Bruno Bavouzet, evp of research and development at LVMH, says his two passions are innovation and people. These passions came together when Dior Beauty announced the creation of an International Reverse Aging Scientific Advisory Board in March. It’s comprised of 600 researchers and 18 experts, and led by Bavouzet from...

According to September data from Capstone Partners, M&A activity in the beauty sector fell 23.5% year-over-year between January and September, with only 39 transactions announced or completed. The primary causes of this slower deal flow is higher interest rates, persistent inflation, recession concerns and seller-buyer valuation gaps.

Another year, another series of monumental shifts and moments in the beauty industry. Some of these shifts and moments were harbingers and reflectors of changes in areas ranging from the influencer economy to the DTC world. Meanwhile, others were early predictors of a future ripe with opportunities to alter the...

Jennifer Lopez may just be the busiest beauty founder ever. The international actress-singer and entrepreneur always has a project in the works, but her eponymous brand JLo Beauty is equally a business and passion project. First launching in January 2021, JLo Beauty now boasts 11 products that include the Beso...

While established gender-neutral brands, like Kiehl’s and Aesop, are known to be popular among men and have established playbooks for that customer base, younger men’s brands are still navigating what works. And that navigation includes everything from how to talk to customers to how to show up in stores.

The top five buzziest under-eye masks are Peter Thomas Roth’s 24K Gold Pure Luxury Lift & Firm Hydra-Gel Eye Patches, Patchology’s Rosé Eye Gels, Florence by Mills Swimming Under the Eyes Gel Pads, Augustinus Bader’s The Patches and Dieux’s Forever Eye Mask.

In 2020, Rakesh Narayana, gm of Access VC, saw that most consumer venture funding was flowing toward traditional food and beverage consumer brands, not categories like sexual health and hygiene, to which Reckitt is dedicated. Reckitt owns brands like condom brand Durex, feminine hygiene brand Queen V and sexual wellness...

The accelerator functions as a kind of Y Combinator for content creators by offering them the chance to develop products using Volition’s full suite of back-end and front-end services, ranging from product development to digital advertising.

This year was difficult for the IPO market, given the economic uncertainty for consumer-facing public companies. But Oddity was the one pure-play beauty company that was able to successfully make its public market debut and sustain Wall Street’s initial enthusiasm. The 5-year-old DTC, e-commerce-only company, which operates both makeup brand...