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Bigger Than Beauty® Spotlight: Shirley Raines + Beauty 2 The Streetz
Meet Shirley, the namesake for our Brilliant Face Highlighter™ Skin Perfecting Powder shade Shirley (Bronze Gold)! Shirley Raines is an inspiration to so many, including the entire Thrive Causemetics® community. The founder of our long-time Giving Partner Beauty 2 The Streetz, Shirley started the organization after the tremendous heartbreak of losing her...
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Bigger Than Beauty® Spotlight: Racquel Chariah + Self Esteem Rising
Meet Racquel - the inspiration behind our Brilliant Eye Brightener™ (Soft Silver Shimmer) shade! Racquel Chariah is a cancer survivor and the Executive Director of our long-time Giving Partner, Self Esteem Rising. She has dedicated herself to bettering the lives of young women through her work with the Hance Family Foundation and...
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Bigger Than Beauty® Spotlight: Kara Frazier + Fighting Pretty
Meet Kara - the inspiration behind our new Sheer Strength® Hydrating Lip Tint (Muted Rose) shade! Kara Frazier is a breast cancer survivor, and the Founder of our long time Giving Partner, Fighting Pretty. In 2008, at just 26 years old, Kara performed her first self-breast exam and found a suspicious lump....
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Bigger Than Beauty® Spotlight: Keep A Breast Foundation
At Thrive Causemetics®, we are honored to have supported just over 500 Giving Partners through our Bigger Than Beauty® Giving Program! Our community grows each year, and we always look forward to expanding the Thrive Causemetics® family. A few organizations have been with us since the very beginning and for...
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Celebrating the Launch of our 5th Cause: LGBTQ+
Thrive Causemetics® has proudly supported the LGBTQ+ community for many years. Within our Thrive Causemetics® family, there are many LGBTQ+ members and leaders - this includes our customers, employees, Giving Partners, friends and family. That’s why we are thrilled to finally announce the formal launch of the LGBTQ+ community as...
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Bigger Than Beauty® Skincare
Sustainability is a brand promise and one of the tenets of our Bigger Than Beauty® mission. Since 2020 we have saved over 4 million trees through our carbon offset program, and are just getting started. This year, our sustainability pledge evolves even further as we move to update our skincare offering with...
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2021 Impact Report
Our mission to be Bigger Than Beauty® is a pillar behind all we do at Thrive Causemetics®. Take a look at our 2021 Giving report to learn more about how YOU fuel our mission and how, together, we help communities thrive. See the Full Report
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Bigger Than Beauty® Spotlight: Ma'i Movement
During the month of May, Thrive Causemetics® is honored to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month! This is a special time to pay tribute to the many generations of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who have enriched our country, and who continue to make a positive impact....
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Celebrating Earth Day: Thrive Causemetics®' Carbon Offset Program
Thrive Causemetics® has been committed to ensuring that our actions and operations do not have negative impacts on the world we love. As of 2020, our shipping processes have been carbon neutral. This means that for every shipment from our warehouse to your door, emission costs are thoroughly calculated. This helps...
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Bigger Than Beauty® Spotlight: My Sistah’s House
In honor of Black History Month, we are kicking off the first Instagram Live event of the year with our incredible Giving Partner, My Sistah’s House! Karissa Bodnar, Founder and CEO of Thrive Causemetics®, will be having a fun, informal chat with Kayla Gore, Co-Founder of My Sistah’s House. Please join...
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Celebrating Giving Tuesday
We are grateful that you help bring our Bigger Than Beauty® mission to life. With every purchase you make, we donate - and the impact we have is all thanks to YOU. Your 2021 Impact... You added 54 NEW Giving Partners to our community. You launched the Breonna Taylor Endowed Scholarship at...
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Giving the Gift of Hope: The Diary of Nalie
Thrive Causemetics® has always been fueled by friendship. I started Thrive Causemetics® after losing my friend Kristy to cancer at 24 years old with a mission to empower everyone to truly thrive in their lives through creating, high performance, vegan cosmetics + skincare that gives back with every purchase. One...
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Breonna Taylor Memorial Endowment at the University of Louisville
In honor of the life and legacy of Breonna Taylor, our $100,000 donation to the University of Louisville launched the Breonna Taylor Memorial Endowment, a major boost for the Breonna Taylor Memorial Scholarship Fund in Nursing. This scholarship supports the future dreams of nursing students from Kentucky, and we hope this donation will...
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How-To Guide for Properly Applying Skincare
There’s nothing more beautiful than an organized collection of beauty products. You’ve got it all: the cleansers, balms, serums, creams. Cleansing comes first, but what happens after that? And is a sequence actually important? What’s the point of a skincare regimen if you don’t know the order of application?The easiest...
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Bigger Than Beauty® Annual Impact Report
With support from YOU, in 2020 we gave back to over 200 nonprofit Giving Partners that support women and their communities. We’re filled with gratitude for the work that we’ve been able to accomplish together during a year that was extremely challenging. To us, being kind and being of service...
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Bigger Than Beauty® Spotlight: Per Scholas
At Thrive Causemetics®, we’re passionate about creating thoughtfully formulated products that are Bigger Than Beauty® and help make a positive impact on the women in our communities. That's why for every product you purchase, we make a donation to our nonprofit Giving Partners whose missions are focused on empowering women. ...
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Bigger Than Beauty® Spotlight: The Shoebox Project
At Thrive Causemetics®, we’re passionate about creating thoughtfully formulated products that are Bigger Than Beauty® and help make a positive impact on the women in our communities. That’s why, for every product you purchase, we donate to help women thrive during the holiday season and year-round. Since 2018, Thrive Causemetics® has...
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Everything You Need to Know About Dimethicone
Think about that rich, silky-smooth—yet weightless and non-greasy—texture you feel when you apply your favorite moisturizer. That’s partly dimethicone, and it’s responsible for creating that almost cream-to-powder consistency that makes your products silky to the touch and so much more. Dimethicone is a man-made polymer molecule derived from silicon, one...
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