On today’s episode, Cathy Tolpigin and Erin Hawken, co-founder of Nourished Netherlands are thrilled to announce the Best of The Green Edit Award Winners for 2023. Clean beauty and wellness brands were invited to submit the hero products from their range into 12 categories, which were initially tried and tested by myself, Erin and Celebrity makeup artist Laura Burns who is based in New York, but was in Sydney over summer to help us shortlist the finalist products.  Erin, Laura and I had the pleasure of testing over 130 products across 12 categories — all of which represent the very best ..read more

If you are a beauty brand looking to make aligned retail partnerships, gain knowledge about how to approach buyers and navigate knock backs and rejection, Nicci will be sharing her insights and experience with beauty brands and wellness brands. One of the key challenges I hear from beauty and wellness brand founders across all categories including skincare, makeup, beauty injestables and wellness products is the difficulty they experience gaining the attention of beauty buyers as they aim to grow their retail distribution channels. The Green Edit Beauty Summit is fast approaching onThursday t ..read more

Alison Morgan is one of Australia’s leading Business Coaches, specialising in helping Health, Wellness, Beauty and Lifestyle brands grow their business, brand and profile. With over 20 years experience in Marketing and 13 years of Coaching clients 1:1  with her company Relauncher, Alison knows how to create a successful businesses. Alison is also founder of Sticky Studio; a branding, content marketing, social media and website design studio. Having experienced Alison Morgan's motivating business coaching sessions firsthand, I wanted you all to have the opportunity to tap into her expert ..read more

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 founde ..read more

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.&nb ..read more

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 so ..read more

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 a ..read more

Alison Rice, is the founder of Offline and a personal mentor of mine — who has actually played an integral role in the shaping of The Green Edit.  Alison is also an award-winning leader, mentor and conscious career coach, drawing from her experience while working as the Group Publisher at Allure Media for over six years. Offline started as a podcast in 2018 and 100 episodes later has expanded to become a bit of a movement, functioning as a resource for those seeking conscious professional development and the opportunity to explore their purpose and unique talents.  In additi ..read more

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 onli ..read more

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,&n ..read more