Startups Will Save Us: From kitchen table to multimillion dollar sustainable skincare business

Yep, you’ve guessed it—more awesome convos with inspiring climate founders this week here at Raaise HQ. We continue to be amazed by the quality, vision and passion of the climate founders that are reaching out to us.

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🥁 Introducing a powerful beauty brand that’s taking the fight to carbon. 🚀 STARTUP:

BYBI Beauty.

🌈 MISSION:

By bringing climate conscious beauty products to the masses, BYBI’s proof that great skincare doesn’t have to cost the earth.

💡 WHAT:

BYBI creates natural, vegan and cruelty-free products, unlocking the goodness of active, nourishing ingredients—full of juicy vitamins and skin-strengthening minerals. BYBI are here to boost the health of your skin whilst shrinking your carbon footprint. BYBI’s goal is to create real change in the beauty industry through intentional ingredients and low-carbon production methods, to keep your skin—and our planet—healthy.

🧐 MILESTONES:

→ From a kitchen table blog into a multimillion dollar sustainable skincare business. → Launched the world’s first carbon-negative skincare product with their new Glowcurrant Booster earlier this year. Get your glow on here.

→ Raised a US$7M Series A round last year and are now in almost 2000 stores, including Holland & Barrett and Boots in the UK, and Target in the US.

💪 WHY IT MATTERS:

Beauty regimes come at an invisible cost: carbon. You may not be able to see, touch or smell it, but you sure can feel it. The solution? Changing our everyday actions, however small, to significantly lower our carbon emissions.

🎧 PODCAST

We chatted with co-founders Dominika and Elsie about how they took their carbon-negative beauty brand from the kitchen table to the global stage. The BYBI episode is dropping soon, but in the meantime, catch up on all our other episodes and be sure to click “follow”, so you’ll be the first to know when the BYBI pod drops. ✌️

🌳 IN OTHER NEWS… FRANKENTREES WTF!??

In a world where it can often feel like no one can agree on anything, the idea of planting trees to stave off impending climate doom is a sure winner. Scientists, billionaires and even politicians are putting their heft behind efforts to green the land. But, should we really be changing the genetic makeup of trees to make them absorb more carbon dioxide? A short but interesting read from Wired » Building Better Trees.

👀 SNEAK PEAK:

Speaking of sucking up carbon, take a look at next week’s featured climate startup— a carbon transformation company that’s turning carbon liability into an opportunity.