A Barossa Valley entrepreneur claims she is disrupting the beauty industry using an Australian-first technique to extract its high-end ingredient.

Truffles. A pricey, high-end fungi often valued at around $3 per gram, is at the centre of a South Australian skincare line by Sabina Kelley.

Sabina tells how she originally began supplying her coveted, hand-harvested Barossa Valley black and white truffles to high-end local restaurants around seven years ago.

But then the idea for her skincare line, Truffèlle Australia, gained traction after she stumbled upon peer-reviewed research on truffles and skin health.

“Once you read something and see something, it’s really hard to unsee it,” she tells CityMag .

Now the Flaxman Valley entrepreneur wants to pioneer the use of truffle bioactives in

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