Kathy Phillips, This Works
After seven years as Vogue's Health and Beauty Director (not to mention a long and successful career prior to that), Kathy Phillips left to start her own brand, This Works. The brand, popular in its native UK, recently made it over to our side of the pond.
Must-Have Products: Having trouble sleeping? The lavender, vetivert and wild chamomile-scented This Works Deep Sleep Pillow Spray, $29, is designed to work as a natural sleep aid. This Works Perfect Legs Skin Miracle, $68, is another cool pick — it's a tinted body serum that nourishes, protects and perfects skin.
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Bee Shapiro, Ellis Brooklyn
Prior to starting her fragrance and body care line, Ellis Brooklyn, in 2015, Bee Shapiro was perhaps best known for her work as beauty columnist for The New York Times style section (where she still writes to this day). Shapiro started her brand when she was pregnant and credits her then-unborn daughter for helping to inspire her to make the leap (being pregnant also helped to form the brand's approach to clean beauty).
Must-Have Products: Does it get any more decadent than the Ellis Brooklyn Myth Excellent Body Milk, $55? The delicate, warm, coconutty Ellis Brooklyn Fawn Eau de Parfum, $100, is also an excellent pick.
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