123 Nourish Me Q&A

With a mutual love of health and wellness, founders of 123 Nourish Me, Alisa and Danni started with an idea to enhance the health and wellbeing of families. What began as two friends chatting away in the kitchen has quickly grown to be a much-loved brand for parents Australia wide.

 

123 Nourish me takes kids health seriously. From organic cleaning products, to sunscreens, essential oils and beautifully made organic balms, 123 Nourish Me covers the family from top to toe.

We’re thrilled to have 123 Nourish Me as part of the GBN family, welcome!

We are so excited to join the team – we have been hoping to work with GBN for a long time!

Can you tell us a bit about how the brand started and your inspiration for launching?

We started our brand 7 years ago in our kitchens when we couldn’t find quality organic products in one range that ticked all the boxes. We began to make things ourselves using the highest quality ingredients we could source and started educating ourselves on ingredients. We built a large following and there was a demand for our products from parents so 123 Nourish Me was born!

What are the key differences between the 123 Nourish Me sunscreens and other brands on the market?

We are different from most brands because we have developed a truly natural sunscreen that is not greasy or thick and we don’t have any hidden nasties. We are one of the few sunscreen brands that list all ingredients and we are a full ingredient disclosure business.  Kids love the smell and the feel and for the first time we have found that kids actually look forward to putting on sunscreen and it’s no longer a battle. Our Sunscreen was voted Favourite Sun Smart Product at the My Child Awards and our Hello Sunshine Facestick is perfect for school and handbags.

Can you tell us about your balm range and how they work?

Our balms are our best selling products in our range and are a mix of incredible ingredients designed to soothe and comfort little ones. They contain organic essential oils, magnesium, kakadu plum and smell incredible and are a huge help for getting kids to sleep and supporting them when they are unwell.  We take huge care with our ingredients and packaging and package our balms in glass so there are no phthalates from plastics into our beautiful balms. Sleepy Head Balm was voted #1 sleep aid in Australia at the My Child Awards and Chesty Rub Balm just picked up Editors Choice for the 2023 Clean and Conscious Awards.   We have over 1000 verified reviews on our website which is a HUGE endorsement from our customers. 

Why is providing natural, ethical and organic products important to you?

Because our kids health matters and we only bring products to market that we would use on our own kids.  Our values remain the forefront of our business which is Organic and Natural, No Nasties and Australian Made. We are so proud of our incredible range and excited to make a difference in more homes across the country. 

Are your products safe for all ages? 

Our products are safe from 6+ months – 99 years! (although we do have reports of 1 customer who is 101 and uses Sleepy Head Balm every night!)

What have you found the most challenging part about starting a business today?

For us it’s been the juggle of being working mums and the balance of kids and business.  We have a brilliant team and we employ lots of single mums so working around our families and creating a culture that supports mums in the workplace is incredibly important to us.

What’s your must-have item in your bag this summer apart from sunscreen (obviously!)?

Fresh water,  our organic hand sanitiser – On the Go!, Bye Bye Bug and our First Aid Balm for life’s little mishaps! And of course our Hello Sunshine Tinted Facestick is never out of our handbags! 

Thanks for chatting!

At Global By Nature, we distribute 250 brands and over 2,500 health and wellness products to trade. Our knowledgeable team are passionate about connecting you with the best quality health brands that support the growth of your business. Get in contact with us today to start your health journey.

Global By Nature’s Summer Favourites

At Global By Nature, we distribute 250 brands and over 2,500 health and wellness products to trade. Our knowledgeable team are passionate about connecting you with the best quality health brands that support the growth of your business. With the holiday season just around the corner, the team at Global By Nature have curated our summer favourites. Share these summery, better-for-you products and recipes with your customers during the warmer months.

Raw Nature Deodorant Citrus + Vetiver 

Stay confident and fresh all day long with this aluminium-free natural deodorant. Its powerful key ingredients work to prevent odour and reduce sweating. Smells like freshly cut grass on a summers day!

 

Gevity RX Bone Broth Smokey Texan Bone Broth Marinade & Better Belly BBQ

Summer BBQ’s

Delicious and functional, packed with vitamins, minerals, amino acids, antioxidants, anti-inflammatories and natural detoxifiers. Check out Gevity Rx’S Smokey Texan Lamb ribs, perfect for a Sunday barbeque and only packed with the good stuff.

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Wotnot Sunscreen

Beautiful, clean formula’s that glides effortlessly across the skin, Wotnot sunscreen leaves your skin feeling soft, supple and nourished.

Pandas by Luvme Swim Nappies

Quick and easy to change saving you time especially if your baby likes to wriggle lots. Extremely lightweight, soft and comfy for bub whilst being practical and affordable. Snaps back to change size from newborn to toddler, especially around the leg to ensure no leakage.

Nort

Non-Alcoholic Refreshing Ale, brewed with TLC and 100% Australian with a fruit aroma, golden hue and crisp finish.

Mareeba Orchards Dried Pineapple & Mango

Tropical Australian grown fruity snacks, dehydrated and packed on the farm for maximum freshness. Naturally sweet, delicious and the perfect summer treat

Funday Gummy Snakes

The juiciest, fruitiest and tastiest gummy snakes in the confectionary aisle. Bursting with delicious passionfruit, blackcurrant and raspberry flavours. With 85% less sugar than other gummy snakes, 7g of plant-based prebiotic flavours and free from sugar alcohols, they are the perfect summery snack.

Tropeaka Portable Blenders & Acai Powder

A much-loved superberry from the Amazon that is filled with bursting flavour and health benefits. Blend up your next summery smoothie or acai bowl with Tropeaka’s Portable Blender.

Wild One Sparkling Drinks

Wild One’s premium, lightly sparkling fruit drinks invigorated with prebiotics, essential vitamins The perfect fusion of Australian sparkling mineral water, delicate bubbles and nature’s finest flavours, making it the perfect refreshment straight from the fridge.

Smooze Fruit Ice

A unique frozen treat made simply with freshly pressed coconut milk and pure fruit juices. Promising an exotic flavour and refreshing finish to cool you down on those hot summer days.

Locako Electrolytes

Locako’s premium hydrating and replenishing blend if key vitamins, minerals and electrolytes in a keto formula. Available in delicious Lemonade and Raspberry flavours to keep you hydrated in the warmer months.

Herbs of Gold B Complete

Contains activated B vitamins, including B2, B5, methylfolate and mecobalamin designed for energy product and assist in the maintenance of general wellbeing, a supportive complex formula for the busy holiday season.

Untamed Health Sprouting Seeds

Organically sourced from local farmers around Australia and are free from added sugar, gluten, wheat and all artificial. All mildly flavoured with a long list of health benefits to support balanced nutrition. Throw some Sprouting Seeds into your next summery salad.

Interview with Daniel Kitay, Founder of FUNDAY™ Natural Sweets

Funday have found the sweet spot! After frustration with the lack of healthy lollies on the market, Founder Daniel Kitay took to the kitchen. Deliciously natural lollies packed with gut-loving goodies, no added sugar or sugar alcohols, and bursting with fresh juicy flavours. The new natural lolly brand that is cleaning up the confectionary aisle.

1.    How did the Funday journey begin?

The FUNDAY journey began due to my frustration with the lack of healthy lollies in the market. I was avoiding the confectionery aisle all together and even the health food aisle lacked any good lolly options. On the one hand, there was full sugar lollies (organic or non-organic), and on the other hand sugar-free lollies, all of which contained huge concentrations of sugar-alcohols. Of course, while the sugar-free options sounded luring, they all had to claim “excess consumption may cause a laxative effect” and sure enough, after 1 or 2 gummy products, I couldn’t tolerate the stomach pain and effects. I thought there that to be another way and began formulating with different types of lollies with natural sweeteners and fibres at home. After hundreds of trials, I ended up developing what is now FUNDAY Natural Sweets.

2.    How does Funday Natural Sweets differ from other natural lolly brands?

Unlike almost all lolly brands, we contain ingredients that are good for you! A serving size (one bag of 50g) contains 7 grams of prebiotics. Our lollies have no sugar added, no sugar alcohols as we use ingredients like tapioca fibre and chicory root fibre.

All of our colours and flavours are natural, and are derived from ingredients like beetroot, spirulina and turmeric. We are gluten free, either 5 or 4.5 health star rated, two products are certified vegan by Vegan Australia and 100% Australian Owned.

3.    The range includes some delicious flavours, which is your favourite SKU?.

I LOVE them all obviously, but I am a sucker for sour vegan gummy bears. I love the sour formulation we’ve come up with (which doesn’t contain any sugar!) but the raspberry, lemon and apple flavours combined with the sour is incredible. I also love how the vegan bears are a bit chewy, so it lasts longer in your mouth and the flavour is more intense!

4.    Can you talk us through your sustainable manufacturing processes and its positive impact on the environment?

As we’ve become a more substantial business, our impact on the environment has become a bigger talking point within the business. We’re proud that our manufacturing is completely carbon neutral. All edible waste goes into animal feed. We have also signed up to APCO so our packets are store-drop off recyclable, our trays and outer packaging are 100% recyclable, we use vegetable and soy based inks. As a business, we are always looking at ways to become more sustainable and welcome feedback from our customers all the time on how to improve.

 5.    What does the term ‘wellness’ mean to you and how to you adopt wellness in your day to day?

Wellness is a very broad term and can be easily overused. I take wellness to be an overarching term that considers how a person is coping physically and mentally. Both physical and mental wellness are inter-connected and as the Founder and leader of FUNDAY it is my job to manage my own wellness but also the wellness of the team around me.

6.    What has been the most challenging part of building the Funday brand?

It’s very challenging being a start up business in a $1.4b confectionery industry with huge multinational businesses around you with huge budgets. The biggest challenge is always having to think differently, i.e. if you don’t have those million dollar budgets, how do we launch a successful brand, and product and still be successful? So it’s always having to be creative and innovative… but that’s the part myself and the team LOVE… it’s what keeps us going. Rather than just signing over a million dollars to an agency to execute a campaign, we’re in the ‘trenches’ building an awesome, delicious and fun brand!

7.    What has your experience with GBN been like?

Our experience with GBN has been really great so far! We saw immediate growth after signing an agreement. The service and communication has been at our high service levels, and we’re looking forward to building a long-term partnership with the entire GBN team.

At Global By Nature, we distribute 250 brands and over 2,500 health and wellness products to trade. Our knowledgeable team are passionate about connecting you with the best quality health brands that support the growth of your business.

Brand Interview | Raw Nature

Introducing a new Global By Nature exclusive, Raw Nature. This global award-winning range of plant-powered body care is vegan + ethy accredited, harnessing the best of green chemistry.

1. Can you share with us the humble beginnings of the Raw Nature brand?

Having various health issues made me reassess the body care products that our family were using and particularly what was going on the skin of our two young teenage daughters.

I was unable to find brands that were truly natural and safe, yet powerful enough to give me and my girls the confidence of smelling great throughout the day. So, I decided to create my own body care products.

 

Like a classic small business story, it all started in the home kitchen, which looked like a science lab most days. A range of body care products were carefully designed to deliver the performance of conventional brands using only plant-based ingredients, while offering an unmatched aroma experience. Raw Nature was born.

2. Why was the creation of this brand so important to you?

I’ve always loved eating healthy food, so as I was becoming more aware of what went in my body it just made sense to look at the products I was using on my skin. 

Natural makeup was the next change I made but when it came to body care the selection was so limited and what was out there was not effective at all.  This convinced me that there were others wanting to make more natural body product choices. I was also adamant that if I started this brand it wouldn’t be contained in plastic, so all of the products are packaged in beautiful biodegradable and compostable cardboard tubes and labels.

3. What is the success behind your formula’s and how do they differ from other natural personal care brands?

I think the success of the formulas is due to me not having a background in cosmetic chemistry. I didn’t know how to make cosmetic formulations but I do know how to bake and make creations in my kitchen, so I thought how hard can it be to make body products?  It took about 18 months of research, trial and errors to come up with the products.  What I learnt is that the power of natural ingredients, married with science, ensures each product works as well as or better that the mainstream alternative. The formulas are clean, conscious and considered with special attention on high performance, and that I ended up teaching the cosmetic chemists a few things about natural formulations.  

4. As a busy mum and entrepreneur, how do you incorporate natural health practices into your everyday routine?

I’m a big fan of listening to what your body needs and I try and encourage my children to do the same. A lot of ailments can be prevented when you are in tune with what’s going on with yourself – I believe mental wellbeing (not just physical wellbeing) plays a huge part in our health.  Our family loves laughter and joking around with each other which I think keeps us sane.

 5. Which would you say is the one SKU in the range you absolutely can’t live without?

The geranium + lime deodorant.  It was the very first product I perfected, and I’ve worn it every day since. The scent of citrus and floral and doubles as my perfume if I’ve forgotten to put it on.

6. Has there been a particular challenging aspect to the building of the Raw Nature brand?

Yes, as I mentioned before not being a cosmetic scientist caused some challenges for me when I needed to scale production – I had to learn very quickly how to convert my basic ‘recipes’ into formulations that a manufacturing cosmetic lab could understand.  There were a few tears!

7. What has your experience with GBN been like?

Really fantastic.  I feel very lucky to have a great partnership with GBN as they really understand the health product environment which is very important to me. Everyone I have dealt with is very helpful and caring.

 

At Global By Nature, we distribute 250 brands and over 2,500 health and wellness products to trade. Our knowledgeable team are passionate about connecting you with the best quality health brands that support the growth of your business.

Interview with Keith Maloon, Co Founder of Mareeba Orchards

1.    Can you share with us the beginnings of Mareeba Orchards?

Mareeba Orchards was founded in early 2021 with the purpose of providing Australian consumers with a healthy alternative to dried fruit. We at Mareeba are exceptionally proud to be supporting Aussie farmers, with Australia being amongst one of the countries producing some of the best tasting, high quality fruit in the world. Most current dried fruit products on the market are imported and contain unnecessary sugars, preservatives, and other unhealthy ingredients. Mareeba is the first company to produce small retail packets of tropical dried fruit using Australian grown product, a naturally sweet and healthy snack for the whole family.

2.    What does ‘natural health’ mean to you?

My personal health journey has always been centred on living a clean and healthy lifestyle, sticking to eating produce in its truest form and free from unnecessary ingredients. And so, 100% pure Australian dried fruit was a no brainer. We as a wider team hope to improve the lives of everyday Australians through health and convenience.

3.    Which is your favourite SKU in the range?

 That’s definitely a difficult question as all of our SKUs are delicious. I guess pineapple would be my favourite, closely followed by banana.

 4.    Tell us about your new SKU!

 We are super excited to be launching our NEW mango variety 57g packets. Our team has been working around the clock for months sourcing the best quality, Australian mangoes available. The end product is simply amazing, and we believe it will be a big hit, already complementing our successful range.

5.    Has there been any hurdles that Mareeba Orchards has had to overcome?

Some of our biggest challenges have been to source and process all fruit varieties all year round. As you are aware, some fruit like mango and pineapple is seasonal and there may be slight differences in taste depending on the season and fruit variety available at the time.

Mareeba Orchards has been successful in providing all our range all year round.

6.    What has your experience with GBN been like?

 Global by Nature had the foresight at the beginning and passion for the brand and have been very successful in ranging our brand in independent grocery, health food and pharmacy stores. Our experience has been excellent especially the professionalism, drive and enthusiasm for our range.

At Global By Nature, we distribute 250 brands and over 2,500 health and wellness products to trade. Our knowledgeable team are passionate about connecting you with the best quality health brands that support the growth of your business.

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Are Natural Skin Care Products Really Better For You?

natural skincare

Skin care products that are labelled ‘natural’ are a dime a dozen in most pharmacies, makeup stores and even supermarkets these days. Unfortunately, any product can be adorned with a ‘natural’ sticker, even if it contains a portion of artificial ingredients.

So what makes a skin care product truly natural-and how can we be sure natural skin care products are really better for you, your skin and your overall health?


Finding a truly natural skin care product can be confusing, so we’re here to help. Here’s a round-up of the ingredients required to make a skin care product officially ‘natural’, some key benefits of using natural skin care, and a list of natural skin care ingredients to look out for if you’re on the hunt for natural skin care products.

What ingredients are required to make a skin care product truly ‘natural’?

When a skin care product has ‘natural’ on its label, it typically means that all of its contributing ingredients are derived directly from nature, referring to plants, minerals, fruits, etc. This also means it contains no artificial or fake ingredients.

This definition also extends to ingredients that are naturally sourced but then synthesised in a lab. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as the process can help maximise the ingredients’ effectiveness by stabilising them. This means if you read ‘aloe vera’ on the label of a natural skin care product, the product is natural, but there’s a chance the aloe vera was slightly processed before mixing other ingredients to create the product.

What are the benefits of using a natural skin care product?

The most prominent benefit of using a certified natural skin care product is that it will be gentler and safer for your skin. This is because a true ‘natural’ product will be devoid of chemicals that can often irritate sensitive skin. The same goes for fragrances, as most natural skincare products won’t contain artificial fragrances that can also irritate skin easily.

Natural skin care products can also help provide better overall skin nutrition. Organic and natural products contain ingredients that skin thrives on, including shea, Manuka, tea tree, coconut and aloe (to name a few).

Natural Skincare Ingredients

Another benefit of using natural skin care products is that they are often kinder to the environment. As we’ve mentioned above, most ingredients in natural skin care products are naturally sourced (or natural, but effectively stabilised), so you can be confident that there are less artificial toxins or waste being fed back into the earth.

Beneficial natural skin care ingredients to look out for

Some of the most beneficial ingredients within natural skin care products include honey, cocoa butter, turmeric, aloe vera, oats, green tea, pomegranate, chamomile, seaweed and mulberry (among many others). There are also a range of oils within popular natural skin care products, including olive oil, jojoba oil, sesame oil, coconut oil, and argan oil.

Is natural skin care better for you and your skin?

As we’ve mentioned above, natural skin care offers plenty of benefits to its users. Above all, it is true to say that natural skin care products are better for the environment, and as they don’t contain synthetic materials, they are marginally better for your health and skin.

Natural skin care products are designed to treat and nourish the skin without the use of artificial ingredients, so they are a sure-fire way to keep your skin looking clean and healthy.

Luckily for skin care enthusiasts, natural skin care products are easy to find in stores and online. Just be certain to check all ingredients so you’re fully aware of the type of product you’re buying – is it really natural? The advice we’ve provided in this article will help you look beyond the sticker or label, and into the composition of each natural skin care product you come across.

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