About Us
Born on the land of the Pharaohs. Made in Melbourne.
What HAVESS means
HAVESS is inspired by the word harvest. Born on the land of the Pharaohs and nurtured in Australia's love of nature.
The Egyptian half isn't decoration. The lotus in our Bakuchiol serum represented beauty, life and resurrection in ancient Egypt — and it is genuinely in the formula. The rose gold in our packaging is gold, the colour of the Pharaohs, merged with the tone of skin.
The rest is Australian: Kakadu plum, desert lime, finger lime caviar, Native Orange Pearl and quandong. Formulated in Melbourne, made in Australia.
The reason we exist
To put a well-formulated routine within reach of Australians whose skin has changed — including the ones who can't tolerate the strong stuff.
Who We Are
HAVESS was founded by three pharmacists in Melbourne, all of Egyptian heritage.
- Tadrous M — BPharm | CredPharm | MPS — AHPRA reg. 0002560557
- Abdelrahman A — BPharm | CredPharm — AHPRA reg. 0002138021
- Basma Fouad — BPharm | Master of Cosmeceutical Compounding
You can look any of us up on the AHPRA public register. We put our names and our qualifications on this page because almost nobody does — and because a claim you can check is worth more than one you can't.
Our Story
We do this because Australian skin takes a beating.
We live in one of the harshest environments in the world, and not enough people have access to well-formulated skincare at a price that isn't absurd.
There's a second group nobody serves properly: women who have tried retinol more than once and had to stop. Half the shelf is an active they can't tolerate, and the rest is two hundred dollars. That is the gap we built for.
Inspirations
What We Want to Accomplish
We want to be the routine that fits into a life — three products, not twelve, used morning and night without a chart on the bathroom wall.
And we want to be the brand that tells you what its products won't do. Every product page on this site states its limits before it asks for the sale. That isn't modesty; it's the only way we know to be believed.
Bakuchiol 1% Face Serum
Bakuchiol behaves like retinol in the research, without being a retinoid. We built the night step around it for skin that couldn't tolerate the strong stuff.
We stopped at 1%. You'll find bakuchiol at 2% and at 4%, but the trial that put it next to retinol ran at 0.5% — more isn't shown to work better, and more is where irritation starts. With rosehip CO2 oil, Native Orange Pearl and lotus.
Give it three months for lines and tone.
Kakadu 20% Vitamin C Complex Serum
A 20% vitamin C complex — not 20% straight acid. The 20% describes the whole complex: Kakadu plum, desert lime and finger lime caviar together, with encapsulated vitamin C.
Which is exactly why it doesn't sting the way a 20% L-ascorbic serum does. Desert lime carries ferulic acid naturally — the same pairing you'll find in serums selling for over $200.
The morning step. It isn't a sunscreen and won't replace one.
AgeLumin X10 Cream
X10 doesn't mean ten times. It means ten minutes — the point at which ALGAKTIV measured hydration in their own testing on the ingredient, not on our formula.
Built on collagen amino acids upcycled from Icelandic microalgae, with niacinamide, Pentavitin® and quandong, an Australian native. It goes over whichever serum you've just used, morning and night.
It won't fill a line. The hydration is quick; the firmness was measured at twenty-eight days.
About the shop
Three pharmacists in Melbourne. Three products, built around Australian natives — and we'll tell you what they won't do.
