Kim Walls is a master formulator, clean beauty pioneer, & the daughter of
a renowned skincare founder. After years of helping startups become successful she has returned to her beauty roots with a skincare company of her own, a family legacy using wild foraged ingredients. Kim tells us what's on the horizon for clean beauty, why your career should be a jungle gym, and why your skin is the key to your overall health.
Show Notes:
Furtuna Skin- https://www.furtunaskin.com/
Furtuna Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/furtunaskin/
Kims Fave Product: PORTE PER LA VITALITÀ- Eye serum
Bambini Furtuna- for babies and kids- https://bambinifurtuna.com/
Bona Furtuna Olive oil- https://bonafurtuna.com/
Book Kim Loves: The Power of Onlyness: Make Your Wild Ideas Mighty Enough to Dent the World - by Nilofer Merchant
More Than Me- Womens Group- https://morethanme.com/
Bra Network- Women’s Entrepreneur Networking- https://www.bra-network.com/
Guest Bio:
Kim is the CEO and Co-founder of Furtuna Skin and lives with her family in Los Angeles, California. Born into beauty as the daughter of a renowned skincare founder, she grew up learning how to formulate topical healing remedies. After graduating from the University of California Santa Barbara with honors, Kim joined a wellness tech startup as their skincare guru. She then pivoted to starting skincare companies of her own, carrying on the family legacy as founder of natural brands that garnered international recognition. She expanded her beauty repertoire as the former General Manager of Lime Crime Makeup, working with the team to turn it into one of the most rapidly growing indie cosmetic companies. Named one of New Hope Media’s “9 Wonder Women of the Natural Industry”, Kim has been at the forefront of the clean beauty movement, galvanizing brands to remove unsafe ingredients & create more eco-friendly standards. A skincare innovator with broad experience as an educator, esthetician, nutritionist and formulator, she has worked with doctors, nurses and lab chemists to research and develop breakthrough clean beauty products that lead the industry forward. She combines her commitment to wellness and organic living with an expertise in clinical skincare and nutritional science to provide resources and guidance for men and women worldwide. In the non-profit sector, Kim has served as leader of the Retail Advisory Committee for the Environmental Working Group (EWG). An industry advisor and authority on safe, natural ingredients, Kim has lent her voice to beauty and empowerment podcasts such as Gloss Angeles, American Made Beauty, Support is Sexy and countless others. Kim and her brands have appeared on numerous morning news programs including CBS Early Show and Good Morning America with interviews from major publications including Vogue, Allure, Refinery 29, Poosh, Maisonette and WWD. Kim has contributed to Real Simple, Skin Inc, Huffington Post, Kidsinthehouse.com, StrollerTraffic.com, Natural PregnancyPros.com, MomTrends.com and more. An animated speaker, she educates and entertains audiences for events like Create & Cultivate, the Girl Cult Festival by Galore, and the Albright, an international women’s club. A member of the Female Founders Collective, CEW, Hey Mama in NYC and The Jane Club in Los Angeles, Kim mentors women on how to grow their business. Having been an early leader in international eCommerce and a business partner to such retailers as Whole Foods, Target, Ulta and Sephora, Kim has been tapped to speak on new trends at conferences like Shop.org and led the Retail Advisory Committee for the Environmental Working Group. As the CEO and Co-founder of Furtuna Skin, Kim leads development, from concept and formulation through storytelling for this luxury Italian skincare brand. She continues to raise the bar for clean beauty efficacy by debuting powerful new ingredients and processing methods, like Soundbath extraction, to deliver groundbreaking, transformative results.
