217 - What I'm Reading: Week of October 24th.

Fenty’s rumored sale, China’s booming haircare M&A, AUNU's Manuka-honey skincare, Burd’s teen haircare with a cause, Welltayl's dermatology formulas for pets, Amazon's new decision AI tool & more...

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🗞 NEWS & PRODUCTS

• Axios: Americans are still buying things, bad economic vibes or not.

• 🇨🇳 Barrons: These Chinese consumers are splurging. Little luxuries are big business.

• TechCrunch: OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser - ChatGPT Atlas.

• TechCrunch: Amazon unveils AI smart glasses for its delivery drivers…it is one way to gather data and de-bug quickly.

  • Just for fun:

    • A media search engine.

    • 🥑 AI will now help you pick out the perfect avocado.

    • A random street viewer.

🧴 Skin / Personal Care:

• 🍯 AUNU - founded by Jennifer Krouse, formerly the COO and CFO at Victoria Beckham Beauty skincare, offers skincare formulated with medical grade Manuka honey [Instagram].

• 🇬🇧 Cellis by Debbie Thomas - a new beauty brand from Debbie Thomas, a skin-focused laser treatment expert and British Beauty Council Advisory Board member [Instagram].

• Whereafter - scented personal care products [Instagram].

• Just for Teens - skincare, pimple patches, and outdoor wellness (think UV sun patches, mosquito bit patches, and mosquito repellant patches) [Instagram].

• ⭐️ Ameon - best known for their frozen essence skincare launched a more sustainable solution - and it is pretty cool. It is simple and straightforward.

• LG launched LG. Pra.L, in the US, a tool to help with skincare product absorption using micro-current [Instagram].

👩‍🦱 Haircare:

• ⭐️ Burd - a new haircare brand for teens co-founded by sisters Leah and Misha Burdeen & their mother Julie Smolyansky (CEO of Lifeway Foods), creating awareness around domestic violence with every bottle [Instagram].

• Veradermics is aiming to develop the first non-hormonal oral therapeutic for female and male hair regrowth [Instagram].