Even Sustainability Has Downsides (With Amika's CEO Chelsea Riggs)
Gloss Angeles
Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan
4.8 • 679 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
This episode is brought to you by Amika as part of our Gloss Angeles Confidential program. With so many ingredients villainized and greenwashing running amuck, you might be surprised to learn how Amika CEO Chelsea Riggs feels about sulfates and dimethicone in your hair care, as well as the problems being a sustainable brand can present. Chelsea has been a founding member of Amika for the last 15 years, taking the company from a tools brand to one of the top 5 hair care brands on the market. She discusses with us what they’re up against when it comes to formulating, the brand’s hero ingredient sea buckthorn berry, and why the new lipid-restoring, 3-in-1 Superfruit Star Lightweight Styling Oil is unlike any other you’ve tried.
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| 0:00.0 | G.M. |
| 0:02.0 | Los Angeles. |
| 0:05.0 | Hi Kirby. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, Sarah. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome to Los Angeles. |
| 0:14.0 | Okay, we are super excited because we have Chelsea Riggs here. She is the founding member and CEO of |
| 0:23.5 | Amika, which is, if you listen to the podcast, one of our favorite hair care brands. It's very |
| 0:28.3 | fun, accessible, affordable, it's luxurious. And it's rewriting the narrative of professional |
| 0:34.1 | hair industry. So throughout Chelsea's tenure, you've done so much. You've built |
| 0:40.4 | the brand distribution from the ground up by focusing on supporting the hairstylist community, |
| 0:44.8 | which I think we know so, so important. You've expanded Amika's presence in Sephora over the past |
| 0:52.1 | 10 years into all the doors, huge. |
| 0:55.6 | You have a robust DTC business that contributes over 25% of revenue. |
| 0:59.9 | And under your leadership, you've seen 10 times the revenue growth for Amika, which is amazing. |
| 1:06.1 | We could go on and on and on, but we're so, so happy to have you here at Los Angeles. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm excited to do this. |
| 1:11.1 | So one of the reasons that I wanted Chelsea to come on is when she was pitched to us, |
| 1:16.6 | it was like, she's young. |
| 1:18.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.4 | She's young, aren't we? |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah, we're all in our 30s, right? |
| 1:22.6 | Yeah, 36. |
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