We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Samantha Marut & Kelly Tracy-Holly, CE, CAE, CMLT. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Samantha Marut & Kelly Tracy-Holly below.
Alright, Samantha & Kelly thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Was there a defining moment in your professional career? A moment that changed the trajectory of your career?
Around 2016, I, like most women, was extremely busy with life. My husband and I had/have a successful dental consulting business, and in 2016 in particular; it was really taking off and thriving. Personally, taking care of my skin has always been a passion of mine but up until 2016, I had never really thought about the ingredients in most of the products I was using on my face, hair and body. When I started struggling with fertility treatment in 2016, my own ignorance of ingredients in products came to light when my doctor handed me a list of all the ingredients I needed to stay away from. It was a three-page list of about 400 ingredients I should not use. When I started fertility treatment, I was in my early 40’s. Talk about hormones being all over the place. I saw so many drastic changes in my skin due to so many hormonal fluctuations. I was totally overwhelmed at a very vulnerable time in my life.
I’ve always tried to eat healthy and spent a great deal of time thinking about what I was putting in my body but now I was focused on what I was putting on my skin and body. I began a journey of scrutinizing ingredient lists in my skincare and haircare products and discovered that so much of what I was putting on my body daily had a cumulative, unhealthy toxic load. First this frightened me, then it disgusted me. All these unhealthy ingredients I was seeing are extremely common in everyday skin, hair and body products. After all this analysis, I quickly realized that it didn’t matter if the product was expensive, inexpensive, well-known or from a little-known brand, they all had ingredients in them that were not healthy and all of them use questionable ingredients. If my fertility doctor tells me I can’t use it, I wasn’t going to use it. That’s when I knew there had to be a better way. I consulted my good friend and advanced aesthetician, Kelly Tracy-Holly, during my journey. If anyone could help, it was going to be Kelly. She knows ingredients, she has a successful advanced aesthetician practice. Together, we not only searched, but we also scoured every place to find skin and hair products that were non-toxic, clean and produced results.
“To risk nothing, you risk everything.”
Coming up short at every turn, that’s when our career trajectories changed. That’s when Kelly and I decided to create our own skincare brand and introduce the world to truly clean skin and hair care products that are non-toxic, innovative, feel great on the skin and that produce results. What started out as a journey into fertility grew into the birth of Result by Nature.
Samantha & Kelly, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?
Results by Nature is an indie-brand, small batch, non-toxic, all-natural, multi-functional line of skincare that keeps the skin’s microbiome healthy and produces results. We pride ourselves on delivering products with the highest standards using healthy, natural ingredients while keeping all questionable ingredients out. Our core mission is education and to provide as much knowledge to consumers about safe, non-toxic ingredients so they can make healthier and informed skin care choices.
We believe we are setting ourselves apart from other brands because we set out from the beginning to do something unique by not only creating products that are non-toxic that deliver results but also to unveil the reality regarding ingredient transparency and the green washing that occurs in skincare marketing. Just because something is advertised as “Clean, Natural, Organic and/or Plant Based” doesn’t always mean that all its ingredients are clean and natural and good for your skin. Furthermore, just because an ingredient is synthetically made does not mean that it is toxic.
For example, our lash and brow enhancing serum not only helps your natural lashes and brows grow it’s also OptiSafe Approved ™, which means it has been tested and has been specifically approved and deemed safe to use around the eye area. We are really proud of this approval.
According to the Environmental Working Group, the average US woman uses twelve personal care products daily and is exposed to approximately 168 different questionable ingredients within those products. Too often the beauty industry does not emphasize the importance of understanding the daily toxic load that occurs with multiple applications of these products and we want to change this. For us, non-toxic, clean skin and haircare means creating products formulated with ingredients that are without harmful ingredients. In the US, only 33 ingredients are banned from skincare, body care, cosmetics, and haircare. In New Zealand, EU, Japan, and Australia over 3000 ingredients are banned from these product lines. In an effort to provide the safest nontoxic line of skin and hair care products, we strictly adhere to this same philosophy.
In addition, we are Cruelty Free. In this day and age, we believe that clean beauty is also transparent about where their ingredients are sourced from and tested on. We will NEVER test on animals.
We strive to source and create only products that are non-toxic, high performing, easy to use and we will never compromise on ingredients. When choosing Results by Nature, you will be choosing beautiful products that meet the highest clean beauty standards in the world.
We are extremely proud that we have created a new industry high standard for clean natural skin and hair care because your body is worth it.
Do you think you’d choose a different profession or specialty if you were starting now?
Neither Kelly nor I would change a thing about our careers and how they have evolved over time. To have regrets at this stage of the game would deny all the important lessons and opportunities, the people who have come into and out of our lives have led us here. Society says hindsight is always 2020; however, we believe that all our life experiences good and bad, all the ups and downs have led Kelly and I to exactly where we are today, which we believe is pretty spectacular. For those reasons alone, we wouldn’t change anything. Our prior choices have been paramount to the beginning of our business venture together and has led to the success we are seeing today.
Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?
A constant pursuit of wanting to learn, being humble and flexible along the way. Life is a journey. We don’t reach a specific age and have all the answers. Every day we are presented with new information, and we have a choice to learn from it and adapt it into our lives to improve it in some way. That’s a blessing.
In the life of any business there are intersections you encounter where choices need to be made. Many times, these choices can be difficult. Kelly and I make an exceptional team and created our company with the foundation using the highest of principles and standards. As challenges present themselves, we each humble ourselves and have a willingness to navigate tough scenarios. It hasn’t always been a smooth ride, but we set out knowing it wouldn’t be easy because we are trying to do something completely unique in a heavily saturated market where companies place questionable ingredients in their skincare.
Time and patience are key in most industries. You will be tested and there will be some who will try to get you to fit in a certain mold. If it isn’t in line with your standards, goals, and vision, you need to move on. Communication is a core element of any business, both internally and externally. Our commitment to our customers is communicated through the highest of standards using only the cleanest, most natural ingredients so they can achieve results while maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Contact Info:
- Website: resultsbynature.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/resultsbynature/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/resultsbynature
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/results-by-nature-00a8b51b5
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/ResultsbyNature
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj7YeRZYyvoxkPhgmYrvfVQ
- Other: https://www.pinterest.com/ResultsbyNature/
Image Credits
The photo of Samantha and Kelly was taken by Suzette Hibble of SHE Photography Product Photos were taken by Caitlin Gallivan-Gaertner of Gallivan Creative by Gallivan Photo