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Chantelle Cemal has an incredible story to tell. A Port Macquarie local, a passionate beauty therapist for over a decade and now an accredited organic skincare formulator and business owner.
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i Chantelle. Congratulations on your business. What led you to the creation of Bare + Rose skincare? Being a beauty therapist for many years taught me so many positive things. It also made me be curious and question many things about the industry. This curiosity and questioning led me to look deeper into the things we use on our face and body every day. Did we really know what was inside each product? Where did these ingredients come from? How has it been manufactured? I wondered why weren’t these facts common knowledge that brands were sharing with their customers – just like I want to know exactly what I’m eating when having a meal, I wanted to know exactly what I was using on my skin too. These questions were the foundation that started the journey to create Bare + Rose skincare. What differentiates the brand from other skincare lines on the market? I’d have to say “purity” and “transparency”. Purity in the sense that all ingredients are 92 GREATER PORT MACQUARIE
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organic, unrefined and pure versions of and omegas. All ages and all skin types will themselves. I avoid using any synthetic or see and feel an improvement in their skin’s man-made ingredients and focus on sourcing appearance from using this facial oil. How is the highest quality Australian ingredients that possible many wonder? Well, just like a so you can experience their full potential. healthy diet will benefit people of all ages this Transparency in the facial oil will work like sense that how things a healthy diet for your are made and where skin cells, delivering All ages and ingredients are grown them brightening all skin types and harvested is openly vitamin C, calming and will see and feel an talked about and repairing omega 3 and improvement in available to see. This energising coenzyme their skin’s knowledge is not only Q10. appearance from shared but celebrated I feel the term using this facial too. ‘organic’ gets oil. Your core product splashed around at present is the beauty products on ‘Golden Face Nectar,’ the market. Can you a nourishing face oil explain the difference to revitalise and nourish the skin. Tell us between terms ‘organic’ and ‘natural’ in a little about its ingredients and benefits cosmetics? for all skin types. This is definitely a confusing thing to This product has been my first release and navigate as a consumer. There are many terms a definite favourite! The Golden Face Nectar in the world of cosmetics that can be very is a powerhouse of nourishment for your deceiving. The fact is the word “natural” can skin cells. It’s loaded with vitamins, minerals be put on almost anything and regulations
