vogue BEAUT Y KIRSTEN SHANKS, naturopath and founder of Orchard St, an organic cleanse Naturopath and juice-cleanse entrepreneur Kirsten Shanks is Three things a gypsy at heart and honed her healing techniques while I do every day travelling around the globe. After studying naturopathy, her first • “Consume Glow destination after graduating was an ayurvedic ashram in India. powder.” From there she travelled to Europe to learn more about • “Get up early and go homeopathic medicine in France and herbalism in Spain. Three things I do every day for a walk or run along In Guatemala, she volunteered her services as a nutritionist the beach. Sea air is full in a children’s home and learned to make cacao treats. • “I wake around six and of negative ions.” embark on a morning • “I eat lots and lots of And, in a southern Mexican village, she played apprentice routine. This generally Natural plants of different to a local medicine woman, Doña Rosita. consists of meditation varieties and colour Back in Sydney, she ran a naturopathic practice until her mother and yoga, a run on the – herbs, greens and was diagnosed with cancer. Shanks responded by setting up beach and dip in the sea, vegies. They energise, a juice station in her mum’s hospital room and spent months a body-care routine protect, nourish, involving dry-skin The wellness world is BOOMING. balance, heal and clean nursing her. Her mother’s remission opened her eyes to the brushing, tongue- the body and they healing powers of juice. “I started to see juice as medicine. scraping and Meet SIX women who have taste delicious.” I wanted to give her a dense source of nutrients when she self-massage.” turned their commitment to good couldn’t eat solids,” she says. “There is no doubt in my mind • “I’ll often do a one-day those juices contributed to her incredible recovery.” cleanse when things are health into thriving businesses. a little hectic. I tend to Later in New York, she became aware of the emerging raw-food WORDS: JODY SCOTT AND SIGOURNEY CANTELO store my stress in my belly, PHOTOGRAPHS: HUGH STEWART movement and juice cleanses. “Then the journey began to so I find giving it a rest develop a business integrating the benefits of organic juice in from digestion can help a holistic and supportive manner,” she says. Her Orchard St calm things down.” CARLA OATES, the “Beauty Chef” • “As I have these organic, cold-pressed juice-cleanse business was born soon after. incredible juices around As a child, Carla Oates would make concoctions out She now divides her time between this, clinical work with all the time, barely a day of her mum’s perfumes, creams and twigs and other patients and working in her herbal dispensary in Sydney’s east. goes by without me things she found in the garden. “I would pretend Shanks says the key to a good juice is quality ingredients. having at least one I could heal my family with them,” she says. “I still “Because you’re consuming up to 1.5 kilograms of fruit and veg green juice.” Kirsten Shanks like helping people and creating products that help per bottle, any fertilisers or pesticides present will be concentrated,” wears an Isabel heal.” Then, as a teenager with allergies, she consulted she says. “This is why we only use the highest quality organic, Marant dress, naturopath Penelope Sach, her diet changed chemical-free produce.” Go to www.orchardstreet.com.au. JS from Parlour X. dramatically as a result and her interest in natural health began. Three things Oates started her career in magazines as a fashion I do every day stylist, then became a beauty journalist. But for the • “Each morning when my JACQUELINE EVANS, naturopath past 15 years, the Bondi-based mum of two teenagers husband and I wake, we and founder of Jacqueline Evans skincare has specialised in researching and writing about say to each other one natural health and beauty, including a book, Feeding single thing we are Jacqueline Evans’s interest in naturopathy was sparked while Your Skin. Oates says her earliest experiments were grateful for.” doing Chinese studies at university. “I quickly became a lot of fun. “I would make lip tint out of mulberries • “I begin each day at preoccupied by Eastern medicine and it wasn’t long before the gym at 6am.” from the garden and face scrubs with yoghurt and • “I cleanse twice at night I realised my passion was in nutritional medicine. I was drawn papaya and clay and body oils,” she says. “I loved … I believe that looking to the holistic approach of naturopathy.” After studying in essential oils to make perfume – I’ve always been a bit after your skin should be Melbourne, she moved to London to work for a renowned UK of an alchemist.” an easy task and not a costly pharmacist and homeopath. While there she became interested Four years ago, Oates launched her Glow Inner or time-consuming affair.” in natural skincare. “When I wasn’t treating patients I was in Beauty Powder, a potent blend of 24 superfoods, the laboratory formulating natural cosmetics. I was obsessed.” prebiotics and probiotics to nourish skin from the BOYLE ALLISON KE-UP: Returning to Melbourne in 2002, she did a short course in MA inside out. “My motto is good skin begins in the gut.” cosmetic chemistry, and after eight years in formulation her Next, she launched her Detox Inner Beauty Powder natural skincare company was born. “Remember, the skin is the containing fermented and alkalising live ingredients to GUIGAN body’s largest organ – we carefully consider what we put into C help the liver detox and thus ease the workload of our our bodies and so we should carefully consider what we put ACHEL WAYMAN (KIRSTEN SHANKS ) R biggest elimination organ, our skin. In January, she onto our bodies … some say that plant-based ingredients are launched a counter-top water filter and a body balance ULIANNE M better able to mimic the skin’s structure and support its health.” J protein powder. There are other products on the way, She believes beauty products should be regarded as “food for the too, including an antioxidant-rich night serum called skin and body”, not cosmetics. Her first product was a lip balm Dream Repair, an updated edition of Feeding Your made of beeswax and flavoured with pure peppermint oil. “In Skin, a cleanser and moisturiser. Plus, she plans to Carla Oates wears a Jacqueline Evans fact, I think I need to revisit that recipe, as everyone loves a lip launch her products in the US this year, too. Glow girl. Bassike top and shorts. wears a Bassike balm. It used only four simple ingredients and that’s what I love Go to www.thebeautychef.com. JS Birkenstock sandals. STYLISTS: PHILIPPA BROPHY HAIR: KEIREN STREET top. Marni pants. about natural beauty.” Go to www.jacquelineevans.com.au. JS 82 – FEBRUARY 2014 VOGUE.COM.AU – 83 vogue BEAUT Y Three things BELLE GIBSON, creator Three things I do every day of The Whole Pantry app I do every day • “I make small, daily • “Practise gratitude. I feel decisions to help stack Unfussed-with food is having a major renaissance and one of the incredibly blessed to have the odds in my favour a beautiful family, to live wherever possible. It can most vocal and social media-savvy champions of the movement is Belle Gibson, whose app The Whole Pantry is being downloaded in a beautiful place, to be be as simple as going healthy, and to be doing with seasonal and local all over the world. Like many health warriors, Gibson dived something I absolutely love.” produce over imported headfirst into the industry when she was faced with her own health • “Eat mindfully. I eat slowly and sprayed.” crisis. Diagnosed with brain cancer at the age of 20 in 2009, she and chew well. I eat a • “Have an hour of controversially quit her chemotherapy and radiation treatments predominantly vegetarian disconnected me-time.” diet and locally • “I check-in and make a third of the way through to try and heal herself with natural grown wholefoods.” sure what I’m doing therapies. She travelled up and down the east coast of Australia • “Move my body. Be it Barre day-to-day serves me meeting holistic therapists and soaking up everything she could Body, yoga, movement and my purpose.” about health and wellbeing. It was during this time she discovered meditation or walking.” she was pregnant, despite being told she would never have children. “I was ecstatic, not because I was trying to have children, but because I was told I wouldn’t be able to conceive. I proved them wrong. It was the motivation I needed to buckle down and really commit more to healing myself,” she says. She had a healthy baby boy, Olivier, who is three years old, and continued her fight against cancer, trying different therapies and blogging about it. Known as “healing belle” on Instagram, she has amassed a following of more than 120,000 followers. Four years after her diagnosis, she still isn’t in remission but her tumour has shrunk. Inspired, she wanted to share everything she believes about how wholefoods can help repair the body. “I made an app Belle Gibson because it’s the most searchable and accessible market in the world. wears a Chloé It was never about money: it was about providing a resource that EMMA SEIBOLD, founder top. Hermès was continuously inspiring, motivating and empowering.” The app skirt.