Premium avocado oil is the star ingredient and base for all our products because it's a nutrient-packed, clinically-proven skin moisturizer and conditioner. The avocado pear is also a superfood known to help reduce scars, age spots and heal the skin. Naturally extracted from avocados in the subtropical north of Aotearoa New Zealand, the potent avocado oil we use is of some of the world's best. It's packed with Omegas 3 and 9 as well as Vitamins A, B1, B2, and D - plus the powerhouse antioxidants Vitamin E and chlorophyll to help mitigate skin damage and unwanted ageing.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: bursting with anti-ageing antioxidants, a natural healer of scars and age spots moisturizing, soothing and protecting, highly compatible with our skin's own sebum, blessed with natural sun-screen.
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Now available for the first time in skincare, we are proud to introduce a revolutionary new antioxidant, Vinanza Grape. Scientifically shown to have amongst the world's highest levels of antioxidants, extraordinary results from independent clinical trials* show it improves elasticity and firmness in the skin by 16%. Its many beauty benefits include assisting your skin with hydrating, smoothing and firming, as well as preventing moisture loss.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: anti-wrinkle, healing and hydrating, smoothing and firming, antibacterial and astringent.
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A brand new anti-ageing compound, Vinanza Performance Plus, combines extracts from grape seeds and kiwi seeds. It's clinically shown to decrease trans-epidermal water loss, leaving skin moist and hydrated. It's also shown to decrease the melanin production which causes freckling and pigmentation, and decrease undesirable redness or facial flushing.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: moisturizing and hydrating, a great way to decrease new freckling, a great way to decrease flushing.
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The tall, flame-red blooms of harekeke or New Zealand flax attract the majestic tui with its glorious birdsong. Its nectar was once used to sweeten Maori food and we love that it brings sweet relief to skin. You'll find it growing abundantly in urban and rural areas in Aotearoa, especially in swamps and grassland.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: softening, a natural healer, a powerful antibacterial.
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The high concentrations of Omega 3 in the oil extracted from the seeds of kiwifruit make it the perfect ingredient for natural skincare as it helps to dramatically maintain moisture in the skin. Kiwifruit seed oil contains around 60% of Alpha Linolenic Acid (ALA), as well as being a rich source of Vitamins C and E - all beneficial for you in optimizing your most beautiful visage.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: helpful for tissue repair, hydrating and moisturizing.
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The pretty bell-shaped golden flowers of kowhai especially attract the native birds the fantail and tui. And the kowhai botanical extract especially attracts us because it's blessed with natural antimicrobial properties - giving it the ability to stop the growth of microorganisms like bacteria or fungi, making it the perfect cleansing agent.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: deeply moisturizing, a strong-working antimicrobial cleanser.
Manuka is used for various medical purposes including the internationally renowned bioactive UMF manuka honey. We use the potent essential oil from the tiny manuka leaves of this iconic New Zealand native for its many skin-enhancing properties.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: healing, an anti-wrinkle agent, has antibacterial activity, is naturally astringent.
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The distinctive curled fronds of this large black tree fern are a strong symbol of New Zealand nature. Their shape has given rise to the koru, a symbol of regeneration in Maori art and craft - just as the mamaku extract we use brings new life to skin cells.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: firming, protecting, a way to generate cell growth.
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Pohutukawa is known as the New Zealand Christmas tree, because in December its vibrant red blooms start flowering on its spreading branches right across the country. It brings joy to skin as well as to Christmas!
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: conditioning, moisturizing, an antioxidant, antiseptic.
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Essential oil of tea tree is a proven natural antibacterial, antimicrobial and antifungal remedy. Because its soothing, antiseptic and wound-healing qualities can penetrate right into the lower skin layers, it has countless first aid uses for skin ailments like spots, cuts, scrapes, burns, infections and insect bites. It also powerfully cleans skin, absorbs oil, reduces skin blemishes and refines skin tone.
Tea tree's name comes from the fact that English colonists made an aromatic tea from the leaves of this Australian native shrub. It was associated with a mythical fountain of youth, probably from Australian Aborigines using water from pools surrounded by tea trees - their leaves fell into the water leaching essential oil, giving the water healing powers for a wide range of ailments. Tea tree oil works excellently for most skin types.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: a great antiseptic to cleanse the skin, a way to tend to skin blemishes of any nature, a brightener and refiner of your skin tone.
Known to Maori people for centuries for its therapeutic benefits, the mighty totara tree is a native New Zealand yew tree. The extract of totara we use is highly microbial so you can achieve super-clean skin, and antioxidant-rich to combat the free radicals that contribute to ageing. It is also used as a natural preservative for skincare products.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: antibacterial and antimicrobial, antioxidant-rich to neutralize free radicals.
Voted the "World's Best Bottled Water", Waiwera captures this naturally mineral-rich artesian water at source - an ancient aquifer in New Zealand's North Island. It comes from deep within the earth and contains beneficial minerals like calcium, magnesium and selenium. Historically, the water was believed to be so powerful by Maori they nicknamed it 'Te Rata' or 'The Doctor', and people traveled from around the world to experience its legendary healing properties. We use it to address the drying signs of ageing, and it's perfect for even sensitive or sensitized skin conditions.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: a powerful boost to skin's own hydration levels, naturally rich in minerals Magnesium, and calcium, a way to deliver beneficial nutrients and antioxidants to the epidermal layer.
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Blackcurrants grow wild in New Zealand, particularly in the Marlborough region that is known for its long warm summer days. We love the seasonal harvest because sweet, sun-scorched blackcurrants are fun to forage and delicious to devour, and the berry's oil is antioxidant rich and contains the essential fatty acid GLA - both of which are beautiful for skin and health.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: a boost to healthy skin cells, a means of purifying and protecting, a great way to reduce inflammation.
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Attar of roses or rose essential oil has a lightly sweet and delightfully floral fragrance. From a Bulgarian river valley where rose growing is centuries old, our oil features the petals from thousands of handpicked roses that are required to make a single drop. Woman traditionally gather the blooms, with rose flowers carefully cut one by one and laid in willow baskets.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: a relaxing tonic to tend the soul, an aromathreapy treatment for mature skin and eczema, a way to impart joy which freshens the face.
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American Indians watched elk seek out echinacea when they were sick or wounded, and learned to use the plant for their own medicine. The antimicrobial and antiseptic herb has been popular around the world as a protective treatment since for skin troubles, pain relief, sore throats, snakebite, and in modern times the common cold. There are nine species of echinacea, which are also known as purple coneflowers. The petals of their pretty flowers range from dark purple to pale pink, as well as white and yellow.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: a natural antibacterial that gives a deep daily cleanse, a treatment that is used to help skin troubles like rashes, eczema, wounds and burns, and an antimicrobial ingredient.
A wild harvested berry from the Himalayas, the vibrant goji berry is incredibly protein rich, containing up to 19 naturally occurring amino acids. These are the building blocks of protein, with a potent capacity for restoring and replenishing your skin cells and stimulating synthesis of collagen. Goji is action-packed anti-ageing!
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: restorative and replenishing, collagen synthesizing, protein-rich.
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Found flowering in summertime in New Zealand. Its delightful bright pink or white flowers bring brightness to nature and to your skin's appearance. Our premium extract of subtropical hibiscus flower with pyruvic organic acid sloughs off dead skin cells to freshen and plump your complexion.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: clarifying and brightening, astringent, anti-inflammatory.
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The oil or liquid wax from the seeds or pods of the jojoba plant is bright and golden in color. Jojoba's wonder lies in the fact that it closely resembles sebum, your skin's own oil, making it very readily absorbed. Native Americans have been using jojoba for skin treatment for centuries and this is your chance to be enchanted by its skin-enhancing benefits.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: beautifully softening, a reducer of wrinkles, helpful for healing scars, beneficial for stretch marks.
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The oil extracted from macadamia nuts is prized for containing a stunning 22% of palmitoleic acid, an omega that decreases in skin as we age, making this Antipodes ingredient excellent for dry, mature skins. Native to Australia, macadamia nuts grow in small bunches on evergreen trees.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: helpful for healing scars, moisturizing.
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This amazing oil is blessed with natural UVA sun-filtration to help protect your skin from sun damage. The tiny seeds of our raspberries are from organically grown plants and are cold pressed. High levels of Vitamin A give this oil a bright orange color, and it also boasts beneficial essential fatty acids and Omegas 3 and 6.
How can it help my skin?
For your skin, it is: a natural protection from UVA sunlight, a skin-repairing antioxidant, moisturizing.
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Reishi has been highly prized as an elixir of immortality in traditional Chinese medicine for more than 4,000 years. Its many health benefits include fostering healthy cell growth, and imbuing your skin with a fresh, healthy appearance. These remarkable mushrooms grow wild on old, broad leaf trees in remote forests and can often reach a weight of over one pound.
How can it help my skin?
Reishi contains several active constituents that include sterols, coumarin, mannitol, polysaccharides and ganoderic acids.
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