Mukti has been actively involved in the beauty and personal care industry for over two decades. Her aim is to reconnect people to nature, creating health and happiness via toxin-free lifestyles and beauty regimes.

Questions asked in the episode - Where are we (the public) going wrong with skincare? - What ingredients should we be looking to avoid in our skincare products? - Do natural ingredients really work?   https://180nutrition.com.au/  

This week, I'm excited to welcome Mukti from Mukti Organics. Mukti has been actively involved in the beauty and personal care industry for over two decades. Her aim is to reconnect people to nature, creating health and happiness for your toxin-free lifestyles and beauty regimes. In this episode, we talk about the ingredients we should be looking to avoid in our skincare products, we dig deep into natural ingredients, and also discuss where we could be going wrong with our own skincare regime. Over to Mukti. Hey guys, this is Stu from 180 Nutrition, and I'm delighted to welcome Mukti from Mukti Organics to the podcast. Mukti, how are you?

Mukti

(01:26) Good, Stu. Lovely to see you.

Stu

(01:28) No, thanks so much for sharing some of your time. Really appreciate it. But first up, for all of our listeners that may not be familiar with you or your work, I'd love it if you could just tell as a little bit about yourself, please.

Mukti

(01:41) Sure. And so, I entered the skincare space over 22 years ago. And back then, there was not a lot available, particularly in Australia, in relation to natural and organic skincare. There wasn't actually a certification back then for skincare. So, I always had this penchant to want to create a skincare range that was as clean as it possibly could be. And I'll define clean a little bit later on in our discussion. But I wanted to use ingredients that were as pure and natural as they possibly could be, but still be stable that people could buy and that they could use them for daily treatments, just for everyday products like a cleanser and moisturizer and just do basics. So, that's pretty much how it started.

(02:40) I have a background in naturopathy, and I was always in interested in particular in aromatherapy and client medicine and herbal medicine. I could see the benefits of plants on the human system, because we are so similar in our biology and our makeup. So, it kind of made sense to me. And I was using a number of different ranges. There was a lot of brands coming out of Europe in particular, so those brands that have been around forever such as Hauschka and [inaudible 00:03:18], but there wasn't really a great deal in Australia at the time. So, I recognized a bit of a niche and I thought with the background that I had that I could start experimenting and playing around with a few different ingredients and see what would happen. And I had a whole lot of little herbal remedy books and bit of witchcraft and bit of alchemy, but I really didn't know what I was doing.

(03:43) Back then, you couldn't just ring up a chemist and say, "Hey, I want to create a natural product. Could you help me?" Back then, there was really no one to turn to that was interested or thought that it was viable to create products that were natural. It was very much a journey of discovery and self-learning and research and trial and error. But that then made me quite creative in my formulating because I had to figure things out. I've realized over the years that I'm very tenacious. And so, I just kept going. In spite of everything, I've just kept going and trying new things until I could work it out, because I couldn't bring up a cosmetic chemist and say, "Hey, I don't know what's happening at this phase when I do this and I do that. Can you help me?" And I did do that a couple of times, but it was basically laughed at. So, I just worked it out. Yeah.

For full interview and transcript: https://180nutrition.com.au/180-tv/mukti-organics-interview/