“‘I read the New York Times story about the horrible situation with manicurists,’ said Ramdane Touhami, the cofounder (along with his wife, Victoire de Taillac-Touhami) of Paris’s beloved beauty boutique Buly 1803. ‘The toxins in these nail polishes, and all of the cancers and sickness [associated with them], and I thought, there has to be a solution.’ So, when he encountered a new formula for nail polish, one made of crushed shells and natural pigments, during a beauty-focused research trip in Asia, Touhami jumped at the chance to bring the technology back home with him to France.” Read more at Vogue.com.
Read More“Popular Vancouver-based Saje Natural Wellness has announced several new locations, as it looks to grow to about 50 Canadian stores by 2018. By the end of this year, Saje will operate 34 Canadian locations which is impressive, considering that the retailer had only 14 stores when we first reported on the company in September of 2014.” Read more at Retail Insider.
Read More“A March 2015 report by market research firm Kline & Company estimates the ‘natural products’ industry at $33 billion worldwide. A 2015 report by Nielsen found that 53% of consumers surveyed said that an ‘all-natural’ description was moderately or very important to them. But there’s a big problem with using terms like ‘natural,’ ‘organic,’ and ‘eco-friendly’ to describe personal care products: There’s no consensus on what those descriptors really mean.” Read more at Fortune.
Read More“Jessica Alba’s all-natural product line, the Honest Company, has been hit with a lawsuit that claims it ‘deceptively and misleadingly’ labels and markets its products as being ‘natural.’ In legal documents obtained by PEOPLE, consumer Jonathan D. Rubin claims that a number of products contain ‘unnatural’ and ‘synthetic’ ingredients and also says that the Honest Sunscreen product is ‘ineffective.’” Read more at People.
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