A 12-Year Struggle With Infertility Led Rachel Daugherty To Create A CBD Brand For Moms Everywhere

A decade into what would become a dozen-year infertility struggle that included three cycles of IVF, six miscarriages and four surgeries, Rachel Daugherty, depressed following a failed adoption, settled into a bath that was fizzing as a Mary’s...

Kasey Collier and Kelly Evick-Parker Have Turned Soap Maker Biggs & Featherbelle Into A Successful Sister Act

If a beauty brand was a comforting family home-cooked meal, it would be Biggs & Featherbelle, a skincare and body care range owned by tight-knit sisters Kasey Collier and Kelly Evick-Parker. “Our mission is to be able...

Credo Has Focused On The Ingredients In Beauty Products. Now, It’s Emphasizing How They Got There.

Credo is going beyond labels. The clean beauty retailer is paying close attention to the supply chain to ensure the 120-plus brands in its assortment are doing as much as possible to avoid damage to the planet...

The Beauty M&A Bubble Is In Full Effect. Will It Burst?

Outfitted in a sleek white jumpsuit, Elena DiGiovanni wasn’t much for shades of gray in her assessment of the state of mergers and acquisitions in the beauty industry at the conference BeautyX Capital Summit on Tuesday in...

Brand Founders Share What They’d Put On Clean Beauty Forbidden Ingredient Lists

In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 15 brand founders and executives: What ingredients do you think should be added to the original clean beauty ingredient no-no lists with parabans,...