Hi guys, welcome back to Skincare Anarchy. This is Ekta and I am super stoked for today's interview because I have been in love with the skincare line since I saw it basically for the first time. So without further ado, I want to do you do so you guys to talk to Harper from talk to Harper skincare. Welcome to the show.

Hi there. How are you?

I'm good. How are you? Thank you so much for making the time for this.

Of course. Of course. Thank you for having me.

It's my honor. Todd, can you get us started by talking about your whole journey? I really want to know how you, you know, just got to this point, how you created the concept for your line. I want to know everything.

So the line evolved pretty organically, sorry to make that reference, you know, it's like an organic line and it's funny, but it is true.

I never had the intention of having a skincare line and it really started after my stepfather or when my stepfather got diagnosed with cancer and then I ended up like learning so much about, you know,

things that they were recommending for patients when you already had cancer, you had to clean up your act, reduce your load.

I was kind of like commissioned by the doctors to help him find, quote unquote, better products that didn't had all this questionable controversial chemicals that increase the toxic load.

I remember thinking like, I don't want any questionable ingredients also that are increasing my toxic load either. So, yeah, that's with it, along with him, of finding products. So we first started with food, then cleaning products like, you know, we went all the way even to like dry cleaners.

Oh, yeah.

And really like the last frontier for me was my skincare because I had been in love with skin, my skincare products for so long, you know, like you sometimes get attached to certain lines and

and I was also someone that had also always bought in care that it's perceived to be very efficacious, you know, my mom was always like, you need to invest in beauty.

She's really important to care of yourself like by product. I was doing that.

And but when I wanted to switch to natural products, I didn't find that technology that I was always used to.

Yeah, experience that it's like very luxurious that the products feel great that you also see amazing results in the skin because that's the whole point of skincare. It's like you need to see results. And here I was trying to find natural skincare and a lot of like natural supermarkets and like little apothecaries where it's not, you know, where you necessarily find the best quality skincare products.

Like natural, but they have like foreign gradients and I keep thinking to myself, like, okay, olive oil is natural. Yes, but, you know, is this going to be the cornerstone of my eye cream?

Exactly.

You know, I don't know.

Like how much depth do I want to really dive into with olive oil?

Like why, you know, if natural materials are the best way to go, right, because they're not synthetically produced because they're manmade, because they're not manmade, they're precious, they grow on the earth, right.

And a lot of synthetic chemicals are based on them, but a lot of brands can't afford them because they're expensive.

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