016 - Midweek Mini-Byte: Tuesday, July 15th.

Jul 15, 2025

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⭐️ = What excites me most this week.

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🧴 Skin / Personal Care:

🇮🇳 Thou - a simplified approach to beauty products with skin-centric clean makeup [Instagram].
MOY - Moment of Youth - an interesting new skincare brand for ‘those who thrive outside’ using hyaluronic acid that can be easily absorbed as a hero ingredient [Instagram].
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🇷🇺 my TAUI - a new personal care brand for body [Instagram].
⭐️ 🌞 Jack Dorsey has a UV tracking app in Beta called Sun Day Tracker.
⭐️ 🌞 PR Newswire: Haut.AI launches the SPF Truth Booth. See your future skin - with and without sunscreen…yes show me my shriveled spotty self.
🇰🇷 BoF: Inside South Korea’s cosmetic tourism boom. Korea’s medical tourism sector is thriving — but strict defamation laws, cultural differences and nationwide doctors’ strikes present unique challenges to foreigners seeking medical and aesthetic treatments in the global beauty capital.
BeautyMatter: The long game — inside Ursa Major's wild reset.

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👩‍🦱 Haircare:

🇦🇺 Bouf - a haircare brand built around helping to increase hair density from York St. Brands. Catering to those with thin and postpartum hair - Indy Clinton a popular Australian TikToker is a brand ambassador [Instagram].
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🇳🇱 Gisou launched a shampoo & conditioner [Instagram].
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🇰🇷 Kensuko - professional Korean haircare [Instagram].
The Hustle: The beauty entrepreneur who made the Jheri curl a sensation.

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👃 Fragrance:

Mane - Jen Atkin’s hair brand is launching hair fragrance mist [WWD].
Havyn - a new fragrance brand designed to be safe for all skin types [Beauty Independent; Instagram]

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💊 Supplements:

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👩‍🔬 Femtech:

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🛍 Retail: DTC, Brick + Mortar, Social Commerce, and more...

TechCrunch: Prime Day event drove over $24B in US e-commerce sales, GenAI traffic was up 3,300%
🇨🇳 Jing Daily: TikTok shop rewires how the West shops. China’s playbook of urgency, convenience, and peer recommendations is rewriting Western shopping norms via TikTok Shop.

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🩺 Digital Health: Wearables, Smart Devices, and more...

🇮🇪 ⭐️ ⛹️‍♀️ MoveTru - a startup dedicated to helping reduce sports injuries by analyzing movement [Instagram].
🇩🇪 👁️ Tech Funding News: Skleo Health secures €3M to scale its six-minute eye screenings across Germany.
The Information: ByteDance developing mixed reality goggles in challenge to Meta.
⭐️ CNN Business: Samsung is looking into more AI devices - potentially including earrings and necklaces.
MIT News: A bionic knee integrated into tissue can restore natural movement. In a small clinical study, users of this prosthesis navigated more easily and said the limb felt more like part of their body.
🇮🇳 YourStory: Bootstrapped and self-sustaining - How Aarthi Scans & Labs has scaled without external capital. Chennai-based Aarthi Scans & Labs has built a fairly large diagnostics network in the country—with over 70 diagnostic centres and 30 collection centers in 10 cities, a top-line of Rs 305 crore, and an EBITDA of 27%.
Cambridge researchers have discovered that certain gut microbes can absorb and help expel toxic PFAS (“forever chemicals”) from the body, removing up to 74% in mice, opening the door to probiotic-based detox solutions for a class of pollutants previously considered nearly permanent [The Guardian].

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🗣 Social Media: News about TikTok, Meta, BeReal, Snapchat, X...

rest of world: TikTok’s messy merger in Indonesia could be a preview of what’s to come in the U.S. A year after merging with local giant Tokopedia, TikTok’s business model is alienating sellers, forcing many to join rival platforms.

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♻️ Sustainability: Sustainable Design

🇮🇳 YourStory: Phool — How Flowercycling is revolutionizing waste and wellness. Phool turns temple waste into sustainable incense and vegan leather, creating clean rivers and dignified jobs through award-winning innovation.
Cosmetic Business: L’Oréal and Unilever are struggling to hit green packaging goals. What’s the solution? Despite substantial progress in green packaging, beauty's big movers are falling short of their own targets. Julia Wray investigates.

New research finds that infants raised in rural environments develop stronger B cell immunity and more diverse gut microbiota—early exposures that may reduce lifelong inflammation and potentially lower risk for diseases like Alzheimer’s [Nature Communications].
⭐️ 🥜 A shift in introducing peanut, egg, and cow’s milk starting as early as 4 to 6 months in high-risk infants reduced food allergy rates by two-thirds, proving that clear, proactive feeding guidance can reshape allergy prevention [JACI In Practice].

💡 Enjoy,

-Anne

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