New natural skin care product especially for teenagers

Only a year after selling their first products, Scarlett & Greene are launching a fourth product to complement their range of natural skin care products for teenagers.

We have some definite advantages in the market, says Samantha Scarlett, who founded the company with Rebecca Freeman-Greene.

One is that as the mothers of teenage daughters, they had the perfect people available to fine-tune the products. The other is that they have easy access to some unique New Zealand natural ingredients such as manuka honey (with its remarkable antibacterial properties) and mamaku (black tree fern, with great cell rejuvenation properties). The only imported ingredient is tea tree oil, from Australia.

When we tried to buy skin care products for our daughters some years ago, we noticed that it was all the same products we had when we were young. In the meantime, a wide range of natural skin care products had become available for adults, but there was nothing of the kind available for teenagers.

Samantha and Rebecca set up a company and enlisted the aid of a chemist to develop products to meet the market need they had identified.

We took two years to develop our basic range, testing the formulations with our daughters and their friends till we got the best balance of efficiency without nasty chemicals.

While Scarlett & Greene wanted to be as natural as possible, it was clear from talking to teenagers that the efficiency of the products could not be compromised. That’s why we haven’t gone totally organic our products bring together the best of nature and the best of science, says Samantha.

• Come Clean is a cleanser for sensitive skin.

• Bare All is specially formulated for more oily skin.

• Under Cover is a moisturiser and sun-screen.

• Zit Zapper is an acne spot treatment being launched this month.

All Scarlett & Greene products are made specifically for young skin. We avoid ingredients such as avocado and sesame seed oil that blocks pores. They’re good for older skin to help keep moisture in, but for teenage skin you don’t want anything that blocks pores.

In only a year since launch, Scarlett & Greene teenage skin care products are already attracting enquiries from countries as far afield as Japan, Mexico and the UK.

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