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Celebrate 40 Years of Jurlique + The Future of Clean Beauty

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Today we’re marking an extraordinary moment in the Australian beauty landscape.

This episode celebrates 40 years of Jurlique - the iconic skincare brand that pioneered natural, biodynamic beauty in Australia and has since become a global leader in naturally effective, conscious and holistic skincare.

Joining me today is Marion Goyet, Jurlique’s Global Brand and Marketing Director. With over 20 years of experience at world-renowned beauty houses including LVMH, Caudalie, and Uriage, Marion brings a rare blend of global insight and deep respect for local heritage. 

Since relocating from France to Australia five years ago, she has been on a mission to revitalise Jurlique - honouring its founding vision while guiding it into a bold, future-focused chapter.

In this episode, we explore the evolution of clean beauty and what it really means in 2025. We’ll unpack Jurlique’s new Formulation Charter - Conscious Code, its continued commitment to biodynamic farming, and how the brand is rewriting the standards of transparency, efficacy, and sustainability.

We’ll also shine a light on Jurlique’s 40th anniversary celebration - in Sydney on the 6th of November 2025. This will be an immersive event in collaboration with The Green Edit that brings together education, community, and purpose. 

With proceeds from the event supporting Look Good Feel Better, this is more than a brand milestone - it’s a movement in support of women’s wellbeing.

Whether you’re a skincare enthusiast, a clean beauty advocate, or simply curious about what’s next for the industry, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss.

• What is the last beauty product you purchased? Natural Origin Shampoo from France

• What’s been your best beauty discovery in the last 12 months? Jurlique's soon to be released trio of masks.

• Your desert island skincare product? Cannot select just one - as a base 3 steps: Cleanser, Calendula Moisturiser and SPF.

• Professional treatment you swear by? The hands of a very good facialist, facial massage every 6 weeks.

• Best piece of beauty or wellness advice you can share? Keep it simple: add love and presence into everything you do. Create rituals that give back to yourself. Setting and intension and speaking kindly to your skin.

Follow Jurlique on instagram @jurlique

And if there’s anything you want to hear on future episodes let us know on Instagram @thegreenedit_au  or via email hello@thegreenedit.com.au

Today’s guest is Anna Mitsios, naturopath, skincare formulator and founder of Edible Beauty Australia

Anna’s journey began in the corporate world, where she spent over a decade specialising in corporate finance and private banking. However, a pivotal moment in her life came at the age of 18 when she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. 

This diagnosis sparked her deep dive into botanicals, nutrition, and holistic health as she sought to manage her autoimmune condition and help others achieve optimal health.

In 2014, Anna took a leap and launched Edible Beauty while working as a naturopath at a fertility clinic. There, she realised there was a gap in the market for truly safe, effective skincare—products that were free from endocrine disruptors and harmful chemicals. So, she created a line of skincare so pure, you could almost eat it.

Anna is a firm believer that beauty begins from within. She developed Edible Beauty not just as a skincare line, but as a holistic wellness range, where products nourish both the skin and body from the inside out.

I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Anna for almost a decade, and I’ve witnessed Edible Beauty grow into an innovative brand that continues to evolve while staying true to its core values of transparency, integrity, and efficacy.

Today, Anna is here to share her expertise in health and skincare formulation as she introduces her latest groundbreaking product—a high-performance anti-aging solution that targets aging at the cellular level. I’m excited to share this with you.

• What is the last beauty product you purchased? Bon Charge LED Mask

• What’s been your best beauty discovery in the last 12 months? Spermidine which is the key ingredient in Super Stem Cell Concentrate. Click here to see before and after images.

• Your desert island skincare product? Edible Beauty Snowflower Oil

• Professional treatment you swear by? Natural Enzyme Botanical Facial

• Best piece of beauty or wellness advice you can share? Address your stress - as it takes a toll on our body and beauty.

Follow Anna Mitsios and Edible Beauty on instagram @ediblebeautyau

Welcome to this bonus episode of The Green Edit podcast with my lovely guest Alison Rice, founder of Offline.

Alison is one of Australia's most in-demand conscious career, business and leadership coaches and I am so thrilled to have her at The Beauty Breakfast Summit as an MC and Speaker on The 16th of March 2023. 

Alison and I started recording a 5min chat, a teaser of sorts for The Meet The Summit Speaker Podcast Episode that went live recently. 

However our 5 min chat soon  turned into 25. 

And I wanted to share our full conversation here because I know that brand founders and brand builders from all industries would get so much value from this conversation and from Alison’s conscious career space OFF.

At time of recording there are still tickets available to The Beauty Breakfast Summit and we would love for you to join us. Bring along your team or come yourself, we will both be there and we cannot wait to see you.

At the summit Alison will be setting the tone for our morning together and she will be offering some powerful words of wisdom and encouragement around the topic of what it means to build something that means something, and how to navigate feelings of fear, hopelessness and defeat. 

I am a very devoted member of Alison’s conscious career space Off - and it’s within this safe, supportive and inspiring container that Alison, her colleague Lucy and I shaped and evolved The Green Edit event into the very special offering it is today.

And I wanted to create this episode and space for Alison to share in more detail her passion for supporting brand founders and brand builders and how her conscious career space off is evolving in 2023.

Get your beauty summit tickets:

https://www.thegreenedit.com.au/industry-event-award-2023 

Join Alison Rice's Conscious Career Space  Offline 

https://www.getoffline.co 

Follow Alison on instagram  @alisonlarsonrice @getoffline.co

And if there’s anything you want to hear on future episodes let us know on Instagram @thegreenedit_au  or  via email hello@thegreenedit.com.au

And finally, if you love listening, please rate, review and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. 

Thanks so much for listening and for being a part of our conscious community, we are thrilled to have you! 

The Beauty Breakfast Summit - Tickets on sale
16th of March 2023 in Sydney.

https://www.thegreenedit.com.au/industry-event-award-2023 

Welcome to this very special episode of The Green Edit Podcast. Today I have the pleasure of speaking with a few of the incredible industry experts who will be speaking at The Beauty Breakfast Summit on Thursday the 16th of March 2023 in Sydney.

I’ve worked with clean beauty and wellness brands for almost a decade, and as a result I have really come to understand the pain points and challenges that they experience when trying to scale their business. 

This realisation really formed the basis of The Green Edit in general, but I'm really excited that things are expanding, and The Green Edit Beauty Breakfast Summit will officially happen in Sydney on March 16. 

The event will bring together 14 of Australia's leading industry experts in beauty retail, media and business, the full speaker list is in the show notes. This has been a year in the works, and there is nothing quite like it.

A big thank you to our event partners for helping me bring The Beauty Breakfast Summit to life. I am so proud to have the support of Buttr Marketing, Active Pharma, Maddocks and we are thrilled to have the Qantas Rewards Store beauty buying team at the event, they are growing their online clean and sustainable beauty offering and are looking forward to meeting and connecting with aligned beauty brand founders - you will find them at the Qantas Coffee Cart at the summit.

So today as a bit of a teaser, I have had the pleasure of chatting to some of our summit speakers:

Alison Rice - Offline

Erin Hawken - Nourished Netherlands

Elise Wilson - Are Media Australia

Elysha Sullivan - Sephora Australia

Danielle Gay - Gritty Pretty

Elizabeth Roberts - RIISE

Will Kepreotes - Buttr Marketing

Francine Kinkade - Maddocks

Carol Kavurma - Look Good Feel Better

One of the key takeaways that the beauty buyers and beauty editors shared on this episode is how much they truly value meeting brand founders face to face. That they say is where the magic happens. They are joining the Beauty Breakfast summit as they want to connect with you and hear more about your brand and story. Which means this is the event you need to be at to make these valuable connections.

Summit Speakers 

Alison Rice - Offline

Cathy Tolpigin - The Green Edit

Erin Hawken - Nourished Netherlands

Elise Wilson - Are Media Australia

Elysha Sullivan - Sephora Australia

Danielle Gay - Gritty Pretty

Elizabeth Roberts - RIISE

Will Kepreotes - Buttr Marketing

Francine Kinkade - Maddocks

Carol Kavurma - Look Good Feel Better

Elle Halliwell - The Australian

Linda Jukic- Accompany Group

Mikko Helle of Actv Pharma Group

Sally Hunwick - Marie Claire

Erin Norden - Clean Beauty Market

I will again support our friends at Look Good Feel Better by donating proceeds from beauty summit tickets sales and keep listening for details and the opportunity for brands who attend our summit to partake in a unique media and beauty retailer gifting collaboration.

Enjoy this episode and we all look forward to seeing you on Thursday the 16th of March at 12-Micron in Sydney for a morning of connection, inspiration and knowledge.

Get your summit tickets:

https://www.thegreenedit.com.au/industry-event-award-2023 

Donate to LGFB:

https://lgfb.org.au/donate/?utm_source=Comms&utm_medium=Online&utm_campaign=TheGreenEdit

Contact LGFB:

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Natalie McGrath is a naturopath with over 20 years experience, who’s passion is specialising in women’s health. 

She believes that when women have more energy and vitality it has a profound affect that flows out to their relationships, family, career and their purpose in life.

In 2021 Natalie launched GLOWSO a, Collagen, Skin, Hair & Nail Formula, her first naturopathically formulated TGA listed injestable product, backed by science and evidence to get therapeutic results.

Glowso is a direct response to the needs of the women she was seeing in clinic as well as a solution for some of the issues she needed support with herself.

In this episode Natalie shares her top 5 healthy habits to put in place by age 40. And as Natalie and I are both 44, I was curious to find out what we can do holistically to achieve our best possible skin and energy levels at this age and beyond. 

Natalie approaches health and beauty in such a real and honest way - just clicking on the homepage of her GLOWSO website is reads:

Looking for a quick fix? 
 You won’t find it here.

She is all about well-rounded, holistic skin supplements and honesty. So if you are looking to increase your energy, vitality and skin health we have created this episode to help you your way. 

• Last product you purchased - Luk Beautifood Lip Nourish - great to prevent and clear up acne
              
• What’s been your best beauty discovery this year - Jurlique Intense Moisturiser
  
  
  
• Your desert island skincare product - Paw Paw Cream

• Professional treatment you swear by - Facial Acupuncture - Nat goes to a traditional Chinese Practitioner and practitioner in TCM in WA - Angela Harrison 

• Best piece of beauty or wellness advice you can share - Live with Vitality, do things that bring you joy.

Natalie highly recommends lifting weights, here is the link to the podcast about strength for longevity

You can follow Natalie @glowsohealth on Instagram 

And if there’s anything you want to hear on future episodes let us know on Instagram @thegreenedit_au  or  via email hello@thegreenedit.com.au

And finally, if you love listening, please rate, review and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. 

Thanks so much for listening and for being a part of our conscious community, we are thrilled to have you! 

Today’s guest is Alex Wilson, the founder of Heartwood  and she shares shares her journey to creating the ultimate clean beauty store located in Western Australia. 

Heartwood is a beautiful haven, to serenade your senses with an intoxicating blend of spa treatments, niche natural products and a perfume bar where you can create your very own bespoke natural fragrance.

Additionally, Alex’s family are pioneers of Indian sandalwood which is sustainably grown on farms across the far north of Australia.

Alex developed a fascination with this fragrant and beautiful wood at an early age and in recent years, she began exploring how to bring the traditional uses of Indian sandalwood as a therapeutic ingredient to a modern audience.

However, on the verge of launching Heartwood, Alex was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer and was forced to put her vision on hold. After many complications, months and long days in hospital, she realised that despite everything… life offers moments of joy. 

And bringing to life Heartwood had taken on a deeper, more personal meaning and it became her mission to bring a little moment of joy to everyone who walks through the Heartwood doors.

Her goal is to leave your inspired, brimming with knowledge and feeling beautiful. Whether it’s a spa treatment, a new beauty ritual, an amazing scent, or just a good chat, she hopes to help you embrace and appreciate the very best of what nature has to give. 

We hope you love this heartwarming and inspiring episode, we actually continued our chat offline and I am excited to announce that Alex will join our expert judging panel for The Best of The Green Edit awards in 2023. An amazing opportunity for beauty brands participating in the award to have Alex and her team try their products.

• Last product you purchased - Heartwood Clear Up Oil - great to prevent and clear up acne
              
• What’s been your best beauty discovery this year - Terra Tonics Clean Collagen
  
  
  
• Your desert island skincare product - Heartwood Royal Oil - great for pigmentation

• Professional treatment you swear by - Heartwood Signature Facial - the most amazing Indian head massage, holistic treatment

• Best piece of beauty or wellness advice you can share - Put your shoulders back - in every situation. Beauty is all about confidence and having your shoulders back is symbolic of being proud and ready for anything.

You can follow Alex @heartwoodau on Instagram 

For complete show notes for this episode and for links to products mentioned head to:

www.thegreenedit.com.au/podcast  

And if there’s anything you want to hear on future episodes let us know on Instagram @thegreenedit_au  

www.thegreenedit.com.au  

And finally, if you love listening, please rate, review and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. 

Thanks so much for listening and for being a part of our conscious community, we are thrilled to have you! 

Welcome to The Green Edit Podcast, your go-to destination for clean, high-performance beauty, hosted by founder & Organic Makeup Artist, Cathy Tolpigin. 

On this podcast, you’ll hear interviews with brand founders, formulators, beauty innovators, inspiring entrepreneurs and wellness experts. Together we unpack the various definitions of clean, share inspiring brand stories, and cover the latest innovations in the green beauty industry — with a few product recommendations thrown in, of course. ​

We want to inspire you to re-think your routine; to discover cleaner options without ever having to sacrifice efficacy, luxury or performance. ​

Today’s  guests Harry Smith and Chris Lam are founders of Waste Revolution Australia. 

They have created Australia’s leading plastic neutral certification, which helps companies measure, reduce and offset their plastic. 

I first heard about Waste Revolution Australia when I interviewed, Inika Organic’s Global Brand Manager, Polly Roderick on episode 19 of the podcast. She announced that Inika had just become the first plastic neutral makeup brand in the world. 

I was curious learn more, especially as I will be presenting at the Beauty Insiders Industry event on the topic of beauty packaging and sustainability. I’m currently deep in the research. 

I have been speaking  with many beauty brand founders to gain insights about their packaging and sustainability, it’s clear that it can often be a difficult and challenging process to navigate. Essentially beauty packaging is important, it's the vessel that protects and preserves a brands formulation. It maintains the integrity and shelf life of active ingredients. And packaging function and aesthetics are important for branding, retail and for engaging consumers.

Waste Revolution’s model of measure, reduce and offset plastic usage, unlocks corporate capital and channels it to recycling and plastic collection while supporting local communities. And better yet, Waste Revolution works to compliment existing consumer facing recycling programs such as Teracycle and Close The Loop.

I hope this episode inspires other beauty brands to reach out and work with Harry and Chris who are creating a new standard. One where all businesses are fully accountable for their impact on the environment – both plastic and carbon. 

• Last product you purchased - Almond Oil as a face oil.
              
• What’s been your best beauty discovery this year - Living in the tropics - has made his skin less dry and more hydrated.
  
  
  
• Your desert island skincare product - Sunscreen - preferable in plastic neutral packaging

• Professional treatment you swear by - Harry would like to remind himself and encourage us all to donate blood to the Red Cross.

• Best piece of beauty or wellness advice you can share - Smile :)

You can follow Harry and Chris @wasterevolution_aus on Instagram 

For complete show notes for this episode and for links to products mentioned head to:

www.thegreenedit.com.au/podcast  

And if there’s anything you want to hear on future episodes let us know on Instagram @thegreenedit_au  

www.thegreenedit.com.au  

And finally, if you love listening, please rate, review and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. 

Thanks so much for listening and for being a part of our conscious community, we are thrilled to have you! 

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• Last product you purchased - Kevyn Aucoin Brow Product
              
• What’s been your best beauty discovery this year - Dr Hauschka Rose Nurturing Body Cream

• Professional treatment you swear by - A facial at Belameres every 8 weeks.

• Best piece of beauty or wellness advice you can share - Vedic Meditation - twice daily for 20 mins morning and afternoon.

Welcome to The Green Edit, your go-to destination for green, high-performance beauty. 

Host, Cathy Tolpigin is an organic makeup artist, founder and curator of The Green Edit, a digital media platform, event series and podcast that shines a light on the best in clean, sustainable, cruelty-free beauty and lifestyle brands and products. 

Today’s guest Jeannie Jarnot is the founder of Beauty Heroes and Project Blue Beauty based in the US.

Beauty Heroes is a curated destination for healthy beauty discovery and Jeannie’s offering includes monthly discovery beauty boxes, a curated online beauty store and a new Northern California-based Discovery Store.

Her curation process is more than skin deep; she is passionate about championing progressive brands that make sustainability and waste reduction central to their business model. 

Feeling called to have a deeper conversation about beauty and wellness for people and the planet, Jeannie pioneered Project Blue Beauty, a platform to connect conscious consumers with beauty brands that are going from ‘green’ to ‘blue’, shining a spotlight on brands that are not just minimising their environmental footprint, but actually leaving the planet better than they found it.

We were thrilled to have Jeanie join our panel of expert beauty judges for The Best Of The Green Edit Awards for 2022. This provided a very unique opportunity for finalist brands to have their products introduced to an international audience and I look forward to sharing some of Jeannie’s new product discoveries.

• Last product you purchased - Liquid eyeshadow - quick and easy.
              
• What’s been your best beauty discovery this year - Activist Manuka 850+
  
  
  
• Your desert island skincare product - HONUA SKINCARE Aloha Youth Serum 

• Professional treatment you swear by - a holistic facial every 5 weeks.

• Best piece of beauty or wellness advice you can share - "Look like yourself" beauty mantra

Beauty Products an brands we discussed:

• Ere Perez  
• Inika Organic 
• LÜK Beautifood 
• OPTY.NC 
• O&M Shampoo Bar 
• Recreation Beauty 
• Less Is More Hair Care 

You can follow Jeannie Jarnot @beautyheroes on Instagram 

For complete show notes for this episode and for links to products mentioned head to:

www.thegreenedit.com.au/podcast  

And if there’s anything you want to hear on future episodes let us know on Instagram @thegreenedit_au  

www.thegreenedit.com.au  

And finally, if you love listening, please rate, review and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. 

Today is an exciting episode, as journalist and beauty writer Emily Algar and I will be sharing the Best of The Green Edit Award Winners for 2022! 

Clean beauty and wellness brands were invited to submit 3 hero products from their range into 12 categories which were initially tried and tested by Emily, Beauty Editor Laura Burns and myself for first round judging. We had the pleasure of testing almost 200 ethical, sustainable and cruelty-free beauty and wellness products of which we selected 5 finalists in each category.

For second round judging, to determine the winners of each award,  I secured an incredible and highly acclaimed judging panel of influential Australian and International beauty experts and retailers such as the buying team at The Detox Market who have 6 stores across the US and Canada, Jeannie Jarnot - founder of Beauty Heroes in California US, Erin Hawken from Nourished in the Netherlands, Yvette Wyeth from Active Skin Australia and Erin Norden Clean Beauty Market Australia,

I am so proud to offer these brand founders the unique distribution opportunity to introduce their brand and product range to these amazing judges so they too may experience the very best of clean beauty. 

A big congratulations to the winners and thank you to all the brands who entered The Best Of The Green Edit awards this year, we absolutely loved discovering new favourite products and celebrating  truly natural ethical brands.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀