ward. The couple met through their careers — she’s an arborist and he runs a gardening business — and have joined forces...

Kayo Is Making Body Care Much More Than A Beauty Industry Afterthought

Kayo Better Body Care is premised on a basic fact: most skin isn’t on the face. The emerging brand is bringing body into the heart of anti-aging regimens. “Our mantra is face care for body care. It’s...

Powerella’s Aimee Gill Gives Us The Inside Scoop On The Production Of Inside-Out Beauty Merchandise

Inside-out beauty is on an incredible upward trajectory. Retailers such as Sephora, Credo, The Detox Market, Neiman Marcus, Free People and Nordstrom are plumbing the segment bursting with bars, powders, drinks and capsules. Ingestible specialists...

Essential Apothecary Alchemist Showcases Carefully Crafted Products In A Small Seattle Shop

Essential Apothecary Alchemist founder Kate Poole is coming out of her shell at the brand’s quaint new shop in Seattle. “I’m hoping the storefront gives me a little bit more legitimacy I suppose. It puts the brand more...