I’ve been controversial my whole career from the first time I wrote my book back in 1984. Later in my career, I learned that I was something called the disruptor." - Paula Begoun For over three decades, Paula Begoun has done what nobody in the beauty industry has – told the truth. Long before formulating her own products, she was a consumer struggling with acne & eczema, desperately trying to find products that wouldn’t make her skin worse. That’s when her lifelong career of research & formulating effective products began.