{"id":3587,"date":"2016-01-25T15:14:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2016-01-25T15:14:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T20:14:06","slug":"how-victoria-tsai-turned-a-geisha-secret-into-a-cosmetics-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bizwomenrock.com\/beta\/how-victoria-tsai-turned-a-geisha-secret-into-a-cosmetics-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"How Victoria Tsai Turned a Geisha Secret Into a Cosmetics Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written by:\u00a0TRACY BYRNES<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The title on Victoria Tsai\u2019s business card is Chief Treasure Hunter\u00a0at<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatcha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tatcha<\/a>, the skin-care company based on ancient Japanese traditions. It could very well say founder, CEO and product developer.<\/p>\n<p>But Tsai has been on a continual hunt to find that ideal combination of living simply and naturally and appreciating this life.<\/p>\n<p>And her journey reminds us all that if you have a problem or an issue, odds are good someone else is suffering from it as well.\u00a0 So fix it and build your business around the solution.<\/p>\n<h2>Life Is a Gift<\/h2>\n<p>As a fixed-income analyst at Merrill Lynch, Tsai worked in the World Financial Center, which was across the street from the\u00a0Twin Towers.<\/p>\n<p>So she saw everything on 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>And everyday thereafter. \u201cEvery time they recovered another body we knew because they would cover it with the American flag,\u201d remembers Tsai.<\/p>\n<p>And then her once-athletic husband got very sick for the next two years after the attacks. \u201cAnd they still don\u2019t know what happened,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlus I just didn\u2019t believe in what I was doing anymore,\u201d says\u00a0the Jersey Girl, whose parents came from Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>So she knew it was time &#8212; they had to get out of there.<\/p>\n<p>Life is a gift, she says.\u00a0Don\u2019t waste it.<\/p>\n<h2>Fix Yourself First<\/h2>\n<p>She went back to business school and got a job launching consumer products in China.\u00a0But she made the grave mistake of testing way too many of those products on her own face.\u00a0She ended up with acute dermatitis \u2013 which is basically a bleeding, blistering red rash \u2013 and couldn\u2019t find anything to cure it.<\/p>\n<p>In the process of researching a treatment for herself, she learned that the FDA has no oversight over cosmetics here in the States. \u201cIngredients are innocent until proven guilty here,&#8221; she says. &#8220;There are no advance protections in place for consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And the chemicals in some of the products she tested were obviously the reason for her current condition.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/article\/269793\" target=\"_blank\">&gt;&gt;CONTINUE THIS ARTICLE&lt;&lt;<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by:\u00a0TRACY BYRNES &nbsp; The title on Victoria Tsai\u2019s business card is Chief Treasure Hunter\u00a0atTatcha, the skin-care company based on ancient Japanese traditions. 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