This article showcases our top picks for the best New York City based Cosmetics companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Cosmetics industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top New York City Cosmetics Startups
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Mented Cosmetics
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Mented is a luxury beauty company targeted to women of color.
Coty
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Coty Inc is a New York based beauty company with portfolios in fragrance, color cosmetics and skin care.
Ever/Body
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Ever/Body is a cosmetic dermatology provider of personalized and tech-enabled services.
Heyday
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Heyday is a skincare company offering customized facial treatments.
Prose
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Custom hair care made fresh in NYC with natural active ingredients
Revlon
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Revlon is a provider of cosmetics, hair color, fragrances, skincare, and beauty care products.
GLAMSQUAD
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GLAMSQUAD is a next-generation, omni-channel beauty brand offering services as well as hair styling and makeup products.
Swivel
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Swivel creates a mobile app that helps black women find the perfect hairdresser.
Sol de Janeiro
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Sol de Janeiro is a cosmetics company that celebrates everything that is unique and joyful.
Act+Acre
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Act+Acre is a modern hair wellness brand for individuals to think differently about the health and care of their hair.
ZitSticka
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ZitSticka is a tech-meets-skincare company petitioning for the collective takedown of the zit
Westman Atelier
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Westman Atelier formulates makeup with clean ingredients and no-compromises integrity.
Womaness️
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Womaness️ develops and offers a collection of modern menopause products.
Cartessa Aesthetics
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Cartessa Aesthetics specializes in the distribution of aesthetic medical equipment to cosmetic physicians and medical spas.
Function of Beauty
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Function of Beauty is a provider of personalized hair care products tailored to its customers’ specific hair profile and goals.
Soko Glam
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The most trusted lifestyle brand in Korean Beauty for customers, brands, and content.
Stowaway Cosmetics
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Stowaway Cosmetics offers cosmetics in different sizes for travel-sized makeup kits.
Carol’s Daughter
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Carol’s Daughter is a line of genuinely natural beauty products for the hair, skin, and body.
Kevyn Aucoin Beauty
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Kevyn Aucoin Beauty is a cosmetic company that offers beauty and makeup products for women.
Edge Beauty
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Edge Beauty incorporates direct selling on an e-commerce site, under the brand ScentBeauty.
Susteau
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Clean, conscious, concentrated personal care inspired by the future.
ClearForMe
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ClearForMe is a Developer of a database providing information about cosmetics.
Repairogen
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Repairogen employs proprietary DNA-repair technologies to create advanced, scientifically-proven skincare products.
Estee Lauder Companies
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Estee Lauder Companies is a manufacturer and marketer of skincare products, makeup, perfumes and hair care products.
DooBop
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DooBop offers a curated e-shopping experience with personalized beauty education for skincare, haircare, make-up, and nails.
Hero Cosmetics
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Hero Cosmetics is a healthcare company that makes products for the entire lifecycle of a pimple taking a wellness approach to acne care.
Saie
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Saie is a cosmetic company that offers a toxic-free cosmetics beauty brand and affordable and effective makeup.
Clinique
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Clinique is a dermatologist-created cosmetic brand that manufactures and markets skin care, makeup, and fragrance products.
Glow Recipe
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The destination for natural Korean beauty, curated by industry experts
Geologie
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Geologie is a consumer goods company that specializes in providing customized skincare for men.
MILK Makeup
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MILK Makeup is beauty essential supplier with new trend using high tech formula for the girl on the go.
elf Cosmetics
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elf Cosmetics is a New York City-based supplier of cosmetics.
Maesa Group
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Maesa Group is designs and manufactures various tailor-made perfumes, cosmetics, and promotional products.
Credobeauty
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Credo Beauty is a cleanest indie and luxury brands around, and carry the largest collection of safe, non-toxic beauty products.
DermApproved
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DermApproved offers dermatologists’ advice on skin conditions, beauty concerns, treatment options, and non-prescription skin care products.
MAC Cosmetics
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MAC Cosmetics, stylized as M·A·C, is a cosmetics manufacturer founded in Toronto and now headquartered in New York City .
MALIN+GOETZ
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MALIN+GOETZ is a cosmetics company that provides unisex skincare products and services.
MelliDerm Inc.
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MelliDerm Inc. is poised to fill the void for Skincare products for the more than 24 million diabetic people in the US.
Kiehl’s
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Since 1851, Kiehl’s has been committed to the betterment of the communities.
Maybelline
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Maybelline is a developer and manufacturer of cosmetics and beauty products.
Peter Thomas Roth
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Peter Thomas Roth develops innovative and effective skincare products by combining advanced technology with potent ingredients.
NEST Fragrances
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NEST Fragrances is a core collection of scents created to fill one’s home with the essence of luxury, sophistication and beauty.
DevaCurl
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After launching over a decade ago at the trendy Devachan salon in New York City, DevaCurl quickly became the most popular curl care
Mario Badescu Skin Care
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Mario Badescu Skin Care is an online beauty supply store.
ERNO LASZLO
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ERNO LASZLO is a cosmetics company providing skincare treatments and products.
Fur
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Fur is an online store that specializes in oil, stubble cream, silk scrub, mitt trio and bath drops.
NARS Cosmetics
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NARS Cosmetics is French cosmetics and skin care company.
Laura Mercier Cosmetics
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Laura Mercier Cosmetics E-commerce site with cosmetics, makeup, and skincare developed by a make up artist to many celebrities.
Origins
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Origins Get your daily glow back with new Original Skin Renewal serum.
Arcade Beauty
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Arcade Beauty is a cosmetics products company.
Mink
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Mink is a company that manufactures 3D printers capable of printing beauty makeup.
John Masters Organics
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John Masters Organics offers a luxury beauty products line.
AMKIRI
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Privately held company which innovated and developed patented beauty products for the current digital century.
Sienna Naturals
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Sienna Naturals is a clean beauty company for textured hair focused on hair and scalp health.
Lancôme USA
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Lancôme’s French offers a wide range of cosmetics and beauty products.
Gostrider
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Beauty brands for the next generation of Creators
Skin Innovation Overnight
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Skin Innovation Overnight is a line of medical-grade silicone patches for the face, neck, and decollete.
Live Love Polish
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Live Love Polish is a direct-to-consumer beauty company that designs, manufactures, and sells unique nail products.
Bobbi Brown Cosmetics
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Bobbi Brown Cosmetics is an online cosmetic store.
BeautyStat.com
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BeautyStat.com provides personalized advice and informs users of beauty product deals and discounts.
Trish McEvoy
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Trish McEvoy is a makeup, skincare and fragrance products company.
Naturopathica
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Naturopathica is an online shop that provides cosmetics, beauty products, herbal remedies and e-gift cards.
The Lieu
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The Lieu is a grooming and feminine care subscription service for workplaces and amenitized spaces.
Eau De Luxe Ltd.
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Eau De Luxe explores the most exclusive boutique perfumeries producing some of the world’s most captivating scents.
GO SMiLE
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GO SMiLE develops new and better ways to whiten the teeth.
Bloomeffects
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Bloomeffects create clean, safe, earth-sourced beauty products.