Kathia Maillefert didn’t expect to become rich. But the single mum hoped that selling skincare products to friends at ‘pamper parties’ would provide a bit of extra money on top of her personal assistant salary.
At least, that was the idea. In three years, Kathia, 47, reckons she made ‘around £1,000’. Which wouldn’t be so bad – had she not forked out ‘about that, if not more’ buying products. ‘Whatever I made, I ended up putting into products,’ she says. ‘I was very disheartened.’
The company Kathia worked for? Tropic Skincare, whose founder Susie Ma recently bought Lord Sugar out of the business.
To provide well-rounded coverage and a breadth of insight across various events, we rely on contributions from several staff writers, each bringing their own area of expertise to our publication.
