208 - What I'm Reading: Week of August 8th.

Tira launches an Ayurvedic line, Dyson launches a second haircare line, on the go mouthwash, seed free skincare, IVF predicting IQ, WGSN's 2027 consumer, BBW's new college strategy, &. more...

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🗞 NEWS & PRODUCTS

• Axios: America's youngest consumers drive almost half of household spending.

• WSJ: End of De Minimis alarms e-commerce sellers, consumers. The trade provision that allows companies to avoid duties on shipments worth $800 or less is ending for all countries, not just China.

• ChatGPT will no longer tell you to break up with your partner [Guardian]. I would love to know how many relationships ending can be attributed to ChatGPT told me.

• AP News: China fights mosquito-borne chikungunya virus with drones, fines and nets as thousands fall ill.

  • Just for fun:

    • CloudGazing - a site where people share cloud drawings.

    • 🇨🇳 Sixth Tone: China’s latest viral product is a bunch of hot air. Another canned air product has gone viral in the country, reigniting debate as to whether such items are a playful novelty or a brazen scam.

🧴 Skin / Personal Care:

• ⭐️ 🇮🇳 Puraveda - a new Ayurvedic brand from Reliance Retail sold through Tira Beauty (Reliance’s beauty retail channel) [The Economic Times; Instagram].

• Coterie, known for their diapers, appears to be launching a topical - maybe a diaper cream [Instagram].

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• 🇫🇷 Wadi Paris - men’s face cream and hair cream [Instagram].

• 🇰🇷 elmt beauty - a deeply nourishing spray derived from poppies [Instagram].

• 🇮🇩 From this Island - skincare fused with botanicals from Indonesia [Instagram].

• 🇰🇷 NDP - Natural Derma Project - cruelty free vegan-friendly skincare [Instagram].

• ⭐️ In case you were looking for a seed oil free skincare line there is one SZIA [Instagram]. Under a prior administration I could see a seed oil free claim for cosmetics as being potentially not a thing…but considering the amount of activity I see on Reddit of people looking for seed-free hair/skin products this is a thing…and definitely will get bigger.