Story

You have good jojoba oil, said Amr, but mine is better... a story of our artisan

Table of Contents: Chapter 1 | I have great jojoba oil, why look for another one? Chapter 2 | Meeting Amr Chapter 3 | "You have good jojoba oil...

Is This Fair Trade?

Is it Fair Trade? These days I see Fair-Trade certification logo on a lot on packaging. As a consumer I immediately have a warm and fuzzy feeling a...

Exciting News! Please Welcome Katari Beauty First Ambassador!!!

Please welcome Noria, Katari Beauty First Ambassador. @randomlynoria You will see Noria's beautiful smile and hear her explain how to do clean be...

Cost Effective Clean Beauty Products? Let's just stop BS now.

Everyone has an opinion and there are a lot of opinions floating around in the realm of beauty and clean beauty specifically. This morning I woke u...

Intro to Katari - #cleanbeauty done right!

Hi beautiful and handsome humans! My name is Kate. For those for you who have been following Katari and my travels for years now, this might ...

20 Tips on Going International - a Soap Opera and a Saga of the most difficult success

This is the way it is done... I will keep it to bullet points just for the fun of it and those bullet points will be in no particular order, just l...

Organic Certifications - What's in a Name?

Do you buy produces based on the company story and the trust this company built with you; or do you only trust certifications?⁠⁠Until recently I w...

What Katari does and most other beauty brands don't.

It is expensive, it is inconvenient, it extremely time-consuming and labor intensive, it is hard emotionally, often physically demanding and yet it...

The challenges of NOT mass-producing and WHY it is good for YOU.

Economies of scale... a concept they teach you in economics. So true. Works so well. For some things. For some things, it works to a point. Here is...

The ugly face of beauty - its packaging....

It is a bold statement, but the heck with it. If you are not actually doing anything to change anything, it is all empty talk. The whole packaging ...

Travel Far

When you are on the border of Libya and feel absolutely safe, it is a great feeling. People are people everywhere; and they all want one thing - pe...

Active Ingredients?

Have your heard anything about active ingredients? Probably. Well, most commercial products and formulated products require a lot of add-ons, fil...