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Indie beauty, fast beauty and the machine behind the skincare boom
When Harborist started in 2017 (or 2015 if you count R&D) independent skincare brands were a bright speck on the landscape. Following this venture capital money began to flow into the beauty industry,...
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Skincare vs. your microbiome
Your skin has 1 billion microorganisms per square centimetre. No two people’s microbiomes are the same, and yours will vary throughout your life, influenced by multiple factors including the environment, age, hormones, and...
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Alpha Bisabolol - the skin-soothing ingredient with a sustainability problem.
Someone once asked how I went about sourcing ingredients, and the answer I gave was through an online database called UL prospector. I later wondered if they were disappointed with...
Squalane from sugarcane - how?
Sourcing & sustainability - where your 'green' ingredients come from
Skincare and allergies
With nutrition regularly stripped out of our food through industrial processing, we long for ingredients that resemble their natural state as closely as possible. It makes sense we want our...