Jenni Gilbert Beauty isn’t skin deep: it comes from the inside. This is the underlying message that has shaped Janine Tait’s journey in the aesthetics industry and what motivated her to create Bestow Beauty, a range of inner beauty products derived from superfoods (now available in Australia).
New Zealander Janine had been a dermal therapist for more than 30 years when she hit a wall and nearly gave her vocation away.
“I’d reached a point where there were some skins I just couldn’t treat, in particular a number of clients with acne,” she told a rapt audience at Professional Beauty Solutions’ Passion To Profits 2 seminar in Sydney in August.
“No matter what treatments or products I used and recommended to these clients, their conditions just wouldn’t improve to any significant degree. This led to a major crisis of professional confidence.
“It was extremely fortunate that around that juncture I met a woman – Janice Sarre Smith – who was decades ahead of her time. She worked 3D – that is, holistically – with skin.
“It started with me distributing her Janesce skincare range; natural products made with organic plant extracts based on a philosophy of whole body care.
“Janice made me realise that skin is built from the inside out, yet I was treating it one-dimensionally, on the outside.
“If you want to achieve beautiful, healthy skin, you have to go deeper. This led me to study nutritional medicine, and then I specialised in dermal nutrition.
“Skin requires certain nutrients to thrive and to avoid certain foods that aggravate it.
“When I applied my learnings to clients we started to see some amazing results. It turned my career around and gave it a new life.”
The resulting Bestow Beauty is a philosophy of skincare, made up of rituals and functional foods lovingly created to support inner health and outer beauty.
The range started with the development of Bestow Beauty Oil, a functional food to help nourish, heal and enrich skin, made from a blend of organic, unrefined, extra virgin seed oils cold-pressed from flax and safflower, to provide a balanced ratio of essential fatty acids for the skin.
From there the range has grown to include Bestow Beauty Powder, a delicious, beautifying blend of nutrient-rich plants, and Bestow Be Cleansed, a blend of nature’s super foods designed to bestow a clearer, more radiant complexion by encouraging the liver and bowel to gently eliminate toxins in a non-aggressive way.
Alongside the products are three food journals, which include recipes to bestow health and radiance, focusing on whole foods, are sugar and gluten-free and also largely dairy-free.
“The Bestow range is about rituals, not regimes, sensuality and sustenance, not substances,” says Janine.
“It’s more than a product, it’s about women feeling confident and having the right to experience her most beautiful self.”
