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Greenwashing, clean beauty, natural beauty, is oil-free even a real thing?  Consumers have an abundance of information at their fingertips and call-out culture is bigger than ever. It sparks the question as to why this $532 billion industry still continuing to mislead consumers? How much longer will they continue to get away with dishonest marketing? Not for too much longer, if the anonymous beauty collective, Estée Laundry , has anything to do it with it. The verified Instagram platform has broken the mold. Educating consumers and exposing the industries dark truths. Beauty Journalist, Jessica Yarbrough , recently spoke out on the page regarding the huge issue with misleading ‘oil-free’ products, that aren't oil-free at all! See the full post via Estée Laundry here calling out brands such as; Olay, Perricone MD & Boscia. This careless and sloppy lack of detail instantly breaks customer trust, encouraging cancel culture. This is no longer a time where 'the...

Goodbye IG influencer, Hello TikTok creator. Do we know what anything really looks like any more? We are detaching more than ever from heavily facetuned ‘picture perfect’ posts. Is the influencer finally dead? Do they even influence anymore? According to a recent Facebook study ,  Engagement rates are at an all-time low across Instagram. The suggestion? To work with multiple micro/nano influencers with higher engagement rates as opposed to putting all of your eggs in one influencers basket. However, it's now time to put your teeth whitening, diet tea’s down altogether because there’s a new kid on the block.  Enter Tik Tok. Category is; authentic, fun and creative. Previously musical.ly, the platform exploded in 2019 and it doesn’t look to be slowing down anytime soon. When speaking about TikTok, seventeen-year-old creator, Priscilla described it as space where creators support each other. "The TikTok community is super supportive,” Priscilla says. “Everyone ...