This time we want to share with you something very personal about the birth of Anakena - Natural Cosmetics, told from my own experience -Petra Klimscha- as founder of the company and creator of the brand.<\/p>\n
A couple of days ago, by chance, a photo of the first years of my own cosmetics production on Easter Island fell into my hands -it was May 2013-. At that time I had just opened my naturist store \"Rapa Nui Natural Products\" on the island and at the beginning I was selling the products I produced myself. Although the manufacturing was handmade and did not comply (strictly speaking) with the legal requirements, I always elaborated all the products with care and attention to detail and even used many ingredients brought from my homeland, Germany, 14,000 kilometers away.<\/p>\n
Due to the small production quantities and the novelty that these handmade products represented on the island, the sales turnover was also quite fast. For me, that was a great opportunity to fully live my impulse. With the help of several excellent books on the artisanal elaboration of cosmetics, I embarked on the adventure of elaborating any recipe for which I had the ingredients and fortunately they sold very well. And so, little by little, the idea of doing something more professional emerged.<\/p>\n
I'm often asked if the actual formulas for Anakena cosmetics I've made myself, but the answer is no. I'm not. You can compare it to making a lemon pie at home as an amateur pastry chef, it may turn out tasty, but that doesn't make you a professional pastry chef who can make a five-tier wedding cake. I am not a professional, although I have acquired the (basic) knowledge myself.<\/p>\n
So when I decided to take the leap and do things professionally, I contacted specialized laboratories, the so-called \"maquilladores\" (\"contract manufacturers\") in Chile and Germany, and told them what ingredients I wanted to use in the development of the cosmetics - now produced on a large scale - such as guavas, algae and various tropical plants and active ingredients. But then I left the development and production to the specialists.<\/p>\n
During the development process, samples of the product are taken over and over again until we are sure that the product fits. When everything fits (which can take a long time!), all the testing and safety evaluations are done, the registration with the ISP, and the packaging, labels and a few thousand other \"little things\" are prepared. That's when a cosmetic product goes into production!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Esta vez queremos compartir con ustedes algo muy personal sobre el nacimiento de Anakena \u2013 Natural Cosmetics, contado desde mi propia experiencia -Petra Klimscha- como fundadora de la empresa y creadora de la marca. Hace un par de d\u00edas, por casualidad, cay\u00f3 en mis manos una foto de los primeros a\u00f1os de mi propia producci\u00f3n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"off","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sobre","category-conoce-anakena","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakena-cosmetics.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakena-cosmetics.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakena-cosmetics.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakena-cosmetics.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakena-cosmetics.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakena-cosmetics.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakena-cosmetics.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakena-cosmetics.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakena-cosmetics.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakena-cosmetics.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}