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Arohanui Facial Serum: Verve’s Best-in-Beauty Winner for Face Oils

Meet Arohanui Facial Serum, LOVESKIN’s luxurious offering for dry, mature, and dehydrated skin. Handcrafted in New Zealand, this deeply restorative facial oil has been crowned Best in Face Oils in ...

Redefining Face Serums at LoveSkin: Where Every Ingredient is Active

LoveSkin NZ face serums redefine skincare with 100% active, oil-based ingredients. Hydrate, protect, and repair your skin naturally while supporting every skin type with pure, effective formulations.

Face Oils vs Face Creams

There’s no doubt that face oils have been dominating the skincare market of late. Many brands have introduced skincare oils to their offering, either as a supplement to their current products, in t...

Face Mists: A Remedy for Skin Sensitivity

If you suffer from stinging, burning, redness, or tightness, you most likely steer clear of toners in any form. Enter toning face mists: new generation toners that help to combat these skin concern...

3 Ways Face Oils Help Oily Skin

It’s actually a misconception that oily skin clogs pores and causes breakouts. Whilst cheap petroleum based oil products can exacerbate an oily or acne prone skin issue, a quality botanical oil ble...

How a Natural Face Oil Can Change Your Skin

If you're religiously cleansing, toning and moisturising but your skin is looking a little lacklustre, a face oil could be what's missing. If that’s now got you thinking how a face serum is differe...

3 Ways Natural Face Oils Help Sensitive Skin

Sensitive Skin is difficult because any new products can potentially aggravate or exacerbate pre-existing sensitivity. Sensitive skin can flare up due to environmental factors, hormonal fluctuation...

4 Tops Tips to Effectively Apply Natural Face Oils

Cleanse, tone, moisturise - what more could there be? Well, if you haven’t added a face oil into your skincare routine, you could be missing out. Face oils are rich, lightweight moisturisers that c...

How to Restore Your Skin’s pH Balance With Face Oils

There's one skin condition to blame for everything from irritation, chronic dryness, to acne but you most likely don't even know you’re suffering from it: an out-of-balance pH level. Let’s explore ...

How to Use Our Face Oils to Recover From Acne

In order to better understand how our natural face oils can work for oily skin read here; 3 ways face oils help oily skin. You understand the theory, now it’s time to put it into practice by implem...

How a Mindful Skin Ritual Can Help Your Overall Wellness

In pursuit of happier and calmer minds, the practice of mindfulness has been around for thousands of years. This same practice has caught the interest of the health and beauty world primarily becau...

Level Up Your Skincare Routine

Transform your skincare routine with LoveSkin. From gentle oil cleansing and soothing rose toners to natural serums, discover how to restore, hydrate, and reveal radiant, healthy skin every day.

Give Winter Skin the Nourishing Oil Boost It Craves

Why Your Winter Skin Loves Oil-Based Skincare When cold air and indoor heating strip moisture away, slathering on heavy creams can feel like a temporary fix. At LoveSkin, we harness the power of 10...

Active Oils: Revolutionizing Skincare with LoveSkin

Experience the transformative power of LoveSkin’s active oil skincare ritual. Purify, balance, and moisturise your skin naturally while supporting long-term health and radiant glow

Our Founder's Skincare Routine

LOVESKIN Founder Joanna Lehndorf talks all things skin care. What is your skin type? My skin tends to be dry, especially between my eyebrows. What is your current skin routine?  I’m very focused o...

A Lesson in Finding Your Best Autumn Skincare Routine

It’s a new season and that means it’s time to evaluate your skincare routine so that your skin is at its optimum. But, that doesn’t mean radically overhauling your skincare routine or turning to ha...

Five Beauty Products Our Founder Swears By

  This article was originally written for the Shelfie section of Stuff.co.nzJo Lehndorf is the founder of Wellington-made brand Loveskin, and a former NZ Police constable and forensic photographer....

Skincare Trends That DON'T Care for Your Skin

The beauty industry has a lot to answer for when it comes to ‘skincare’ trends. Sadly a lot of the trends are marketing fluff that won’t genuinely provide the care your skin needs. Two of the bigge...

Sun's Out Skin's Out

This heat and humidity can play havoc with your skin. Here are a couple of tips to keep you glowing:1. DO NOT fall into the over-cleansing trap. We tend to perspire in this weather, which can leave...

Help! My Teenager is Asking to Start on Roaccutane!

I get this message all the time from concerned parents. Their pre-teen or teenager has started to breakout. They've already tried a variety of different products to try and fix the problem, and the...

Oil Based Skincare vs Water Based Skincare

Face oils versus water based products that contain actives. Let's talk about it. If we remove the water emulsifier and preservative from a water based skincare product, then what's left would be co...

The Importance of Patch Testing Skincare Products

  We know you’re eager to get started with your knew skincare routine, but we’d rather you take your time, just in case it doesn’t work for you.   Patch testing is a crucial step in determining if ...

Battling With Blackheads and Enlarged Pores?

If you're struggling with blackheads and enlarged pores, your skin isn't dirty and squeezing, scrubbing, or washing your skin with soap isn't the answer. Blackheads aren't caused by dirt getting i...

Get Glowing, Gorgeous!

Did you know your skin is constantly being affected by the environment and the rhythms of nature? Applying topical products is only part of the equation when it comes to the health for your skin. Y...

The Skin Soaking Method- Topical Hydration

Why is Topical Hydration Essential for Beautiful Skin This article was written by Latasha Boyce, owner of Alluminus Beauty of Greytown, and stockist of the LOVESKIN range. Skin Soaking Method Did ...

A Beginners Guide To Natural Skin Care Rituals

Natural brands are now playing a major role in the skincare space, with the accessibility and understanding of natural ingredients now available, the efficacy of natural products are now rivaling a...

Ageing Skin: Rediscovering the Magic of Oils

Our skin, the largest organ in our body, is the first line of defense against the elements. It faces everything from the scorching sun to biting cold and yet, for most of our lives, we often take i...

Manuka Honey: Liquid Gold for Your Skin

It’s a powerhouse ingredient with incredible antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and healing properties. But did you know that Manuka honey can help keep your skin naturally healthy, clear, and hydra...

The Best Oils for Treating Rosacea, Eczema & Problem Skin

Those who suffer from eczema, rosacea, psoriasis, or sensitive skin know the struggle of finding skin care products to soothe and treat their ailing skin, without making it worse. From over-the-cou...

It’s Not Your Skin, It’s Your Skincare

Are you confused by your skin? Do you suffer from breakouts or acne that you just can’t seem to completely shake? Jo shares a fresh take on problem skin and teaches us how to heal acne once and for...

The Importance of the Skin's Barrier - Magic Talk Radio Interview

Mel Homer: Right now though, Jo is a former New Zealand police, Constable, and a forensic photographer who launched LoveSkin from her Wellington home after friends and family started requesting t...

5 Proven Ways to Simplify Your Skincare Routine

Finding the right skincare routine can be an overwhelming and intimidating experience. When your bathroom starts to look like it belongs to a beauty hoarder, it’s time to take Marie Kondo’s lead an...