MEMBER SPOTLIGHT In this issue we sit down with Jennifer Rock, the CEO of Skingredients Tell us about your background before setting up Skingredients?
What do you enjoy about running your own business?
My passion for skincare began at the age of thirteen. I was an acne-prone teenager and was treated to a facial at a beauty salon as a birthday present. The experience opened my eyes to the vast array of treatments available and enabled me to take some control back when my skin wasn’t behaving in the way that made me feel comfortable in my own skin. I worked for free at a salon whilst I was still at school, and this inspired me to commit to working in the skincare sector.
I am most motivated by learning and whilst being a founder and CEO does bring challenges, it is enlightening to surround myself with people that are experts in various fields, which allows me to amalgamate and bring together their knowledge and insight, with a view to progressing this brand.
I adore what I do and running the business is my passion. Because it is my lifelong goal, I am continuously motivated and driven to evolve the brands. It is important to stay true to our goals as a team and I look forward After becoming a facialist and working in to bringing the next phase of our projects the industry, my desire to learn motivated to fruition. me to empower others via education. I began teaching my clients the simplicity of active skincare. This progressed to teaching on behalf of accrediting bodies and global brands. I could see that branding was attracting the client’s attention rather than the science and knowledge required to achieve optimal skin health. This inspired me to create the Skin Nerd Network® which has 50,000 clients to whom we offer unbiased product recommendations during our consultations. The Skin Nerd provides one-to-one online skin consultations to empower people to feel better in their skin and enable them to make the right decisions for their skin via our online skincare shop where we house 45 different brands via education and constant ongoing support for our community. ________18
