In her late 20s Julie was beset by adult acne and the frustration and failed attempts to calm her skin finally led her to take matters into her own hands. After dozens of storebought products only made things worse a unique, personally handcrafted herbal moisturizer was what finally set her on the path to peace with her skin. She transitioned her herbal products business into skincare and launched a full facial care collection in 2009.
Over the last 12 years her products have positively impacted tens of thousands of people, won over a dozen industry awards, and been used by famous faces like Lena Headey, Carice Van Houten, and Dakota Fanning.
Julie spent much of her childhood in the kitchen, obsessed with making the perfect baking powder biscuits. With time and perseverance her skills thankfully improved, since those early results often merited only a trip to the trash can. As an herbal skincare formulator she employs that same stubborn determination in coming up with emulsions and gels of all sorts, though to be perfectly frank many of those test batches also go into the trash on the way to success. Only the very best of the madcap herbal experiments make it to becoming part of the Blissoma product line. Each recipe must also solve a specific problem, and must do it well.
As a former shopper, and as someone who still has sensitive, acne prone skin at age 43 Julie understands what it’s like to feel frustrated and unsure about what product to purchase and who to trust. It’s important for her to leave each person smarter and more empowered, and to provide an authentic, transparent voice of reason in the marketing quagmire that is the modern cosmetic industry.
In this episode we talk about:
- choosing to graduate in high school in 3 years, why she did that and then feeling like she had to live up to an expectation she had created
- discovering her passion for art and the ways she used art to find a way to earn income
- the ailment that led her to being unable to work most days
- discovering herbalism and trying to find things to help heal her
- what led her to creating her first skin product
- how the cosmetic industry is not really regulated at all and so companies can put what ever they want on their packaging and “green wash” it
- how capitalism confuses the buyer into constantly buying
- seeing her earlier losses as a business education
- how our skin is often tied to our confidence.
- the challenges and fulfillment of running a small business in a large industry
- what keeps her going and so much more!
Make sure to check out Blissoma, her amazing skin care brand.
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