10/27/2021
started out as a passion project ❤️ for the both of us in the midst of last year's COVID pandemic. We were road-tripping through Yellowstone 🐃 talking about the skin issues was experiencing as a result of the ☀️ hot, dry climates through our western national parks.
started talking about natural homeopathic solutions for dry skin, preventive methods for eczema break-outs, and hydrating plant-based skin serums that might alleviate some of the dry inflammation that was turning into scaly reptile 🦎. After passionately fueling each other of new ideas, new plants 🌿 to try, new serums to find, and foods 🌮 to avoid, Age Like an Asian was born.
Our initial intent was to create and develop a new product line from Asian-derived ingredients 🇰🇷 that our Mothers always integrated into our diet and skin care -- we wanted to stay true to our passion -- to keep it simple, natural, and deliver a collection to our community that people could easily access, educate ourselves from, all while staying conscious of limiting consumer waste ♻️. We spent 6 months deep in research & development talking to various manufacturers, raw material suppliers, packaging companies, and chemists.
Heart-broken, we finally had to come to the conclusion that the beauty industry lacks transparency and unless we had millions of dollars 💰💰💰 to burn through, it was impossible for us to stay true to our ethos -- to bring a natural, clean product line to market, created from organic raw materials sourced from farms that practiced fair trade labor laws, and delivered to you in recycled, sustainable packaging 😞😢😭.
And here we are, almost a year after we've launched our passion project -- at a standstill because we refuse to compromise what we initially started. But we've learned so much along the way -- both about the beauty industry 💄, ourselves 👭, and what our friendship is capable of enduring ❤️.
So what's next? We're not sure... 🤔 but we do love hanging out together and making home-remedies to try on ourselves. And we'd love to hear from you -- what have you loved, hated, how could we pivot? 🙋♀️🙋♀️
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