The year’s most anticipated green beauty “industry hotlist” – the brand new Who’s Who Top 25 Personalities in the Natural Beauty Industry 2019 – has been revealed in the Autumn issue of Natural Beauty News magazine.
A lot of new names join this important list which is voted for by those in the industry.
Thank you very much if you voted me into the Top 10 (No. 9), it’s my 7th year on it and it feels just as exciting as it was back in 2013 (one year after The Beauty Shortlist launched).
Gosh how things have changed industry-wise. Green beauty is literally on fire and consumers are wising up to the “crap” in a lot of products – including high end – and instead falling in love with the brilliant, clean beauty brands blooming globally (a LOT of them nurtured on British shores).
But…and it’s a sobering one…as pollution, climate change (now an emergency), and the general, sobering, relentless threat to our ecosystem, our future and US heightens, there is no time to sit back and be passive.
Every single week and day we can vote with our wallets. By buying clean beauty (over synthetic and possibly not even cruelty-free).
By calling out and reporting dodgy greenwashing brands making false claims.
By reducing waste.
By buying less, but buying better.
By supporting the good brands, abandoning the others.
By buying organic, we’re endorsing and protecting our health, ethics and sustainability and the future of the place we live, aka the planet and the ocean, as well as that of future generations.
Nature is innately supremely intelligent. And in tandem, the most compassionate, intelligent, selfless, selfish and forward-thinking “win-win-win” action we can take is to choose natural, organic, cruelty-free, sustainable and ethical – every single time. (And scrutinise the INCI/labels!)
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE GREEN CAMPAIGNERS, FOUNDERS AND GAME-CHANGERS
Including Katie Hill, editor of My Green Pod who joins the Beauty Shortlist Awards this year and Weleda’s UK director, and Jayn Sterland who’s at No.1 (again) this year, like last year.
THE TOP 25 PERSONALITIES IN NATURAL BEAUTY 2019 ARE…
1 Jayn Sterland – Weleda
2 Jo and Stuart Chidley – Beauty Kitchen
3 Alex and Kim Barani – Kinetic
4 Lorraine Dallmeier – Formula Botanica
5 Helen Yeardsley – Y Consultancy
6 Tabitha James Kraan – TJK Organic Hairdressing
7 Ailish Lucas – The Glow Getter
8 Janey Lee Grace – Radio presenter and writer
9 Fiona Klonarides – The Beauty Shortlist
10 Sonia White – Amarya
11 Dr Mark Smith – NATRUE
12 Imelda Burke – Content Beauty & Wellbeing
13 Clare and Rebecca Hopkins – Balance Me
14 Yelena Serebryakova – Lena Wild
15 Katie Hill – My Green Pod
16 Dominika Minarovic and Elsie Rutterford – BYBI Beauty
17 Kirstie and Luke Sherriff – Pinks Boutique
18 Mel Jenkinson – Glow Organic
19 Lou Dartford – Makeup artist
20 Alex Nicolaou – NINI Organics
21 Mitch McCarthy-Kalischer – Holland & Barrett
22 Ariane and Delphine Chui – Ftoxins
23 Graeme Hume – Pravera
24 Emma Thornton – TRUE Skincare
25 Georgia Barnes – Soil Association
More about this top 25:
From Weleda’s press release 2 October 2019
“Published in the autumn issue of Natural Beauty News, the Top 25 provides an overview of the leaders and prominent figures who are influencing and leading the UK’s natural beauty industry, all voted for by their industry peers.
The list includes founders of beauty brands, manufacturers, bloggers and influencers, writers, distributors and make-up artists who all champion natural and organic cosmetics on a daily basis.”
The magazine’s Editor Rosie Greenaway commented:
“As natural beauty edges towards the mainstream, our industry has been busy working at grassroots level to build demand and dictate trends – which makes for an amazing Who’s Who for 2019. Meet our sector’s true movers and shakers. They’re the people who’ve shaped the industry all through the year – nurturing brands, spreading knowledge and building awareness.”
Last but not least, “thank you” to Natural Beauty News – and the special Autumn 2019 issue including the new Who’s Who Top 25 line-up is out now.