👩💻 048 - Midweek Mini-Byte: Tuesday, April 21st.
Chronic itch gets its first wearable, India's fragrance moment heats up, peptide shops multiply without differentiating, and China's pet economy discovers acupuncture.
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🗞 NEWS & PRODUCTS
The Wall Street Journal: Five amazing tech innovations we should expect in the next 25 years.
BoF: Tariff refund system launches as over 50,000 companies file claims. US Customs officials said as of April 9, an amount totalling $127 billion of refunds had been filed for, accounting for over three-quarters of the amount eligible for compensation.
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🇯🇵 🥵 BBC: Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer.
Humans Map - Public figure networks mapped.
Fossilware - a community archive of the hardware, software, music, and games we grew up with. no algorithm. just human memory.
🇮🇳 One of the many reasons I miss my time in India…and another. (During my two year stint there, I pretty much spent any time I was not working or traveling…discovering new designers, there is endless creativity).
🧴 Skin / Personal Care:
We have a date for the return of Marc Jacobs Beauty, June 2026...
🇰🇷 Mayet - beautiful skincare design from Korea [Instagram].
Wett’ - a moisturizer developed due to the harsh Arizona desert [Instagram].
🇰🇷 Daezls - launching a new glow mist through a drop model [Instagram].
👩🦱 Haircare:
👃 Fragrance:
Bǔ Fēng「捕風」- an artisanal perfume house where Chinese folklores drifts into modern distinctive scents [Instagram].
🇪🇸 Vacancza Fragrances - Transformative fragrances from Spain [Instagram].
🇮🇳 Fastrack - an India based e-commerce platform offering pocket sized perfumes to ‘match your vibe’ [Instagram].
🇬🇧 Dor Olfactory - “London based olfactory art collective reframing perception with scent" [Instagram].
🇦🇪 Tubbees - a fragrance brand focused on gourmand scents [Instagram].
🧺 Homecare:
💊 Supplements:
Complete Natural Products® - solution specific supplements [Instagram].
Good Gummies - protein + fiber gummies [Instagram].
🐕 Pet Care:
🇨🇳 Jing Daily: China’s pet market goes full wellness. From acupuncture to ‘dog kindergarten,’ country’s $40 billion pet economy is shifting from basic care to emotional and lifestyle-driven spending.
👩🔬 Femtech:
Seya Health - gummies for hormonal support [Instagram].
Big Sister - a new startup offering PCOS, hormonal health supplements [Instagram].
🛍 Retail: DTC, Brick + Mortar, Social Commerce, and more...
🇮🇳 BeautyMatter: How Nykaa is powering India’s $2 Billion fragrance opportunity.
Shifts in Amazon’s new delivery proposals will likely impact rural consumers and small businesses the most [CNBC].
This is important since so many small businesses use Amazon to really get started.
🩺 Digital Health: Wearables, Smart Devices, and more...
⭐️ 👀 Flavia, a new wearable to better understand chronic itch (those suffering from eczema or dermatitis) [Instagram]. This is genuinely interesting…perhaps it is niche, but the DATA learnings are potentially huge. For anyone who has dealt with weird and uncomfortable skin flare-ups, getting something with more insights than a quick consult paired with a steroid feels like a small step in the right direction. I can already those in the field saying…well this does not take into account other factors like - fabrics, detergent, food intake…but still do we have something that tracks flare ups with some kind of data input? not really.
Vogue Business: What the war on peptides tells us about the future of beauty.
Along those lines, Superpower announced they will be offering peptides…I feel there will be a number of businesses pivoting into the space, as a quick money grab…I spoke with a number of different investors about the number of peptide shops cropping up online, the truth is there is extremely little differentiation between the online stores (in terms of product offering), so it is a gamble for who will rise to the top.
Taya - a wearable AI recorder, helping you to remember, so you stay more present [Instagram]. With all of these types of wearables, I do really wonder who uses these…and how big the addressable market truly is.
9to5Google: Sources - ‘Fitbit Air’ is a screen-less Whoop competitor debuting with ‘Google Health’ subscription.
NBC News: Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
🗣 Social Media: News about TikTok, Meta, BeReal, Snapchat, X...
Wired: Europe’s online age verification app is here. Available for free to any company that wants to use it, the “completely anonymous” app puts the pressure on porn sites and social media platforms to start blocking access by minors.
♻️ Sustainability: Sustainable Designrest of world: AI is about to make the global e-waste crisis much worse. As demand for AI hardware surges, much of the resulting waste will end up in non-Western countries.
🔬RESEARCH
UCSD: Neurobiologists hack brain circuits tied to placebo pain relief. Researchers demonstrate that placebo pain relief generalizes across different types of pain, offering hope for opioid-free pain management strategies.
B cells improve physical performance not through immunity, but by controlling glutamate metabolism - showing there is a stronger link between immunity and exercise tolerance than previously understood [Cell]
🧐 REPORTS
Spate: 2026 Supplement Report - Key trends, concerns, & brands.
BeautyMatter X Market Defense: Amazon Q1 2026 - Top 25 Beauty and Personal Care Products.
Medicube Toner Pads dethroned Hero Cosmetics Might Patch.
💡 Enjoy,
-Anne