Emma Sandler

Emma Sandler

Emma Sandler

  • Clean beauty founders launch mentorship program for Black-owned brands

    As the beauty industry confronts its complicity in inequality and racism, multiple mentorship programs have sprung up to create impactful change. The latest, called Clean Beauty Summer School, is designed for clean Black-owned beauty brands as Black women have been historically underserved by the clean category.

  • Net-a-Porter’s next chapter will be focused on beauty

    Net-a-Porter is celebrating its 2o-year anniversary of selling fashion but it's setting its eyes on beauty to propel future.

  • L’Oréal Group announces 10-year sustainability plan

    L'Oréal began its move toward sustainability in 2005 and created its Sharing Beauty With All program in 2013 to modernize the program further. Sharing Beauty With All was predominantly focused on internal operations, supply chain and manufacturing. Its latest update not only adds to those business areas, but it also...

  • Glow Recipe shares insight into new diversity initiatives

    Glow Recipe shared a five-pronged approach to its community on June 15 in a post through its Glow Edit blog on how the brand is becoming more diverse and supporting the broader Black-owned beauty community.

  • Soko Glam launches first brand through its new incubator

    On Monday, the retailer launched its first brand called Good (Skin) Days, which is sold only through SokoGlam.com. It is also the first brand developed from Soko Glam Labs, an incubator with the company's own team of chemists and aestheticians, as well as other K-beauty experts.

  • How beauty brands are navigating political activism on TikTok

    TikTok is playing a significant role in galvanizing Black Lives Matter and political protests, while also serving as a viral conduit for social justice information and even in some cases, social justice trolling. During this tense and heightened period, brands are in turn stepping back and rethinking their strategies, so...

  • L'Oreal SalonCentricOn-demand beauty brands resume services

    At-home beauty companies are starting to offer their services again as New York City enters Phase 2 of reopening. Their re-entry into the market comes as 23 states are experiencing a rise in coronavirus cases compared to last week.

  • Amid calls for racial equality, the beauty industry observes Juneteenth

    June 19, known colloquially as Juneteenth, is sweeping the beauty industry. Acknowledging Juneteenth is an un-navigated territory, which could spark broader conversations around performative company culture and how said companies choose to publicly and internally stand againist racism.

  • The beauty industry introduces community give-back programs for BIPOC-owned brands

    As the beauty industry looks inward to its own complicity toward racial inequality, some brands are trying to do more than donate money. Over the past week, several brands and agencies have stepped forward to offer financial grants, access to mentorships and pro-bono creative work or advertising.