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 ...

“This is my personal favorite,” says RealSimple.com’s senior editor, Kristin Appenbrink, who is a regular subscriber. “Birchbox is less about ‘brand discovery’ and more about ‘product discovery’ from ...

Once, businesses would hand out free samples in malls or throw them in with other purchases. Now, several businesses have sprouted up devoted to sending out a box of samples to customers once a month ...

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 companies ...