Many of you know me as the founder of Essance Organic Skincare. I was born in Vietnam and Asian culture focused on teaching discipline and to respect our elders; but I never felt like it taught me how to love. So I taught myself! I learned through expressing my emotions and there are many variations of emotions like anger, fear and where that fear comes from. That awareness taught me to recognize and embrace the emotions that I lacked and one of the most predominant is love. There are also many ways to love, but one thing I know is...

April is Earth Month, here is your reminder that Earth Day 2021 is Thursday, April 22. Earth month is an excellent opportunity for us to discuss the difference between green beauty and clean beauty because they are in fact not the same and the message can get confused. The way we at Essance prefer to discuss the difference is that you can look at Green Beauty as ingredients that come from Mother Earth, the ingredients are organic, eco-friendly, and natural. Clean Beauty by definition by the cosmetic industry is products that are made without ingredients shown or suspected to harm...