The Grommet’s Unusual Form Of Commerce Spotlights Small Guys

The Grommet calls its model citizen commerce and even trademarked the term. Behind the concept are individuals using their hard-earned dollars to support fellow individuals who happen to have created cool products. The products on The Grommet...

The Handmade Soap Co. Stretches To Switzerland As It Slowly Makes Its Way Around The World

Irish brand The Handmade Soap Co. has extended literally and figuratively far beyond the farmers’ markets where it got started. The purveyor of natural beauty and lifestyle products has entered luxury department store Globus and high-street retailer...

Clean Deodorant Brand Type:A Raises $500K And Makes Retail Progress To Fight More Armpit Funk

Type:A’s ambition is to climb to the top of the clean deodorant class – and it’s well on its way. After launching with Credo in June, the five-month-old brand has broken into the selections at Amazon,...

New Beauty E-Tailer Rose Botanica Builds Upon Founder Chelsea Poling’s Personal Self-Care Experiences

In 2016, Chelsea Poling was stuck in a bad relationship and spiraled into crushing depression. To help her literally see the good in herself, a therapist proposed mirror work, which required Poling, a former U.S. Agency for International...

Beneath Your Mask Scores Retail Partnerships With Beauty Heroes, Bergdorf Goodman, Credo and Neiman Marcus

Call it life in the “fast” lane: Dana Jackson’s two-year-old brand Beneath Your Mask has just scored four major retail partnerships — all during a 30-day fast Jackson completed this past June. The...

An Inside Look At Le Bon Marché’s Careful Beauty Curation For Temporary Installation Los Angeles Rive Gauche

On Feb. 2, Los Feliz Botanicals co-founder Krystal Quinn Castro received a rather mysterious phone call from fashion and beauty consultancy F32 about an unnamed Le Bon Marché project. A subsequent email requested samples in four days...