The beginning of my own clean beauty journey began in 2013 after I moved to LA and started experiencing severe allergies that left me in the hospital. Soon after, at lunch with a friend in a local Brentwood cafe, I was introduced to Gregg Renfrew shortly before she launched Beautycounter.

Since then, I started seeing an integrative doctor and have made an effort to eat clean and use mostly nontoxic products to improve my overall health and wellness. I’m very particular about the types of food I eat and what I put inside my body, so why wouldn’t I be as picky about what I put on my skin? After all, it is our largest organ!

Beautycounter started the clean beauty standard in 2013 by publishing its “Never List” of 1500 toxic ingredients that should be removed from beauty products, setting the highest bar in the industry. That list has now grown to 1800 and counting. I was so intrigued by their concept and the whole clean beauty revolution - I even wrote a blog post about it back in 2014.

The products I've tried from Beautycounter have been so impressive (you know I test so many!), and the integrity of the brand resonates with me on many levels, so I recently decided to become one of their consultants. I figured if I am buying and loving these products, why wouldn’t I just become an ambassador for the brand? Beautycounter continues to launch new products that I'm wowed by, and they also offer women the opportunity to work as consultants from home and educate others about the importance of clean beauty.