Ingestible Beauty Brand Glotrition Is On The Go At Retail

Glotrition is making distribution gains as stores continue to carve out real estate for ingestible brands. The brand that pairs a serum with a collagen peptide drink is entering Saks Fifth Avenue after launching last year on...

New Body-Care Brand Marine + Vine Bottles French Beauty For An American Audience

Evelyn Ginossi’s lightbulb moment may be one of the most enviable in the history of beauty entrepreneurs. With the warm August sun looming overhead, she was lounging poolside in Lourmarin, considered among the most picturesque villages in France,...

From L’Oréal To The Entrepreneurial Life: Sam Cheow Goes Indie With High-Concept Aromatherapy Brand Necessary Luxury

During 15 years at L’Oréal, Sam Cheow held no fewer than 11 roles and shaped numerous brands, including Maybelline, Redken, Matrix, Pureology and NYX, where he was most recently senior vice president of global product development and innovation....

Clean Beauty Retailer Wren & Wild Hits Its Stride In Bend, Ore., And Readies For Expansion

After a quarter century on the corporate side of the cosmetics industry at Macy’s and Estée Lauder, Mandy Butera took the entrepreneurial leap and opened Wren & Wild three years ago, but the go-it-alone route was bumpy...

Au Naturale Builds Its Retail Network And Customers’ Lashes With New Mascara

Au Naturale is rounding out its assortment and retail network. The clean cosmetics brand has expanded at Whole Foods, launched in Nordstrom’s Fresh Faces pop-in, joined Indie Beauty Expo’s collection with Neiman Marcus, and is...