Star is a skin health nerd at heart. After more than two decades spent formulating skincare products, teaching others how to make them and writing about beauty, she began to question a lot of what the cosmetics world was doing. She realised that slapping nutrients into creams and serums might make for a catchy label, but it does not actually feed the skin. The skin does not absorb nutrition the way the gut does and that sparked something big in her.

So she turned her attention to where nourishment really matters, the diet. Through years of digging into scientific research and testing what worked and what did not, Star came to a simple conclusion. If you want healthier, more youthful skin, you have to feed it from the inside out, not with lotions and potions.

Her passion for this idea led to the creation of her own nutritional skin strategies, now known as Nutridermatology® and The Facelift Diet®, and eventually to the founding of the Skin Nutrition Institute, the world’s first accredited school devoted to teaching skin nutrition to practitioners such as aestheticians, nutritionists and dermatologists.

Star has combined her deep love of food science, plants and skin biology into a body of work that is all about helping people understand how what they eat shapes how they age and how they can slow or even reverse some effects of ageing through diet and lifestyle. Her straightforward, evidence based approach has made her a go to voice in media, on podcasts and in professional education.

Along the way she has also been recognised in the beauty world, including being voted into the UK’s Who’s Who of Natural Beauty (twice), invited to judge the Natural Beauty Awards and featured in magazines and newspapers for her perspectives on skin health.