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8 Essential Ingredients For The Best Natural Deodorant

A great natural deodorant formula should be a combination of two things: a serving of delicious botanical fragrance on the left and on the right, a cocktail of natural anti-bacterial compounds that are all gentle on your skin, but make it a rough night out for odour-causing bacteria.

The Science of Sweat: Why Does Sweat Smell?

Why does sweat smell? Sweating is part biology, part physics and part chemistry but it's all pretty simple when you dissect the facts. It's one of the signs of a healthy integumentary system. Let's review our notes with a short lesson on one of our skin's essential functions

The science behind our No Dice sunscreen

Sam Loader, the man who adds the science to Triumph and Disaster’s products, was particularly challenged when it came to creating the sunscreen No Dice. 
The concept was a natural sunscreen that was light and non-greasy. 
Added into the mix was the New Zealand regulation that the SPF has to be 20 percent above than on the label.

The secret ingredient sheep contribute to our shave cream

Aside from wool and some good lamb steaks to throw on the barby, sheep also contribute a very important skincare product. They secrete lanolin from their backs into their wool to make it waterproof, which is why even in heavy rain their coats still look wooly. The lanolin acts as a barrier so they don’t get bogged down and it is harvested by pressing the sheared wool.

7+ Skincare Tips that will cost you nothing

Sometimes, it's not so much what you're putting on your body but how we're living that impacts our skin.

What's the difference between Gameface & Dark Moon?

Why would you need two moisturisers?  What's the difference? Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? We put our, award-winning incumbent, Gameface Moisturiser up against our newer challenger, Dark Moon Hydrating Cream to answer the big questions in life.

Winter Skincare

HANDLING WINTER
For those of us hunkering down for the cooler months, our skin requires a special set of skills to take us through to spring.

The Night Shift

Our latest releases, ‘Dark Moon’ hydrating cream and ‘Dichotomy’ eye serum we have labelled as the ‘Night Shift’, because they are like workers that come in and relieve their daytime peers with a different set of skills but with the same hardworking attitude and principles needed to get the job done.

The Science of Nature: Dragon's Blood

Voodoo Rituals, wound treatment and bleeding Dragons. Dragon's Blood is an interesting ingredient. And, an actual ingredient. Here's a little about one of our more colourful natural additions.

Alpine Adventures

Last weekend we kitted out self-proclaimed travel enthusiast and ‘part-time van captain’, Brooke James, with our skin and haircare travel essentials for his adventure with Riparide.