Fair trade brand Fair Squared has introduced ten fresh products to its bodycare and intimate health line. The products include: Lube and Massage Oil in Green Tea – a multitasking water-soluble gel; Women’s Intimate Shaving Soap in Apricot – featuring apricot oil to nourish and protect sensitive skin; and Women’s After Shave Balm in Apricot […]
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Natural Beauty Retail Awards winners & industry hotlist announced
Weleda MD Jayn Sterland tops this year’s ‘Who’s Who in Natural Beauty’ industry hotlist The UK’s best natural beauty retailers have been announced today with the publication of the autumn edition of Natural Beauty News, published by Diversified Communications UK. Waitrose, Debenhams, Holland & Barrett, LoveLula, Beauty Kitchen, and Amaranth have all been recognised with […]
Pravera signs FairSquared deal
Natural and organic bodycare distributor Pravera has signed a UK distribution deal with German company FairSquared. The fair trade brand offers vegan condoms as well as certified organic toiletries such as body butters, shower gels and shaving oils, and a range of 30 products will initially launch in the UK. As part of the deal […]
Benecos
benecos is one of Europe’s fastest growing Natural Cosmetic brands and was founded in 2008 by Silke and Stephan Becker in Aschaffenburg Germany. Stephan came from a career working in the conventional cosmetics industry, but this did not blend well with his eco lifestyle, while Silke had grown up working in the German organic grocery […]
Alorée gives comfort in the city
Coming to Alorée’s natural and organic skincare range is Alorée City Comfort Hand Cream, available from 1 October in the UK. The nourishing ECOCERT-certified formulation contains the brand’s Chlorophyllin Hordeum Complex (CHC) serum rich in chlorophyll. Alorée is currently the only skincare brand that has been able to extract the active ingredient chlorophyll from plants […]
Youthful retailing
It has always been the No 1 rule of retail – know your customer. Learning buying patterns, understanding why they step foot in your store in the first place, and making sure you keep them interested by consistently introducing new product lines will be a big help to ensure customers keep coming back. But the […]
Alorée nurtures plant power in UK natural beauty market
Pravera has joined forces with award-winning French natural and organic brand Alorée to bring its chlorophyll-based anti-ageing skincare range to the UK market. “My experience creating skincare formulas for other brands for eight years helped develop my intuition when it comes to exploring new skincare ingredients. I had a feeling that chlorophyll, which enables plants […]
Beauty Bites
Exclusively from Botanical Brands comes Living Nature’s latest shade of lipstick, a ‘vintage pink’ shade called Bloom. Living Nature is donating NZ$1 from the sale of each lipstick to the Breast Cancer Network New Zealand (BCN). Natural make-up brand benecos is increasing its distribution and is now available in Whole Foods Market stores. Graeme Hume […]
Pravera opens beauty training room
Pravera, UK distributor for Primavera, has created a brand-owned training room in conjunction with the recently opened shop and spa The Bard’s Mistress in Stratford-Upon-Avon (link to story). Esther Cooney, Primavera’s training manager, is offering one-on-one or small group courses to improve training and brand knowledge in the beauty sector. Primavera products – which are […]
Pravera brings Khadi colour to UK
Pravera has signed an agreement to distribute German herbal hair colour brand Khadi in the UK and Ireland. The range, which consists of nine products – eight herbal hair colours and an intensive conditioner – is vegan, BDIH-certified and free from peroxide, ammonia, preservatives, and synthetic or artificial colours and dyes. Khadi’s colouring agents coat […]

