Brenda Brock
Founder/CEO
Farmaesthetics
http://www.farmaesthetics.com/

Brenda Brock, the daughter of a 7th generation Texas farming family, first made her herbal skincare products available to customers other than friends and family in the summer of 1999, at her friend’s organic farmstand in rural RI, outside of Newport. Using the pristine organic harvests from the oceanside farms, Brenda continues to create & make her seasonal line of all natural herbal skincare. Her recipes are based on herbalism, folk lore, common knowledge, modern scientific botanical research, the principles of sustainable agriculture, the seasonal lifestyles of traditional farming families, as well as the holistic beauty & health regimens known to women of the 18th, 19th & early 20th centuries.

Brenda has imposed her strict natural product requirements onto the chemists of the cosmetic industry. Bringing her principles of skincare to the modern world of science & research, proved to be a happy collaboration. Consequently, her truly all natural products are now available to a larger audience, still using no artificial preservatives, no petroleum products, no dyes or talc, just the freshest of ingredients from our American family farms.

Brenda belongs to the prestigious Society of Cosmetic Chemists & is one of very few who have earned that inclusion based solely upon her interest in & knowledge of herbal skincare & her success in formulating & bringing her herbal preparations into the world of cosmetics' advanced aesthetics.

Accomplishments:
· Society of Cosmetic Chemists, induction into society as a result of her successful reformulation of traditional herbal recipes into proprietary, patentable, natural products with an extended shelf life for mass manufacturing

· Television appearances highlighting natural products, health, herbs and beauty, include ABC, Boston Chronicles; NBC, Good Morning Philadelphia

· Industry expert on natural product development, health and beauty at industry events, including recent panelist with Horst Reschelbacher, founder of Aveda, at the annual AromaHerb Conference, in Tempe, Arizona on” What Is Natural?” and “Why Natural is Better”

· Frequent contributor to media publications in field of natural product use and relevance in today’s environment: i.e. Natural Health Magazine, Associated Press, Yankee Magazine, national Society of Cosmetic Chemist Newsletter

· Selected to present Farmaesthetics to VC community at Springboard Forum 2003, New England; 1 of 15 companies chosen nationally as best of women owned entrepreneurial ventures.

· Board of Directors, Women Resource Center, non-profit, Bristol & Newport Counties Victims of Domestic Violence.

· Actor’s Studio Playwrighting and Directing Unit, NYC. Ms. Brock is a produced playwright

· ABC/ Cap Cities daytime television, One Life To Live contract actress 4 years (and two daytime television award nominations for best actress)