Ayond skincare launched in 2019 by partners in life and business Shani van Breukelen and Porter Yates. The pair ‘wanted to create a genderless skincare line that was clean and effective’. While many other skincare lines can lay claim to all of those qualities, what sets Ayond apart (and why it has gained such a loyal legion of followers in a short time) is that it creates its genderless, clean and effective skincare with a unique range of desert botanicals, primarily found around the brand’s Santa Fe home base.
Van Breukelen and Yates realised that the very qualities that make the desert the antithesis of what you want your skin to be – dry, sun-scorched, cracked – are exactly what makes the landscape contain natural ingredients best suited to combat those problems.
