Showerless Body-Care Startup Busy Beauty Raises $500K To Streamline Personal Maintenance
Busy Beauty, the startup simplifying personal maintenance, has cleaned up with $500,000 from several high-profile investors. The investors backing the emerging brand include former Burt’s Bees and Seventh Generation CEO John Replogle, partner at One Better Ventures,...
Is Influencer Unboxing As We’ve Known It Going Extinct?
In late January, KKW Fragrance dispatched editor and influencer mailers containing a huge chocolate heart created by Chris Ford, executive pastry chef at the Beverly Hills hotel Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire, and a KKW-branded hammer for recipients to...
Sumbody’s Deborah Burnes On Why She’s Making A Play For Retail After 20 Years In The Beauty Business
When Deborah Burnes launched her clean skincare and body-care brand Sumbody in 1999, it was one of only a handful in both the natural and indie space. “When we started, there was no such thing as an indie...
Move Over Jade Rollers: Selfkaire Launches With A Newfangled Tool Designed To Outperform Its Ancient Precursors
Kathy Chou, founder and CEO of Selfkaire, thinks jade rollers are so yesterday. Her brand has released what she believes is the beauty tool of tomorrow, a surgical steel implement designed to banish puffiness with a...
Belle En Argent Premieres With Glamorous Lip Glosses And Lipsticks For Discerning Clean Beauty Shoppers
Belle en Argent is the latest starlet in the theater of indie beauty brands. Inspired by motion picture sirens and creators, the upscale clean color cosmetics startup is putting lip merchandise in the spotlight for its premiere...
