Milani Cosmetics

Los Angeles-based Milani Cosmetics is a “masstige” beauty company that encompasses two distinct brands, Milani and Jordana. The company began in 1986 with the creation of Jordana Cosmetics and later grew significantly with the purchase and relaunch of the Milani brand in 2001. The company’s face, lip, and eye products are available in 75 countries and through key domestic retail partners including Walmart, Walgreens, Ulta, Target, and CVS.

• Majority owner: Gryphon Investors (acquired in 2018); The investment in Milani marked Gryphon’s first investment in the beauty and personal care space.
• Minority owners: Ralph Bijou and Laurie Minc
• Headquartered in Los Angeles
• https://www.milanicosmetics.com/

K-beauty

K-beauty is an umbrella term for skincare products that are derived from South Korea. 

 

Some of the most popular include:  

• Erborian   
  

• Amore Pacific: The flagship brand of the Amorepacific Group, which also owns other popular K-beauty brands. Amore Pacific is known for its luxurious textures and formulas made with botanical extracts.

• Cosrx: A mainstays of K-beauty in the United States. Some of their bestsellers include the Low pH Good Morning Gel Cleanser.

• Innisfree: A mainstays of K-beauty in the United States. Some of their bestsellers include the Green Tea Foam Cleanser and the Green Tea Balancing Skin toner.

• Dr. Jart+: A mainstays of K-beauty in the United States.
  

• Peach and Lily: A brand that some say has helped Korean skincare take off in the United States.

• Sulwhasoo: A popular K-beauty brand.

• Laneige: A popular K-beauty brand.

• Banila Co. A popular K-beauty brand. Some of their bestsellers include the Clean It Zero Cleansing Balm Original.

• TONYMOLY: A brand that makes multifunctional serums, including The Black Tea London Classic Serum.

• Dear, Klairs: A brand that makes serums, including the Freshly Juiced Vitamin Drop and the Supple Preparation Facial Toner. 

Saturday Skin

Saturday Skin is a K-beauty brand that offers vegan-friendly skincare products designed to balance, improve, and revitalize skin.

• Owner: CHA Health Systems in Seoul, Korea
• Founder: Sidney Yangyee Beck
• https://saturdayskin.com/

 Saturday Skin works closely with CHAUM, a Seoul-based center that combines traditional medicine and research to enhance health and beauty. 

 

Saturday Skin offers a variety of products, including cleansers, toners, serums, moisturizers, exfoliators, eye creams, sheet masks, and sleeping masks. Some of their products include:

• Probiotic Power: Contains four types of probiotics to help balance the skin

• Skin Superfoods: Packed with antioxidants, amino acids, and vitamins

• Pore Clarifying Toner: Contains 10% glycolic acid, witch hazel, tea tree oil, red clover, and sodium PCA to exfoliate and minimize the appearance of pores

• Pretty Pop Probiotic Power Whipped Cream: Contains niacinamide, hibiscus esculentus extract, and lupinus albus seed extract to support skin protection, hydration, and tone.

 

Clarins

Clarins is a French luxury skin care, cosmetics and perfume company.

The family company was founded in 1954 by the medical student Jacques Courtin-Clarins. The son of the company founder, Christian Courtin-Clarins, has been the chairman of Clarins since 2000. In 1957, Courtin-Clarins developed a new approach to face and body treatments and created a few luxury products based exclusively on plants.

• Founded    1954
• Founder    Jacques Courtin-Clarins
• Private company owned by the Courtin-Clarins family
  
• Headquarters    Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
• Website    Clarins.com

 

Torriden

Torriden is a Korean skincare brand that offers vegan and cruelty-free products. 

 

With “Your Skin is Our Planet” as its motto, the clean beauty brand offers skin care that’s both friendly to the environment and our skin. Torriden’s simple, back-to-basics formulations are effective in treating various skin concerns and carefully formulated to cater to sensitive skin. They are free of 28 harmful ingredients including mineral oil, isopropyl alcohol, synthetic fragrances and colorings.

• Founded in 2015.

Key Ingredients and the DIVE-IN Line

Torriden’s products mainly rely on the following ingredients to enhance skin health:

Hyaluronic acid	for hydrating and moisturizing skin
Ceramides	for supplying moisture to skin and protecting the skin barrier
Panthenol	for soothing and moisturizing effects
Cica extract and allantoin	for soothing and skin-protecting effects

The brand’s bestselling DIVE-IN line is formulated with hyaluronic acid in five different sizes (including sodium hyaluronate, sodium hyaluronate crosspolymer, sodium acetylated hyaluronate, low-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid and hydrolyzed sodium hyaluronate) to thoroughly hydrate the different layers of skin. This hypoallergenic skin care range also features a patented blue complex made of six blue herbal extracts (namely chamomile, lavender, hyacinth, clary sage, cornflower and borage) to soothe and hydrate skin. Other ingredients that are harnessed in the series include eggplant extract and malachite, an antioxidant that helps calm skin. Turmeric and witch hazel extracts can also be found in the DIVE-IN line for soothing benefits.