Skin Thrive
founder: Angela Sheehy
course: Diploma in Organic Skincare Formulation
Graduation year: 2024
location: Europe
Hero product: Glow Drops – Nutrient-Rich Day Serum
Brand overview
For Formula Botanica graduate Angela Sheehy, creating Skin Thrive brought together two areas of knowledge that had become increasingly important to her: nutrition and skin health.
With a background in nutrition science, Angela was already familiar with thinking about health through the lens of nourishment and wellbeing. Her interest in skincare grew from a desire to better understand the changes women experience during midlife – a stage she felt was not always well represented by the wider beauty industry.
That interest led Angela to study the Diploma in Organic Skincare Formulation with Formula Botanica, graduating in 2024. Through her studies, she learnt how to formulate skincare from scratch, deepened her understanding of cosmetic ingredients and developed the technical skills she needed to turn her ideas into finished formulations.
Angela says Formula Botanica helped her transform an existing passion into something tangible:
“Formula Botanica gave me the foundation to become a certified skincare formulator and turn my passion for skin nutrition into a real business. I learned how to create safe, effective formulations, understand ingredients at a deeper level, and build a brand from the ground up.”
That journey led to Skin Thrive, a skincare brand created with midlife and changing skin in mind. Drawing inspiration from Angela’s background in nutrition science, the brand is built around what she calls “skin nutrition” – a philosophy centred on thoughtfully selected ingredients and gentle formulations that work with the skin.
The brand’s hero product, Glow Drops Nutrient-Rich Day Serum, reflects this approach and Angela’s wider ambition for Skin Thrive: to encourage women to approach the changes in their skin with greater understanding and confidence.
For Angela, her Formula Botanica studies provided more than formulation knowledge. “It gave me both the technical expertise and the confidence to launch Skin Thrive.”
