About us
Take a passion for nature, add generations of chemistry and a love of cosmetics and sprinkle with a light dusting of nagging and you will uncover DERMEDA.
It has been the marrying of the passions of Tracey and Adrian that has brought together a range of genuinely healthy skin care. A partnership that seems as natural as the products they produce.
Coming from a long line of Swiss chemists, Adrian developed a passion for natural products spurred on by a father who took him on regular excursions through the Swiss mountains to learn about herbal remedies and plant extracts.
Adrian had always harboured a dream to create 100% pure natural products right down to the base they were mixed in.
But it was when he met New Zealander Tracey that the dream started to form a reality as he lovingly created cosmetics for her, combining the natural plant extracts from their two beautiful home countries.
And it was Tracey’s faith in her husband that set them on the path to turn the natural cosmetics she loved into a business.
DERMEDA products are sourced from both Adrian’s home: Switzerland and Tracey’s home in New Zealand and then produced in Switzerland.
One sniff of the Swiss ingredients has you imagining you were holidaying in the mountains in Switzerland or, in turn, strolling through New Zealand native bush.
DERMEDA combines New Zealand natural products such as Pohutukawa, Harakeke, Kawa Kawa, Mamaku and Swiss herbs such as Alpine Rose and Edelweiss.
When Adrian talks about DERMEDA he frequently uses the words balance and harmony. He says the difference to many other beauty products is that Dermeda works to activate the natural processes of your own skin to balance and harmonise itself, “the regulative essences are our difference.”
These products go more than skin deep. With his lifetime of knowledge in chemistry, Adrian knows that the wonderful aspects of applying these plant extracts to your skin is that the body will also absorb all the nutrients as well.
After 21 years as a couple in Switzerland, Tracey and Adrian moved back to their beautiful beach-view home in Waikanae New Zealand where they are raising two daughters, sisters to Christian.
Their goal is pure and natural: to make people happy.
When we give DERMEDA to people we 100% know it’s going to work.