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WHEN CELESTE LUTRARIO was formulating luxury creams for Chanel six years ago, never in her wildest dreams did she imagine that she'd soon be a pioneer in the natural skincare world. But having developed hightech skincare products for Elizabeth Arden, Avon and the aforementioned Chanel, Celeste is now approaching skincare from a completely different vantage point. One that is committed to natural ingredients.
"When I first started at Burt's Bees, I had to relearn everything I knew about formulating skincare products," she says at a recent Toronto press launch. "I had to start from scratch and learn how to work with natural products - some that act quite differently than synthetic ones." But five years later, her hard work is really paying off with natural products that perform at the same level as many popular over-the-counter brands. "That's the...