Pressed To Diversify Revenue Streams, Condé Nast Looks To The Beauty Industry
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...
Smudge Is Spreading Spiritual Connection Through Subscription Boxes
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...
“I Kept Plucking Away”: Shea Terra Organics Founder Tammie Umbel Persevered To Reach Profitability
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...
New Brand Clean’s Mineral-Based Sunscreens Stand Out In A Shelfie But Not On Skin
From some beauty products, women will try brand after brand and still not land on a formula they like. Mascara is frequently frustrating. Foundation is another struggle. But sunscreen is perhaps the most disappointing product of all. Tera...
When Your Brand Is Your Baby, But You’ve Got A Human Baby, Too
In this edition of Beauty Independent’s ongoing series posing questions to beauty entrepreneurs, we ask 12 founders and executives: How do you balance your brand with a baby?
