Ask our team: What does innovation mean to you?

Ask our team: What does innovation mean to you? In celebration of being named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023, we decided to dig into what is at the core of innovation to some of our team members. Below you’ll find the responses from some of our team when they were asked candidly […]

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Analysis: Gen-Z asks for expressive, climate-proof beauty

Analysis: Gen-Z asks for expressive, climate-proof beauty According to Instagram’s 2023 Trend Report, which was compiled in partnership with WGSN, it’s going to be a year shaped by 3 words: “Healing,” “Energized,” and “Main Character Energy.” That sounds like a big year, with bountiful opportunities for beauty communities to support consumers as they grow and […]

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Working From Home: Zoom Calls & Blue Light Exposure

Are you having trouble sleeping? It might be those 10 hours you spent on Zoom today. We used to grumble through could-have-been-emails meetings. There’s even an entire office accessories retail business built around the meme. But now that they are all emails or video meetings, quite a few of us are longing for an in-person, […]

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The Hierarchy of Active Stress Defense

Environmentally-induced oxidative stress is the number one cause of premature skin aging, but it’s not air pollution, blue light, or IR that’s triggering the majority of these unwanted skin changes, despite the current rush to protect against them — it’s UV radiation. The complication then comes when aggressors (like pollution) pile on, and damage comes even more swiftly.   The Total Protection Trend Pollution, blue light, and infrared radiation (IR) have recently come under scrutiny as major skin concerns — and brands are […]

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