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Velvet Pops The Cork On Serious Skincare With A Not-So-Serious Attitude
Kate Lee has a dual professional personality. By day, she’s busy crunching numbers to evaluate clinical research as a health informatics analyst. By night, she dreams up beauty product formulas and packaging design for her emerging brand, Velvet,...
Silk Therapeutics Takes Science In A Clean Skincare Direction
Gregory Altman and Rebecca Lacouture, the brainiacs behind Silk Therapeutics, are smarter than Beauty Independent, but we’ll try to summarize their discoveries for simple folks like us. The skincare company founders figured out how to stabilize liquefied silk...
Sfumato Fragrances Serves Up Scents And Stiff Drinks At New Detroit Location
Sfumato Fragrances commingles smell and taste at its new Detroit perfumery-cum-pub. The intimate 650-square-foot space in the garden level of a Gothic Victorian mansion sells scents by day and serves cocktails at night that pair with the brand’s...
Indie Beauty Media Group Unveils Entrepreneurial Education Platform BeautyX
Indie Beauty Media Group is enhancing its educational programming with the introduction of BeautyX, an evolution of its CONNECT INDIE initiative providing knowledge and resources to beauty entrepreneurs through panel discussions and classes. BeautyX will kick off in...
Lau Botanicals Is (Almost) A Hawaiian Vacation In A Bottle
Lau Botanicals is bringing the spirit of Kauai to skincare. Launching late February, the brand from aesthetician Hillary Navarrette will release four products – Island Glow Serum, Awakening Cleansing Oil, Goddess Body Oil and Healing Propolis Balm –...
Attention Target Shoppers: Fatco Arrives At Natural Beauty Aisles Next Month
Cassy Burnside has found courting stores challenging, but now her tallow-centered skincare brand Fatco is breaking into retail in a big way by entering Target. Four Fatco products — Fat Stick, Cleansing Oil for Normal/Combo Skin, Calming Body Butta...
True Wild Botanics Tells A Personal And Personal Care Story Through Plants
Plants are intimately intertwined with the professional and personal lives of husband-and-wife Nisreen Azar and Scott Ward. The couple met through their careers — she’s an arborist and he runs a gardening business — and have joined forces...
