About Us

Company Profile

History

The Team

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Company Profile

Go Native New Zealand is New Zealand's premium online supplier of mainly raw, natural and organic skincare ingredients.
We stock essential oils, vegetable oils, cosmetic butters, waxes, fragrance oils, raw materials, ready-to-go bases, and more.

We've been in operation since 2001 and in our present form since 2007.

We’re a small, close-knit, mainly family team and are committed to finding the finest ingredients from around the world. These ingredients must be ethically sourced and where possible we buy direct from the growers, so we can establish a relationship with them and get to know their lives and businesses. Often, countries we deal with have no systems in place to be able to stamp their products with Fair Trade or Certified Organic logos, but since many of our suppliers are family or village enterprises, we feel comfortable with their conditions.

We are customer focused and really like to hear what our customers have to say about our products and service and what ingredients they would like us to provide. This feedback enables us to improve our service.

History

Go Native New Zealand was founded by Elinor McEwan in 2001 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

We started as Go Native Soap Company making handmade soaps and then began to contract manufacture handmade soap.

By 2007, we decided there was a need for a good supplier of raw, natural and organic skincare ingredients. When starting out making skincare products, it is very hard to source the ingredients, and especially hard to source them in small quantities.

So, we organised a new website and late September 2007 set off in a newish direction.
We import ingredients from around the world and are continuously searching for new, genuine suppliers.

The Team

Elinor McEwan

Elinor started Go Native New Zealand in 2001 after almost a lifetime of making her own skincare products.
Because of her husband's chronic psoriasis, Elinor started making soap and produced a fine range of retail soaps and pet shampoos, only to realise retail products were not her forte.

Loathing the publicity that has to go with being successful in that field, she eventually turned to supplying the ingredients to make the end products. Elinor just loves being in the background organising, refining the systems and researching the world for supplies.

Elinor was born in Tuatapere, Southland, and grew up in Invercargill, where her heart still is. Secondary school saw a shift to Nelson, then off to Christchurch to university to do a BA in psychology. She has lived in Auckland ever since. 
She is married to a very supportive, generous and delightful man who prefers to remain anonymous! They have three children, Chelsea, Harry and the late Jane.

Chelsea McEwan Millar

Chelsea is an actor (Under the Mountain, Go Girls, Flightless Birds, Bliss). As with most actors she needs a day job so gave up making coffee in 2009 and joined Go Native to help fulfil orders and help with marketing. We love her being around and are delighted with her enthusiasm and ideas for new projects within the company.

Jacqui Tyrrell

‘Natural’ and ‘organic’ have  underpinned her life for as long as she can remember.
She lives on four acres and make lots of gorgeous compost – a magical process, rather like traditional soap making. Sourdough bread is another passion – her starter is a few years old now, and still getting better.
She is a teacher by training, and enjoys communicating the delights of maths and literature – and now feels she has an amazing opportunity to help you enjoy everything that Go Native has to offer. She's loving being part of something so life-enhancing.

 

Contact Elinor and the Go Native Team

Links

www.macfinger.co.nz: Lance at Macfinger is an absolute gem with all Apple products; fixing, reconfiguring, setting up.
www.ecopet.co.nz: shampoo and conditioner for dogs
www.biopet.co.nz: natural remedies for animals and fish
www.lizziebee.co.nz: soapmaking classes
www.fromgreytogreen.co.nz: fabulous raw food classes