Indie Beauty Retailers Sought To Stand Out During Black Friday With Services, Surprise Gifts, Charity Tie-ins And More

Brick-and-mortar beauty stores experimented with an array of tactics from founder meet-and-greets to charity tie-ins over Black Friday and Small Business Saturday to combat e-commerce websites’ and brands’ encroachment on deals territory formerly dominated by traditional retailers. Overall,...

Routine Rolls Out Not-So-Routine Natural Deodorants To More Than 1,000 Stores Worldwide

In December 2011, Neige Blair was trying to print labels, but her printer wouldn’t cooperate. As the problem persisted and sweat started to coat her armpits, she didn’t smell bad because she was wearing her homemade deodorant, the...

Retailer House Of Green Beauty Opens In North London

While Alex Nicolaou was developing his brand Nini Organics, he’d pop into large and small stores in the U.K. to check out beauty merchandise for research purposes. “I picked up a product and went up to a...

Makers Market Grows Its Handcrafted Goods Retail Concept In Northern California

Makers Market has expanded its retail concept showcasing American craftsmanship with an outpost in Napa, Calif. The store at First Street Napa, a new 325,000-square-foot mixed-use development featuring Archer Hotel, and 45 stores and restaurants, including...

Founder Story: Zane Piese Unlocks The Beauty Of Small-Batch Luxury With Atlantis Skincare

For U.K.-based Atlantis Skincare, the key to the future lies in the secrets of the past—specifically, the power of nature. Zane Piese, the founder, formulator and driving force behind...