OLIKA - Reimagining the Hand Sanitizer

The Story of a Brand Show

Ramon Vela

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 147 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this first part of this Feature, we interview Alastair Dorward, CEO of OLIKA. At Olika, Alastair and his team are reinventing the use of hand sanitizer.

As the pandemic has evolved throughout the year, hand sanitizers have grown more critical in our day to day lives. At OLIKA, they’re reimagining and redesigning "hand-sanitizers" from a commodity to a product that sits at the intersection of beauty and hygiene.

Aside from its effective use of sanitizing your hands, OLIKA’s hand sanitizer formula is made with other ingredients that benefit the skin, such as aloe vera, which helps to moisturize your hands. Built with a clip-on top, anyone could clip the cute bottle onto your jeans for on the go ease.

With OLIKA, you are purchasing a tool that will help protect you from germs and microbes, as well as a product that has a beautifully designed minimalist look.

In Part 1, Alastair discusses Reinventing hand sanitizer; Having a hand sanitizer company during the pandemic; Alastair’s personal entrepreneurial journey; Creating an opportunity in a category that needs renovation; First thoughts of 2020; Relying on your network and team; Working on your capital; And much more.

Join us while Ramon Vela interviews Alastair for The Story of a Brand, and listen to him share the inside story.

For more on OLIKA, visit: https://olikalife.com/

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0:00.0	Recorded at Attention Agency Studios.
0:08.2	This is not your average entrepreneur or e-commerce podcast.
0:11.8	And he's not your average host.
0:14.3	This is the story of a brand with your host, Ramon Vela.
0:21.6	Olika is the hand sanitizer that you actually enjoy using.
0:27.9	It's actually a brand and a product that is fun and positive to use.
0:32.5	And I think a lot of people have experienced hand sanitizer that is less than ideal in the course of 2020.
0:40.7	And we're just so fortunate to have had an opportunity to bring to market a product that has got a beautiful design.
0:49.7	It's elegant.
0:51.4	It's great to use with a pleasant range of fragrances, such as mint, citrus, orange blossom. It's hydrating. It's not going to leave your hands cracked and dry. And I think for a lot of people, this part's really important. It's also refillable. It's something that's a sustainable in design.
1:12.6	So we've tried to, over the last several years, elevate the hand sanitizer category to something that's just more desirable.
1:20.6	And we're very privileged to be in market and have this available during the course of the pandemic.
1:31.3	Hey, everyone, this is Ramon Vela, and this is another episode of the story of a brand.
1:37.7	Like always, I have an amazing founder and brand that I want to feature and talk about.
1:44.0	But before I do, you know, I have something I've been thinking about.
1:50.0	Alistair, let me ask you a quick question.
1:53.7	When do you remember actually when the time when someone in your life really sort of provided some level of support that was just
2:04.9	amazing, was just really touching to you because they may have been a mentor, they may
2:12.3	have been an investor, but they really, their support really showed that they believed in you.
2:17.3	And I'm just kind of curious.
2:18.7	Like, do you remember that time and how you felt?
2:22.0	Roman, I remember it really well.
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