My name is Joanne Reilly & Im the owner-founder of Kinvara skincare. I set up Kinvara nearly 10 years ago because I was frustrated with the products available to me. They either didn’t work or made things worse, were very expensive or didn’t reflect my values – sometimes all of those things!

Up to that point I was lucky, in that my skin had been always been relatively trouble free but lifestyle changes, stress, and physical changes left my skin reactive and tricky to manage. I was lucky in that I knew what to do to help myself. Fieldwork to Sumatra and earlier expeditions to Mauritius showed me how local people turned to plants as a natural resource, a natural apothecary. So I was very confident that plants held the solution to my skin problems and with that belief in mind I set about making products for myself.

5 years on I’m making products for myself & 1000’s of happy customers all over the world.