Meet Carol's Daughter Founder Lisa Price
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Courtesy of Lisa Price The secret was in the cake batter, as Carol’s Daughter founder Lisa Price tells it. Fed up with products that provided little relief for her dry skin, she decided to make her own. Price began playing around in her Brooklyn apartment, armed with a book of body treatment recipes and a counter full of natural ingredients. Her experiments yielded nothing but a lot of mess until a Duncan Hines commercial spurred her to try a new technique, stirring the creams as they cooled to create a whipped texture—voilà! That cream is now the base for both Carol’s Daughter Açai Hydrating Face Butter and Healthy Hair Butter ($14 and $17, carolsdaughter.com).
Price continued to tinker with her stovetop concoctions and, encouraged by her mother, started selling them at local flea markets and craft fairs. Customers were intrigued by the simple ingredients. “They would say: It feels like there’s love in these jars. They’d never tried natural products that worked,” Price says. Over 20 years later, the company born in her kitchen counts celebs, like Jada Pinkett-Smith, as fans. The mom-of-three shares her secrets for beauty inside and out.
Chapped-lips fix: “Last winter, when the weather was so harsh, I put on Hourglass No. 28 Lip Treatment Oil day and night. It was the first cold season I didn’t have chapped lips. It’s a remarkable lip balm.” ($42, sephora.com)
Multitasking fave: “I adore our Body Jelly. It’s a vegetable-based, all-natural alternative to petroleum jelly. I use it on my cuticles and feet; I take off my makeup with it; I mix it with sugar for a gentle scrub. People don’t believe I have dry skin and it’s because of this.” ($12, carolsdaughter.com)
Her brand’s o rigin: “Trying to come up with a name, I made a list of things I was and that I wanted to be. When I wrote ‘Carol’s daughter,’ I got goose bumps.”
Get-focused ritual: “Whenever I was overwhelmed with the line, my mom would tell me to make tea. Simply brewing it brought a moment of clarity.”
Zen hobby: “Crocheting calms me down. I get lost in the colors and textures of the yarn. At first, I don’t always know what I’m making, but I just let it flow, and something turns up.”
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