Artisan Marketplace Novica Acquires Beauty Subscription Box Company Love Goodly

Novica is getting into the beauty business. The online marketplace that hunts around the world for goods crafted by skilled artisans has acquired a company in its Los Angeles area backyard: Love Goodly. Terms of the deal...

Four New Hand Sanitizer Brands Created Virtually Overnight

Hand sanitizer sales shot up 470% at the beginning of March as panicked Americans stockpiled the basic germ fighter to combat coronavirus. Since then, the panic has calmed, and hand sanitizer sales have slowed, in part due to...

Unprecedented Hand Sanitizer Demand Pushes Soapbox’s Production From 160K To 7M Units

For 18 months, Soapbox had been fruitlessly trying to convince Starbucks to bring its hand soaps into the coffeehouse chain’s locations. In February, the personal care brand caught a major break. It had the ability to produce...

Under The Hood Of Waldencast, The Investment Firm Founded By Former L’Oréal Group President Michel Brousset

Waldencast wants to be a backer of brands that has brands’ backs. Started last year by Michel Brousset, former group president of L’Oréal’s North American consumer products division, the investment firm is carving out a principled position—sustainability,...

Why Not A Third? Charlotte Knight Launches New Brand Skin Proud While Growing Ciate And Lottie London

As quarantine stretches into a months-long ordeal for much of the Western world, beauty brands are struggling to take care of customers, retain valuable employees and simply stay afloat until the threat of the coronavirus pandemic passes. Triple...