Orveda

Green, clean and vegan - with results - Orveda combines ancient wisdom with cutting-edge science to empower skin to heal from within. Greener, highly concentrated, vegan - with proven results - Orveda is a new-age skincare range that, based on the science of glow, works with skin, not against it, to activate a healthy skin glow that rivals make-up. Made in France.

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At the zenith of a twenty-year career, having sat at the top of a global beauty empire, Sue Y. Nabi – beauty expert and CEO, scientist and storyteller, engineer and visionary – felt the toils that a high-paced, high-stress, modern-day lifestyle was having on her health and she knew something had to change. So in lieu of quick-fix pills and external influences she had come to rely on, she looked elsewhere: to the past, to the East – to ancient Ayurvedic, Naturopathic and Chinese traditions, as well as Taoism – and never looked back. As a trained scientist, Sue soon recognised the body as an ecosystem unto itself (or, as she coined it, her “Me-cosystem”): naturally built to fight, and which can be empowered to self-heal with help from Nature. In applying this thinking to skin – understanding it as biology that skincare needs to work with, not against – she realised it offered an entirely new way to approach skincare: creating high-efficacy products that form part of a healthier, holistic approach to life; that do no harm; and, ultimately, support a new vision of beauty. This vision is based beyond the superficial, beyond “anti-aging”, and, instead, on health. Sue spent three years looking at how to help activate what the skin does naturally: self-heal. She knew she needed to find a solution that harnesses power from Nature in a way that is fearlessly kind – to skin, self, others, the planet – yet effective. She found it in Science – at the cutting-edge of Biotechnology – and in Earth’s most ancient life form: the galaxy of bacteria, yeast and enzymes. She knew they were to be the beauty industry’s new factories – and future.

“Farmed” in laboratories, and replicated to infinity with zero impact to Nature, Sue selected an enzyme from marine bacteria that, able to survive in the extreme, high-temperature, volcanic waters off the northern coast of California, has the ability to protect the skin’s barrier and restore its natural quality. In addition, a natural prebiotic (which feeds the skin’s second barrier – made of healthy bacteria) and Kombucha – bio-fermented black tea (known as “The Long-Life Mushroom” beverage), that provides freshness, clarity and luminosity to skin – completed Sue’s unique, signature and powerful self-healing mix. To date, this appears to be a new, alternative and probably our most comprehensive way (working 360° on skin barriers, texture, tone and luminosity) to naturally activate skin tones and healthy glow. This means, for the first time, Orveda is a skincare that could rival make-up. That, naturally, you can “glow without” – with pure skin health. Along with co-founder and friend Nicolas Vu, Sue worked tirelessly to bring her vision of new-age beauty to life. The result is Orveda: a high-end, alternative and flawless experience of super-concentrated, high-active healing formulations that, augmented by self-massaging tools and producing immediate results, are clean, green and vegan. Gender-neutral, its signature “green” scent was developed by a master Parisian perfumer. With the Healing Sap™, an all-in-one restorative “glow shot” at its center, the range is representative not only of the highest choices made at every level, but the concentration and culmination of everything Sue knows about skin, health, biology and beauty. Orveda is central to her belief that everything is possible: that we can create positive ways to improve and heal our skin, ourselves, our health, our lives, and our society – through the choices we make.