The Big Interview

‘TanOrganic is expensive for a reason’ – How Noelle O’Connor built her brand against the grain

With her line of eco-friendly, nourishing self-tan and skincare products, the skincare therapist is proving that you can be kind to the planet and still look fabulous

Noelle O’Connor, founder of TanOrganic: ‘You can get comfortable sometimes when things are easy’. Picture: Fergal Phillips

Noelle O’Connor has been running beauty businesses for the best part of three decades so she knows that fashion and economic trends can change quickly.

But that doesn’t faze her.

“You can get comfortable sometimes when things are easy,” she tells the Business Post, as we chat in her home office near the Curragh in Kildare. (Her other home office is halfway between Rome and Pisa in Italy.)

O’Connor is the founder of the self-tanning ...