Antipodes

Antipodes is a highly innovative scientific organic beauty brand. Its visionary New Zealand founder and director, Elizabeth Barbalich, has built her skincare and makeup company on a cutting-edge combination of the highest quality ingredients from New Zealand nature and raw super-fruit extracts with science and innovation to produce high-tech certified organic and premium formulations.

As a result, Antipodes is a trailblazer in natural skincare with scientific validation to prove its performance. Her clean certified vegetarian skincare that delivers outstanding results for helping support production of collagen, elastin and antioxidant activity has found favour with women of all ages right around the world. Antipodes is now sold in 13 countries to its many passionate devotees including international celebrities. Products continue to win multiple beauty and health industry awards for performance.

Antipodes is pioneering this new niche globally: organic and natural skincare with the level of scientific validation of anti-ageing performance usually only seen in major conventional skincare brands. And key Antipodes anti-ageing skincare products are returning extremely impressive scientific results.

Independent investigations show that they can significantly help to optimise collagen and elastin production and antioxidant activity in human skin cells. These markers are all critical to a more youthful-looking visage. For instance, Worship Skin Defence Antioxidant Serum has been scientifically shown to inhibit oxidative stress in-vitro by up to 90%*. This measure of its antioxidant potency indicates its impressive anti-ageing potential when applied to skin.

Antipodes founder and director Elizabeth Barbalich has driven Antipodes to be a science based company from the start, drawing on her science degree from the University of Canterbury. “Smart consumers deserve a scientific level of proof in the flooded market of natural and organic skincare. We produce the best anti-ageing skincare products we can with authenticity at their core, as their anti-ageing ability has been independently and scientifically validated.”

New Zealand’s unique and pristine environment is like nowhere else on Earth, deep in the South Pacific and the closest nation to Antarctica. Untouched by humans until just a thousand years ago, New Zealand’s pristine flora is bursting with potent antibacterial, anti-fungal and antioxidant-rich properties.

Experience the skin-enhancing power of sustainable, wild-harvested extracts from New Zealand rainforests. These are bioactive extracts from New Zealand's plant species that have evolved in geographic isolation over tens of millions of years:

mamaku black fern for cell renewal

crimson pohutukawa for skin conditioning

golden kowhai for high antioxidant bioactivity

omega-rich harakeke New Zealand flax

potent antibacterial totara.

From New Zealand’s top orchards and vineyards, Antipodes source premium ingredients power-packed for beauty performance such as: nutrient-rich avocado oil, kiwi seed oil, revolutionary antioxidant Vinanza Grape from sauvignon blanc grapes, manuka honey Active 20+.

Carefully sourced from pollution-free origins, raw antioxidant extracts from these grapes and other New Zealand grown superfruit like kiwi, boysenberries and blackcurrants come together in the revolutionary Vinanza range. Five powerful Vinanza antioxidant extracts that target specific signs of ageing

Grape: Improves elasticity and firmness

Grape & Kiwi: Brightens skin and improves skin appearance

Kiwi: Lightens skin, freckles and age spots

Oxifend: Reduces skin redness and inflammation

Oxifend Plus: Defends skin cells from oxidative stress

They deliver skin-nourishing nutrients, and work to neutralise the free radicals that can damage your skin’s surface.

Kinetic Natural Product Distributors have been supplying the European beauty and natural products industry with ethical, natural and organic body care brands for over 15 years.