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E.391: Avocado Oil May Be The Winter Warrior Keeping Your Skin Nourished This Holiday, ft. AVOILA · Skin Anarchy

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  SPEAKER_03: Hey guys, welcome back after a wonderful holiday weekend.
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  SPEAKER_03: I hope it was lovely for all of you.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I'm super excited that we are publishing another episode.
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  SPEAKER_03: And this is another brand that I really, really enjoy.
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  SPEAKER_03: And like I said, um, you know, I've really been loving discovering these amazing indie brands that are turning out to be actually very luxurious and very nice.
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  SPEAKER_03: So um I think this is a new era for skincare.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's I mean I call it the Indie Elite because I really believe that these products are very, very good and you know, um actually much higher quality than some of the products we're really used to seeing in the luxury category, the prestige category.
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  SPEAKER_03: So with that being said, um I wanted to remind everybody that we do still have top picks remaining.
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  SPEAKER_03: I know that we took a little bit of a break, but I had to make sure we put some of these episodes out for you guys and also let you um, you know, take some time to go through the ones for facial skincare, you know, because those are just very um narrowed down options for you.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, a lot of people have asked me, like, well, actually, you know, there's not a lot in your categories.
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  SPEAKER_03: And so um really the idea, the goal here for us at Skincare Anarchy is to give you guys a wonderful um, you know, kind of a catalog that you can choose from throughout the year.
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  SPEAKER_03: These are all products that are safe, in my opinion, in the team's opinion, to towards everybody, you know, anyone can utilize them.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I really would love for you to stay tuned and um, you know, keep your eyes open for the remaining categories coming up.
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  SPEAKER_03: We still have body care, um, which is going to include like everything, you know, body washes, body scrubs, oils, lotions.
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  SPEAKER_03: And then we also have fragrance coming up, we have wellness coming up, which is gonna include a lot of supplements.
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  SPEAKER_03: And for now, enjoy the episode.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thank you so much.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm very excited because this is actually um a very interesting brand that I'm about to introduce you guys to.
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  SPEAKER_03: I was just telling the founders before the interview started that um, you know, as all of you know, I've had that leg injury and I've been using um the product.
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  SPEAKER_03: There's one product on the line, I'm using it, and it was actually very, very helpful for me, even with my joint pain and as well as you know what it's intended for, which is beautiful skin and all of that.
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  SPEAKER_03: So without further ado, I want to introduce you guys to the founders of Avola, Grace Sullivan, Grace O'Sullivan and Christy Huntson.
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  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to the show, guys.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm so excited.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thanks for having us.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'm I'm I'm really, really excited to host both of you.
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  SPEAKER_03: I really love your product, like I said.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, but before all of that, I want to dive into your backgrounds and your history and how you both kind of teamed up and where it all began.
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  SPEAKER_01: Sure.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'll I'll take the start here, uh, Christy.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this is Grace, and Christy and I uh we used to work together.
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  SPEAKER_01: We worked together in in advertising for many years.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, we were both executives in sort of you know high stress jobs, and we um you know, we became friends and we kind of bonded over our skin issues is one of them, especially with all the stress going on.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um we were both also very much looking at clean products, whether it was clean um cleaning supplies or personal use items uh and skincare.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I had had uh bouts with eczema since I was much younger, and I always had very sensitive, very kind of reactive skin.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um Christy had skin issues as well, but hers were very different.
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  SPEAKER_01: She has more oily skin and acne-prone skin.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, but we would always sort of be, you know, connecting about our skin issues.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Christy was asking me what I was using at one point, and I had gotten so fed up with everything that was out there, and I was, you know, I would just try things.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was trying a lot of um clean beauty products, and I was trying not clean beauty products, I was trying everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um I was so frustrated at one point, my skin was so sensitive, it was it was painful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I started using the avocado oil in my kitchen, and I had done a little research because that's what I do, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: I did a little research about avocado oil, and I was like, oh wow, this is it actually has a lot of really good um elements and components for your skin.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was so soothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I told Christy that I was using my kitchen avocado oil, and she did a little research on it, and we started talking, and that was sort of the impetus for avoila.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_01: So um avoila is comes from you know, the brand name comes from avocado oil, and kind of voila.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's kind of where we started.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, Christy, do you want to jump in?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um I think it's so interesting to go back there, Grace, because it feels like forever ago that you know we were having those conversations and we started exploring ingredients for the product.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it's it's a nice reminder of um, you know, where we came from.
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  SPEAKER_02: So um it's a nice little blast from the past.
• 6:38
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I love that.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I love that you guys actually walked us down, you know, that story because I I feel like when brands are created, it's almost like serendipity, you know, that occurs.
• 6:48
  SPEAKER_03: And you just all of a sudden, you know, you realize this ingredient is great, it's it's working.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I I think it's it's wonderful that you guys really focus on avocado because we all know, you know, everyone listening, you know that avocado is so good for you with health in all ways, you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, remember when everyone was putting avocado on on toast, like on Instagram?
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  SPEAKER_03: I still do.
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  SPEAKER_03: I know, I know, me too.
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  SPEAKER_03: And I I was like, you know, I still put it in my smoothies and I still put it, so it's like it's such a hero ingredient that I'm excited you guys actually have really brought this into skincare.
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  SPEAKER_03: And um, you know, it's just it's nourishing, is my point, you know?
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  SPEAKER_03: So that's really, really cool.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and I love that it is familiar, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: Avocado is a familiar ingredient, it's something that people know and love.
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  SPEAKER_02: They know it's a healthy fat.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's good for them on the inside.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it felt like people, you know, the light would go on, like, oh, it's good for me on the inside.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's gonna be good for my skin too, right?
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  SPEAKER_02: You know, like that makes a whole lot of sense.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we kind of hope people would have that aha moment when we talk about avocado oil and using it on the skin.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_03: And you know, I mean, I definitely did.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think that, like, you know, especially because now skincare consumers are getting so, so like in, you know, they're getting savvy to ingredients.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're getting, you know, more intellectually inclined to wonder, you know, like what is good for me?
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  SPEAKER_03: What is something I need for my skin or in general, you know, for wellness overall.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_03: And um, I feel like when you come across something like avocado oil, you're right, Christy.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_03: That's a great point you brought up where it's like it's an ingredient you're familiar with, you know, it's not something that's going to be like, oh, I have no idea what this does.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_03: I don't even know, you know, I've never used it before.
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  SPEAKER_03: So that I like that.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's like a it's like a honing in kind of thing, you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: It it kind of like grounds you to know that this ingredient is something I've ingested before, which means it's definitely safe for topical use.
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  SPEAKER_03: So that's huge, you know.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um, so I have a question actually.
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  SPEAKER_03: I want to talk a little bit about um what, you know, because I love that you guys have one product right now because I am so sick of the saturation of this market.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_03: Like I you don't want to get me started on how many skincare brands I literally just I'm like, why do you have so many products?
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  SPEAKER_03: Like for what reason?
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_03: You know, so I want to talk to you guys about that.
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  SPEAKER_03: What was the determining factor, like, you know, when you guys were like, okay, what are we gonna create?
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  SPEAKER_03: I mean, the oil came first, but like what was the um the thought process, I guess, about you know, how you wanted your line to mold and evolve over time in terms of like how many products you'll have.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we we wanted to keep things really simple, right?
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: For us, uh, you know, the oil was a game changer.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we actually, you know, we we we like the idea of a simple skincare routine.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you clean your skin, you nourish your skin, and you should be good to go, right?
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_01: If you need to treat, you know, some parts of it, that's fine.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can use Avoa with other products.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you love your anti-aging serum or something, you know, that's fine.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't need to give that up.
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  SPEAKER_01: But we wanted something that would sort of transcend all of that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, and that's why we kind of started with uh with the oil.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, by the way, we don't say, we don't say anti-aging, even though I just did, but when we talk about our product, we don't say anti-aging.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because we want our customers to look the best they can look at any age, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: Through ingredients, through good ingredients, through powerful ingredients.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like we're not going backwards in time, we're not anti-aging.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, we're aging beautifully.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: And um, so that's that's kind of part of it.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and if we feed our skin the nutrients it needs, it will look its best, right?
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_02: At any age that it is.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_02: So you shouldn't need a lot of products to layer on to look your best.
• 10:45
  SPEAKER_02: If you're if you're using healthy plant-based ingredients, your skin is gonna look great.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_03: I completely agree with you, and I really love the fact that you guys mentioned the, you know, no anti-aging, because I think that, you know, um, with aging, people with that word anti-aging, marketing has made it so hard for consumers to really kind of hone in on this idea of what is wellness, right?
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_03: Like what is wellness?
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_03: What is self-love, self-positivity?
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_03: And I hate that word because it's like, you're right, just like you know, just like you said, Grace, like it's it's not about anti-aging, it's aging well, it's aging gratefully, aging healthy, you know, health being healthy.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_03: And that's the thing.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_03: It's like, you know, I try, I try my best as well to like, you know, kind of get that message out there.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_03: But you know, for everyone listening, a lot of you are, you know, in the same age bracket as you know, myself and then and Grace and Christy.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we we all know, you know, as we age, we want things that are going to make us feel calm, relaxed, beautiful, natural.
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_03: And it's like that's where uh skincare really hits home for me as a consumer and where I look for products like you know, Avoila, because I think that an oil is just something that's such a beautiful product.
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  SPEAKER_03: Like, for example, you know, I always reference this ancient Egypt, go back to ancient Egypt, ancient India, made the Mediterranean.
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  SPEAKER_03: Everyone used oils, everyone, you know, it was a way to preserve yourself, preserve your skin, preserve your good everything.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_03: So it's something like, you know, you have to shift your mindset, is what I'm trying to say, you know, for all the consumers that are listening.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_03: You have to shift yourself into believing and understanding what the skin is.
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  SPEAKER_03: And your skin, it has to be preserved, right?
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_03: As well, as well as you can preserve it.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_03: So an oil is a beautiful first product, and I'm really, really glad you guys chose to go with this.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm so glad you brought that up.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it's you know, Avoa is it's based on its avocado oil, but it has all of these other oils, and we pair them all together for good reason, right?
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: To cover off on a on and enhance what avocado oil already does, uh, and also to you know lighten it to make the texture really easily absorbed.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_01: We want skincare to kind of be more like self-care, right?
• 13:12
  SPEAKER_01: You're gonna care for your skin, but you want to feel good about what you're using.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_01: You want to love what you're using.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: You know, when we started formulating and Christy and I started using, when we got to this formulation, we were like, okay, this is amazing.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: Like it was really exciting.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_01: We loved it.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_01: Like we fell in love with the oil, and that's what we want other consumers to do.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: And we hear it, we hear it from our customers who are like, well, I put this everywhere.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: I use it on my nails, I use it on my hair, I use it, you know, on my on my shoulders, whatever it is, because it's just a good, um, it's just a good oil that has great ingredients and it's just you know so nourishing and it feels good to use.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_03: And I do the same thing, by the way.
• 13:52
  SPEAKER_03: So I definitely that I am the same way, it's a beautiful oil.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_03: And the thing is, the best thing about oils, I mean, I want to actually make this point, is that you know, we have so many skincare products, especially like serums, right?
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_03: We have serums, moisturizers, all this stuff.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_03: Well, an oil is supposed to lock everything in.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_03: And even if you don't use any of those products, you know, like consumers, I think, need to understand this.
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  SPEAKER_03: Even if you don't use all those products, serums, moisturizers, whatever, you can still use an oil and your skin and your skin barrier will keep that moisture inside.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_03: It works as another like layer on top that is truly just protecting that water from leaving your skin.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_03: And so it's very important to understand that an oil product is a very multifunctional skincare product.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_03: It really is, you know, and it's I feel like people don't talk about that, they don't discuss that enough.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_03: They think that, oh, it's an oil, it's another step in my routine.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_03: No, an oil can be your entire routine, genuinely, very easily.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I mean, I, you know, especially with sensitive skin myself, I'm a skin minimalist.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_01: So I I wash my face and I use the oil.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um, the nice thing about avocado oil is it is um it also is a humicant.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it also gives your skin moisture as well as kind of seals in the moisture, um, which is a rare in an ingredient.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_01: Um but yeah, you can just use we have plenty of customers who are like, that's all I use, that's all I need.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: But then there's some other customers who want a little something more, they don't want to give up their serum or what or whatever it is, and that's fine.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_01: Um, but yeah, you're right.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: The oil is it should be the like cornerstone of your skincare routine.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: It'll make a big difference.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: I I think it's obvious once you start using it.
• 15:42
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_03: I completely agree.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_03: Now, I want to um ask you guys, you know, Grace and Christy, I want to ask you guys about the other ingredients that you mentioned that you used as like supporting ingredients for the avocado oil.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_03: If you could dive a little bit more into the ingredient story with those.
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_02: Sure, sure.
• 15:59
  SPEAKER_02: So we have a number of uh other plant-based oils in our product, all organic, which was really important to us.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_02: You know, our product is also certified organic on a separate note, but we include chamellia seed oil because it has cell rebuilding nutrients, it stimulates the production of new scap cells, which we think is really important.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_02: Grapeseed oil helps with skin functioning, helps reduce inflammation, which is another ingredient that might have helped with your injury.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_02: We love the Kalahari melon seed oil, which is included.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_02: And this helps with the overall absorption of the product.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_02: It also helps dissolve sebum.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, if you're one of those people like me that has a little excess oil or is acne prone, it can really help just dissolve that oil in the skin, which, you know, again helps with our product not causing acne.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_02: It shouldn't be the uh the impetus for acne, which is great.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_02: Um, we also have rose hip seed oil, which is another one that protects against inflammation and also oxidative stress.
• 17:07
  SPEAKER_02: We have seed buckthorn oil, which is a beautiful golden oil, uh protects against inflammation and stress on the skin.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_02: And then, of course, we have our you know, or our vitamin E, which is what keeps our products stable, shelf stable over time.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_02: And then we have a really nice essential oil blend.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_02: So we have grapefruit oil, vetiver, and rose geranium.
• 17:31
  SPEAKER_02: And that's what gives our products a really luxurious, like calming scent to it.
• 17:37
  SPEAKER_03: I love that.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's really well thought out, actually.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_03: I was just, you know, as you were explaining, I was thinking about it.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_03: I'm like, yeah, that makes sense.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_03: You know, and it's like interesting to see how oils um they kind of it's like a a ladder effect, right?
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_03: Like it's like they add on value to each other, like the molecules.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_03: So that's very yeah, that's really, really interesting.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I I actually, you know, I want to actually ask you guys about that.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_03: You know, that leads me to my my next question.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_03: I always ask about you know formulation, as everybody knows.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_03: I'm a science geek, and I would love to um hear about you know, any hurdles, any anything that you guys kind of ran into, like how many renditions did it take for you guys to perfect your your product?
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_03: Like how many times did you guys have to keep trying, or was it kind of like, nope, we got it?
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: So, first of all, we worked with a a beauty chemist uh that and and we kind of searched long and hard to find the right um you know chemist formulator for us, someone that was willing to um kind of hold our hands through the process because as Grace had mentioned, our background was not in skincare or beauty in any way.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_02: We worked in advertising, so we didn't have the background and felt like it was extremely important to find the right partner to help us create a beautiful formula based on you know our ideas.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: And like I said, someone that was willing to educate us along the way.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_02: So we found the formulator.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_02: We had already done extensive research on ingredients.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_02: And, you know, as Grace had mentioned, we avocado oil was our inspiration.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_02: So that wasn't an absolute must.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_02: But then the other oils that I just had talked about, you know, we really did a lot of research and we had a master spreadsheet of all the different plant-based oils that we knew we had access to, and we looked at what the benefits were and and how they might work together.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_02: And we talked through that with our chemists and started formulating.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, we probably went through four or five different iterations with the um, you know, at the end, most of the iterations had to do with the scent profile, which were really coming from those essential oils that I had mentioned.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_02: So um we we knew the feel and the absorption of the oil was really amazing, really from the start, but then getting that um scent profile just right.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_02: So it's light, it's not long-lasting, you know, it really dissipates, which I think is helpful when you're putting something on your face and it has that those calming qualities.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_02: We thought that was important to to, you know, to be happy with at the end, and we really feel good with where we get it out.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_03: I love that.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_03: I really love that.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_03: And I think that, you know, you you really did nail, you know, and you nailed it.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_03: You really nailed it, and the oil is absolutely beautiful.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_03: I use it on top of my night routine.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_03: I think it's just perfect for everything that I do at night because most of my skincare in the day is, you know, it's very quick.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_03: It's like sunscreen, you know, moisturizer, sunscreen, done, got and gotta go.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_03: But like at night, I love it because it's like a little part of my ritual now where I just I really enjoy it.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_03: I enjoy putting it on my face.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_03: It feels so calming and just nourishing.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_03: And I I think that, you know, that's a huge part of self-care is this idea of taking a minute.
• 20:58
  SPEAKER_03: You know, I was talking to um another guest the other day, and we were discussing this idea and this concept of when you pause, you know, when you're doing your skincare routine, when you pause and you just especially with an oil product, right?
• 21:11
  SPEAKER_03: Like you you put it on your hand, take a minute, you smell it, you know, you take in the aroma, and then you put it on your face.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_03: It's a whole experience, you know, and that's almost like a it's part of your routine, it's a meditative experience.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_03: And I think, you know, I really encourage consumers to look for products like this that really encourage you to take a minute every evening or every you know morning, whatever whenever you have time, and just just do it properly.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_03: You know what I mean?
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_03: Do it properly.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_03: So I I yeah, and I I just love it.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_03: I love your brand, I love what you guys have done.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_03: I'm I'm I'm a huge fan.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_03: And I like I said, you know, I was telling Christy and for everyone listening, you know, I recently broke my lower leg.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_03: And so it's been very difficult on days that you know when it where it rains, you all know like bone pain happens when it rains.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_03: And so, you know, I've been applying it on my joint as well.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_03: And it's it an avocado, I you know, we were talking about how avocado has these, you know, soothing properties and so pain management is there, which is huge.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_01: That's amazing, you know?
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_03: So it's like, I mean, there are so many benefits to you know, really having a really well-formulated oil product, and that's what I'm saying.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_03: Like, you know, for everyone listening, if you're trying to invest in skincare and you're confused and uh you know where to start.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_03: Uh and oil is a really, really good bet.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_03: You know, it it's it's a sure bet.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_03: And I think that this one is definitely a home run.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_03: So I really encourage everybody to check out the brand.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_03: I'm gonna be tagging everything in the concept art for this episode.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_03: But Christy and Grace, you guys have done such a beautiful job, and thank you so much for sharing your journey with us.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 22:53
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