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How To Crack The Assortment At Fast-Growing Facial Bars

Erica La Sala — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:34:59 +0000

As brands look to sell products beyond their websites and retailers, many of which are pulling back from newness in pursuit of profit, they’re clamoring to get into the fast-growing facial bar sector.

The retail business and product turnover at facial bars is picking up momentum as leading players in

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Interested In Getting Into Bluemercury? Here’s What You Need To Know

Erica La Sala — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 01:51:59 +0000

Frustrated by the uninspiring experience of shopping for beauty in department stores, Marla Beck launched Bluemercury in 1999 with her husband Barry to foster shoppers’ discoveries of indie beauty brands.

“I always was an indie brand junkie, and indie brands were really hard to find,” she

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5 Things To Know Before Embarking On A Friends And Family Fundraise

Taylor Bryant — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 23:46:04 +0000

Britta Chatterjee, co-founder of haircare brand Odele, compares fundraising to “walking down my street naked.” She says, “It’s a very vulnerable process to put yourself out there, at least it was for me.”

Asking family and friends for money can add an extra element of exposure. After all, family and friends don’t

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Breaking Down Fair Packaging And Labeling Act Basics So Brands Don’t Run Afoul Of The FDA

Natasha Marsh — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 06:03:13 +0000

In the American beauty industry, the responsibility is placed on companies to sell safe beauty products.

While beauty brands are largely left to self-regulate–outside of color additives, the law doesn’t require cosmetic products and ingredients to secure approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration, the

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Interested In Getting Into Cos Bar? Here’s What You Need To Know

Erica La Sala — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 21:17:41 +0000

Disillusioned by the prevailing department store model with siloed beauty counters, entrepreneur Lily Garfield founded specialty luxury beauty retailer Cos Bar in 1976 to be the complete opposite.

“The whole concept with Cos Bar was, ‘Everything I dislike about department stores, we won’t do,’” she said during a Beauty Independent In Conversation

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Your Questions About MOQs Answered

Natasha Marsh — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:03:33 +0000

When starting or scaling a business in the beauty industry, there are many steps founders must take, including developing innovative and effective formulations, handling supply chain issues and logistics, and of course, assessing how their offerings size up to the competition.

A they take those steps, they have to find vendors providing minimum

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