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Pamela Anderson Asked "Why Isn't Kailey CEO?" | Kailey Bradt, Sonsie Skin
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Pamela Anderson Asked "Why Isn't Kailey CEO?" | Kailey Bradt, Sonsie Skin
Kailey Bradt, Sonsie Skin
Womansplain
Jul 21, 2026
Womansplain
Jul 21, 2026
Pamela Anderson Asked "Why Isn't Kailey CEO?" | Kailey Bradt, Sonsie Skin
Kailey Bradt, Sonsie Skin
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š A gift from us + Sonsie: use code WOMANSPLAIN15 at sonsieskin.com for 15% off. Valid on individual SKUs, one per customer, through 7/31/26.
Kailey Bradt was 16 years old, running around her high school telling anyone who'd listen that she was going to start a sustainable beauty brand. So she studied chemical engineering to earn the right to do it. Her first company, Susteau, took a waterless formula from her bedroom floor to Sephora shelves after she discovered that liquid shampoo is 80% water on average (some conditioners hit 94%), and she decided she was done packaging and shipping water. Now she's CEO of Sonsie, Pamela Anderson's skincare brand, leading what she calls clean beauty 2.0.
In this episode, Kailey gets into what it takes to formulate for truly sensitive skin, how the team scented the cleanser with rose from Pamela's own garden without ever putting fragrance on the label, and why the hero Adapt Cream is designed to be the product you come home to. She also talks about why clean beauty 1.0 left everyone exhausted, what transparency actually looks like when you show the lab instead of the ad, being perpetually underestimated as a young female CEO (and over-delivering every time), and the mindset that got her here: never give yourself a plan B.
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