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26 Nov

Gwyneth Paltrow Gets Personal on the L.A. In Goop

Goop held an intimate summit in Los Angeles on Saturday. At its inaugural event back in 2017, there have been 600 Goop-devotees gathered at a 30,000-square-foot reconstructed warehouse. This 12 months, Gwyneth Paltrow invited guests right into a much smaller and private space, the Goop headquarters in Santa Monica, Calif., capping attendance at 139. “Joyful to reply any questions,” Paltrow said at her first appearance of the day during an “Ask Me Anything” Q&A session. The audience — predominantly white women who appear to feel or seek a reference to Paltrow — asked her about her personal life because it pertains to them. They asked about pivoting careers, on life post-“conscious uncoupling” and advice on the faculty application process. “I’ve just been...

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24 Nov

Iris Invests in Biomel, Maker of Plant-based Drinks for

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Iris Invests in Biomel, Maker of Plant-based Drinks for

LONDON — The wellness category is wooing consumers and investors alike, and Iris Ventures is the newest fund to place its money behind products aimed toward enhancing the mind and body. Iris, a growth equity fund targeting European and U.S. purpose-led, consumer-centric brands and tech-enabled solutions, has invested 5.5 million kilos in Biomel, a market-leading, plant-based gut health brand. Biomel, founded in 2017 by husband-and-wife team Steven Hegarty and Janett Lozano, produces a spread of drinks, snack bars and powders at its innovation and manufacturing facility in west London. Iris described the investment as strategic, and said it'll position Biomel for an “unprecedented scale-up,” and help the corporate pursue its mission of constructing “good gut health delicious.” The investor argued that Biomel created the...

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11 Nov

Tampax, Flamingo and Luna Day by day Launch Women’s

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Tampax, Flamingo and Luna Day by day Launch Women’s

Personal care brands are tackling the ladies’s health taboo. Last month, eight women’s health brands, led by period care company August, banded together to soak up the tax placed on menstrual products. Now, Flamingo, Luna Day by day and Tampax are announcing their very own projects to offer education and destigmatize the conversation around women’s health. For Luna Day by day, which has grown 1,070 percent during the last 12 months, education is available in the shape of a hotline and a world campaign highlighting the word vulva, created in partnership with psychosexual therapy expert Annabelle Knight. “The campaign was born out of this insight from our research [that] women are more embarrassed to confer with family and friends about their vulvas than...

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28 Oct

Wellness Brands Reply to Inequity in Women’s Health Research

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Wellness Brands Reply to Inequity in Women’s Health Research

When Devin McGhee Kirkland, cofounder of adaptogenic wellness brand Deon Libra, received the clinical testing results for the brand’s hero topical product Big Up Body Glaze, $63, she was surprised. The participants were all white men between the ages of fifty and 65. She immediately told the team, “Return and do it again because that’s not my goal market.” Deon Libra’s current product range. Courtesy McGhee Kirkland founded her wellness brand after losing her father to a stress-induced heart attack and discovering that Black individuals are disproportionately affected by stress. That assessment is backed up by data. In keeping with Mental Health America, Black adults “usually tend to have feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and worthlessness,” in comparison with their white counterparts. While...

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