MJ Marfori goes from telling celebrity stories to building a wellness venture

“I’m used to telling other people’s stories, but this time, the four of us are building our own,” Marfori said.

The move marks a new chapter for Marfori, who spent more than a year with her co-founders developing GUTTA GLOW before bringing the brand to consumers.

The four founders combined their backgrounds in media, business, lifestyle, and wellness to create functional beverages that can fit into everyday routines.

“GUTTA GLOW is about taking care of yourself without making wellness feel like a chore,” Marfori said. “We wanted it to be something you can actually enjoy while navigating work, family, travel, and everyday life.”

The brand’s first collection includes Honey Lemon Iced Tea, French Vanilla Coffee, and Spanish Latte, pairing familiar flavors with functional ingredients.

Depending on the beverage, the formulations include inulin, green tea and green coffee extracts, L-carnitine, garcinia cambogia, berberine extract, IMMUSE® LP20, hydrolyzed collagen, reduced L-glutathione, skim milk, whey protein, and stevia extracts.

For Vargas, getting into wellness was not simply a matter of following a growing trend. The founders wanted to create products they would genuinely use themselves.

“We didn’t want to create something just because wellness is trending,” Vargas said. “We wanted to create something that we would actually want to drink and make part of our own daily routine.”

That approach led the group to spend more than a year learning about the category, developing the formulations, and refining the beverages before launching GUTTA GLOW, which recently  received recognition from Superbrands Philippines.

For Marfori, Vargas, JR, and Mikee, the launch is just the start. The founders plan to expand GUTTA GLOW’s product lineup and market presence as they build the brand into a bigger wellness venture.

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