Talkshoplive Levels The Video Commerce Playing Field For Small Brands

Talkshoplive enables brand founders to sell products on home shopping from the comfort of their homes. Currently in beta mode, the new digital platform is bringing the concept of user-generated content to video commerce by allowing anyone...

Follain Set To Open 10 Stores Starting With Dallas, Seattle And Bethesda Locations

After focusing for more than a year on building sales via clicks, clean beauty retailer Follain is returning to its origins in bricks with three store openings slated for the second half of this year and...

Root Has Gone From Kitchen Project To Million-Dollar Mineral Makeup Brand And Retailer

Wherever there’s a kitchen table in America, there’s a possible beauty brand in the works. In 2013, crafty Iowa mom, wife and entrepreneur Krista Dolash was mixing ingredients on hers to formulate foundations and lip products. Pregnancy had...

New E-Tailer The Bloomi Is Out To Protect Vulvas Everywhere From Potentially Unsafe Products

The Bloomi is based on the premise that women shouldn’t make compromises with their sexual health and vulvar hygiene. Hitting the e-commerce scene as intimate care increasingly overlaps with the beauty industry, the new online store thoroughly...

Wooden Spoon Herbs Celebrates American Plants And Spreads At American Retailers

To Wooden Spoon Herbs founder Lauren Haynes, thinking locally is about what’s in the bottle. She estimates 90% of the plants used for her brand’s 50-plus products are from small domestic farms such as Owl Hollow Farm,...

New E-tailer Potion Stands Apart By Concentrating On Natural Perfumes

Potion is natural perfumery’s new home on the web. The emerging e-tailer is a synthetics-free zone stocked with around 40 fragrances from 11 brands, including Thorn & Bloom, Hiram Green, Florescent, Kahina Giving Beauty, Josh...