This entrepreneur makes skincare products with edible ingredients

Cork entrepreneur Tracey Ryan has added an innovative twist to natural skincare products by producing a range that is made with only edible ingredients.

Mandarin, honey, comfrey, and avocado butter are just some of the ingredients that go into the Bia Beauty natural skincare range which is now sold in over 100 outlets around the country. Ms Ryan says the fact her products are theoretically edible gives her a unique selling point. She recently made her first sale in the UK and now has plans to explore the German market,

A graduate of CIT’s herbal science degree, Ms Ryan started by making natural moisturisers for her baby in 2010. “I’ve always had the idea that if you couldn’t eat the ingredient then you should not put them on your skin. Skin absorbs about 60% of what you put on it,” she explains.