New Skincare Brand Glean Wants To Raise The Profile Of African Ingredient Qasil

New skincare brand Glean is looking to make qasil, an East African botanical, as prominent as other African beauty ingredients like shea butter, marula oil, argan oil and baobab oil. Qasil powder is a beauty product...

Indie Beauty Dish: Retail Launches, Brand Deals And More From March 2025

Nameless CPG appears to have acquired Freck Beauty. It joins a portfolio at the holding company extending across beauty, sexual wellness, food and wellness with the brands Wander Beauty, Awkward Essentials, Wile, Ladybird Provisions, Everly,...

Focused On Bigger Issues, Ulta Beauty And Target Step Back From Shop-In-Shop Expansion

As Ulta Beauty and Target face consumer caution, the slowing momentum of beauty industry growth, tariff impacts, fierce competition and more, the decision to pause further expansion of...

Digital Health Company Wellkasa Acquires Supplement Brand Peak + Valley

Digital health and nutraceutical company Wellkasa has acquired supplement brand Peak + Valley for an undisclosed price.  Nadine Joseph, founder of Peak + Valley, which sells $29.99 adaptogenic capsules Restore My Sleep,...

The Beauty Industry’s Tariffs-Fueled Transformation Is Already Starting

If President Donald Trump doesn’t change course, his administration’s sweeping tariff policies could radically transform the American beauty industry dependent on Chinese manufacturing and packaging, with beauty brands shifting suppliers, tweaking formulas and components, and reserving...