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There is a lot of advice telling us that consistency is the secret to good skin. Use the same cleanser. Follow with the same serum. Apply the same moisturiser. Repeat morning and night, every day of the year. And while consistency can certainly be helpful, there is something missing from that advice. Your skin isn't consistent. Neither is the environment it lives in. Here in New Zealand, we can move from hot sunshine to a cool southerly remarkably quickly. Summers can mean strong UV, salt water, humidity and long days outdoors. Winter can bring cold winds, frosty mornings, indoor heating and skin that...

There’s something wonderful about sunshine. It warms us, gets us outdoors and helps our bodies make vitamin D. But here in New Zealand, we also know that sunshine deserves a healthy amount of respect. Especially if, like some of us at Bushfairy, you have the kind of fair skin that can turn pink rather quickly. Redhead Approved Suncream was created from that understanding. The goal is to make a plant-rich suncream that could become one part of a sensible approach to enjoying the outdoors — not something that gives us permission to spend hours in strong sun simply because we’ve put on...

Sweat has somehow earned itself a rather bad reputation. We spend a surprising amount of time trying to stop it, disguise it and apologise for it. Walk down the deodorant aisle and you'll see plenty of products promising dryness for hours on end, as though perspiration itself is something our bodies are getting wrong. But sweating is normal.  Your sweat glands are there for a reason, and at Bushfairy, our approach to deodorant isn't about preventing your body from doing what it naturally does. It's about helping you feel fresh and comfortable while allowing your body to sweat normally. That distinction...

Walk into any supermarket and you'll find shelves lined with skincare products that all promise something extraordinary. Smoother skin. Fewer wrinkles. More glow. Better hydration. New formulas arrive every season, often replacing products that were considered revolutionary just months before. What we don't often think about is how those products are actually made. Many skincare products are manufactured on an enormous scale, with thousands—or even hundreds of thousands—of units produced at a time. That's not necessarily a bad thing. Large-scale manufacturing allows products to be widely available and consistent from batch to batch. But there is another way to make...

Have you ever looked in the mirror and wondered why your skin suddenly feels drier than usual? Or why you're breaking out despite doing everything "right"? Maybe your skin has become more sensitive, dull, or tight seemingly overnight. It's easy to see these changes as problems to fix. The beauty industry certainly encourages us to. Every blemish, wrinkle, or dry patch is often treated as something to battle with another product, stronger ingredient, or more complicated routine. But what if your skin isn't working against you? What if it's trying to tell you something? Your skin is remarkably intelligent. It's...