Beyond the two companies interest in eco-friendly products -- Sustain Natural sells a line of organic lubricants, condoms, period cups and tampons -- Grove Collaborative had not so bullishly approached products that are so singularly focused on women before. But interest in women's-centric offerings have grown over the last year.

According to market research firm Euromonitor International, global consumer demand for plastics exceeded 2.2 trillion units in 2018, and the beauty industry specifically accounted for nearly 153 billion units of that larger pie. While beauty giants like L’Occitane, L’Oréal Group and Unilever are responding to the environmental problem with vigor,...

Following a relaunch with Sephora.com in January, parent company Deciem’s cult favorite brand, The Ordinary, moves into 400 Ulta doors, and Boots.com and eight of its brick-and-mortar stores this month. In the fall, it will enter into Tmall and three Selfridges locations.

Chantecaille is betting on bringing the custom retail concepts it began testing in international markets to the U.S.

Though sometimes overlooked in the winner takes all conversation around beauty when Sephora, Ulta and today, even, Target and Amazon are the in the mix in the U.S., Walmart has been ever so quietly revamping its positioning. This past January, Walmart completed a laborious, three-year revamp of its beauty department...

Though Too Faced may have been the first to test the TikTok opportunity, beauty brands across the board are looking to the platform for relevance amongst Gen Z.

Both Hawthorne and Huron are not just trying to steal market share from older digital upstarts like Unilever-owned Dollar Shave Club or Harry's, which was acquired by Edgewell Personal Care Company in May. They are also laser-focused on heritage men's players, namely Old Spice or Head & Shoulders.

ELC has partnered with Kode With Klossy, the STEM-focused coding program, on a multi-prong partnership in which its scholars will learn Estée Lauder Companies' curriculum to then design a consumer-facing website for its new Rebellious Rose collection debuting in September.

Though Guthy Renker is known for its television infomercials when incubating brands like Proactive acne line and Wen hair brand, Sea Calm Skin will be direct-to-consumer first with an Amazon exclusive debut on August 25.