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The New Nasties: 11 Ingredients Increasingly Not Making The Clean Beauty Cut
The rise of the clean beauty category can be traced to several factors, including interest in organic goods, cancer concerns and a greening of global consumerism. But it’s hard to dispute that the repudiation of parabens, phthalates and...
How To Sort Through The Trademark Process
Making your mark without an ironclad trademark can be troublesome. It’s better to safeguard your brand name to help fight against copies, lawsuits or worse. Especially in the age of Amazon, trademark power covering words, phrases, slogans,...
Don’t Bullsh*t The Buyer: 10 Tips For Building Your Wholesale Business
If a distribution partnership is akin to a marriage, a dishonest party can lead to a pretty nasty divorce. With indie beauty brands chattering a ton about transparency these days, buyers are beseeching them to extend the concept...
Five Key Considerations For Navigating The Beauty Brand Fulfillment Process
Most small independent beauty brands want to grow. With growth, though, comes the necessary outsourcing of former do-it-yourself tasks such as shipping products to consumers or retailers. Like outsourced manufacturing, the shipping and handling of beauty...
Don’t Know Your EDI From EBITDA? Here’s A Glossary Of Terms Every Beauty Entrepreneur Needs To Understand
Suzanne LeRoux, an attorney prior to launching One Love Organics, thought the legal profession was rife with jargon. But beauty retailers’ acronym-riddled vocabulary puts legalese to shame. “I’d hear things like 3PL and didn’t know anything they...
10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting My Skincare Brand
When I launched Jillian Wright Skincare in 2013, I was leading a well-developed, high-profile clinical skin spa on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. I was bright-eyed, optimistic and, definitely, a bit naive. I figured I would have 50 retailers...
