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7 Apr

Goal and Sephora Add More Intimate Wellness Brands –

Goal and Sephora Add More Intimate Wellness Brands –
Intimate wellness is getting physical.  While beauty stores and mass retailers alike committed to constructing out intimate and sexual wellness categories, much of the expansion had been digital with brands like Maude and Dame happening Sephora’s website and Bloomi launching on Saks’ site. Ulta Beauty, which now operates The Wellness Shop, has an intimate wellness category in-store with more expansive offerings, including sex devices, online.  But now, with a bit more experience within the category, beauty retailers are bringing more of those offerings into physical stores, most notably Maude launching certain stock keeping units at Sephora. Mass retailers which have had sexual wellness on the aisles for years — think heritage brands — are actually seeking to shake things up and modernize...
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7 Apr

The Fashion Brands That Appeal Most to the Chinese Consumer

The Fashion Brands That Appeal Most to the Chinese Consumer
Has the style industry reached an inflection point? In its most up-to-date 2022 Fashion IP 100 rating and 2022 Global Fashion IP White Paper, researchers from the Fashion Exchange have revealed a monumental shift within the mindset of the Chinese consumer. The white paper also offers perspectives concerning the growth, importance and impact of fashion brand collaborations. The 2022 Fashion IP 100 rating, in its fourth yr and done in partnership with CBNData, shows a reshuffling of the highest brands while the whopping 43-page white paper, titled “Old World and Latest World: China’s Fashion Consumption in 2022,” presents deep insights into what’s driving brands and market growth in China. The white paper is a must-read for anyone trying to do business...
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3 Apr

Rating celebrity beauty brands of 2022 by how random

Rating celebrity beauty brands of 2022 by how random
Jared Leto is likely to be the winner here Ever since Kylie Jenner and Rihanna hit a billion dollars with their respective make-up lines it looks as if every celebrity on the planet decided it was time to leap on the beauty brand-wagon and get a bit of the pie for themselves. While a pair have done thoroughly – Selena Gomez – and a couple of have seemed genuinely authentic – Halsey, Tracee Ellis Ross – on the entire, it’s just felt very random. Why do Madison Beer and Vanessa Hudgens have a DNA-based skincare range? Why does Ellen Degeneres have a skincare brand named, sarcastically, Kind Beauty?  2022 has given us one other...
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1 Apr

Arcaea Launches Ingredient Technology for Deodorant Brands – WWD

Arcaea Launches Ingredient Technology for Deodorant Brands – WWD
Together with her start-up Arcaea, MIT grad Jasmina Aganovic has been using biology to attempt to make the sweetness products of the long run more about individualism and consumers attending to know their bodies. Arcaea raised $78 million in Series A Funding from investors including Chanel, Givaudan and Olaplex through the COVID-19 global pandemic, and has just launched its first ingredient technology, ScentARC, which is geared toward deodorant brands. Designed to focus on specific underarm microbes, the patent-pending prebiotic technology shifts a user’s odor profile by selectively and naturally stopping production of odorous compounds without antimicrobials or masking smells. “Our mission is to make biology essentially the most desired technology in beauty,” Aganovic said. “In terms of the $25 billion deodorant...
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