WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
Carmen Milagro & Dr. Katerina Rozakis Born of Nature , made by artists
Why was Borbón Skincare created? That seems to be the number one question asked. The truth is, while we believe everyone is entitled to natural, organic green skincare and we want to encourage, educate and empower humanity to live healthy clean lives…we didn’t start out with the idea “to build a company”. That was the organic (pun intended) evolution and current outcome. The first intention came from my need to find healthy personal care alternatives that I was comfortable using on my mother’s skin as I helped to care for her during her terminal illness. In my despair and disappointment in finding such un-healthy body lotions and moisturizers, I turned to my cultural heritage and my native roots and began blending items I found in my mother’s kitchen pantry to create massage oils, salves and balms. While Mami, slept at night, my mind was filled with hard-to-bearthoughts and my heart mourned the loss that was soon coming. Sleep was much too elusive for me. By keeping myself busy at one, two or three a.m. in my mother’s kitchen, while mixing, testing and creating kitchen-made remedies I found myself yearning for the wisdoms of my grandmother. Recipes and ideas came back to me from the stories my mother used to tell me when I was a little girl. At no time, during this period in my life was I thinking of creating a skincare much less starting a company. My only goal was to bring my mother some relief, even if only the tiniest bit of comfort. It was the only thing I could think of to do and I threw all of my tears, love and joy, in fact, my entire heart and soul in toeach batch. Some worked. Some didn’t turn out too well. I worked all through the nights, many times until dawn when I would catch a few minutes of rest and then I would begin my day with her. Massaging her temples with a lavender-infused coconut oil, my coffee-based dry exfoliant to help remove some dry skin 28 THEEDENMAGAZINE.COM e November 2019