Laura Rudoe (nee Howard)

Natural beauty entrepreneur, Evolve Beauty founder and owner

St Albans, England, United Kingdom

About

I am the founder and owner of Good Ventures, a cosmetic development company focusing on designing and manufacturing natural, organic, sustainable and ethical products for skin body and hair. Our 2 brands are Evolve Beauty, a certified organic modern apothecary style beauty range for skin, body and hair, and Adaptology, an advanced certified organic treatment skincare range based on high performance natural adaptogenic ingredients.

Experience

  • Founder and CEO at Adaptology skincare
    May 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

    Adaptology is a solutions driven organic and natural skincare range that solves skin problems using clinically proven natural adaptogenic ingredients

  • Director at Good Ventures
    Aug 2008 - Present · 17 yrs 11 mos

    Good Ventures is an ethical product development company focused on the natural personal care market. We design and commercialise natural beauty brands. Our first brand, evolve beauty, is a certified organic range of ethical skin, body and hair products. Our second range is a premium organic cosmeceutical range called S5 skincare. We also undertake consulting projects in product development, marketing strategy, market research and business development.

  • Founder And Ceo at Evolve Beauty
    Sep 2008 - Present · 17 yrs 10 mos

    evolve is a range of organic skin body and haircare designed to make green and healthy living more desirable and accessible. We've designed products that are a little bit greener and a little bit healthier, to make it easier to live a little better.

  • Founder And Ceo at S5 skincare
    Oct 2012 - May 2021 · 8 yrs 8 mos

    S5 is the first range of organic cosmeceuticals designed to treat skin conditions such as premature ageing, blemishes, sensitivity and dryness.

  • Investment Manager at Bridges Ventures
    Jul 2007 - Aug 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Bridges Ventures is a social venture capital fund focusing on sustainable and ethical businesses. My role was to source ethical investment opportunities, conduct transactions and manage portfolio companies. In addition I helped to design and raise a new fund focusing on social enterprises and redesign the social impact measurement process.