Award-winning Ekó Botanicals Founder and Formulator Apinke Efiong has at all times had a deep love for botanicals. Impressed by her nice grandfather, a botanist at Kew Gardens in London, UK, over 100 years in the past, and having run a floral enterprise from her house nation of Nigeria, she felt therapeutic vegetation had been going to be central to her future, however she didn’t know precisely how.
When the Covid lockdown started, she determined to shut her floral enterprise in Nigeria and focus on her monetary consultancy work in England. Discovering herself uninspired and dealing from house, she set about brainstorming a brand new starting for herself. Apinke wished to create one thing that would marry her African and British heritage. Having had her personal ongoing pores and skin challenges as she reached her 40s, she felt that creating natural, botanical-rich merchandise for menopausal pores and skin was her future.
When Apinke started her natural skincare journey, she seemed for an acceptable formulation course and got here throughout Method Botanica. She noticed what number of different graduates of the College had advanced their desires to develop into profitable skincare entrepreneurs and instantly felt at at house. Method Botanica turned an unbelievable useful resource for Apinke, as too was the College’s neighborhood of like-minded formulators and entrepreneurs which was readily available to assist her study and develop her skincare enterprise.
On finishing her Diploma in Natural Skincare Formulation, Alpinke set about growing a multi-functional line of merchandise to deep cleanse, hydrate and replenish maturing pores and skin. Her vary included nutrient-dense formulations together with the meditative ritual of software and facial therapeutic massage
Apinke had suffered for years with varied pores and skin circumstances associated to her pores and skin sort, so she had a deep need to create merchandise that might enhance the looks, tone and really feel of dry, hyper-pigmented, menopausal pores and skin in these over the age of 35. She experimented with dozens of pure and natural botanicals, extracts and oils designed particularly to easy, rehydrate and nourish the pores and skin. In 2022, she launched her three-product line to rave critiques and has loved success ever since.
In her personal phrases, formulation has modified Alpike’s life. Listening to from shoppers who’ve skilled outstanding adjustments of their pores and skin, constructive critiques on social and conventional media, profitable awards and assembly great individuals are the largest compliments and highlights of every day at EKÓ Botanicals. “Having the ability to develop a botanically-based natural and sustainable magnificence enterprise that I’m very happy with is one thing I might advocate to anybody.”
Interview highlights embrace:
- Apinke’s need to mix her love for botanicals along with her Nigerian and British heritage;
- Why she selected to concentrate on menopausal pores and skin considerations;
- The worth of Method Botanica and its in depth community of assets; and
- How the Method Botanica neighborhood members and their tales had been key to her progress and inspiration.
About Ekó Botanicals
Apinke sources one of the best botanical components from Nigeria and the UK, selecting natural and wild-grown components each time attainable. Every Ekó Botanicals’ product derives inspiration from highly effective historical African warrior queens, together with the Queen of Sheba and Nefertiti, and remembers the rituals and botanicals these figures deployed 1000’s of years in the past to create clear and radiant pores and skin. Ekó Botanicals merchandise replicate historical heritage and knowledge, however are rooted firmly in at the moment’s science.
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Liz is Method Botanica’s Content material Coordinator and joined our staff in August 2020. Liz labored as an expert blogger, journalist and website developer for a few years and was additionally a part of the Method Botanica pupil neighborhood. Learn extra concerning the Method Botanica Crew.
