Peach & Lily’s Alicia Yoon on Glass Skin, Writing First Book – WWD

When Alicia Yoon, founding father of Peach & Lily, launched the Glass Pores and skin Refining Serum in 2018, she didn’t simply introduce a brand new product to her line: she launched a motion, too. Now, she’s bringing her pores and skin health-first philosophy to the plenty with an e-book.

Titled “Your Glass Pores and skin Information: The right way to Obtain Your Healthiest Pores and skin But,” the e-book launches subsequent week and descriptions Yoon’s intensive philosophy on skin care. For her, although, it was a pure extension of buyer training.

“I by no means thought I wished to put in writing an e-book, however over the past three years since launching the Glass Pores and skin Refining Serum and the following motion, we acquired so many questions on getting your healthiest pores and skin but. Some persons are coping with pores, some individuals take care of very persistent cystic zits,” Yoon stated. “We’re seeing this enormous need for pores and skin to not essentially ‘look extra lovely,’ however to essentially have pores and skin be more healthy.”

“We all the time had a skincare dialogue with our group due to our complementary customer support, the place anybody can ask a query and an in-house aesthetician can reply these questions over e mail,” Yoon continued. “Together with the will is simply lots of curiosity and questions, like clarifying questions on every thing from components to how pores and skin actually interacts with completely different situations.”

The previous yr, although, was when customers turned extra interested by pores and skin considerations and treatment them. “During the last yr is once we realized, answering these questions, that we should always put all of this into one information, and we should always acquire all of these questions that hold developing and actually assist individuals clarify something,” Yoon stated. “If individuals aren’t seeing a much bigger type of context and the entire info in a single place, it simply results in extra questions.”

Yoon, who hung out as an aesthetician earlier than founding Peach & Lily and sister model Peach Slices, stated her strategy to skincare has 5 key tenets: elimination (cleaning), hydration, stability, nourishment and safety. 

“My strategy to wholesome pores and skin can be from my very own expertise, the years of research that I’ve carried out for my very own pores and skin, and the years of facials I’ve given,” Yoon stated. She added that writing the e book “wasn’t something loopy, it was mining our client and group questions and insights, and organizing all of that into completely different classes.”

Ever the coed of her personal pores and skin issues, Yoon additionally stated she referenced a number of binders of notes she’s made through the years when making an attempt to treatment her personal pores and skin issues, similar to eczema.

Yoon’s outlook on pores and skin well being appeared to resonate, particularly throughout the pandemic. “The rationale that our enterprise has been actually thriving via the pandemic as effectively is as a result of we strategy skincare as a type of taking good care of your general well being,” Yoon stated. “That’s what glass pores and skin is: it’s not shiny pores and skin, it’s not faux pores and skin, it’s not filtered pores and skin. It’s that vibrancy when pores and skin is so wholesome, that luminosity, that readability, that smoothness.”

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