Exciting Spring Product Launches From Sexual Wellness Brands

Sexual health and wellness brands continue to build their businesses in a political environment that seems inhospitable to sexual freedom. Still, their raison d’etre is to create products that encourage people to explore intimacy...

The Most Important Beauty Deals Of The Past Decade

In late 2012, L’Oréal’s purchase of Urban Decay for an estimated $340 million kicked off a frantic decade of beauty acquisitions that have upended the beauty market. Before the French conglomerate snapped up the groundbreaking cosmetics...

Clean Beauty Retailers Unmoved By Lawsuit Against Sephora’s Clean Beauty Program

Clean beauty is under a microscope, but clean beauty retailers aren’t backing down from their clean beauty stances and assortments.  A class-action lawsuit filed against Sephora in November last year is the most high-profile...

The Market For Baby Hair Products Grows Up As Interest And Offerings Increase

Budding beauty influencer North West has a habit of documenting her hair routine on TikTok, and one of her not-to-be-missed steps is slicking down her baby hairs. If posts on the account she shares with mother Kim Kardashian is...

Exosomes: What They Are, Why They’re Becoming Big, And How They’re Raising Concerns

Nearly a decade ago, Kim Kardashian’s blood-speckled “vampire facial” Instagram selfie kicked off a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) craze that sent people turning to their own platelets for skin plumping, breast lifting, hair loss reversal and more....

The Brand Incubators And Holding Companies Pursuing The Huge Wellness Opportunity

In the giddy days before the pandemic, when celebrities and influencers commanded mostly unchecked devotion, consumer packaged goods were being remade to cater to millennial tastes and direct-to-consumer distribution seemed like a clear path to success,...