The Beauty Chef

The Beauty Chef’s founder Carla learned first hand that beauty begins in the belly when she was a teenager with troubled skin.

Suffering with eczema and allergies, Carla’s mother took her to a naturopath who adjusted her diet and soon cleared her skin.

“My inner beauty journey began with my own skin and health issues,” explains Carla. “I have seen that what I put into my mouth has a profound effect on my health.”

This visionary recognition of the link between a balanced microbiome (good gut health) and beautiful skin led to Carla being named a Skincare Innovator by Net-a-Porter’s The Edit magazine.

Carla is also the editor of the Wellbeing Beauty Book, the natural beauty columnist for Wellbeing Magazine, a Goodwill Ambassador for Australian Organic and this year won the beauty category at the Instyle & Audi Women of Style Awards in Australia.Carla spent the first 10 years of her working life as a writer and fashion stylist before turning her attention to beauty writing. But the allure quickly wore off and she became alarmed by the questionable synthetic substances found in many commercial beauty productsConcerned about the beauty industry’s lack of transparency, Carla began writing about healthier alternatives. She also began making her own natural skincare from plants and organic foods and wrote her first best-selling book, Feeding Your Skin, published by Penguin books.The Beauty Chef range now includes eight inner beauty products and two outer beauty skincare products. Every product in the range is a blend of Certified Organic, nutrient-dense wholefood ingredients, prebiotics and probiotics, all scientifically-formulated to fortify skin on the inside and outside Carla recently published her second book The Beauty Chef: Delicious Food For Radiant Skin, Gut Health and Wellbeing which contains more than 150 gluten and dairy-free healthy recipes to nourish your skin from withiBy then she was a mother of two small children (now teenagers). When her daughter experienced similar skin issues to her own, Carla put her family on a gut-healing protocol that included probiotic-rich, lacto-fermented wholefoods. Soon they all began to look and feel better. Carla’s friends began asking why her skin was looking so “glowy”.