141 - What I'm Reading: Week of April 19th
Bug repellent shortages, a cool cleansing balm format, what happens when everyday isn't cutting it, new data on the state of health trust, Beautycounter's buy back, CPG Q1 consumer review, and more...
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🗞 NEWS & PRODUCTS
🦟 Morning Brew: Dengue is surging and Argentina is out of bug spray. Mosquito repellent is reselling online for $20/can—a 500% markup.
Conde Nast Traveler: This ancient practice has become 2024's biggest wellness trend.
Just for fun:
Mental Floss: 20 Delightful Idioms From Around the World.
Outside: Here’s where you want to get stranded—and where you definitely don’t.
Vintage Computing.com: Tech time capsule — early 1990s clip art captured an era.
🧴 Skin / Personal Care:
Nobiesse, a skincare brand with around longevity, with the hero ingredient Methylene Blue [Instagram].
The Inkey List expands into body care with exfoliation products [Instagram].
Althea Skin by Dr. Ava Shamban (not to be confused with the K. Beauty brand below), is a new skincare line composed around the circadian clock with serums for day & night and a tool. The tool uses light therapy, electro-muscular stimulation, & low radio frequency [Glossy; Instagram].
⭐️ 🇰🇷 Dr. Althea - a Korean skincare brand, has a new and interesting solid cleansing balm where the packaging, allows the user to grind off specific amounts of the cleanser to use without contaminating the rest of the product. It’s an interesting concept - kind of like a cheese wheel [Instagram].
🇮🇳 BoF: Picky consumers jilting big brands are Unilever India’s new risk. The largest consumer company in the world’s most populous nation has provided everyday products from detergent to instant coffee to Indians for decades.
👩🦱 Haircare:
👃 Fragrance:
Grazie: Charlotte Tilbury is launching new perfumes – and they’re scientifically proven to boost your mood.
💊 Supplements:
Tally Health™ launches pro-longevity sleep supplement, Restore. New supplement helps to fall asleep faster, improves sleep quality, and targets aging. The three hero ingredients are Magnesium bisglycinate chelate complex (250mg), L-theanine (200 mg), & Apigenin (50mg) [Fitt Insider].
Gloci - a new skin + gut health brand - launching with a single supplement powder drink [Instagram].
⭐️ Spate: Top Searched Supplements & Ingestibles Brand 2024.
👩🔬 Femtech:
Seed Health launches computational biology platform, powered by most comprehensive host-microbiome data set, to expand pipeline beyond the gut [PR Newswire].
🛍 Retail: DTC, Brick + Mortar, Social Commerce, and more...
WSJ: Inside Amazon’s secret operation to gather intel on rivals.
🇨🇳 Jing Daily: Over 11% of U.S. households have made a purchase from TikTok shop.
🇨🇳 🇪🇺 🇰🇷 New data shows a large increase in European and Korean brands on T-Mall - up 150% and 56% respectively [Ebrun].
🩺 Digital Health: Wearables, Smart Devices, and more...
⭐️ Last week, I mentioned the trend highlighted by BoF about medical disinformation surrounding birth control - this week Axios shared new data from Edelman on the state of health trust. Not surprisingly, more trust themselves to manage their health as they shun institutions.
Vox: Every year, tuberculosis kills over a million people. Can a new vaccine turn the tide?
The Atlantic: What happens when you’ve been on Ozempic for 20 years? The long-term effects of GLP-1 drugs are unknown.
MobiHealthNews: h2o Therapeutics' Apple Watch feature for Parkinson's gets FDA medical device listing.
Wired: The next frontier for brain implants is artificial vision.
TechCrunch: Generative AI is coming for healthcare, and not everyone’s thrilled. Some experts don't think the tech is ready for prime time.
CNBC: Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug Zepbound shows promise as a sleep apnea treatment in late-stage trials
🗣 Social Media: News about TikTok, Meta, BeReal, Snapchat, X...
♻️ Sustainability: Sustainable Design
💸 M&A, IPOs, SPACs, Bankruptcies, Closings...
🔬RESEARCH
Nature: What toilets can reveal about COVID, cancer and other health threats.
ScienceAdvances - the link between the ovarian cycle and circadian rhythm…the data for the link to a lunar cycle is statistically significant but not very strong.
A new study found women who experienced adverse pregnancy outcomes (preterm delivery, small for gestational age, preeclampsia, other hypertensive disorders, and gestational diabetes) were at risk of increased mortality (even 40 years later) [JAMA Internal Medicine].
🧐 REPORTS
⭐️ CPG Wire: Q1 2024 Consumer Review.
🛌 Gallup: Americans sleeping less, more stressed. Women, particularly those under age 50, report sleeping less than they need and higher stress levels than men
⭐️ 🇨🇳 Daxue: China’s Food & Beverage Industry - insights around health perceptions & health trends in food.
The Pudding: How life experiences are shapes outcomes of teenagers.
💡 Enjoy,
-Anne