205 - What I'm Reading: Week of July 18th.

A popular beauty brand shuts down, AI's infiltration into beauty purchases, blackberry toothpaste, kelp oral care for your dog, the fertility preservation gap, a urine test for breast cancer, & more.

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🗞 NEWS & PRODUCTS

• HuffPost: U.S. Consumer prices increase as expected in June. U.S. consumer prices picked up in June, likely marking the start of a long-anticipated tariff-induced increase in inflation.

• 🇨🇳 Jing Daily: China’s Gen Alpha powers a fandom industry boom

  China’s anime, comics, and games subculture is now big business, with brands like Pop Mart riding a fandom wave driven by Gen Z and Alpha’s growing spending power.

• BoF: How brands are getting Reddit marketing right. From informing shoppers at the research stage to triggering a Super Bowl campaign, Reddit is becoming a gold mine for consumer insights and conversions alike.

• Glossy: What beauty’s latest ‘dupe lawsuits’ tell us about its changing relationship with inspiration and IP.

• Vox: What beauty companies are selling to kids. We need to take tweens’ skincare obsession seriously.

  • Just for fun:

    • 🍦 Mental Floss: Map of the world’s must-try desserts, According to TikTok. You’re going to be very hungry after reading this…I have to admit this list is pretty mid…I will also admit I have never had a cronut and I am just fine with it.

🧴 Skin / Personal Care:

• SPOOGE - a new sunscreen brand messaging about wearing protection year-round [Beauty Independent; Instagram].

• 🇰🇷 Neuraderm - a skincare brand merging neuroscience and dermatology [Instagram].

• 🇰🇷 Tovegan - a vegan skincare line made with ‘natural soothing properties’ [Instagram].

• 🇨🇾 Sync Beauty - skincare made in small batches with functional ingredients [Instagram].

• ⭐️ 🇰🇷 eyesshop - A very cool looking hand and bodywash [Instagram].

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👩‍🦱 Haircare:

• 🇰🇷 Refill - a cytokine based haircare brand from Korea [Instagram].

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🦷 Oral Care:

• 🇷🇺 OSS to OSS - a new oral care brand launching toothpaste in a number of fun flavors like blackberry [Instagram].