After a start in the music business and then working with luxury hospitality and wellbeing brands, Karen went on to qualify in integrative nutrition and set up a successful company creating bespoke wellness programmes for private and corporate clients

Unable to find a product that soothed her eczema-prone skin, she saw the opportunity for 79 Lux. Less than two years later, it is now an award-winning range of luxury skincare products stocked in premium retailers Cult Beauty and Libertys.

Her start-up has had its fair share of challenges, but Karen believes the accumulation of experience and expertise gained by this time in life made all the difference in launching 79 Lux successfully. She has also found that a significant benefit of startup life is the realisation that age is no barrier when it comes to learning new things from technical skills to navigating new marketing platforms.

Karen has a wonderful philosophy of individual self-care for our collective wellbeing, and the importance of integrating wellness into the everyday which she shares on her social channels. I think we could all do with a little more of that right now.

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Photo credit: 79 Lux

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