Most private-label hair color is manufactured in Italy under strict EU regulations
Amy Errett · From fired to founder: How Madison Reed’s Amy Errett built a beauty empire | Masters of Scale · Feb 7, 2025 · at 11:28
Madison Reed founder Amy Errett explains to host Jeff Berman why she traveled to Italy to find a manufacturing partner for clean hair color.
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“Because it is where most private label hair color is made, and the EU has very strict regulatory environment where basically you can't put certain things in, in personal care products.”
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