SHE’s the only Apprentice runner-up to still win an investment from Lord Sugar - and she has more than made that money work.took his £200,000 for a 50 per cent share in her Tropic skincare brand and turned it into a £73million fortune, which has now seen her named on theNot bad for the girl who started out making face scrubs at her mum’s kitchen table aged 15 and selling them at weekends on Greenwich market.
She explained: “It was a blend of fresh sea salts that would exfoliate your skin, macadamia and jojoba oil, lemon myrtle to ward off mosquitos, and then I added bergamot and eucalyptus to the first batch.Pregnant Megan McKenna warned by fans as she tucks into 'unsafe' food on holiday By the time she was 21, she had earned enough cash to put down a deposit for a house for her mum, a second investment property and fund her way through uni.In the final year of her degree she shut down Tropic to concentrate on her studies, and was headed for the corporate life when she landed a job in the city.Susie said: “It was the first year they changed the prize from a £100,000 job to a £250,000 investment and 50 per cent share of your business.
"It killed me. I was like a zombie. But it was all worth it because the money that I earned was what convinced Lord Sugar.”On December 1, 2011, Lord Sugar invested £200,000 for a 50 per cent share of Tropic.
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