The truth about green beauty, with Claire Bristow
The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
How conscious are you of where your skincare ingredients come from? Claire Bristow, Head of New Product Development at Kelsey, joins Liz on this episode of the podcast to dive into what it means to be a truly sustainable beauty brand.
Claire shares how Kelsey came to fruition through farming, the potent beauty benefits of raspberries, and why every stage of the production process must be considered when covering sustainability.
In this episode, brought to you in partnership with Kelsey, Liz and Claire also discuss whether sustainability and luxury can exist side-by-side, plus how we can be more mindful with our beauty routines.
Links mentioned in the episode:
- Visit Kelsey's website - save 20% on products with the LIZLOVES affiliate discount code (returns to 15% after 31st January 2024)
- Pre-order A Better Second Half by Liz Earle
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| 0:00.0 | You know if you start with plants and natural ingredients they're real powerhouses of goodness |
| 0:04.5 | and yet globally farms waste around 3 million tons of produce a year you know for us it made |
| 0:10.0 | logical sense to start with what do we have here and how do we take these really |
| 0:14.0 | precious plants and make sure that we're not wasting them and so we you know we really |
| 0:18.1 | wanted to shine a light on two things the first is that you know some of the things we |
| 0:22.2 | discard in reality are often incredibly |
| 0:24.9 | precious and we can find a way to give them new life. And number two, you know, the power of what's actually |
| 0:30.6 | in a raspberry plants. |
| 0:37.8 | Well, Claire Bristow is the head of new product development at Kelsey, a British skincare brand that I've got to know and love that fuses the power of British botanicals with powerful science. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Liz Earl and this is the Lizil Wellbeing show, the podcast that looks at ways for all of |
| 0:50.0 | us to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today and this |
| 0:55.6 | episode is brought to you in partnership with Kelsey. Now I am forensic about ingredients. |
| 1:02.3 | You might have seen my videos on |
| 1:03.7 | Instagram recently coming to you live from the supermarket isles as I go over |
| 1:08.1 | various food packages with a fine tooth comb and you know I am just as scrupulous about the ingredients I put onto my skin too and I look for active ingredients that will work, preferably sourced from the natural world and if I find something that brings these two points of |
| 1:24.7 | focus together to deliver really good results on my ageing skin then that's what I go for. |
| 1:30.5 | Well another factor that is important to consider of course is sustainability |
| 1:35.3 | which is why you will find Kelsey's midnight reset which is a brilliant overnight bomb |
| 1:41.6 | and mother of masks this This is fantastic, it's bright pink and it's a genuinely |
| 1:47.0 | rapid radiance mask and you'll find those on my bathroom shelves and they combine generations of fruit farming knowledge |
| 1:55.3 | more on why that's relevant to these beauty products in a moment with cutting-edge |
| 1:59.8 | science to create just the most gorgeous British skincare. |
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