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Juice Beauty Runs Out Of Juice. Has Clean Beauty, Too?
Juice Beauty has run out of juice. The clean beauty pioneer—started by Karen Behnke in 2005, it filed for a trademark on the term “clean beauty” a decade ago and launched National Clean Beauty Day in...
Source Beauty’s Maggie Spicer On The Competitive Advantages Of Sticking To Sustainability Amid Tariff Pressures
For beauty brands committed to sustainability, President Donald Trump’s tariffs are a huge test of the strength of that commitment. Source Beauty founder Maggie Spicer, a former trade attorney supporting sustainability and social impact in...
Marketing A New Beauty Product: What Indie Brands Really Spend
In a recent No Stupid Questions story, we checked in with 10 beauty consultants, including two who had opened and closed their own beauty and wellness brands, for estimates on what it costs for an...
American Beauty Brands Rethink International Expansion Strategies Amid Trump’s Trade War
President Donald Trump’s immigration, tariff and foreign policies have spiked Americans’ anxiety about traveling abroad, and cooled visits from travelers abroad into the United States. They’re not the only ones. Businesses are changing their views on...
4 Ways Bootstrapped Skincare Brand Mara Holds Its Own Against Well-Funded Competitors At Sephora
At Sephora, most brands that shoppers may consider indie—Summer Fridays, Tower 28, Glow Recipe, Kosas and Topicals, for example—have all received millions of dollars in institutional funding. In the beauty industry, many believe it’s virtually impossible to thrive...
Professional Or Personal?: Entrepreneurs On Whether Beauty Treatments Should Go On The Company Card
Some of the most eye-popping nuggets from the lawsuit filed on March 4 by former Thirteen Lune investors Relevance Ventures and Beauty Generations Fund against Thirteen Lune co-founder Nyakio Grieco, new ownership SNR Capital and others...
