Almost 30-years after Origins launched it Clear Improvement Active Charcoal mask, the brand is seeking to establish Clear Improvement as a full product line, starting with a new moisturizer on July 1. This line will ultimately allow the brand to reach younger men and women, as well as open the...

Peros, who worked with Foreo from its inception in 2013 to 2018, helped expand that business to 30 countries as well as travel retail, with revenue reaching more than $1 billion. The company's new division will focus on a variety of categories, spanning hair care to color cosmetics, and will...

Since January, a swath of personnel from companies like L’Oreal Group, Goop and The Honest Co. have decamped to CBD indie brands or launched their own. CBD has become a nexus for the industry in that it represents a lucrative and timely opportunity.

The company only has one location, in the SoHo neighborhood, making its product launch an unusual move for a young brand, especially when nail polish sales have been slumping. 

Two-year-old Skylar's retail partnership with Sephora represents its entry into brick-and-mortar; by July 1, it will be available in 200 U.S. Sephora stores and 15 Sephora Canada locations, and on Sephora.com. Skylar was recently included in Sephora’s accelerator program and was the only brand selected from the 2018 cohort of...

The funding will be directed toward extending the Phlur brand into more product categories, building inventory and increasing marketing. The acquisition of its manufacturing partner, Texas Beauty Labs, which has been renamed The Goodkind Co., will reduce supply chain bottlenecks and open the company up to a new revenue stream...

Fashion companies with makeup lines are often legacy brands, like Gucci, or large fashion retailers, like Urban Outfitters and Zara, and utilize a private-label partner. Valfre, for its part, has no stores of its own.

Direct-to-consumer, subscription-based beauty company Scentbird is adding wellness to its offerings in an effort to expand its portfolio and keep up with consumer trends. In May, the company brought added 17 wellness-focused products to its platform, including powder supplements from Golde and CBD cream and ingestibles from Highline Wellness.

Algenist, a premium skin-care and makeup brand focused on algae as a core ingredient, is updating its product portfolio with a vegan reformulation of its neck cream, a new anti-pollution product and three supplement powders marking its entrance into wellness.