Entrepreneur and women’s safety campaigner Joy Hoover has developed a lipstick with tech that can protect women from assault by identifying the presence of date rape drugs.
ATHR Beauty, the brand Tiila Abbitt is leading to “disrupt the $500 billion beauty industry with clean and sustainable makeup that works,” is in the midst of a funding raise; but it’s not the usual sort.
This month the beauty maker announced an open innovation challenge, recruiting scalable businesses with winning solutions in ecommerce, conscious tech, or new channel opportunities.
Today, the business and employment platform announced the top 50 independent or privately held businesses that have “risen to the challenges that 2020 has presented.” And Tula is not the only brand of interest to the beauty industry on the list.
The new industry event—launched just last year—connects beauty brand founders with influencers, buyers, experts, and editors. And the 2020 edition of Unfiltered Experience promises to bring that same high-value interconnectedness to an online event.
This week, the new venture capital fund focused on DTC femtech, wellness, clean beauty, and sustainable fashion announced a first group of funded brands.
The new accelerator program supports Black-owned DTC beauty and wellness businesses in Atlanta, Georgia, and brings together the expertise of ingredient suppliers, product development professionals, marketing specialists, legal experts, and more.
Late last year, Albert Dashi and Oliver Worsley took their patent-pending skin analysis patch and corresponding beauty app public with a soft launch. And still today, the two molecular biology PhDs are hopeful that Sequential Skin will be the future of...
In her Indie Beauty Profile, Asel Hofgartner of Kana Vita (a very new CBD skin care and body care brand) gives a candid snapshot of the beginnings of business and shares a bit of insight into how she and Daren Hofgartner transitioned from being entrepreneurs...
This month’s investment deal between food and beverage venture capital firm BFG and skin care startup ZitSticka raised some eyebrows. So, Cosmetics Design checked with BFG partner Ben Fenton and ZitSticka co-founder Daniel Kaplan to find out why their...
This week, the venture capital firm focused on science-based beauty and wellness businesses announced that it is funding and partnering with ELSI Beauty, a microbiome friendly, sensitive-skin care brand that’s making good use of tech and consumer data....
This past Thursday in New York City, the recommendation platform and entrepreneurship community Stacklist hosted a panel discussion among beauty business founders at the Amazon Web Services loft space. Cosmetics Design was there, along with some 250 aspiring...
In his Indie Beauty Profile, Luca Burnett, founder of YANTRA Beauty, describes a hair care brand that puts the insights and experience of professional stylists into products for everyday consumers.
The site, founded by Jacqueline Gutierrez, went live late last week and promises to change the way beauty entrepreneurs raise funds, connect with consumers, and disrupt business as usual in the cosmetics, personal care, and wellness industries.
UK tech start-up Harley has developed an online platform enabling cosmetic practitioners to make personalised product recommendations to patients, and just months after going live is now looking to expand internationally.
The company Suvi Haimi and Laura Kyllönen founded in Finland in 2016 has been gaining accolades, winning awards, and making headlines while continuing to innovate for a plastic-free future. This year, Sulapac announced that its Universal Recipe material...
The technologies—voice, machine vision and location analytics, ecommerce advertising, multicloud broadcasting, and AI—aren’t exclusively beauty tech solutions. But L’Oréal Canada and the men leading these startups see great potential for their tech tools...
Coconut oil is the hero ingredient in Kopari products. And the San Diego, California – based beauty startup has plans to grow its business even further, creating more coconut beauty products and reaching more consumers in-store and online.
In his Indie Beauty Profile, Michal Berski, CEO of Curlsmith, describes a hair care, treatment, and styling brand developed for people with curly hair—a brand he believes is unlike any other on the market. And he offers advice for other personal care...
![Each stick covertly holds two test strips that can detect presence of Benzodiazepines – commonly used in date rape drugs like Rohypnol, Ativan, Xanax, and Klonopin – with just one drop of any beverage, alcoholic or not. The lipstick also features a Bluetooth connected 'safety' button to send alerts and messages [Getty Images]](/var/wrbm_gb_food_pharma/storage/images/_aliases/news_teaser_medium/publications/cosmetics/cosmeticsdesign.com/article/2022/12/20/lipstick-startup-esoes-launches-smart-lipstick-with-date-rape-drug-detection-and-bluetooth-safety-button/16038944-1-eng-GB/Lipstick-startup-Esoes-launches-smart-lipstick-with-date-rape-drug-detection-and-Bluetooth-safety-button.jpg)
