PUREST INGREDIENTS
Our Passion & Purpose
Our passion for the purest ingredients has inspired us to bring you this line of eco-conscious, vegan, cruelty-free skincare products, nut free, gluten free, soy free, low allergy, chemical free and non-toxic... especially designed for delicate skin!
FROM OUR FARM & LOCAL
High Quality Ingredients
We formulate, manufacture and package our products right here on our farm in the Adelaide Hills. If we can’t grow the ingredients ourselves, we source as locally as possible, preferably from right here in the Adelaide Hills where the nutrient dense soil is as good as it gets.
Much like fine cuisine, skin food is only as good as the quality of ingredients, and we make no compromise sourcing only the very best, nothing is mass produced and if something can’t be sourced from our preferred farms, we don’t sell the product, it simply becomes out of stock.
BOTANICAL WORLD
Generously Proportioned Ingredients…
We pack ample amounts in our formulations, routinely more than 25 ingredients, because we know plants have complex chemistry and work synergistically together… one plus one equals more than two in the botanical world!
More for less….
Because we undertake every process ourselves, from formulating to packaging, we keep costs down and pass savings to you. Also our products are intensely concentrated, and only require minute amounts, therefore they last longer, making monthly repurchasing unnecessary.
A CHALLENGING TASK
Careful Engineering
Avoiding synthetic chemicals in emulsions requires careful engineering. To make them as robust as their synthetic counterparts can be a challenging task, and when Marianne began formulating over 10 years ago, she was warned it could not be done. A purely botanical stable emulsion with an all natural preservation system, capable of supporting a multitude of herbal extracts, and delivering nutrients deeply into the skin, was an impossible task. Fortunately she did not give up and years later her formulations have been trialed on many thousands and shipped all over Australia.
So from our farm to you, we bring you this powerful, yet gentle, scientifically formulated using green technology, all vegan skincare range… forged out of pure love!
ABOUT MARIANNE
Our Founder
Pursuit Of Health And The Purest Ingredients…
Since the mid-'90s, Marianne has guided her nutrition clients in their quest for better health after training in various allied health modalities, from East to West.
Having spent most of her early adult life in tertiary education, Marianne studied Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics, also attaining qualifications in Health Science, Naturopathy as well as Food Technology. It wasn't until her daughter Ava was born however, that her zeal for herbal medicine and organic skincare came together. Distressed with Eczema, Marianne pursued Formulation Chemistry to seek solutions to her daughter's skin issues, and after discovering a winning formulation, and finally being able to help her daughter, she also discovered a passion for natural skincare, which eventually led her to find acreage in the Adelaide Hills to grow the purest organic botanicals for her formulations.
BYGONE BOTANICALS
Early Beginnings
Growing up in her parents' pharmacy dispensary, Marianne spent much of her childhood observing her father meticulously hand-blending topical creams for his patients.
Absorbed by the vintage apothecary equipment and herbal medicinals, more commonplace in clinical settings than the modern era, she shadowed her father, as he rhythmically blended pestle-ground compounds into base creams, cutting and spreading over a glass slab again and again, with a simple wooden handled spatula, until achieving a perfect consistency.
Marianne would scour through the hundreds of herbal monographs in her father’s Pharmacopoeias, soaking up knowledge of bygone botanicals, and when she thought no one was watching, experiment with his herbal tinctures in vintage apothecary bottles, familiarising herself with their distinctive aromas and textures.
THOUGHTFULLY FORMULATED
Pure, Eco-Conscious Skincare
In a bygone era when pharmacists routinely compounded their own custom-made concoctions, tailored to an individual’s particular requirements and often even hand delivered at the day’s end, Marianne brings you the same care and quality with her small-batch, freshly made and thoughtfully formulated natural, vegan skincare line.
