Sometimes you’re standing in line at the post office and you notice people picking up colorful boxes labeled Birchbox, Ipsy, Loot Crate and Dollar Shave Club. These are just a few of the monthly ...

I’ve always felt that if I had a demonstrably better product than competitors and could only afford to implement one marketing element, it would nearly always be sampling. Sampling breaks through the ...

CHICAGO -- It's a beauty product fan's dream: a monthly box sent to the door filled with samples of lip glosses, face creams, hair treatments and nail polishes. The trend started a few years ago with ...

There's a simple idea behind each subscription box: to curate and deliver exclusive or unusual items to consumers with a passion. Yet picking a subscription box isn't that simple, given there are more ...

There are few places on earth better than Target's beauty aisle. It's the kind of place where you can mysteriously end up with a basket of products you had no idea you needed but could now never ...

Every time I walk into Sephora, I'm met with a slew of new products I have never seen before and am thus tempted to buy. But, after enough shopping trips that ended with a cart full of products that ...