In episode fifteen of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts sits down with Carla Oates, author and founder of The Beauty Chef.

Carla Oates was only 13 years old when she first recognised the link between health and beauty. While she now sits at the forefront of the global “inner beauty” movement, some twenty years ago you would have found Carla Oates working in magazines. It was during her time as a beauty editor that she really began to look at the ingredients in the skincare products she was writing about. Concerned by what she found, Carla began to gear her columns towards natural, organic and even Do It Yourself beauty- a shift the public were initially reluctant to accept. 

Having spent years experimenting with fermented ingredients to heal her own skin conditions and those of her young family, it was in 2009 that Carla launched GLOW- The Beauty Chef’s first inner beauty supplement. Today, that collection is composed of eight inner and two topical skincare products and is available worldwide via online retail giants like Net-A-Porter and Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop, in in physical stores including Bloomingdale’s, Space NK and Anthropologie. 

In this conversation, Carla delves into the link is between gut health and the skin, explains how we can identify and heal our own gut health issues, debunks a few wellness myths and shares how applying the leftover liquids from her home-fermented foods to her skin lead to the inception of one of The Beauty Chef’s highest selling products. 

You can read this interview now at: glowjournal.com/interview-the-beauty-chef-carla-oates

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