Hello, good to see you!

I am very pleased that you have found my page here. You can now find a little bit about me in the following lines so that you can understand even better why I do what I do and love what I do.

What would the world be without plants and animals? A desolate place, probably. I've always loved flora & fauna, but only learned to appreciate this world even more through my travels abroad such as Portugal, Mallorca, Malaysia, Indonesia & Australia. After my training in Germany as a beautician, I was drawn to Portugal for a year. The travel fever aroused and one year more professional experience in the bag, I came back to Germany, but quickly realized that I was missing something, I packed my bags again & ended up in Mallorca for almost 3 years. There I also completed massage training, with a focus on Ayurvedic teaching. This made me realize that in other cultures, the world of medicinal herbs still plays an important role. On Mallorca I started experimenting with herbs and oils & started making my own cosmetics & giving them away to friends & family. I started to get even more involved with the ingredients of the cosmetics that were on the market. And I was shocked to find that there are questionable ingredients in many renowned cosmetic products & even animal ingredients are hidden in a cream jar.

I was aware that lanolin, for example, is obtained from sheep fat, but not that so many other animals such as fish (guanine: crushed fish scales, squalane: shark fins), insects (silk: silkworms), crustaceans (chitosan/chitin ), birds (keratin: feathers or hooves) pigs, cattle etc for collagen (e.g. tendons, bones, & connective tissue), suffer & have to die . I was shocked that many people, like me at the time, were not even aware of this and many people are still simply not aware of it. Ultimately, it is and remains a dead animal that you smear on your skin.

But not only the controversial addition of animal ingredients, but also the harmful synthetic substances that can cause allergies and diseases made me think. 

Did you know that everything that comes in contact with our skin takes just 30 minutes to get into our bloodstream? As a result, many people take in more toxic substances through cosmetics than through food!​

After the Mallorca years I was drawn to Australia, stopovers in Malaysia and Indonesia, where I realized how badly our planet is actually being devastated. In countries where everything was wrapped in banana leaves 50 years ago, there is now more plastic than nature on the roadside or washed up on the beach by the sea. Sad, because these people are often not aware of how long it takes, for example, a plastic bottle to decompose (it takes a plastic bottle up to 450 years to break down into microplastic particles (tiny plastic parts) ). It is assumed that plastics do not dissolve completely. The microplastic particles are getting smaller and smaller, but do not break down completely.​

In Australia I fell in love with the animal and plant world, there are still places there that fortunately have not had to give way because of factory farming or civilization . Nevertheless, this topic also haunted me there & I started to eat first vegetarian and then vegan. Perhaps experiences such as working on a cattle ranch, where incidentally kangaroos, eagles and dingoes were also shot, which can cause damage to the cattle ranch, contributed. Other animals have to die so we can have our meat on our plates for a few minutes of enjoyment.​

Getting to know another culture, like that of the Australian natives, connected me even more with nature and this continent. I understood and I was aware that the indigenous peoples, as there are in other countries on earth, could and are getting by without materialism. These aborigines knew how to heal themselves with plants and herbs & I dealt a lot with the Australian bush plants . I created cosmetics for a boutique hotel with a herbalist from Chile, which I used in my own cosmetic treatments. The products found space in the hotel rooms for the guests & I grew the desire to turn my hobby into a profession. So I founded my own line of cosmetics "Kgari". To this day I am very grateful to my boss at the time for supporting me. 

Since it was not an option for me to stay in Australia forever, although I would have really liked to do so because the animal and plant world is simply unique there, I traveled back to Germany to my family . I worked & continue to work diligently to realize my dream here in Germany. & now I'm sitting here, writing these lines & thinking to myself how crazy life is sometimes & I have the opportunity to live my dream and make other people happy with sustainable vegan natural cosmetics.

Thanks for being a part of it. Your Nicole.