When it comes to shopping, we believe it’s always best to keep it local, and the same applies to beauty products. Australia has an arsenal of brilliant beauty brands, with so many of them gaining cult status internationally.
Whether you’re on the hunt for makeup or skincare, it’s almost guaranteed that you will find something that’s Aussie born and bred.
Our sunscreens are superior (thanks to our strict SPF standards), the products are readily available, and our formulations are world-class.
Naturally, we wanted to spotlight the best in Aussie beauty and focus on the local brands producing quality products.
Nature’s Way
Nature’s Way is 100 per cent Australian and family owned, and takes great pride in making the best products possible to help all Australians to live, look and feel better.
Our favourite product:
Step up your skincare routine by helping to enhance skin firmness and supporting skin hydration from within. Help enhance skin firmness to support stronger and healthier skin with Nature’s Way Beauty Collagen + Hyaluronic Acid Tablets.
Alya Skin
Alya Skin is the powerhouse brand behind the famous pink clay mask used to detoxify, cleanse and brighten your skin. Using only pure ingredients, the products are also cruelty free and vegan friendly.
Our favourite product:
Alya Skin Pink Clay Mask is a strengthening, detoxifying and cleansing face mask that brightens the skin. It tightens pores, extracts pollutants and nasties and assists in the removal of acne and pimples. Kaolin clay removes toxins, pollutants and nasties from skin. It also helps remove pigmentation clusters from skin's surface, as well as stimulate regeneration of skin cells. The face mask also reduces skin inflammation and assists in removing eczema and acne.
Bondi Sands
Bondi Sands originated in a salon environment as a professional spray tan solution. The response from the beauty salons and customers was so positive that they decided everyone should have the opportunity to have a professional salon quality tan at home. Bondi Sands’ extensive experience and passion for health and beauty and their connection to the vibrant and fun-loving Australian culture resulted in Bondi Sands, the Australian tan. Bondi Sands salon quality formula gives a spectacular richer looking tan, that lasts longer and is for all skin types.
Our favourite product:
Bondi Sands Everyday Gradual Tanning Foam is a tanning foam that can be applied daily to develop a golden glow. The dual-action formula has been enriched with aloe vera and vitamin E to nourish and protect the skin. It boats fast absorption and 24-hour moisturisation.
Biologi
Australian skincare brand Biologi is revolutionising the industry with its unique range of serums, offering the only 100 per cent active, water-soluble plant extract range in the world. These active-ingredient serums have a profound effect on the skin, changing it on a cellular level and delivering on the promise that the product truly works. Each of the Biologi serums are extracted from a single native plant; finger lime, Davidson plum and Kakadu plum. Using a revolutionary extraction system, Biologi mimics the plant’s internal closed process to extract serums that work in the bottle as they do in their unique cellular environment.
Our favourite product:
Biologi Bd Luminosity Face Serum is a face serum that is a pure extract of Australian Davidson plum. This powerhouse serum is formulated with vitamins and antioxidants to give skin a natural glow and provide a protective barrier against signs of early ageing and blemishes. It also has a storehouse of strong anti-inflammatory phytoactives that leave skin looking refreshed, radiant and luminous.
De Lorenzo
De Lorenzo is an Australian made and family owned professional hair care company with a strong commitment to environmental responsibility. De Lorenzo manufactures professional, salon only products that include styling products, everyday shampoos and conditioners, scalp therapy ranges and specialised treatment products.
Our favourite product:
De Lorenzo Tricho Scalp Balance Cleanser gently cleanses the scalp without stripping hair of its natural oils. It helps to relieve redness and scaling. It contains organic marrubium plant extract and fennel fruit extract to calm and soothe the scalp, and soy protein to seal and protect.
Dr. LeWinn’s
Dr. LeWinn’s is the No. 1 Australian cosmeceutical facial skincare brand in the pharmacy channel. Founded by Dr Laurence LeWinn, one of the world’s most distinguished reconstructive dermal surgeons, the brand has for over 30 years been empowering women to look and feel their best with clinically proven anti-ageing solutions that promote beautiful, youthful and healthy looking skin.
Our favourite product:
Dr. Lewinn’s Eternal Youth Rich Nourishing Cream is a luxurious, rich cream with Juveleven™, a powerful hexapeptide that boosts the skins natural repair mechanism, improving youthfulness by 11 years. Clinically proven Hydroviton® Plus provides instant and long-lasting hydration for 72 hours, while Hyaluronic Acid re-plumps dehydrated skin. Nourishing Shea Butter protects skin while Niacinamide improves elasticity, evens skin tone and smooths fine lines, leaving dry skin feeling and looking restored, hydrated and youthful.
Glasshouse Fragrances
Fragrance aficionado Nicole Eckels launched Glasshouse Fragrances in 2006 from a spark of imagination and a belief in the power of fragrance to transform and elevate the everyday. Since launch, Glasshouse Fragrances has quickly grown to become a leading brand in the Australian fragrance market. With fragrances developed by the World’s finest perfumers, they ignite you with feeling and transport you to wherever you want to be, capturing the essence of the most exciting and stylish destinations globally.
Our favourite product:
Glasshouse Fragrances A Tahaa Affair - Vanilla Caramel Fragrance Diffuser is a diffuser inspired by the northwest of nowhere, in the turquoise belt of the South Pacific, Tahaa. A perfectly lush green haven to sail to whenever. Vanilla bean, frankincense and coconut layer together, and you're there in the warm sweet air of the vanilla island.
Mitten
100% Australian-owned, Mitten was founded by Fatma Theodoropoulos after she visited a hammam in Turkey. Having tried many exfoliating mitts in her time, Fatma was on the hunt for one that made her skin feel as if she had just come out of a Turkish bath. She set out on a journey to create the perfect deep exfoliating mitt which can be customised for each skin type and provide a luxury experience. She succeeded and launched her own line of deep exfoliating mitts.
Our favourite product:
Mitten Classic Mild Turkish Bath Deep Exfoliation Face or Body Mitt is a non-irritating mitt that has been specifically crafted to provide deep exfoliation for the face, neck and sensitive skin. 100 per cent natural and silky-soft, it replicates an express microdermabrasion to the face and neck, while providing visible results within 60 seconds, using warm water only. It is woven on traditional looms with high-quality Floss Viscose threads. The light grainy texture provides friction onto skin and deeply penetrates, purifies and buffs away dead skin cells. It combats multiple skin concerns while working in synergy with the skin’s own structure. Totally sustainable, it lasts for a minimum of up to 250 uses.
Invisible Zinc
INVISIBLE ZINC launched in 2003 and is a premium sunscreen range that uses Zinc Oxide as the only active ingredient. Zinc Oxide is an ingredient that constructs a physical barrier on the skin to reflect harmful UVA and UVB rays, as well as visible light.
Our favourite product:
Invisible Zinc Face + Body Sunscreen SPF50 UVA-UVB is a sunscreen that acts as a protective barrier between the skin and the sun, one of the main catalysts for skin ageing and wrinkles. The formula contains zinc oxide, a natural mineral reflector that creates a reflective shield on the surface of the skin to protect it from the sun’s harsh rays. It also contains moisturising ingredients to ensure skin stays hydrated. The sunscreen rubs in easily and dries clear. It can be used on both the face and body and is suitable for all skin types.
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