Here at Aotea we are inspired by Rongoā Māori, we hero kawakawa, kūmarahou, mānuka, and harakeke throughout our range of therapeutic skincare. These plants have long held significance in New Zealand's history, with their properties utilised not on...

The history of soap goes back thousands of years with the earliest record of soap making around 2800 BC. The ancient Babylonians made a basic soap from fats boiled with wood ashes & it was used primarily for cleaning wool & cotton used to...

A New Zealand plant that often gets overlooked is the mighty kūmarahou.  Alongside it's healing properties, the kūmarahou flowers contain saponins, which are natural surfactants that produce a foamy lather, which can gently cleanse your hands a...