Beauty news in June: Selfless by Hyram, Paula’s Choice, Ofra and La Perla made some waves this month. Also, feminine hygiene products and single-use plastics?!?!
Beauty News
The things on everyone’s mind this month: benzene in sunscreen wtfisgoingon?! Never fear, the Washington Post to the rescue with a thorough and easy to understand explainer.
The second thing on everyone’s mind in the beauty community: Paula’s Choice was bought by Unilever. Here’s an explainer of the economic side. I hope for new distribution channels and a streamlined portfolio! (Beautyindependent)
Launches: Selfless by Hyram, and I’m excited – I don’t watch his vids, but this interview showed a thoughtful and genuinely nice person (and the first retinol product sounds exciting!). (Guardian)
Lingerie brand La Perla is launching a beauty line, and I’ve to admit, the packaging looks beautiful. (British Beauty Blogger)
Zalando and Sephora will partner by launching a curated portfolio of high-end cosmetics at Zalando (Q4 in Germany, other countries will follow). Are you excited to shop for Sephora products at Zalando?! (I’ve to admit, I’m not). (Fashionnetwork)
Beauty Stories
Ofra founders step down as CEO after pictures showing them in MAGA hats and doing offensive hand gestures resurface. There’s been rumours that both founders have hard right-wing/racist leaning opinions, so this doesn’t exactly surprise me. (Glossy.co)
As someone who had to have some moles removed this year: give yourself skin checks regularly! Allure explains how.
Why do we still call fragrances ‘oriental’?! There might be a change coming. (Harpers Bazaar)
Sustainability
One US beauty brand is phasing out single use plastic packaging (think sheet masks, sample sizes). This whole article touches on points like cosmetics samples that I’ve been written about before and well worth your time. (Vogue Business)
Life, Love and Everything Else
The vagina is self-cleaning. Why do feminine hygiene products (and jade eggs) even exist? (Guardian)
Anne Helen Petersen dives into the Peloton culture. As someone who was at one point during the pandemic REALLY interested in Peloton, I found it rather gripping. (Substack)
On the Blog
Let’s have a hot sunscreen summer! We reviewed so many this month: Paula’s Choice’s Tinted SPF30 (mineral), Ultraviolette’s Tinted Lipgloss with SPF (including swatches/lip swatches of course!), German drugstore gem Sunozon Fluid with SPF50 and Garnier’s Eco Design SPF50 (body).
We also found the hottest make-up drugstore dupes of the year, I looked into skincare for allergy sufferers and started a new series called “what happened to” in which I look into products again I changed my opinion on. This time: Good Molecules Brightening Serum. Also: summer makeup launches to be truly excited about!
