We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Mundi Gattis. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Mundi below.
Mundi, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to have you retell us the story behind how you came up with the idea for your business, I think our audience would really enjoy hearing the backstory.
Without evening know it, I have been on my “clean” journey since 2015 when my newborn son had really dry skin. I tried many different products, countless Dr appointments with prescriptions to heavy medicated creams that just did not sit right with me. I became uncomfortable with the toxic ingredients in these products I was using. I did some research on natural products, went into my kitchen, did a lot of trial and error for the first few years and created a product that really worked for my son that we still use today.
Secondly, In April 2020, I was diagnosed with breast cancer (BC) at the age of 38, I was devastated. I did a lot of reading and what I learned was, while most Caucasian women are diagnosed with BC, Black women have more fatalities from BC and beauty is a factor. I took this information to heart and it has motivated me ever since.
Numerous studies have shown that mainstream beauty products targeted towards the black women have been proven to include more unsafe, toxic chemicals in them than any other beauty products.
CLEAN MUNDI solves this by providing clean, safer beauty products that are made with the black community at the focal point. We research and study every single ingredient to ensure we keep your health and our environment our number one priority while providing a product that works.
In our efforts, we hope that we reduce the number of harmful beauty products in circulation by offering clean and sustainable products that work.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
CLEAN MUNDI is a brand formulating conscious skin and body products for our melanated community. We formulate with ingredients that address some skin concerns in the Black community such as dry skin, eczema, dark marks, and hyperpigmentation. We create beauty that is safe for you and out environment. We offer a variety of skin and body care products from moisturizing body butters, face oil, body scrubs, moisturizing
sticks, and petroleum jelly alternative. All formulated with ingredients that are safer for you and our environment.
This is a passion and a mission, not a hobby. There are so many options when it comes to beauty products that consumers can pick from but I want to provide something that feels like “this was made just for me”. Something that a community knows a brand cares about them, their health, and the environment where we all live. Something for people who look like me. Minorities, specifically, the black community deserves safer beauty options. CLEAN MUNDI wants to be the ones to give it to them.
What’s worked well for you in terms of a source for new clients?
Best source of new clients have been word of mouth/reviews. There is nothing better than someone sharing a genuine review of how much they love your product to an audience and someone hearing this review. This typically ends in leads or new clients for me.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
I really had to learn to go at my own pace and not compare myself to any other business. All paths are not the same. All stories are not the same and that is totally fine. Do what I can, scale at a pace that is manageable and trust my gut when making decisions and putting out new product.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.cleanmundi.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cleanmundi_/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cleanmundi
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mundi-gattis-9a20086/
Image Credits
Ariel Perry