Hi, guys. Welcome back to Skincare Anarchy. This is your host, Ekta. And today I have with me the founder of an awesome body care line that I've been loving so, so, so much.

I have hope Smith, who is the founder of Mother Skincare. Welcome to the show. Hope I'm so glad that you can make it.

Thank you. I'm so happy to be here.

I want to get started because I want to talk about your background. What made you really want to go into skincare and, you know, just the whole journey and beauty, the legit year.

Sure. So, I guess 15, 16 years ago, I became an esthetician. So I've always really, really loved skincare. I have been obsessed with products and so much so that when I was 21, I opened up a medical spa, which I had for about five years.

And in that we had everything from like nonsurgical laser type facelifts to my good abrasions and we're getting chemical pills and laser hairy move all. And so I've just always been obsessed with product and what it can do and different skin types, but I never thought I would have my own line. Never.

Yeah. Yeah. So like why so when did you make the decision like to just start your own.

It actually happened 100% organically. I was pregnant with my first child. I have a lot of stretch marks from puberty. I'm 510.

Oh, my God. That's crazy. Yeah. I get it. I get it.

I gained weight super fast and all of a sudden I had like a woman's body when I was 13 and you know, I had these stretch marks that I wasn't seeing on other young girls and they were like bright pink or purple.

And they made me super insecure. I had them on my chest and places that you would like see them.

I still have mine like left over on my stomach. Like I know exactly what you mean. Yeah.

Like they should have everywhere.

Like you're just growing at such speed. So it was a huge huge insecurity of mine. And everybody always said, well, it's genetic. You can't do anything about it.

Yeah.

Every female in my family is covered in stretch marks from pregnancy, not necessarily puberty.

But just like covered. And so to me, you know, by the time I was 30, I had embraced my stretch marks, sure, but I was like, do I really have to get more or how, what can I do, you know, at that point, I was looking for something clean.

I didn't want to be putting on a bunch of mineral oils and things. And I started breaking downing products that were at drug stores that would say like cocoa butter on the, you know, the label, then I turned it around, because as an institution, I can read an, you know, an in key.

Yeah, it would be like the 13th ingredient or the seventh and water would be first and always bothered me that water was first. So why do we have to have filler here.

Yeah.

And then I turned to like, I said, OK, well, if I can't find it at the drugstore, I'm surely going to find it at Bergdorf Goodman or Neiman Marcus.

Yeah, yeah, you want to trust those that you trust those brands.

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