I have been qualified a year as natural skin care formulator. It has been a bit of a journey. I decided to concentrate on an area which I already work in. As a foot health practitioner (www.soleambition.co.uk or instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/natural.0utlook/?hl=en) I finish a treatment with applying cream to the feet and advising what to use at home. I have a very active instagram account so if you want to take a look and follow what I do in clinic take a look.
It all happened when my husband just couldn’t deal with his dry skin even with me sorting his feet out and supplying lots of different creams for him to try.
This drove him to ask if I could design and make a cream that would work for him. We set out looking for a course to help me understand how to do this.
The company I studied with and can highly recommend is https://www.schoolofnaturalskincare.com/
The way it was presented was really interesting and there was always support through their very active facebook page. I got to make so many products all natural that i now tweak and use at home.
I then downloaded their ‘getting your product to market’ (selling it legally) course. What an eye opener.. Sooooo much is involved in getting a product to market but I went about in the correct order.
I spent months making, tweaking, changing, scrapping it and starting again, until finally something worked for Jon, it needed to smell and felt great for him to approve. We did some trials on people that were willing to be guinea pigs, many who are willing to give testimonials once the cream is ready. We gave feedback forms with every trialist and to my surprise a high majority loved it.
I remember being so stressed sending these out. These aren’t friends or family that would be kind and soft with their criticism but strangers that would tell me straight. It was a long 2 week trial and I waited for the feedback to be posted back to me. I was completely overwhelmed it has helped so many people with their Psoriasis and eczema…
WHAT!!
I couldn’t believe it out of the 37 that took the trial I had 17 that had some sort of psoriasis or eczema and by applying it to their feet the ailments were being cleared up on their hands or being rubbed on other parts of the body.
I now had to really think about where we were going with this…