About NovAurora Organic Skin Care
Founded in 2000 by Pamela Lambert in Boulder, NovAurora Organic Skin Care makes skin care products made with pure, natural, botanical, Earth- and body-friendly ingredients that promote skin health and beauty through cellular regeneration.
We sell worldwide online, and in select retail stores in the Rocky Mountain region in the US.
Our products are:
- Free of toxins and endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs)
- Vegan
- Gluten-free, and appropriate for sufferers of celiac disease
- Never tested on animals (Pam's Labrador Retriever, Annie, has eaten a few of them, with no ill effects. We call that our Lab test.)
Our people are:
Pam Lambert Founder and Owner of NovAurora. She likes to call herself Chief Organic Officer (COO). We let her think she holds everything together and runs the show. She knows she couldn't do it without the rest of us (listed alphabetically, not hierarchically):
Pam Lambert
Pam hasn't always been an entrepreneur. She has had trouble sticking to one profession for more than 10 or 15 years. She has a Ph.D. in linguistics, speaks a few languages, and taught at the University of Colorado for more than a few years; she was a stockbroker and VP at a major brokerage firm back before women were in that business; she was development director of Shining Mountain Waldorf School for over a decade of successful growth; and she's an accomplished potter.
Now she heads up NovAurora, oversees its operations, and envisions its growth into the future.
Billie Bragg: Accounting Wizard
Billie Bragg
Owner of Financial Tools, supporting Colorado business owners across the Front Range in every financial aspect for over 25 years, Billie keeps track of every last penny and never loses her cool, except when Pam gives away too much product and doesn't log it out of inventory.
Debora Burd: Sales Sage
Debora Burd
Enthusiastic promoter of an eco-friendly lifestyle supported by a botanical approach to health, Debora brokers NovAurora sales to the 30 retails stores we're in, helping to expand sales in each store and into new stores.
Susan Coffey and Letty Jo Worrick: Demo Divas
Susan Coffey
Susan, a massage therapist in real life, lends us a hand when she can. Look for her shining smile in Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Monument stores, where she mostly demos for NovAurora on the weekends.
Letty Jo Worrick
Letty Jo's stated goal is to educate one person a day regarding the chemicals and toxins in standard personal care products and directing them to a cleaner, healthier way of living. We're privileged to have her on the NovAurora demo team in Denver.
Toby Hemmerling: Website Magician
Toby Hemmerling
Toby is part e-commerce craftsman and part business consultant. His job, not just with NovAurora but with a number of other lucky businesses is to figure out how to create an engaging and functional website that contributes to a positive bottom line for the company.
He picks his projects / clients carefully and makes sure they all reach their goals. You can contact him through his website or email him at toby@pathb.com.
Mike Mickley: Water and Quality Control Guru, Magnanimous Supporter
Mike Mickley
Mike is an internationally acclaimed expert in drinking water and wastewater treatment, desalination, and membrane concentrate disposal. He's also been married to Pam Lambert for over 30 years—quite an accomplishment!
Learn more about Mike and his company, Mickley and Associates.
Mary Sweet: Graphic Designer Extraordinaire
Mary Sweet
Mary has been Pam's guardian angel for twenty years, helping her behind the scenes to create beautiful, engaging publications out of plain black and white words. Now she creates all the NovAurora ads, brochures, labels, and printed materials. While Mary’s creativity is strong and her creations are powerful, she speaks softly and never gets ruffled by short deadlines or too many revisions.
You can reach her at msweet@boulder.net.
Why I Founded NovAurora Organic Skin Care (by Pam Lambert)
In 1969 I moved to arid Boulder, Colorado from humid and overcast Ohio. I loved the wonderful, sunny Colorado days so much that for thirty years I skied, cycled, ran, played tennis, and gardened, with little attention to my skin. Then one time, when my sister (older by 18 months) was visiting from the east coast, I noticed a dramatic difference between my own skin and hers. I had been using natural, organic, and biodynamic skin care products for years, but Pat, who hadn't lived with the beautiful year-round sunshine, had baby-soft, unwrinkled skin and looked ten years younger.
What a wake-up call! An experienced researcher, I devoted myself to learning about skin care. I knew I wanted “natural” and “organic,” because that was the way my husband and I had raised our children. But the products I had used made no claims for anti-aging, while standard products that claimed to reduce wrinkles were filled with ingredients I learned were potentially toxic. A lightbulb went off: Surely I wasn't alone in seeking natural, organic, non-toxic products that would regenerate skin on the cellular level. There must be a market for this!
I was fortunate to find Benjamin Fuchs, pharmacist, nutritionist, herbalist, cosmetic chemist, and founder of Rocky Mountain Natural Laboratories in Boulder. Together we combined Ben's expertise in creating treatments that promote healthy, beautiful skin by simultaneous stimulation and nourishment, with my research into environmental and personal care toxins and insistence on organic ingredients, and my husband, Mike Mickley's work with the structured water, Ayterion Agua™, to create NovAurora Organic Skin Care products.
Our vision is:
To bring health to our customers through products made with pure, botanical, body-friendly ingredients—organically grown where available—that allow the skin to breathe and stimulate the body to produce its own life-giving nutrients, all the while doing no harm to the earth or other living beings.
Why organic?
NovAurora products contain primarily certified organic plant-based ingredients. Plants grown without synthetic fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides are safer for your skin and healthier for your body. Organic agriculture enhances the soil, conserves water, and reduces environmental impacts, making the Earth healthier for all her creatures.
