No Stupid Questions 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 Wed, 17 Apr 2024 02:47:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 135095403 Has Sustainability Become Table Stakes For Beauty Brands? https://www.beautyindependent.com/has-sustainability-become-table-stakes-for-brands/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/has-sustainability-become-table-stakes-for-brands/#disqus_thread Wed, 17 Apr 2024 02:29:29 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=139699 Ten to 15 years ago, a new wave of brands such as Josh Rosebrook, Indie Lee, Odacité, Tara Harper, RMS Beauty and W3ll People put clean beauty on the map in the beauty industry. Rightly or wrongly, most beauty brands today have taken

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/has-sustainability-become-table-stakes-for-brands/feed/ 0 139699 Ulta Beauty’s CEO Says Beauty Is Cooling Off. Should Everyone Panic? https://www.beautyindependent.com/ulta-beauty-ceo-says-beauty-cooling-off/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/ulta-beauty-ceo-says-beauty-cooling-off/#disqus_thread Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:59:28 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=139464 Two months into Ulta Beauty’s fiscal year, CEO Dave Kimbell told analysts at a J.P. Morgan conference on Wednesday last week, “We have planned for moderation in total category growth to kind of the mid-single-digit range. What we’ve seen so far is a slowdown in the total category across price points and

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/ulta-beauty-ceo-says-beauty-cooling-off/feed/ 0 139464 What Retailer Should Rhode Choose? https://www.beautyindependent.com/what-retailer-should-rhode-choose/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/what-retailer-should-rhode-choose/#disqus_thread Wed, 10 Apr 2024 04:21:41 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=139276 A lucky retailer will soon bag one of beauty’s biggest prizes, Rhode.

Two years after starting in direct-to-consumer distribution, the skincare brand connected to Hailey Bieber is believed to be entering either Ulta Beauty or Sephora this year. Beauty industry chit-chat pegs Ulta as Rhode’s pick, but Sephora

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/what-retailer-should-rhode-choose/feed/ 0 139276 Gen Z Is Petrified Of Aging. Is The Beauty Industry To Blame? https://www.beautyindependent.com/gen-z-responsibility-beauty-industry-multigenerational-trauma-toxic-beauty-standards/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/gen-z-responsibility-beauty-industry-multigenerational-trauma-toxic-beauty-standards/#disqus_thread Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:51:06 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=138970 In a recent New York Times essay, Alexandra D’Amour, writer and founder of storytelling website On Our Moon, explores how mothers’ insecurities fuel their daughters’ self-loathing and expresses fear about the disdain of aging that’s being conveyed to gen Zers.

Referring to members of gen Z, she says, “They are

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/gen-z-responsibility-beauty-industry-multigenerational-trauma-toxic-beauty-standards/feed/ 0 138970 How Should The Beauty Industry Interpret And Respond To Valisure’s Latest Benzene Findings? https://www.beautyindependent.com/beauty-industry-interpret-respond-valisure-latest-benzene-findings/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/beauty-industry-interpret-respond-valisure-latest-benzene-findings/#disqus_thread Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:26:19 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=137615 Valisure recently released information about tests it conducted on acne treatment products with benzoyl peroxide, including ones by Neutrogena, Clean & Clear, Proactiv and Equate Beauty, showing they can form benzene, a chemical linked to leukemia and other blood cell cancers, at over 800 times the conditionally restricted United States

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]]> https://www.beautyindependent.com/beauty-industry-interpret-respond-valisure-latest-benzene-findings/feed/ 0 137615 How Beauty And Wellness Brands Are Preparing For The Possibility TikTok Could Be Banned In The US https://www.beautyindependent.com/beauty-brands-preparing-possibility-tiktok-banned/ https://www.beautyindependent.com/beauty-brands-preparing-possibility-tiktok-banned/#disqus_thread Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:32:11 +0000 https://www.beautyindependent.com/?p=137473 In a rare show of bipartisanship in today’s fraught political environment, House Democrats and Republications came together Wednesday to approve legislation forcing TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to sell the company to an American entity or cease operating the widely popular social media network in the United States.

The legislation now

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