Marie Claire Magazine: Hot List

Oooh guess what! forgot to mention, that our Sensual Body Oil is featured in the Marie Claire Magazine Hot List. April Edition

WuChi by Maks- on BBC News 24

We were recently contacted by producers of a new BBC news 24 programme called 'Show me the Money'. I was asked to show and demonstrate my expertise in making natural skincare products. And then interviewed about how WuChi by Maks was started, the benefits of  running a business, being an entrepreneur and the challenges of running and growing a company from scratch.

It is one thing when you are working by your self and very different when you have journalist and the camera watching.

Part two was then filmed at the BIPC with other female entrepreneurs to discuss the benefit we derive from a women's networking group. It focused on how we help and empower each other at different stages of  our businesses and the benefits networking with other entrepreneurs brings. The whole experience was fantastic.

Having now watched the BBC feature which was shown yesterday the 31st October, it went really well. It was a wonderful experience it projected what we do and how hard we work at WuChi HQ making our lovely luxurious skincare products.  I  had fun filming the segment  and a lot of work went into the preparation. I feel privileged and blessed to be part of the experience. Thank you to the team.

Ebay Discovery -November 2009

We noticed WuChi by Maks looking type products on ebay. Please note these are fake products and if you want WuChi products please visit our website www.wuchi.co.uk to ensure you are geting our genuine and authentic products because we pride our self on quality and the ethos of our brand.

Please visit WuChi by Maks authorised suppliers because we take pride in selling ultimate genuine quality products that work and guaranteed by us.


This incident has been reported and brought to Ebay management's attention.

For our customes, be rest assured that we have in place genuine batch record of products made and dispatched to inividual adresses and suppliers around the world for traceability.

WuChi by Maks is a registered protected trademark. And any company or individual proclaiming to be WuChi by Maks will be punishable for impersonating the WuChi by Maks brand and will be persecuted by law.

This picture aquired from ebay is not authorised and is not genuine WuChi by Maks brand range.

Interview with Founder of WuChi by Maks - You Are Your Brand

I was interviewed  after my guest speaking engagement  at the British library and IP centre in May. This was in collaboration with the British Library's green and ethical month.
The feedbacks I received from the talk was absolutely fantastic and very positive. Days after,  I received an email from the lovely Sally Marsh of bonbonbalm.com  who was one of the attendes and this is what she had to say about my  talk- 
" Thanks for a brilliant talk! Just to let you know I have recommended you as a speaker to some other business organizations so you may possibly be contacted about this"  Sally Marsh
Thank you very much Sally. 


Sadly,  the video recording of the talk was lost at the last minute due to battery power. But, Cally Robson of She's Ingenious still performed a miracle over lunch by producing this unplanned video interview.





A little bit of the story of how we started...


Most people feel completely in the dark when it comes to branding a new product. In this interview, Amaka Olateju tells how she now realizes that SHE is key to fronting her luxury, ethically sourced organic skincare products, because her beliefs ARE her brand.

When Amaka Olateju found that none of the prescribed creams worked for her daughter's eczema, she turned to the knowledge handed down by her Nigerian grandmother who used herbs and natural products to produce healing remedies.

She spent more than 4 years creating and testing her own creams and lotions. Those that worked soon became popular among friends and family.

Amaka soon saw the potential for her remedies as a luxury range of natural skincare products, both organic and ethically sourced. She signed up to a business law and marketing degree and booked herself onto skincare manufacturing courses in her holidays. WuChi by Maks was born.

What Amaka didn't realize as she put together her website, was the importance of herself in promoting her business because everything she stands for IS her brand. But it's taken a journey of getting to know herself, and the world of business, to have the confidence to see it.

"You can achieve anything you set your mind to...but be prepared to work hard and know there will be good days and bad days. Establishing a business is like growing a seed...it will take care and constant attention but if you put in the hard work, the Universe makes sure that every step you take draws you closer to where you want to be."Amaka Olateju, Founder, WuChi by Maks

WuChi Featured in Ninetynine Magazine

WuChi CoCo Passion Luxury Body Scrub Feature

 

Our WuChi Coco Passion Luxury Body Scrub is featured in the latest How TO Look Good Naked book out September 2009. This book contains expert advice from the hit TV series as seen on channel 4.

So if you want to look good naked, before you bare all one of the secrets of holly wood stars and smooth glowing skin is to Exfoliate, Exfoliate and Exfoliate. Just Once a week will do. The benefit is rewarding.

Grab a pot here before it runs out.

 Book info here on Amazon

Best Night Cream Award 2009 for WuChi

We received "Best Night Cream Award" for our Nourishing Night Cream from Miss Eco Glam Awards .

Click here to read the full review
Follow this link to find out more about our nourishing night cream.

Thank you to the team at MissEco Glam for this wonderful review and award.
Click here to visit Miss Eco Glam website.

Special Endorcements

We got the loveliest email from Mary Linehan beauty editor about our Rose face oil and thought we should share this with you.

Mary wrote

Hi Maks

"I just wanted to say- my sister -in-law is a COMPLETE convert to your Rose face oil . I got her to use half of my own bottle and she's is totally revamping her beauty products to include your oil.

Always nice to get an endorsement!

M x

WuChi Featured in Woman & Home

WuChi by Maks- Sensual Body Oil featured in woman& home as Tuesday's buy for May 2009. by beauty editor Lynn Cardy.

"While drifting around the natural and organic show last week, we discovered Wu Chi - a gorgeous new organic skincare range and literally fell on their luxurious Sensual Body Oil and wouldn’t let go.
This exotic multi-purpose oil can be used right after a bath to soften and hydrate, or be smoothed on as a delicate fragrance.
What’s in it? A blend of cold pressed oils, including wheatgerm, Bulgarian rose otto and Ylang Ylang essential oils."

Warm a little in your palms, apply with long strokes and massage into skin for a truly sensual experience. Better still get someone you love to do it for you!
£25.90 for 200ml. wuchi.co.uk

Thank you Lynn for this feature.
see link here

NIGHT OILS Feature at Optima Magazine

Mary Linehan, beauty editor writes on her top personal favourite night oils and the wise choice for peachy skin; featuring WuChi Rose Face Oil

“a truly beautiful and very rich oil with rose hip and rose Otto, so especially good for dry or mature skin” March 2009

Visit our website www.wuchi.co.uk to find out why our Rose face Oil is becoming a firm favourite with customers and the press. Visit Optima magazine website here

WuChi Featured on Livingethically

Thank you livingethically for your review on Winter Radiance Face Products.

WuChi Rose face oil voted 9/10
"for youthful radiance".

Rejuvenating day cream voted 7/10 "for radiant winter skin".

Nourishing nigh cream voted 7/10 "rich and easily absorbed leaves the skin feeling soft and smooth".

I'm glad you like it.

Vist livingethically's website to find out more.

The following products can be purchased individually or as a complete Radiance face box. click here for more information

WuChi Featured in the GreenGuide for Weddings

WuChi is featured in the latest GreenGuide for weddings book.

The Guide is about
How to make your special day glam, gorgeous and green with the Green Guide for Weddings. Contains information about;

venue • attire • beauty • food • drink • budget •

dreamy details • honeymoon • case studies • advice • directory

An array of wedding experts offer their experience to assist you down the aisle in planet-friendly and ethical style. Case studies of couples who have already taken their first steps into married life provide further insight into creating a successful green wedding.

Key questions are answered: What is an eco-friendly venue? Should you fly away for your honeymoon? Where can you find the greenest wedding dress? What’s best for local, seasonal and organic catering? Where to go for ethical jewellery and gifts? Who supplies the most natural cosmetics and the best organic flowers? The author looks at all these and more, plus a comprehensive directory lists the best eco suppliers and products.

It’s all done with a light-hearted touch that guides, inspires and delights. There’s no preaching here – just everything needed to make the day a great success and as green as possible.

“A wedding is a fabulously fresh opportunity to start the way you mean

to go on, finding new eco-companies and inspiration that you can use time

and time again throughout your married life.”

Author Jen Marsden

Find out more at www.greenguide.co.uk

Green Guide for Weddings | October 2008 | £8.99 | ISBN 978-1-905731-49-7

224 pages | full colour | softback | printed on FSC-certified paper

buy a copy online at http://www.greenguide.co.uk/ggweddings - use the discount code GGXmas08 for a 15%

Latest Feature: WuChi Rose face Oil

I am happy that our Rose Face Oil was featured recently in the september issue of: Optima Magazine Sept, 2008;

"We love, WuChi by Maks Rose face oil to aid skin regeneration. "You will wake in the morning with skin that's soft and plumped up."
Optima Magazine Sept 2008.

Many thanks from the WuChi team for recognising the quality of our face oil.

WuChi is on Face Book too.......

Join the new WuChi by Maks group on face book and keep us posted on your feed backs and we will keep you posted about our regular WuChi champagne & mingle parties.

Click on the link below to join

http://www.facebook.com/pages/WuChi-by-Maks-Luxury-Natural-Skincare/20126170188




http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?ref=sb

It's a Wrap

Just finished showcasing the WuChi by Maks range at these 2 exhibitions

Following the Vitality Show in London we were featured by the British Satellite Network News (BSN) and interviewed by them.
We say thank you to the team for recognising our efforts and the quality of our brand.

To Watch this interview clip:Click on the link below:

I was interviewed and our WuChi products were also on display

http://www.bsn.org.uk/index.php?action=search&search=vitality+show

TITLE:BRITISH PRODUCTS LEAD VITALITY SHOW LONDON 31 MARCH 2008:Our bit starts from 01:47sec or just about and continues.

I was a bit nervous !!!!

Self promotion is not that bad ey!

This is purely self promotion! sometimes it helps to count your blessings.

And everything else will follow. Especially now that everything is happening at the same time.

Presently things are hotting up! apart from the WuChi black box under way- see previous post

We are preparing for 2 prestigious health & beauty exhibitions where our products will be show cased

(1) The vitality show 27th-30th March 2008

Olympia, Kensington London

Stand A267a http://www.thevitalityshow.co.uk/

(2) Natural & Organic products Europe

13th-14th April 2008

Olympia, Kensington, London

Stand 1143 http://www.naturalproducts.co.uk/

Same venue and only a week apart. If only after the first event things stay the same and we just stroll in a week after to continue from where we stopped. I hear you say "you wish" yeap absolutely.

I love challenges and besides events like this are a big learning curve for me to keep abreast with the Skincare and cosmetic industry. You have to know what is happing in the market otherwise take a hike.

Give you an example- Following the first ever exhibition at the Natural and organic products Europe exhibition in less than a year we re-branded about 13 of our products, We changed the packaging ASAP to conform with the luxurious, sophisticated, clean, stylish but simplicity of our image. It is not that the jars were not fantastic - it's just that We are WuChi

I say its been absolutely worth it and it is called Branding to the T ( Knowing what you want)

As Seen in the Natural Beauty Year Book 2008

WuChi by Maks- our Coco Passion Luxury Body Scrub was featured in the recently published - Natural Beauty year book 2008.

WuChi at the- Screen Nation Awards Oct 2007

WuChi by Maks will be at the indulge lounge of the screen Nation film & TV awards this year taking place on the 15th of October 2007 at the Hilton London Metrople W2.

Honouring Morgan Freeman and a whole lot of celebrities and Artist including Tandi Newton, Moira Stewart, Chiwetal Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Sopie Okenedo.

For more information on the event visit http://www.screennation.co.uk/

I will keep you updated on the event and the celebrities we will be meeting on the day plus how the indulge lounge will function on the day.

I am really excited but also am not sure what to expect or how the event will turn out. To tell the truth i don't know some of the celebrities who will be there by name or face ( i don't watch East Enders, i don't watch Coronation street, or Emmerdale) i think there should be more to life than existing in one place, growing old and not seeing the world. The whole scenario of being in one square ( seems to apply to all of them) bores me to bit. There's more to life than the circle turning round too quickly.

But never the less, am sure they are all fantastic programmes of which i haven't got a hang of, having moved here not to long ago. Although, i have enjoyed some fab programmed on telly, like Tribe, Sir David Attenbrough's deep blue Ally Macbeal... ("American", i know) and host of others. 'Am really trilled to be part of this event and look forward to it.

No Dragon!

Recently, i received an email from the BBC to participate in the series 5 of the New Dragon's Den investment opportunities program. I turned it down and said no. This is the email i sent back-
Dear ****,

Thank you for contacting us with regards to possible consideration and participation for series 5 of the Dragons Den investment opportunities.

Although we welcome investment, partners and growth in our business, we do not believe that this programme is the way forward for us.

We are realistic, determined, passionate and committed to the Luxury, Ethics and Quality of our Natural & Organic handmade skincare company and do not want to be caricatured or seen otherwise having watched the programme on a few occasions.

Thank you very much again for the invitation.

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Honestly, right now i could do with some money, constant cash flow, paid salary and a regular income but not to do a TV programme just for TV rating and everyone trying to outshine the other by speaking English.

When you go through the real ups and downs of starting a business from scratch, your effort and determination and hard graft passion and belief is not a TV Show it is absolute reality not a gamble to be debated about.

That's a fact it's either you believe or not!