Motherhood

I became a mum myself in 2015; we were blessed with our son Tyler and 13 months later we welcomed Alexa into our lives too. I neglected my skincare routine with being so busy and my ‘grab something quick diet’ … I was unfit, and could feel my skin aging rapidly! But I simply did not have the time or energy which I am sure many mums can relate to…I knew something had to change.

Research

I refuse to risk my health for beauty, and since I have learned so much about green beauty through my passion for using essential oils, I decided to pursue a diploma with an accredited school and became an organic skincare formulator, enabling me to take control of what I put onto my skin.

I became obsessed with researching some wonderful botanical active ingredients that reminded me of my Mother.

Besides a good skincare routine, she was very much of the mindset that ‘you are what you eat, if it’s good enough to eat, it must be good enough for your skin too!’ I remember some wonderful ingredients that she would use in our diet, and they all served different purposes.

For example, she always used to cook in the summer Snow Mushroom with Lotus Seed desert soup, it has a silky texture and it was incredibly hydrating and cooling for the hot summer weather in the South of China where I was born. Little known fact, Snow Mushroom extract is regarded as the plant based Hyaluronic acid. Each molecule holds up to 1,000 times of its own body weight in water, and that alone was good enough reason for me to incorporate this wonderful ingredient in our products!