This undated publicity photo provided by Birchbox shows a typical monthly beauty sample shipment. Consumers can subscribe to companies like Birch Box to receive monthly shipments of beauty product ...

I’ve always felt that if I had a demonstrably better product than competitors and could only afford to implement one marketing element, it would nearly always be sampling. Sampling breaks through the ...

There's a simple idea behind each subscription box: to curate and deliver exclusive or unusual items to consumers with a passion. Yet picking a subscription box isn't that simple, given there are more ...

Every time I walk into Sephora, I'm met with a slew of new products I have never seen before and am thus tempted to buy. But, after enough shopping trips that ended with a cart full of products that ...

There are few places on earth better than Target's beauty aisle. It's the kind of place where you can mysteriously end up with a basket of products you had no idea you needed but could now never ...

CHICAGO -- It's a beauty product fan's dream: a monthly box sent to the door filled with samples of lip glosses, face creams, hair treatments and nail polishes. The trend started a few years ago with ...