A Behind-The-Screen Look At Amazon Seller Brooklyn Botany’s Rise From Nothing To $3.5M In Sales
In July 2016, Joseph Zigelboum, then a 20-year-old film school dropout fascinated by marketing, but lacking beauty industry experience, launched his skincare brand Brooklyn Botany’s first product, Ultra Pure Vitamin C, on Amazon. It bombed. “We...
“Quality Over Quantity”: The Detox Market Opens Its Biggest Store Yet In Toronto As It Carefully Expands Locations
The Detox Market has elevated its presence in Toronto with a new flagship that speaks to its progress in Canada’s most populous city. When the green beauty retailer headed north from Los Angeles seven years ago in...
How Medicine Mama’s Organic Apothecary Is Making It In The Mass Market While Keeping Manufacturing In-House
About a decade ago, Medicine Mama’s Organic Apothecary founder Donna Steinmann received a phone call from a Santa Barbara dermatologist’s office inquiring about Sweet Bee Magic, an all-purpose skincare product she’d been making from honey and propolis...
Flora + Bast, A CBD Brand With A Contemporary Take On Anti-Aging, Heads To Sephora And Barneys New York
As the CBD beauty crowds multiply, brands are drilling down niches within the ballooning segment to distinguish themselves. Flora + Bast is bringing a holistic anti-aging approach to CBD or cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive constituent of cannabis, to...
New Clean Beauty And Wellness VC Firm Sekhmet Ventures Launches With Investment In Ingestible Brand Stamba
Sekhmet Ventures, a new venture capital firm dedicated to the beauty and wellness category, has launched with an investment in superfood ingestible brand Stamba. The firm is putting seed investments ranging primarily from $500,000 to $1.5 million...
