Welcome to our series “ Buzzy Beauty Ingredient of the Moment ,” the premise of which is pretty self-explanatory: In each installment, we’ll explore an ingredient that’s currently trending in the industry, springing up in a variety of different products lining the beauty aisle. We’ll consult experts to find out about the science behind it — and why it’s having a major moment right now. Step aside, “anti-aging” — “longevity” has come for the beauty industry. In recent years, consumers have increasingly prioritized healthy aging over age prevention . In response, beauty brands are adding NAD+ (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) to their formulations. The molecule is found in every cell in the body. It supplies cellular energy, which then boosts functions like DNA repair and skin barrier strengthening. NAD+ products have most popularly been used in the wellness space through supplements an...
Between Korea’s powerhouse beauty retailer Olive Young partnering with Sephora and Korean department store Shinsegae unveiling its three-month Hyper Ground pop-up in New York City, the stateside K-beauty boom is showing no signs of slowing down. In the race to tap into the U.S. market’s seemingly insatiable appetite for all things K-beauty, some Korean brands are enlisting Muskat Beauty Inc. — a Los Angeles-based K-beauty curator and distributor founded in 2025 — to help place them on major retail players’ radars. While it may feel like a new K-beauty brand finds a home on an American beauty retailer’s shelves every day, there’s a calculated playbook behind this global expansion. After all, brands cannot merely copy-and-paste their Korea-specific retail strategies onto the U.S. market. This is where Muskat comes in: Founder Daniella Jung and her team of 25 employees mastermind K-beauty brands’ go-to-market strategies across...