080 - What I'm Reading: Week of February 3rd.
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⭐️ = What excites me most this week.
💭 This week: Regulations around CBD, a new Turkish personal care brand, skincare for pre & post injection, ‘clean’ lawsuit, regulations around content management, a startup digitizing smell, wearable air filters for allergies, neurological disease and viral infection, new global wellness trends, and more.
🗞 NEWS & PRODUCTS
🩸 FDA proposal would allow gay men in monogamous relationships to donate blood…its about time.
⭐️ Morning Brew: The FDA calls on lawmakers to help regulate CBD.
Hong Kong bans CBD, a move that forces businesses to shut down or revamp.
🇺🇦 Fast Company: How Ukraine’s tech incubator is defying the wartime odds.
⭐️ MIT Technology Review: How the Supreme Court ruling on Section 230 could end Reddit as we know it. A look at how regulation will change content moderation.
💄 Highsnobiety launches a beauty vertical.
Just for fun:
👩🎤 Celebrity Brands:
🧴 Skin / Personal Care:
🇮🇳 Milap - A 37-year-old brand is creating a space for itself in India’s crowded cosmetics market [YourStory].
⭐️ 🇹🇷 Tiny Green - a new vegan Turkish personal care line from Honnes for babies, kids, and adults. The line includes hair care, body care, sun care, baby care, and maternal care.
CVS Pharmacy introduces new inclusive beauty and personal care brand, one+other™.
⭐️ Viktor Michael - a line of skin care for pre & post injections designed to help with recovery founded by Shay Sim and Nadya Kozlova [Instagram].
Libre a Latine-owned skincare line launching February 7th - with two serums.
BeautyMatter: Here come the girls - TikTok’s newest beauty subcultures.
Glossy: Beauty & Wellness Briefing - AS Beauty is the upstart conglomerate you need to know about.
La Roche-Posay was the fastest growing skincare brand of 2022, according To NielsenIQ.
⭐️ BoF: Sephora responds to claim its clean beauty program is anything but.
👩🦱 Haircare:
Mindy McKnight’s haircare line - exclusive to Walmart and developed by Maesa is expanding into dandruff care.
🇦🇺 Unilever Ventures backs Australian scalp care brand STRAAND.
P&G’s Native is launching Curl Care for hair.
⭐️ SLIQ is launching a textured haircare brand later this year [Beauty Independent].
💊 Supplements:
👃 Fragrance:
👩🔬 Femtech:
⭐️ Teal - raised $8.8M to enable at-home cervical screenings.
Mashable: The TikTok community making people with vaginismus feel less alone.
🛍 Retail: DTC, Brick + Mortar, Social Commerce, and more.
NPD: US Prestige beauty sales rise 15% to $27.1 Billion in 2022.
Glossy: From Amazon to tech startups, e-commerce takes on the TikTok-style feed.
🩺 Digital Health: Wearables, Smart Devices, and More...NEO.LIFE: This company uses machine learning to track your antibodies.
UCSF: AI technology generates original proteins from scratch.
⭐️ 👁️ The Terasaki Institute is developing a contact lens for dry eyes.
⭐️ Respiray - a wearable air filter for allergies.
♻️ Sustainability: Sustainable Design💸 M&A, IPOs, SPACs, Closings...LVMH, L’Oreal, and Shiseido are rumored to be after a stake of Aesop.
Ariana Grande to buy beauty brand assets for $15M from Forma Brands.
🔬RESEARCH
Nature: A wearable cardiac ultrasound imager.
Even in 2023 we still do not know whether fetus’ are sterile or interact with microorganisms [Summary].
⭐️ More signs are pointing to a link between viral exposure and Alzheimer’s disease [Neuron].
🌡️ Our body temperatures are dropping and it is linked to the gut microbiome.
Scientific American: Aging is linked to more activity in short genes than in long genes.
New research out of UCSD show promise for an injectable biomaterial capable of healing tissue from the inside out.
🧐 REPORTS
Lightspeed Ventures: We Don't Have Nearly Enough Startups.
BeautyMatter: Q4 2022 Didn’t see the typical year-end surge of beauty investment + M&A activity.
Spacedet: 150+ Brands Building the Future.
BeautyMatter: 12 market forces that are top of mind for beauty investors in 2023.
⭐️ Beauty Independent: The Global Wellness Institute Declares 2023 The Year Of Science-Backed, Social And Sensory Wellness Trends.
💡 Enjoy,
-Anne