Top San Francisco Bay Area, CA Beauty Companies (19)
In complex CPG verticals like beauty, electronics, and outdoor gear, customers rely on the product recommendation of point-of-purchase experts up to 92% of the time. SparkPlug allows brands to directly reward these key influencers for every sale they generate with cash via gamified commissions, contests, and goals. We drive more revenue for brands, improve employee performance for retailers, and empower frontline workers across the world with fair compensation and economic equality, all based on the sales revenue they generate each day.
Founded in 2018 by Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur Barb Paldus PhD, Codex Beauty is a bioscience-led beauty company that is setting a new standard in organic luxury skincare. Codex Beauty is grounded in science, organic and vegan ingredients, plant-based preservatives, pharmaceutical-grade processes, safety and efficacy trials, innovative and sustainable packaging, and third party certification. All products are submitted to the kind of rigorous testing found in biotechnology and a strict adherence to good manufacturing practices (GMP). Quantifiable Scientific Data | Brand Transparency | Resolute Innovation
NakedPoppy is a seed-stage clean beauty company that matches women with better-for-her makeup tailored to individual needs and preferences.
Benefit Cosmetics is the San Francisco-based makeup brand that believes laughter is the best cosmetic. Benefit is the No. 1 Brow Brand Worldwide and is synonymous with fun, instant beauty solutions. Founded in 1976, the beauty brand has swept the world with one-of-a-kind cult favorite products like Benetint, BADgal BANG Mascara, the POREfessional Face Primer, Hoola Bronzer, Precisely, My Brow Pencil and Gimme Brow+. Benefit is one of the fastest growing prestige beauty brands in the business with locations in 59 countries across 5 continents. With more than 3,000 BrowBars with over 6,000 aestheticians worldwide, Benefit has become the brow destination for both product and service! Benefit is part of the world’s leading luxury products group, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy. At Benefit, everything we do and every product we make is to put a smile on people’s face. We do this by breaking rules with wit and wisdom, solving problems with courage and creativity and by always trying to make real connections with the people we work with and the customers we touch every day. If you work hard, play hard and love to laugh out loud, you are just what we are looking for to join the Benebabes. To explore how you can be a part of our feel good business, go to https://www.benefitcosmetics.com/en-us/careers The Mission At Benefit, we believe that laughter is the best cosmetic and that makeup doesn’t have to be serious to look good. We believe that we are not only in the makeup business but in the feelgood business, because when we are laughing & having fun, that’s when we are at our most beautiful. We create instant beauty solutions that are the perfect storm of innovation, storytelling and creative names & packaging that will put a smile on your face.
JUICE BEAUTY IS THE ORGANIC SOLUTION. As pioneers who believe in transformation without compromise, Juice Beauty is radically transforming the chemistry of beauty by providing clinically validated, authentically organic beauty products. The Northern California team approaches beauty from a wellness point of view so our customers win with: High-performance skincare & vibrant makeup, Healthful ingredients so every drop feeds your skin, Organic farming & sustainability. Karen Behnke, a serial wellness entrepreneur who built one of the first corporate wellness companies in the country, became passionate about the safety and efficacy of personal care products upon becoming pregnant with her first child at the age of 40. Karen set out to find healthy skincare solutions that delivered visible results. She quickly discovered the majority of leading personal care products on the market contained many chemical ingredients that were potentially harmful to the body some of which had been banned from our food. Knowing that skin absorbs up to 60% of what is placed on it, she wanted to create meaningful change through advanced beauty solutions that worked better, and were better for you, than conventional products. Juice Beauty harnesses the best of certified organic ingredients to deliver clinically validated skincare and vibrant plant-pigment makeup. Today, Juice Beauty, headquartered in a beautiful sustainable building in Northern California, offers antioxidant-rich and amazingly effective skincare and makeup formulas that meet the rigorous organic product regulations in the United States. Juice Beauty is available for purchase at juicebeauty.com, Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale’s, ULTA Beauty, Blue Mercury, Dillard’s, Credo, and goop.com. In Canada, available at Sephora & Murale.
Clear skin can be life-changing, but it's not easy to see a dermatologist. At Curology, we provide prescription medications custom-formulated for each patient's skin and shipped directly to their door. We tailor the entire Curology experience specifically for patients with acne and anti-aging concerns, allowing us to provide incredibly personalized, effective and affordable care at scale. We’ve assembled a committed team of dermatology providers and created a secure online platform, bringing professional acne care and prescription treatment to tens of thousands of people who wouldn’t otherwise be able to access or afford it. Curology helps people see tremendous, long-term improvements previously accessible only to a small percentage of the population. Our formulas are already on tens of thousands of sinks across the US. Our technology enables 1:1 chats with real dermatology providers and lets users to share their journeys with an engaged and growing community. Members can upload photos and track their progress over SMS, as well as browse and post digital postcards to share victories and encourage others. Curology is headquartered in the Embarcadero neighborhood of San Francisco and has a second office in San Diego
MBX (formerly Memebox) is a multi-brand beauty and personal care startup headquartered in San Francisco. The venture-backed company has raised over $190M in funding from prominent investors, including Formation 8 & Group, Goodwater Capital, Johnson & Johnson, Pear VC, Y Combinator, and other Silicon Valley VCs. Memebox operates a portfolio of beauty and personal care brands that are co-developed with strategic partners like Sephora and Ulta, using data-driven insights to identify white space opportunities in the market. The company’s products are made in Korea, leveraging the latest K-beauty innovations in the formula, packaging, and speed-to-market. MBX has offices in San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, and Taipei, and its brands include Kaja, I Dew Care, Pony Effect, I’m Meme, and Nooni. We’re always looking for inspired team members to help take Memebox to the next level. Interested in joining us? Please visit our website.
Before she was BadGalRiRi: music, fashion and beauty icon, Robyn Rihanna Fenty was a little girl in Barbados transfixed by her mother’s lipstick. The first time she experienced makeup for herself, she never looked back. Makeup became her weapon of choice for self-expression—a way to radiate her ever-changing mood—and it powered a fearless take on beauty that helped her become the boundary-breaking icon she is today. Rihanna was inspired to create Fenty Beauty after years of experimenting with the best-of-the-best in beauty—and still seeing a void in the industry for products that performed across all skin types and tones. She launched a makeup line “so that people everywhere would be included,” focusing on a wide range of traditionally hard-to-match skin tones, creating formulas that work for all skin types, and pinpointing universal shades. Fenty Beauty products are designed to feel lightweight, even as they deliver buildable coverage that effortlessly layers, to ultimately “make skin look like skin.” Most importantly, Rihanna creates makeup to inspire: “Makeup is there for you to have fun with,” she says. “It should never feel like pressure. It should never feel like a uniform. Feel free to take chances, and take risks, and dare to do something new or different.”
Hims and Hers offers a modern approach to health and wellness. Our mission is to eliminate stigmas and make it easier for people to access care and treatment for the conditions that impact their daily lives. That starts with creating an open and honest culture of care that is accessible for everyone, no matter who you are or where you live.
We are a team of scientists, cosmetic professionals and physicians who believe there’s no forward thinking challenge we can’t solve effectively and elegantly. We believe that technology and nature can and should work in harmony. And ultimately, we believe the future of beauty can be achieved with science. It’s why we constantly search for new and innovative ways to apply what we’ve discovered in the lab, in nature and in technology into skincare innovations that help people look and feel more beautiful. In creating a product that reveals your clearest, smoothest skin, we chose to pursue technology over trends and forward thinking over traditional flashy advertisements. Enter the Clearista Refining PenTM—one of the industry’s most effective tool to help restore the appearance of smooth, youthful looking skin. A skin care innovation built on a proven science. This unique and effective technology utilizes a patented reagent which, through focused exfoliation, smoothes a range of raised and/or pigmented surface imperfections: bumps, discolorations and rough spots on the skin’s surface. No acids, no lasers, no compromises. With the Clearista Refining PenTM, all you’re left with is skin that looks healthy, smoother and more radiant.
Kendo is the small but mighty force behind your favorite beauty products. A play on the words “can do,” Kendo is redefining the beauty industry through next-generation products, visionary campaigns and unforgettable retail presence. Kendo creates original founder brands, partnering with major faces from fashion and entertainment. The house of brands currently includes KVD Beauty, Fenty Beauty by Rihanna, Fenty Skin, Ole Henriksen Skincare, Bite Beauty, and Lip Lab by Bite. We tell their stories to bring to life the dream products you’ve always wanted, but have never been able to find. Come grow with us! Since Kendo’s founding in 2010, we’ve experienced phenomenal growth and accelerated global expansion. We’re based in San Francisco, but we also operate headquarters in Toronto, London, Paris and Singapore, our products are in 27 countries and counting. And, we couldn’t grow without our people. We embrace entrepreneurial spirit, so the opportunities are endless. We believe in six values, our Kendo Kredo. Adhering to these in business, in our interactions with each other, our customers, and our recruitment process, we remain true to our culture and the foundation upon which the house was originally founded. Entrepreneurial Spirit: We seek creative ways to get things done Perseverance: Never, never, never give up Generosity: The power of giving Story Telling: Creating authentic stories to inspire Quality Obsession: Our product quality is a reflection of ourselves Fun: Work, life & fun are woven from a single thread Advocacy, Diversity, & Inclusion: We believe in listening with humility and acting with courage. We recognize, seek, and celebrate the power of diversity across the full spectrum of personal identity. Our Open Jobs. https://www.jobscore.com/jobs2/kendoadivisionoflvmh
Potion AI is a technology company building the future of beauty formulation. Our tools help R&D teams go from brainstorm-to-bench faster than ever before. Discover the perfect ingredients, conduct market research, and create starting formulas instantly. Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including Y Combinator, Offline Ventures, 776 Ventures, and Tribe Capital, amongst others.
lilah b. makes beauty simple. lilah b. embodies the philosophy of ‘With less, you are more’. Our minimalistic collection of color allows women to achieve a finished look with fewer products… encouraging a movement to declutter, minimize and simplify. Housed in sleek and modern, signature “stones”, our high-performance, multipurpose products offer classic colors with sophisticated twists and luxurious textures. Inspired by the healthy lifestyle that surrounds us in Northern California, we pride ourselves in creating a collection that not only looks elegant, it is simply good for you. Our unique formulas combine nourishing and moisturizing ingredients from earth and sea to deliver a healthy glowing finish.
Every morning millions of women across the globe stand in front of the mirror looking at themselves and their hair. Evaluating, Planning, how to treat it, manage it, style it or on some days just hide it, and then they look at a shelf of half used products that promised to fix it. This story of your hair care focused on instant but temporary outcomes, continues even today. Skin care has adopted a preventive approach that works with your skin while hair care unfortunately stays trapped in a product narrative that is reactionary to damage. AQUIS was created to help woman reclaim their beautiful, natural hair. From damage. From the daily grind. From the way their hair “should look” to the healthiest, strongest version that their hair can be. Which naturally, looks good. We’ve spent years formulating a new approach to your hair which is built on solid science, a respect for the environment, and a recognition that your life doesn’t start and end with your hair. We created a system that helps hair reclaim it’s natural state. Which keeps it shiny, healthy, naturally hydrated, flexible, and strong. And when you stand in front of the mirror, what you see is who you are. And that’s pretty great. AQUIS. Hair Strong.
e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. stands with every eye, lip, face and paw. Celebrating the beauty of every eye, lip and face is fundamental to our DNA. It’s in our name and inspires us as a company. We are committed to creating a culture internally – and in the world around us – where all individuals are encouraged to express their truest selves, are empowered to succeed and where we do the right thing for people, the planet and animals. Our deep commitment to inclusive, accessible, cruelty-free beauty has fueled the success of the e.l.f. Cosmetics brand online and at retail since 2004. With the 2020 acquisition of the pioneering clean-beauty brand W3LL People, and the new lifestyle beauty brand Keys Soulcare created with Alicia Keys, we continue to strategically expand our portfolio with brands that support our purpose and values. Our brands are widely available online, and at leading beauty, mass-market, and natural specialty retailers.
Sephora is a leading global prestige omni-retailer with a mission to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the extraordinary in each of us. We operate over 2,700 stores in 35 territories worldwide, and a world-class ecommerce site. Since opening our first US store in 1998, Sephora has been an industry-leading champion of diversity, equity, and inclusion, guided by our longstanding company values. Sephora is a powerful beauty presence around the world thanks to our unparalleled assortment of prestige products in every category, unbiased service from beauty experts, interactive shopping environment, and relentless innovation.
True Botanicals is a luxurious, consciously crafted skincare brand on a mission to deliver clean and sustainable products that are clinically proven to work at the highest standards. We ethically source vegan ingredients from the vibrant intelligence of nature, without any toxins or fillers, ever. Each product delivers potent concentrations of plant actives that are known for their nourishing vitamins, essential fatty acids, and antioxidant properties. Every scoop, spritz and slather is a sensorial, indulgent experience that can make an extraordinary difference for your skin, as well as the planet.
Founded in 2017 by Enrico Frezza, Peace Out Skincare is changing the industry by developing first-to-market tech solutions for men and women. Their best-selling products combine unique formulations of high quality, active ingredients and cutting-edge delivery systems. Peace Out is determined to bring easy to use results for skin's biggest problems.
Beautylish exists to find exceptional products, tell the inspiring stories behind them, and deliver them with thoughtfulness. We believe an amazing customer experience is driven by a personal relationship with our customers. -- Beautylish was founded in 2010 with a simple mission: to create a community where beauty lovers could share their collective beauty wisdom. People loved it, and our community grew to hundreds of thousands in a few short months. Beautylish rapidly became a valuable resource for the discovery of beauty products, but the experience was incomplete because we weren't able to assist our members in purchasing the amazing products they loved. This led us to launch our own ecommerce presence in 2012. In the 10 years since, we've grown to partner with over 100 brands and ship to customers in over 50 countries around the world while continuing to launch service innovations. We're still in the early part of our journey. There are so many more stories to tell and relationships to build. We hope that you join us as our story unfolds!
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