IRISH COMPANY IS GROWING STRONG THANKS TO NATURE

IRELAND rightly is respected all over the world for our beautiful, natural environment.

And this is now being recognised in the success of the health and beauty products bringing the essence of this goodness to the rest of the globe.

One of the companies at the vanguard of this charge is Dr Joanne Reilly’s Kinvara Skincare, with its magnificent skincare products using the healing power of Irish plants in her creations.

It is now recognised by science that natural ingredients work with your skin rather than against it.

Your skin is your body’s largest organ and it does a number of really important jobs like regulating your temperature, fighting infections and emitting toxins.

Lots of ‘new’ skincare ingredients can be really harsh and potentially problematic if used incorrectly or unwittingly by the worn person.

Natural ingredients support your skin and are formulated to work with it and not against it.

Joanne Reilly is the owner-founder of Kinvara skincare and she spoke to the

Green Stuff about her passion for truly natural skincare products.

She said: “I’m an idealist and with Kinvara that means I want to give my customers the best — I want our products to make a difference in their lives.

“My background is in science, I’ve a degree in natural sciences from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as a post graduate diploma from the National University of Ireland in Community Development.

Frustrated

“I set up Kinvara nearly 10 years ago because I was frustrated with the products available to me. They either didn’t work or made things worse, were very expensive or didn’t reflect my values – sometimes all of those things.

“Up to that point I was lucky, in that my skin had always been relatively