Care for your own skin. Introducing Skinb.
Hi, I'm Cherith, I'm the owner of Skinb here's my story;
I started making my own skin balm during the lock downs when I started to run out of my regular skin cream. I'd been on a 'make everything from scratch' journey as had lots of time on my hands, so thought why not learn how to make my own skin care too.
I was horrified when I read and studied the long list of ingredients, I was also shocked that I'd been paying so much money for water mixed with a bunch of toxic chemicals. I properly researched the ingredients of one of the natural sounding and super expensive brands I was buying and discovered that not only did it have petroleum in it, but some of the ingredients were banned in Europe but strangely allowed in Australia & America, I have since discovered this is the case with lots of additives in our food too.
I thought there's got to be something more natural that I can put on my skin and this led me to experimenting with making skin balms, I loved them - my skin had never felt so nourished. I started making a little extra & giving to friends to try, they loved them too & suggested that I should start selling them, by this stage I'd gone back to working in as a freelance Production Designer again & was busy with that. However one day I was thinking about my balms again & how I'd love for more people to understand how easy it is to make your own natural skincare and I thought I wonder if I could develop an easy to use kit, that looked cool, be environmentally friendly & would make a beautiful gift or fun activity to do, but mostly introduce people to a new skill.
So Skinb was born - I started by measuring out the ingredients (as someone who loves to cook not bake, I'm not particularly familiar with accuracy, but started to learn this new found skill), I then looked for bottles that would work, I wanted dark glass as to protect the oils from sunlight & also so the oil wouldn't be seeping into plastic, then the search was on for containers that were recyclable or compostable, I found my solution in a catering supply place.
Next I got back to my first ever job which was as a graphic designer & I started to think of a name & design a logo, I decided on Skinb as Skinb was a plan b for me & a plan b for my skin, plus lots the products contain beeswax which had a b in it too.
I sourced kraft labels & designed labels for everything too, worked out the best website platform & decided Shopify was the one for me.
Once I had product ready and had had lots of feedback from friends I decided to hit the market trail, I started with my local market in Coffs & had a great response, it was pretty nerve racking setting it all up, but I met such lovely people who were super interested in my products that it made it feel easy. I also met some great new friends who also had stalls who were very supportive & encouraging. I still do markets when I can and also sell online.
Thank you to everyone who has purchased from me, followed me on instagram, given me feed back, words of advice - it's been such a lovely journey & I hope to keep on growing.
Much love
Cherith x