About Me

Hey!
My name is Sharleigh! I am the founder of Decision Cosmetics and if you have been
following for a little while, then you probably know exactly who I am and what
brought me to starting this business.

If not, well, strap in.

Starting a cosmetic business has always been my dream! But, like any normal
dream, it’s the answer that you give to someone when they ask you “So, if money
didn’t matter and you could do anything you want for a job, what would you pick”?
Well, for me, it was starting a cosmetics business.

Instead, I went through university completing a Chemistry degree because I loved
chemistry, not because I gave it a whole lot of thought about what I would do with thedegree. University was the most fun I have ever had. I loved the subjects and
achieved great grades. Once I finished, I got a job in a mining lab and then a
cosmetics and quality control lab, but I wasn’t enjoying the work as much as I wanted to. In my current career, I don’t use any of my chemistry degree.

Whilst I was at university, I had bad acne that really affected me, like it does for most people who suffer with acne. I went on Roaccutane, which is an intense acne
medication and in 12 months I went from intense oily skin to intense dry skin. I, with
my chemistry knowledge, started to look for things that helped my dry skin. I looked and looked and looked and to be honest I didn’t find anything that fixed it. Just topical moisturisers that just stopped it from LOOKING dry.

I wore makeup to try and cover the redness and dermatitis and then I had to wash
the makeup off, otherwise I would suffer from more break outs. So, I would use a
facewash and then my skin would feel super tight and dry. I would then apply a
moisturiser and serum and virtually anything that said it would help to “hydrate and
moisturise”. These made it look hydrated and moisturised and that’s about it. They
never actually cured or assisted with curing any of my dry skin issues! I then, would
do the same thing the next day: apply makeup, wash it off and apply unhelpful
moisturisers. My skin hated me, and I lost faith in the cosmetics industry.

I noticed that as my chemistry knowledge increased, my understanding of the
ingredient list of the products I was using didn’t really change. I still had to spend
hours working out what the ingredients were and what reasons they were used for. I
could never work out which ones I was sensitive too because there are usually so
many ingredients.

Well, this is where my own research began! I spent so long experimenting at home
with soap making and oils. You name it, I tried it! I gifted what I made to family and
that’s about as far as it went.

That’s until now. I am busy with work and for the last couple of years have gotten
lazy with making my own skincare. I wanted the convenience of just buying
something that works.

So, I walked into an expensive makeup and skincare store and spent $300 on
skincare hoping that it would fix me! My skin had gotten to a point where I couldn’t
put on makeup without it stinging. The sunscreen I apply daily was painful, and my
skin looked unhealthy.

I took it home and gave it a go. It didn’t work, no surprise. I wasted $300 and with
that came significant frustration that my skin hurts, and nothing worked to fix it.

I spent the next three months and all my free time trialling different soap
combinations and oils, until eventually I found a formula that worked. It wasn’t perfect though. I gave it to my friends to try and give me feedback and the formula wasn’t stable. It would separate and had issues in environments with lots of water, which is a problem given face wash is typically used in a bathroom or shower. So, I
experimented and tested further and here we are. That’s what brought us to the
formula that you guys have all tried.

I used it and within three days my skin irritation was gone and I could put my
sunscreen on without it stinging. Washing my face was no longer something I
dreaded. I have been using my facewash now for as long as it has existed which is
months and months and still, my skin is amazing! No dry skin issues, my redness
had gone down, my break outs are way less and I can even use face masks and
other products that I couldn’t before.

My mission in this business?
If you can’t read ingredient lists and can’t understand what ingredients you are
sensitive to. If you don’t know where to focus your money on skincare and have dry,
sensitive skin that hurts, you are the person I want to make a face wash for!
I want you to have somewhere you can go and trust that the ingredients aren’t
confusing, the product works, and you aren’t wasting your money! That’s why I have made a face wash with five natural ingredients, that works. Thats my mission.

Look at your face wash and ask yourself, is it is really doing what it should? Come try our cleansing butter and challenge the face wash you are using.