About Us

Back in 1997, Jenny Agnew, our Managing Director had some rare free time on her hands as she travelled in Europe. Inspired by the beautiful soaps and skincare she discovered in stores the length and breadth of Italy and France, she hit on the idea of a special range of New Zealand-inspired soaps and skincare. The specialty soap market was booming overseas and hadn't yet made it to New Zealand. Always keen to be ahead of the crowd, she began at the kitchen table experimenting with New Zealand plant extracts to create a range of unique products inspired by the flora of this beautiful country. Juggling a successful university lectureship with a family and business got a little hard to manage as the soaps and lotions she created started flying out the door. Teaching's loss was our gain and Pacifica Skincare was off and running. (Her family, by the way, are incredibly important to her!)

Since then Pacifica Skincare has become one of New Zealand's leading companies, creating gorgeous skincare and home wares. Pacifica Skincare products are sold throughout New Zealand and increasingly offshore in markets as diverse as the USA and Japan. We think that our appeal comes from a passionate commitment to celebrating the special properties of New Zealand flora and also to harnessing the creativity that flourishes in our tight-knit team. The walls of the Pacifica showroom are papered with the exquisite hand-rendered artwork created by Catherine Melo, our exceptionally clever and talented in-house designer.

Together with our long-standing customer service and sales and marketing team, Jenny and Catherine work to continuously develop exquisite new products and to explore new opportunities here and overseas. We have just completed a three year supply agreement to Air New Zealand creating a bespoke range for the airline's Premium passengers - Pacifica Organics. That's a great achievement for a company that started out on the kitchen table!

Made in New Zealand

We love New Zealand and we're working hard to keep as much of our production in New Zealand as possible. Our beautiful products are all made right here from local extracts by very experienced local manufacturers. We try and use printers and packaging manufacturers in Auckland (near our offices) so that we can keep our transport costs down. We sometimes import packaging from overseas - simply because we just can't get it here! We recycle as much material as possible, using and re-using packing stuff over and over again to reduce our footprint on this fabulous planet.

It's really important to us that we use ingredients that are of the highest quality possible. We are particularly excited about the growing range of native New Zealand extracts that we include in our deliciously scented products including Manuka Honey, Flax Seed Oil, Pohutukawa, Hebe and Kowhai extracts. We use essential oils from pure sources and wherever possible we try and incorporate natural ingredients as possible. Oh, and none of our products are tested on animals - they are just tested on us!

If you have a New Zealand product, ingredient or service that you think we should know about please drop us a line at info@pacificaskincare.co.nz. We'd love to hear from you.

We like to make a difference

As well as trying to do the right thing by Mother Earth we also like to support our community. We regularly supply products for giveaways to causes that strike a chord with us; usually to do with education, the arts and health and wellbeing.

How to get hold of us

Below you'll find our contact details - we'd love to hear from you for whatever reason.

Sales Representatives

Denise Taylor: 021 106 5300
(North Island to Taupo)

Bill Elphick: 027 470 0074
(North Island south of Taupo)

Catherine Latter: 027 227 6971
(South Island)