Ep. 55 Romain Gaillard, founder of green beauty mecca The Detox Market
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
It’s no secret that green beauty is everything these days (natural personal care and beauty products earned over $1.5 billion in U.S. sales in 2017.) But long before Sephora came up with the “Clean at Sephora” seal, Romain Gaillard pioneered the modern concept of green beauty retail with The Detox Market. That was back in 2010. It was a pop-up situation on Abbott Kinney in Venice Beach. And it was the first time you could walk into a shoppe and find that every beauty product lining store shelves was not only chic but free of parabens, phthalates, petrochemicals and over 600 other questionable ingredients it’s banned from a highly curated assortment. Now The Detox Market boasts seven locations including three in Los Angeles, three in Toronto (including a swank new shoppe on Spadina Ave.), and a 2,000 square foot flagship in New York City.
Parisian by birth, Romain went to school for finance before landing in tech - so how did he wind up an early leader in green beauty? In today’s episode, we find out the pivotal moment that would change his life course forever. Boasting luxe, organic brands from RMS Beauty to Kjaer Weis to May Lindstrom, we also find out which products are the top three best-sellers in stores right now (shopping carts at the ready!)
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | We really wanted to create an experience, but that's a good thing because no one was buying anything really. |
| 0:09.0 | People were wearing a lot of macha, a lot of macha, a lot of macha, a lot of macha, a lot of t's, but the green beauty was so like new. It was very weird because it was like, |
| 0:22.1 | it was like it was it should have been new yet people were seeing at something old right |
| 0:28.0 | because the generation I think that was coming and like shopping at that time so again 10 years ago where it's like people that |
| 0:35.4 | tried natural beauty in the 90s early 2000s and and decided that it was cute but that they were not going to use it right because the |
| 0:45.2 | formulations the brands everything the experience was not there. |
| 0:48.8 | Hey guys welcome to Breaking Beauty the podcast podcast all about the best selling beauty products |
| 0:54.1 | and the damn good stories behind them. |
| 0:55.8 | We're your host, Carleen Higgins, and Jill Dunn. |
| 0:58.8 | Hi everybody, welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast. |
| 1:01.5 | This is Jill Dunn. |
| 1:02.4 | And I'm Carleen Higgins. So today we have. to Breaking Beauty Podcast, this is Jill Dunstan. |
| 1:02.5 | And I'm Carleen Higgins. |
| 1:04.1 | So today we have a first because we are speaking to a beauty retailer founder. |
| 1:09.4 | That's right. |
| 1:10.5 | And his name is Romat Gayard and he's the founder of Detox Market. |
| 1:15.0 | So Detox Market is a specialty beauty retailer. |
| 1:18.6 | They focus solely on green beauty brands and it was really a trailblazing pioneering idea because it |
| 1:26.8 | launched in 2010 and up until that point there was really where you bought your |
| 1:31.0 | green beauty products was you got your |
| 1:33.0 | Bert's B's lip balm alongside your recyclable toilet tissue and your granola |
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