Lily shares some of the dirty secrets behind the beauty industry, and talks about how she thinks “beauty” is the next industry in line to truly push forward in an organic, sustainable direction.
Category: Press
This Canadian Beauty App Reveals the Most (& Least!) Natural Prods
Toronto-based app Think Dirty is shaking up the cosmetic world and revolutionizing how we buy makeup
The Changemakers
The world is a mess right now. An outsider’s look into the current state of affairs would show a global community in shambles, suffering from a laundry list of maladies in need of a serious remedy…
How Lily Tse’s Think Dirty app helps shoppers pick better beauty products
Toronto-based Lily Tse was 12 years into a marketing career when her itch to solve a problem-the lack of available information about the safety of beauty products-became stronger than her desire for stability. The Think Dirty app launched for iOS in 2013,…
The Skin You Are In. O Magazine, September Issue 2016
The Future is Here. Apps give us the technology to monitor and take better care of our bodies, including our largest organ, the skin…
Health Risks and 5 Other Secrets Barcodes Can Tell You
The humble barcode has been a regular part of grocery store shopping since 1974, with the first ever product being scanned on June 26th of that year. Since then, they have become almost invisible, with some package designs finding ingenious ways to hide…
Health Risks and 5 Other Secrets Barcodes Can Tell You
Well, from where we stand, it doesn’t have a formal definition. It’s a movement that means different things for different people. At its core, it’s reexamining how our beauty products are affecting our health and eliminating the things that make cosmetics…
Disruptors Pitch: Think Dirty
The Think Dirty app provides users with a way to learn about the potentially toxic ingredients in cosmetics and personal care products. Customers can scan the product barcode and Think Dirty will give them easy-to-understand info on the product…
The Battle To Regulate Cosmetics
What’s in your cosmetics and can it be harmful to your health? We’ll look at the new calls for — and resistance to — deeper regulation of the cosmetics industry…
10 Canadian Women Who Are Taking the Tech World By Storm
The top 25 female-led startups to participate in the Fierce Founders Bootcamp were announced today. The founders will complete the first phase of programming at the Communitech Hub July 19- 21, 2016, and then return to the Hub from August 23-25, 2016….