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Tulerie Clothing Rental App Founders Product Recommendations
While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. The Expert Edit features interviews with specialists about the products they swear by in their chosen field. For the latest installment, we spoke to Violet Gross and Diana Giese, Tulerie’s founder/CEO and COO, respectively. Tulerie is a luxury peer-to-peer rental clothing app that launched in 2018 — ahead, sisters Gross and Giese share their top lifestyle product recommendations. Violet Gross founded designer rental app Tulerie based on the simple idea that women love to share clothes…
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What Sustainability Beauty Will Look Like in the Future
While “natural beauty” was all anyone could talk about in 2015, and “clean beauty” was all the rage in 2019, these days, the beauty industry seems squarely focused on “sustainability” — a term that can feel vague and encompasses a lot of different marketing buzzwords and initiatives. The reason sustainable beauty is so hard to define is because it’s often used as an umbrella term for a lot of different subcategories, including clean and natural beauty, making a stroll down the beauty aisle a very overwhelming experience. And while the cosmetics industry is still on the rise — the US market alone is worth $60 billion, per a McKinsey report…
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20 Best Sustainable Beauty Products
Every editorial product is independently selected by our editors. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. It’s no secret that we should all be making a bigger effort to be more sustainable. Whether it’s that shampoo that you run through like water or those plastic shower caps that you seem to lose on a daily basis — we’ve all been there. One way you can do your part is by adopting a more eco-friendly beauty routine. By swapping out your one-use products for refillable options or choosing to purchase things with less packaging, you can do your part to help keep plastic out of landfills. According…
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What “Ethically Sourced Ingredients” Means in Beauty
Being a thoughtful beauty consumer is harder than it should be. Even if you’re committed to buying products that brag about being “clean,” “sustainable,” and “cruelty-free,” there’s no oversight around any of these terms. In fact, oftentimes when you see them on labels, they don’t mean anything at all. This lack of regulation places the responsibility on you, the shopper, to ensure that what you’re buying aligns with your values — making it critically important to educate yourself about beauty marketing and turn your bullshit radar way up in the process. All of this leads us to “ethical sourcing,” another one of those buzzy beauty terms that should clue us…
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Beauty-Product Packaging Matters Outside of Sustainability
We know that how beauty products are packaged matters greatly from a sustainability perspective with recycling but the jars, tubes, and bottles that they’re housed in are also important for protecting the integrity of the ingredients and making sure they’re most efficacious. Luckily for us consumers, product manufacturers handle all of those logistics, but knowing what to look for can also help you make more informed decisions. For example, if you’ve ever taken inventory of the vitamin C serums in your vanity, you may notice they all have something in common: an opaque bottle. Some may be amber, others white, and others black, but the important thing is they don’t…
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Sustainable Beauty: What Each Buzzword Means
“Carbon-Neutral” and “Carbon-Negative” Beauty Supporting a carbon-neutral beauty brand means purchasing products from a brand that actively works to reduce its carbon footprint, or the total amount of greenhouse gases produced by a person or entity. To be carbon neutral means to offset your release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by contributing to causes around the world that help tackle climate change. Carbon-negative brands are similar, except they offset the carbon they produce, in addition to removing extra carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in an effort to help reverse climate change. “B Corp Certification” A company that’s B Corp certified is one that finds a balance between purpose and…
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Where to Donate Beauty Products
Imagine this: You wake up, do your morning routine, and have breakfast. You’ve cleaned every part of your apartment except one — your beauty closet. Swallowing the dread, you put on your “Cowboy Carter” playlist and dance your way through a much-needed beauty-product declutter session. You can finally breathe a little easier, until you realize you have a new problem — half these products are untouched and it would simply be wasteful to throw them away. This feels like a universal problem for any and everyone who has ever referred to themselves as a beauty lover. The best part about cosmetics is that they are a relatively low-cost way to…
