Sterling Minerals was founded by Katherine Corkill, when she became inspired to create a product that would assist other women in restoring the radiant beauty of their youth. She has enjoyed the challenges of entrepreneurship most of her adult life, and wholesaling and distribution of various Holistic Remedies for the past 20 years. Her latest commitment and determination for healthier skin would be no different. Being an advocate for Holistic and Naturopathic Remedies through practicing this lifestyle, she understands the importance of healing alternatives. She is a person determined to always continue her research for the best in healthy ingredients.

When Katherine reached her mid 40’s and began treatment for sun damage, it was then she learned what role mineral makeup would play. The redness, inflammation and discoloration that occurred from her treatments became more difficult to see in the mirror each day. Other chemically based makeup brands would cause considerable discomfort after her skin treatments and only served to create prolonged irritation and healing time. To avoid the pain, she was forced to go days without makeup, and in the business world this was not practical or acceptable to her.

After consultations with her Dermatologist, Professionals in the Cosmetic Industry, current Clients, and armed with her years of knowledge on Holistic Care, she wanted to formulate a mineral makeup with ingredients that would assist with reduced healing time and prevent inflammation and irritation, while helping to regain the flawless skin she had lost. She was committed that her formulas should have a soft, natural looking coverage as well, as shared to her by others enduring similar skin problems. However, she discovered through testing, most mineral cosmetics on the market are of the same basic formulation that are mass produced for repackaging under private label and flew all over the place when applied. The colors were not natural looking, caused further flakiness, itching or irritation, oily shine, a caked, fake look, or really didn’t stay on at all. Furthermore, the excessive dust from other mineral makeup brands floating through the air exacerbated her asthma.

Sparing no expense due to her need for the best, she strove to create the perfect mineral makeup to even out skin tone, have staying power, wouldn’t fly away when applied or was greatly reduced, have superior protection from further sun damage and utilize healing properties produced in a remarkable formula. Due to further research on Holistic benefits of certain Natural Minerals and Botanicals she insisted on using, she understood how they are used in Ancient Ayurvedic Medicine (Ayurveda) for healing the skin. This gave Katherine the confidence she had created a spectacular combination of the finest skin soothing, healing ingredients on the market today. Her own personal skin regained a natural healthy glow and painlessly healed in less than half the time following her treatments. Her adult acne was practically non-existent, her skin stopped itching, and she had no further asthma attacks when using her minerals.

Sterling Minerals was created out of a growing need by many women also wishing to stop using irritating, ageing, and harmful toxic products on their skin and to assist them with putting their best “Face” forward in whatever their life’s pursuits. She also wanted to create a product that would reduce down time after a cosmetic procedure or skin treatment from sun damage. Sterling Minerals commitment is to all those women, who like its founder, will accept only the best when nothing else will do. So, developing clean, healthy, healing, allergen free, 100% pure, Vegan friendly ingredients in an outstanding formulation of the highest standard, was the call of the day. After much determination and testing and formula changes, Sterling Minerals was born.