About Us
About Paleoskincare
Real Skin Food
Hi! My name is Terri Newton. I have been developing and manufacturing skincare products based on Saturated fats for the last 20 years, since long before they became a fasionable trend.
Paleo Skincare began with a fairly simple idea: what we put on our skin should make sense, using real ingredients that are immediately recognisable.
I wanted to create skincare where science and tradition are combined to create a product that works for you. I'm practical by nature. I believe in making thoughtful choices where they matter and creating products that are simple enough to become part of everyday life.
Why animal fats?
From the beginning, I've been particularly interested in saturated fats.
Tallow and other animal fats, bee's wax and saturated oils have been used in soap and skincare since the beginning of human history. They are wonderfully useful ingredients for a formulator: rich, stable and versatile, and capable of producing everything from traditional soaps and liquid body washes to moisturisers and body butters.
So while tallow skincare has recently become something of a trend, for Paleo Skincare it isn't new at all.
It's what we've been doing for the last 20 years.
Our range now includes products made with grass-fed beef tallow, emu oil, lanolin and even Australian camel hump fat, alongside carefully selected ingredients such as organic coconut oil, Australian extra virgin olive oil and beeswax.
We also make a dedicated Low/No Plant Ingredient range for customers who specifically want skincare without plant oils, botanical extracts or essential oils.
Paleo Skincare isn't a label placed on products manufactured for us somewhere else.
I formulate our products and manufacture them from scratch here in Australia.
That distinction matters to me.
It means I understand why an ingredient is in a formulation, what it contributes and how it behaves. Over the years, products have been refined not only through my own formulation work but through feedback from the people who actually use them.
Some of those customers have been with Paleo Skincare for many years.
Because we manufacture rather than resell , we can make some fairly unique — including genuine liquid soaps made from tallow and other fats, rather than simply adding tallow to a pre-made detergent body-wash base.
More than one kind of "natural"
One thing hasn't changed since I started Paleo Skincare: I've never been particularly interested in following skincare trends.
Words such as natural, clean and organic can mean many different things. I'd rather tell you what we've made, what we've made it from, and why we've chosen those ingredients.
You'll therefore find different approaches within the Paleo Skincare range.
Some products combine animal fats with carefully selected plant oils and essential oils. Others are completely plant-free. Some are deliberately simple and unscented. Others are formulated for people who enjoy beautiful natural fragrances.
There isn't one "right" product for everybody.
Our job is to make good products and give you enough information to choose the one that makes sense for you.
Australian ingredients and making use of what we already have
Where practical, I like our ingredients to have a connection to Australian producers.
Using animal fats also makes sense to me from a whole-animal perspective. Fat is a valuable raw material. Rather than treating it as something without value, we can turn it into useful, beautiful skincare while supporting the farmers and other smal businesses who supply us.
It's an old-fashioned idea in some respects:
Use good raw materials. Waste less. Make things properly.
I'm quite comfortable with that.
Still independent. Still curious. Still making it ourselves.
Paleo Skincare has changed considerably since I first started experimenting with formulations all those years ago. What hasn't changed is the reason behind it.
We're still a small independent Australian business. I still develop products, question ingredients, test ideas and listen to customers. And the products you buy from us are still made with the same hands-on involvement and curiosity that started Paleo Skincare in the first place.
If you're new here, welcome.
Have a look around, read about the ingredients and the different ranges, and choose what suits you and your personal preferences.
And if you're not sure which product is right for you, ask me. There's a real person behind Paleo Skincare, and I'm always happy to help.
Terri
Owner & Formulator
Paleo Skincare