Mandi and Whitney here, the founders of The Clean Swap Box!
We have a few questions for you…

• Do you love beauty products? (Silly question, who doesn’t?!)
• Do you like to try the best new products on the market? (but can’t spend your entire pay keeping up)
• Are you interested in trying to make the swap to cleaner ingredients in your products?
• Do you think it’s important to support Australian + female founded brands where possible?….if you answered yes to two or more of these questions, then darling, do we have something special for you 🤗

IMAGINE THIS SCENE

Every season as the weather is shifting and your habits are changing, a beautiful box lands on your doorstep.
You open the recyclable and biodegradable packaging, slip your finger under the sticker that keeps the beautiful tissue paper wrapped neatly around the special contents.

You lift the tissue to reveal… five full size items that are *perfect* for the new season. No box full of wasteful, single-use samples from brands you can shop anywhere. Instead, you find beautifully packaged, beauty-therapist approved products with clean ingredients. From independently owned, female founded Australian brands.

You love it so much you send one to your dear friend Anna in lockdown, and it really brightens her day. You decide to have a Netflix Watch Party together, while you use your new Australian yellow clay and turmeric clay mask on your freshly cleansed skin, sip some antioxidant-rich beauty tea as you comb your new hair mask through your locks, and use your copper gua sha to really push in the hydrating and spring-perfect night oil you both received.

You can’t believe you paid just $99 for ~$250 of beauty products.
Literally just $1 a day to always have the newest products on the market, hand-picked by two beauty therapists that have been in the industry together for over 16 years. Your skin, hair and health is LOVING these clean ingredients and results driven products.
And that feeling of your dollars going towards a group of female founders looking to make their mark on the Aussie beauty world…? The best icing on the feel-good cake.

MANDI + WHITNEY, FOUNDERS OF THE CLEAN SWAP BOX

We are Mandi and Whitney — friends, Mums, and beauty industry veterans of over 16 years each. We know the changing needs of your skin between seasons and how fun it is to use new and effective products. We love introducing people to the next big thing that is going to really up their beauty game. And we really believe in using our dollars to support Aussie women who know their stuff and have created something great.
We created the Clean Swap Box with a few key principles:

OUR MISSION:

1) Being conscious of the ingredients in our products. TIME IS UP for cheap, toxic ingredients! We help you make the swap to cleaner, and often more effective, brands.

2) Making your spend count. Aussie women are paving their own way more than ever before, and we’re here to support them (whilst delivering exceptional value to you!). Our model is positively different—we ensure brands are not out of pocket to participate in our box (the common model is to ask brands to donate their product, or are paid just 5% of the retail price, making it hard for really great small or new brands to participate).

3) Full size products! We want people to use all their products, and if they love it, then repurchase it. Sample sizes are wasteful, often tossed away, and don’t establish any brand loyalty or show the true benefits of a product. Hands up who has two unopened crushed sachets floating around their bathroom bag 🙋‍♀️

WHY ARE WE RAISING MONEY?

We are raising money for two reasons:

• Marketing: We don’t have the capital to invest in ad spend, so are running a grass roots campaign to get The Clean Swap Box out in to the world. Doing contra collaborations with micro and nano influencers, sending surprise boxes out to deserving people in lockdown, running competitions in our local areas…we’re full of ideas! While these are all low-cost marketing strategies, we do need a small amount of capital to fund these efforts. We choose to pay our featured brands a very fair price, and always upfront, which means that our bank account has been depleted before we’ve been able to put the box up for sale. We’re a small brand with big goals, and need a little help to take the financial strain off.
• Retail products: We truly believe in making small changes to your routine with products that are better for you and the environment. We are looking to launch a few small Clean Swap branded products for online and retail sale to boost our visibility. Our precious metal copper gua sha beauty tool will be one of them, in addition to some products that will reduce the number of single use items you may use in your routine (stay tuned 😉 )
  There, of course, is a small amount of outlay in purchasing these, and we would really love your help.

We’d love to have you as part of our growing community, and to indulge you with beautiful, useful products. Peep us on Instagram @thecleanswapbox , and check out our beautiful rewards. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and for supporting women in business xx