As a qualified nurse, Esther Ogundipe has seen first-hand how certain ingredients in skincare products can have a detrimental effect to the skin as well as sometimes to a person's health and wellbeing. Esther is a firm believer that beauty should not come at the...

Onyinyechi Udo-Chijioke suffered from acne throughout her teens and early 20s. Despite trying many different big name brands on sale in her native Nigeria, nothing worked. Then, a friend recommended an African soap company. Onyii said:  “It is one of the more natural...

Mariaceli Gonzales grew up in the Philippines, spending her childhood watching her father manufacture haircare products from the bark of the Gugo plant. One day, after nearly two decades of successful trading, the family enterprise was forced to close down.   ...

Born in Shrirampur, near Mumbai, Dr Archana Gogte is a cosmetic dentist who runs her own practice in Pune, a city renowned as one of India’s educational hubs. Sadly, in 2016, she lost her mother to pancreatic cancer, and it was this event that would change her life...

Ronée McLaughlin, founder of Ronée Claire Organics, learned how to create her own range of organic products at the School of Natural Skincare. She is a firm believer in skin-friendly, natural ingredients and is on a mission to “create a line of products that people...

Working out of a beautiful cottage in the idyllic Oxfordshire countryside, Paige Scurfield seems to have found something of a paradise here on earth. Paige is a beauty therapist, providing manicure, pedicure and tanning treatments. But her business Willow Cottage...

As a mom and homesteader living amongst the rivers, forests and mountains of British Columbia in Canada, Diane Evdakimoff has always been drawn to the power of nature to nourish and heal. Her youngest son had asthma and he had to take on lots of different types of...

Yoga teacher and holistic health practitioner, Katrina Hawes, describes herself as a wife, a mother, a sister and daughter, a friend and an animal lover. She says she’d rather listen than talk, and walk rather than run.    And she has been on a journey towards...

Ene Adasen is both a mother and a successful natural beauty entrepreneur living in Lagos, Nigeria. For many years Ene had found her sensitive skin didn’t respond very well to chemical-based products, and when she started having children she saw that they too were...