Sekhmet Ventures Grows Its Clean Beauty And Wellness Portfolio By Backing Fragrance Brand Heretic
Sekhmet Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in clean beauty and wellness, has invested in the boundary-busting natural fragrance brand Heretic. The amount of the firm’s investment wasn’t disclosed, but it injects startups with on average...
Multi-Brand Beauty Company Rare Beauty Brands Launches With The Acquisition Of Plant Apothecary
Rare Beauty Brands, a new company from the leadership of Patchology built to foster emerging brands, has purchased Plant Apothecary. The company focuses on brands with groundbreaking entrepreneurs spearheading product development, clear points of differentiation and...
Beauty Entrepreneur Samira Far Updates TP To Be Glamorous And Green
Toilet paper doesn’t have to look like crap. After selling Southern California nail salon chain Bellacures in 2017, Samira Far has returned to the entrepreneurial arena with No. 2, a new brand modernizing the design and...
Budding British Brand UpCircle Takes Sustainable Beauty To The Next Level
It took a Christmas present and a cup of coffee to jumpstart one of Britain’s most promising sustainable beauty brands. After his wife gave him a French press for the holiday four years ago, William Brightman, co-founder of...
Does Being Green Make Green?
Beauty brands are increasingly wearing sustainability efforts as badges of pride, touting the ways they’re working to save the environment from supplying refills to offsetting carbon footprints. Do these efforts, which can be tough on the bottom line,...
