Some brands are built for a market. Some are built for a moment. And then there are the ones built for a person.

Chrissy Naro built Celeste Naturals for her daughter Gabriella — whose eczema reacted to everything on the market. So Chrissy did what any determined mother would do: she learned to make something herself. She took courses, she formulated, she tested, she refined — until she found something that actually worked.

And then life got harder. A Crohn's disease diagnosis that had gone undetected for years. Sepsis. Emergency surgery. A year of recovery in which her career disappeared and her own skin began to suffer. From that hospital bed, with nothing but love and a formula, Celeste Naturals became real.

Handcrafted, small-batch skincare made with goat milk, grass-fed tallow, raw honey, and beeswax. No synthetics, no fillers. Named after her daughter. Because Celeste means heavenly — and Chrissy wanted everyone going through their darkest moment to feel a little bit of that every day.

This episode is about what it looks like to build something beautiful from the hardest year of your life. And why the brands that start from love are always the ones worth finding.

About Chrissy Naro & Celeste Naturals

Chrissy Naro is the founder of Celeste Naturals, a handcrafted small-batch skincare brand built around farm-fresh, natural ingredients formulated for sensitive, eczema-prone skin. Every product is phthalate-free, paraben-free, and sulfate-free — made by hand in Georgia with goat milk, grass-fed tallow, raw honey, and beeswax. Named after her daughter. Built from love.

🌐 Website: https://www.celestenaturals.com

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About Your Host

Lia Cardoso is the Founder & CEO of Skin Leaf Cosmetics and host of Skin Leaf Talks — FeedSpot Top 50 Skincare Podcasts 2025. A cosmetics formulator and clean beauty advocate with over 15 years of experience, Lia built Skin Leaf on one belief: skincare is healthcare.

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Look at the back of your moisturizer. What's the first ingredient?

If it's water — and it almost certainly is — you're paying for something your tap provides for free. Most skincare products are between 60 and 90 percent water. Which means most of what's in your routine is diluted before it even reaches your skin.

Leila Haj Nassar, cosmetic chemist and founder of 100and1 Cosmetics, decided to remove it entirely — replacing water with pure Moroccan botanicals: argan oil, aloe vera, rose water, and actives that actually do something. Her co-founder Fatima Rosa, a licensed esthetician with over 15 years of hands-on client experience, brings what the lab alone can never know: what real skin needs, every day, in the treatment room.

In this episode, two founders who built from opposite ends of the same belief sit down with Lia to talk about water-free formulation, Moroccan ingredient heritage, and what the chemist and esthetician dynamic that makes 100and1 different actually looks like from the inside. A conversation about what conscious beauty really means when the formula is the whole point — and why paying for what you actually get should be the standard, not the exception.

About Leila Haj Nassar, Fatima Rosa & 100and1 Cosmetics

100and1 Cosmetics is a water-free, sustainable skincare brand rooted in Moroccan botanical ingredients, built on one belief: you should pay for what you actually get. Founded by cosmetic chemist Leila Haj Nassar and co-founder Fatima Rosa, every formula replaces water with pure actives — no fillers, no compromise.

🌐 Website: https://100and1cosmetics.com

📸 Instagram: @100and1cosmetics

🎵 TikTok: @100and1cosmetics

💼 LinkedIn: @100and1cosmetics

About Your Host

Lia Cardoso is the Founder & CEO of Skin Leaf Cosmetics and host of Skin Leaf Talks — FeedSpot Top 50 Skincare Podcasts 2025. A cosmetics formulator and clean beauty advocate with over 15 years of experience, Lia built Skin Leaf on one belief: skincare is healthcare.

🌐 skinleaf.co

📸 @theskinleaf.co

📧 press@skinleaf.co

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Every cosmetic ingredient on the market was declared "safe" based on a test that never accounted for the other ingredients sitting next to it on your skin — or the thirty years you'll spend using it.

In this episode, Lia Cardoso breaks down the real math behind toxic exposure in the beauty industry: the cocktail effect, where chemicals that are "safe" in isolation become active when combined, and time, which turns a negligible daily dose into decades of accumulation the body can't fully clear.

Drawing on hormone-disruption research and recent studies linking chemical hair straighteners to uterine cancer and fertility issues, Lia unpacks what "safe at this concentration" actually means, and why it's the wrong question to be asking. Educational content, not medical advice — full sources in the show notes.

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