About Us

I still remember walking through Whole Foods one day and stumbling across a herbal book about how to grow herbs and use them medicinally. Toward the end of the book, there was a small section on skincare recipes.

Something about it sparked my curiosity.

I went back to the store, bought all the ingredients I could afford, and made my very first facial moisturizer in my kitchen — a light rose moisturizer made with rosewater and lanolin.

That moment planted a seed that would stay with me for years.

After getting married and moving to Minnesota at 22 years old, I continued making lotions, moisturizers, herbal shampoos, and lip balms for my family as a hobby. I loved creating products from natural ingredients and seeing how well they worked for the people around me.

Then in January 2010, I opened my first Etsy shop called “Creative Talya,” where I sold botanical skincare products to help others find more natural alternatives.

People especially loved my herbal shampoos, my Manuka Rose Anti-Aging Cream, and my Pumpkin Seed Moisturizer — products I still make to this day, just with even more refined formulas.

I loved that Etsy community so much. We made 189 sales and received 56 beautiful reviews from customers who genuinely loved and trusted what I was creating.

It never felt like “just a business” to me. I truly loved helping people.

But in 2019, everything changed.

My youngest son, who was only 11 years old at the time, was diagnosed with T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia/Lymphoma.

In that moment, none of the business mattered anymore.

I shut everything down. I got rid of my packaging, my ingredients, everything. I remember saying, “I’m done.”

My family needed me. My son needed me.

During that season, I prayed constantly for healing and searched desperately for answers. I started researching more deeply than I ever had before. I read hundreds of books, listened to podcasts, studied ingredients, nutrition, environmental toxins, and began questioning everything we consumed daily.

I started asking questions like:

What’s actually in our food?
What’s hidden in fragrance?
What chemicals are in the products we use every single day?
Why are so many ingredients considered “normal” when they may actually be harming our health long term?

The deeper I researched, the more convicted I became that what we eat, drink, breathe, and put on our skin truly matters.

So we changed everything in our home.

We removed processed foods and sugar completely. I started making almost every meal from scratch. We did a lot of juicing, drank herbal teas daily, switched our household cleaners, got rid of synthetic fragrances and perfumes, started reading every ingredient label, and became intentional about the products we brought into our home.

I also started giving my son vitamins and supplements consistently — something I honestly never realized the importance of before. I learned how depleted our food system has become and how important nourishment truly is for the body.

Alongside his chemotherapy treatments, I focused heavily on supporting his body through nutrition, herbs, supplements, prayer, and creating a healthier environment at home.

Originally, doctors told us he would be on chemotherapy treatment for three years.

But around a year and a half into treatment, his doctors came in and told us his results and analyses were doing so well that they wanted to stop treatment early — at two years instead of three.

That moment felt like an answered prayer from God.

Later, the doctors asked if they could write a study on my son to highlight how successful the treatment had been.

My response was:
“Are you going to include everything we changed at home? The diet changes, the supplements, the elimination of processed foods and sugar, the herbal teas, and the lifestyle changes we made alongside treatment?”

They told me no.

And I said,
“Then that’s not the full truth.”

So I declined.

In 2021, my son officially finished chemotherapy.

Praise God for His grace, mercy, healing, and faithfulness through that entire journey.

Then in 2022, something unexpected happened.

My sister, who worked in a pharmacy, mentioned to someone that I used to formulate botanical skincare products. Shortly after, I got a phone call asking if I could make products again for a storefront in North Carolina.

That one phone call reignited something in me.

I began sourcing ingredients again, reformulating products, redesigning labels, and slowly rediscovered how much I truly loved creating skincare.

But this time, it was different.

Natalie Organics was no longer just about skincare.

It became about education. Awareness. Intentional living. And helping families rethink what they are consuming every single day.

Three years later, we are still handcrafting products in small batches with the same heart behind every formula.

We believe God created incredible ingredients through nature, and we believe people deserve transparency about what they are putting on their skin and bringing into their homes.

Natalie Organics is on a mission to create intentional, botanical-based products while educating and inspiring others to read ingredient labels, question what has become normalized, and choose ingredients that truly support long-term wellness.

Because this is about more than skincare.

It’s about health, family, healing, and living more intentionally. 🌿