Active Botanical Serum is no longer an only child. The product that converted natural beauty skeptics to evangelists and carried Vintner’s Daughter since its 2014 debut now has a sibling in Active Treatment Essence, a hydrator the...

A standard red lipstick sparked Melodie Reynolds’ sustainable makeup brand Elate Cosmetics. After purchasing the product from a major beauty company, she unwrapped its tiny tube and generated a pile of garbage that couldn’t be recycled. “It...

As Condé Nast pushes for more revenue beyond advertising, beauty plays a prominent role in its business diversification efforts. During at discussion at the BeautyX Media & Influencer Summit on Tuesday in Los Angeles, Jun Harada, who...

With wellness practices ascending from self-care to spirituality, Smudge is launching as a New Age-meets-the-digital-age shaman in a box delivering smudge sticks, crystals, beauty tools and more to people longing to detach from their devices. Created by...

For Tammie Umbel, founder of Shea Terra Organics, mother of 14 children and a devout Muslim, the road to growth was lined with good intentions—and paved with perseverance. Founded in 2000 under the banner African Shea Butter...