Rachel Brown
How The Hair Lab By Strands Made Haircare Customization Work At Walmart
There are countless tales of people learning from genomics company 23andMe that they aren’t who they thought they were. They might’ve had inaccurate ideas about where their ancestors came from or discovered their spouse is...
Indie Beauty Brands Are Already Using AI In A Big Way. Here’s How.
For the latest edition of our ongoing series posing questions relevant to indie beauty, we asked 19 beauty entrepreneurs, executives, public relations professionals and marketing specialists the following questions: Will you use AI in your business? Why or...
As Consumers Get Candid About Aging, Ulta Beauty Spotlights Products For Its Impacts On Hair In Chain-Wide Displays
Dating back centuries, beauty businesses have sold products promising to counter the impacts of aging on the skin, whether they’re wrinkling, puckering, sagging or spotting, but the skin isn’t alone in being tormented by time. As they get...
Lotus Herbals’ Nitin Passi Breaks Down The Company’s Investment Strategy
With India surpassing China as the country with the world’s largest population, the rest of the globe is seeing rupees as the income of its nearly 1.43 billion citizens increases. The beauty industry is no exception, and...
Men’s Hair Color Customization Startup Cleverman Receives $1.8M In Seed Funding
Depending on estimates, anywhere from 7% to 15% of American men color their hair compared to 50% to 75% of American women. That leaves a lot of room for growth in the men’s...
Solésence’s Kevin Cureton On How Far Mineral Sunscreens Have Come—And What Their Future Holds
On Fast Company’s list of most innovative beauty companies this year, Nanophase Technologies was the only supplier amid well-known brands E.l.f Cosmetics, Lush Cosmetics and Colgate-Palmolive, and rising stars K18, Ourself, 4.5.6 Skin, Peace Out, The...
Sunscreen Brands Start To Challenge “Reef-Safe” Claims
In 2018, then Hawaii governor David Ige signed into law a bill banning the sunscreen ingredients oxybenzone and octinoxate from the state three years later. Motivated by biologist Craig Downs’ research connecting oxybenzone to destructive coral bleaching, the...
