Full Disclosure Archives | Beauty Independent The eyes, ears and voice of beauty entrepreneurs. Daily industry news, industry knowledge, trend reports and data-driven content. Here for the Fierce Thu, 11 Jan 2024 13:05:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 135095403 Farmacy Founder David Chung Has A New Brand At Sephora And Growing Manufacturer Out To Transform The Supply Chain https://www.beautyindependent.com/farmacy-founder-david-chung-new-brand-sephora-growing-manufacturer/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/farmacy-founder-david-chung-new-brand-sephora-growing-manufacturer/#disqus_thread Wed, 10 Jan 2024 05:01:32 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=132904 Serial beauty entrepreneur David Chung is far from done with serial beauty entrepreneurship. After selling Sephora-native clean beauty brand Farmacy to Procter & Gamble in 2021, he’s back with another brand hitting Sephora, The Rootist, a haircare play that enters the hot scalp care field with fermentation-powered formulas.

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/farmacy-founder-david-chung-new-brand-sephora-growing-manufacturer/feed/ 0 132904 Why Hum Nutrition Shifted To The Mass Market https://www.beautyindependent.com/why-hum-nutrition-shifted-mass-market/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/why-hum-nutrition-shifted-mass-market/#disqus_thread Mon, 08 Jan 2024 22:25:35 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=132846 Nearly a decade ago, digitally native Hum Nutrition was a central figure in a wave of ingestible brands that entered prestige beauty retail. Prestige beauty retailers wanted in on a skyrocketing wellness category and saw ingestible products as no-brainer beauty merchandise adjacencies that its customers were already buying, albeit in other retail destinations.

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/why-hum-nutrition-shifted-mass-market/feed/ 0 132846 Inspired By The Culture Of His Barbershop, Serial Entrepreneur Houston White’s Grooming Brand Could Reach $25M In Sales This Year https://www.beautyindependent.com/inspired-culture-barbershop-serial-entrepreneur-houston-white-grooming-brand/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/inspired-culture-barbershop-serial-entrepreneur-houston-white-grooming-brand/#disqus_thread Mon, 08 Jan 2024 05:01:18 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=132514 Shortly after Houston White established Fresh, a barbershop in the Camdentown neighborhood of Minneapolis, in 2007, he formulated a pomade for his clients that’s blossomed into Fresh by Houston White, an 11-product face, hair and body collection priced from $8.99 to $11.99 that launched exclusively at Target last year.

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/inspired-culture-barbershop-serial-entrepreneur-houston-white-grooming-brand/feed/ 0 132514 With $3.7M In Its Till, Made By Dentists Takes On Oral Care Incumbents https://www.beautyindependent.com/made-by-dentists-takes-on-oral-care-incumbents/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/made-by-dentists-takes-on-oral-care-incumbents/#disqus_thread Tue, 02 Jan 2024 05:01:30 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=132183 Not all dentists are content with the same-old stuff sold at stores for their patients’ teeth. Four hundred fifty of them made that clear last year when an investment firm they formed, Backed by Dentists, committed $3.7 million in series A funding to the brand Made By Dentists.

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/made-by-dentists-takes-on-oral-care-incumbents/feed/ 0 132183 Sir Candle Man On The Brands And Trends He Thinks Are Fire https://www.beautyindependent.com/sir-candle-man-brands-trends-he-thinks-fire-right-now/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/sir-candle-man-brands-trends-he-thinks-fire-right-now/#disqus_thread Wed, 20 Dec 2023 20:18:49 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=131794 If you want to know what colognes will make you smell like a boss—Welton Iconic Amber Oud, Tom Ford Ébène Fumé, Parfums De Marly Haltane, Frederic Malle Promise and Marc-Antoine Barrois Ganymede (“It’s very CEO of a conglomerate!”)—or the candles the “it” girls are burning (Carrière Frères Geranium, Phlur Missing Person and Flamingo Estate

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/sir-candle-man-brands-trends-he-thinks-fire-right-now/feed/ 0 131794 Manufacturer IPG Broadens Product Capabilities As Consumers View “Beauty In A Much More Holistic Way” https://www.beautyindependent.com/manufacturer-ipg-broadens-product-capabilities-consumers-beauty-holistic-way/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/manufacturer-ipg-broadens-product-capabilities-consumers-beauty-holistic-way/#disqus_thread Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:04:14 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=129941 After working at companies like Bristol Myers Squibb and Bath & Body Works, where they met, Bob Goehrke and Tish Poling decided they wanted a change of scenery, literally and figuratively. They moved out of corporate jobs and into the Salt Lake City area to start International Products Group. At first, the beauty

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