Sephora Updates Its Clean Beauty Program To Incorporate Sustainability And Add Restricted Ingredients
The beauty industry has been great at creating stuff. Now, it’s starting to come to terms with all of it. To address the environmental consequences of beauty merchandise, Sephora is ramping up its sustainability efforts by launching...
Indie Beauty Snapshot: 14 Trends From The First Half Of 2021
We’re living in precarious in-between times. As exuberance took hold in the United States and we at Beauty Independent began including in our copy that the pandemic appeared to be “subsiding” or “ebbing,” the Delta variant was charging...
Tru Fragrance Flexes Its Brand-Building Muscle With Undone Beauty’s Launch At Ulta Beauty Stores
Undone Beauty is getting it done at retail. After launching on Ulta Beauty’s website in March, the minimalist clean makeup brand from Tru Fragrance Inc. is entering 325 of the chain’s locations across the United...
How Indie Beauty Companies Develop Maternity And Paternity Leave Policies
In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 12 brand founders and executives: How did you develop your maternity/paternity leave policy?
With New Brand Esas, Two Givaudan Alums Aim To Disrupt Beauty Manufacturing
Seda Bilginer and Amanda Sichon, co-founders of Esas, are self-confessed product junkies, but it’s the production floor that ignited their entrepreneurial spirit. As colleagues at Givaudan, the global fragrance and flavor manufacturer, they bonded over “a lot,...
