Tatcha Founder Vicky Tsai Isn t Interested in Chasing Skin-Care Trends: We Try to Tell a Story
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Victoria Tsai speaks to her skin. She expresses gratitude and offers care, but most importantly, as someone who s experienced acute dermatitis and eczema, she listens. I like to think about it as communicative skin, she said. My skin is always communicating with me.
It was actually a severe bout of acute dermatitis that led Tsai to founding Tatcha. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Tsai landed a corporate job at Starbucks, but the stress and frequent travel inflamed her skin. On a work trip to Japan, Tsai found comfort in the gentler ingredients she was exposed to. She would go on to leave her job and dedicate her career to helping others heal their skin. It was a risk, but it worked: Tatcha can now be found in Sephoras across the globe, and in 2019, the brand generated an estimated $70 million in sales.