Seeking a financially sound path to sustainability that wins with today’s value-driven customers and retailers? Hear from the brands who’ve been there, as they discuss resourceful solutions in packaging, formulation, ingredients, and beyond, benefitting both the planet and their bottom line.
Priscilla Tsai
In 2015, Priscilla Tsai set out to create a brand that would transform the beauty industry by empowering and celebrating people for exactly who they are. After years of not seeing her real skin reflected in the beauty industry and overpaying for a lack of results, she decided to start cocokind - a community brand rooted in transparency and accessibility.
With a commitment to high-quality formulas at transparent prices, cocokind develops every formula to deliver powerful results while being kind to sensitive skin. Their formulating philosophy is “a little bit often,” which means incorporating effective, clinical ingredients that can be used every day without compromising the skin barrier. Her products are accessible at every Target and Ulta in the country.
Priscilla was born and raised in Michigan and is a proud Taiwanese-American.
"I started cocokind to change the status quo of the beauty industry and break the cycle of “aspirational beauty. We are a company that doesn’t need to hide how we formulate, invests in highly effective but gentle formulas, and sets fair prices based on what’s inside the bottle. Most importantly, cocokind exists to ensure that all of us have a safe place in the beauty industry where we’re celebrated and accepted, exactly as we already are.” - Priscilla Tsai, cocokind Founder and CEO
Alicia Yoon
Alicia Yoon is a world-renowned esthetician, Harvard Business School graduate, and the founder and CEO of Peach & Lily. She has studied skincare ingredients, formulas, and techniques in both Korea and the USA alongside trained chemists, researchers, and cell biologists for over 20 years. Having experienced severe eczema throughout her life, she struggled to find clinically effective skincare that wouldn’t irritate her extremely sensitive skin. In 2012, Alicia launched Peach & Lily with the now iconic Glass Skin Refining Serum, proving that you can deliver transformative results for even the most sensitive skin. Today, Peach & Lily offers groundbreaking formulas that integrate potent actives like retinoids and AHAs with soothing Korean botanicals. Alicia is credited with bringing the Glass Skin Movement to the USA and is sought after for her signature Glass Skin facials. She has been named one of WWD’s 25 Most Innovative Beauty Executives and sits on the Ulta Beauty Advisory Board for Conscious Beauty.
Randi Christiansen
During Randi’s 15-year career at Estee Lauder Companies, she was instrumental in building and scaling brands across the portfolio (La Mer, Estee Lauder, ELC Ventures.) A native of Denmark, Randi holds a MSc in Economics and Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School. In 2023, she was recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the most exceptional entrepreneurs of the year. She lives with her husband and three daughters in Rolling Hills, CA.
At Necessaire, we design the personal care we need - The Necessary™ - that supports our health and wellness. We use our business to make a positive environmental impact everywhere we can.
Nécessaire is recognized as a steward of responsible luxury with the planet as key stakeholder. Nécessaire is a Certified B Corp, 1% For The Planet Member, Climate Neutral Certified, Plastic Neutral Certified, FSC Certified and partners with How2Recycle to deliver verified recycling claims in the US/CAN. By the end of this year Nécessaire will have planted 300,000 Trees+ and will have supported several non profits fighting to defend our air, land, water and wild-life world-wide. #careforyourbody #careforyourplanet #necesaire