Rachel Brown
What Beauty Entrepreneurs Who Are Breast Cancer Survivors Really Think About Companies’ Breast Cancer Awareness Month Efforts
At the start of this month, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Cynthia Besteman, founder of the skincare brand Violets Are Blue and a breast cancer survivor, wrote in an Instagram post, “We sit back and...
New E-tailer Jalisia Collective Wants To Make Shopping For Luxury Niche Fragrances Easier
The perfume category can be super confusing. There are 3.4 billion views for #perfumetiktok and 1.4 billion views for #perfumetok on TikTok. There are 2,404 search results for fragrance on Sephora’s website. There’s perplexing terminology—who knows what chypre...
Why Beauty’s High End Is Getting Even Higher End
At Beauty Mark, a Jackson Hole, Wyo.-based luxury beauty e-tailer, Heraux’s $250 Molecular Anti-Inflammaging Serum is the bestselling serum. New to its selection, Ignae’s $232 Rich Night Serum, Beauty Mark’s priciest retinol, quickly sold out. “Price...
Rizos Curls And Kids Of Immigrants Spotlight The Stories Of Immigrants And First-Generation Immigrants With #SupportYourRoots Collaboration
According to the American Immigration Council, more than two out of every five companies on the Fortune 500 list were founded by immigrants or children of immigrants. Together, those companies produce revenues larger than all the economies...
New Skincare Brands Double Down On A Less-Is-More Approach With Two-Step Regimens
In the last decade, many skincare brands stretched the cleansing process with a pre-cleanser. To Sophia Lazare, former co-owner of a med spa, the additional step was a sign the beauty industry had gone too far pushing more...
Abel Odor Secures $1.35M To Raise The Global Profile Of Its Natural Luxury Fragrances
Natural fragrance brand Abel Odor has raised $1.35 million from early-stage investment firm Maker Partners to help it ride the wave of rising interest in conscious perfumes. The capital will be put toward inventory, employees, e-commerce,...
Following Japonesque’s Purchase Of Barefoot Scientist, CEO Simon Worraker Discusses The Company’s Deal Philosophy
In 2019, private equity firm Topspin Consumer Partners acquired Japonesque, a brand launched in 1985 by Paula Forberg Beritzhoff, a fashion model inspired by her trips to Japan to create tools reminiscent of those used by...
