Social Media On Defense: Five Developments From The Digital Week That Was

Just when you thought this year couldn’t get any tougher, this week brought protests and boycotts in the wake of white police officer Rusten Sheskey firing seven shots at the back of Black man Jacob Blake in Kenosha,...

What Happened When Premama Pulled Out Of 8,000 Retail Doors To Focus On The Bottom Line

A year after Dan Aziz raised $3 million in 2016 to expand his maternity wellness brand Premama, he scrutinized the results it was achieving in 8,000 doors at the likes of CVS, Walgreens, GNC, Target, Sprouts Farmers...

The Red Tree And SFC Capital Launch The Beauty Accelerator For British Emerging Beauty Brands

Beauty brand consultancy The Red Tree has partnered with seed-stage consumer goods investor SFC Capital to launch The Beauty Accelerator. The first of its kind in the United Kingdom, the new accelerator focused on British emerging...

Will Conscious Beauty Catch On?

It’s often possible to tell when someone started in the nonconventional, largely botanical beauty segment by the term they use for it. Dating back to the 1980s, when the Natural Products Expo and Whole Foods started, natural beauty...

Beauty Brand Founders And Parents On Juggling Work And School Schedules During The Pandemic

In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 12 founders and executives: With school getting underway, what’s your plan to operate your business while handling the coronavirus-era education arrangements?