Story
STORY
“Vanderohe is my ode to Mother Nature and to a gentler, more mindful form of self-care; to understanding our bodily needs and responding to them in a nurturing way; to taking a step back from the internal stresses and looking up and around us. It is a creation from the very depths of my maternal, protective being and it is a return to cherishing the Earth’s very real and powerful medicine: plants.”
Olivia Thorpe, Founder, Vanderohe
The story of Vanderohe is a tale of trust and transparency, born out of founder Olivia Thorpe’s dedication to integrity. After graduating from Oxford University then pursuing a successful career in finance, Olivia’s path took a different turn following a move from London to Singapore.
Feeling frustrated by the lack of creativity in her current vocation, Olivia launched an online beauty publication, Vanderohe. It was also at this time that she developed severe allergic dermatitis. With her skin raw and resistant to treatment, she embarked on a healing quest inspired by the natural brands she had written about for her site.
After two years of meticulous research into the chemistry of organic plant oils, and pregnant with her second child, her hypersensitive nose led her to create an oil blend that healed her condition where all else had failed. Vanderohe No.1 Nourishing Face Serum was launched in 2017, securing six leading awards in its first year -- from British Vogue to Harper’s Bazaar Singapore - laying the foundation for expanding the range in 2018 with four further award-winning products. The brand has quickly gone from strength to strength and received emphatic praise from respected influencers, celebrities and the world’s top beauty press.
At the heart of all that Olivia does is a dedication to quality and integrity. Vanderohe uses only organic or wild-harvested plant oils grown in native soils, 100% cotton and forest-friendly packaging, and donates a proportion of profits to Marine Savers, a leading marine conservation team.
Olivia now resides in London with her husband and their three young children and is committed to keeping sustainability and trust at the core of her brand.
INGREDIENTS
We approach the sourcing of our ingredients with a focus on what's best for your skin and what's best for the earth. We honour the science behind indigenous plants and therefore source all our ingredients from the countries where they originate and grow optimally. Our ingredients are certified organic and wildcrafted and grown without chemical additives, resulting in farming that helps build soil fertility, minimize pollution and damage to the environment and respect animal welfare. This results in the highest-performance, boundary-breaking skincare with transformational results.
Vanderohe began as a personal search — for calm, for balance, for a way to reconnect with myself in a world that moves too fast. What I discovered is that true beauty has very little to do with the surface. It begins in the mind: in how we feel, how we breathe, how our nervous system responds to the world around us. When we soothe the mind, the skin follows.
I’m Olivia, founder and formulator of Vanderohe. Every product is created by my own hands in my London studio, using only organic and wildcrafted ingredients of the highest integrity. I blend by scent — not as fragrance, but as medicine for the mind. Research shows that stress hormones like cortisol directly affect the skin: increasing inflammation, accelerating ageing, disturbing its ability to heal. By working through the olfactory system — the most direct pathway to the brain and mood — I create formulations that calm the mind and, in turn, nurture the skin.
But Vanderohe is also about nourishment. Each formula is densely nutritional — like a multivitamin for the skin. Think of it as scaffolding: strengthening, replenishing, and building resilience from the inside out. Whatever your routine — whether you use lasers, retinol, injectables or none at all — Vanderohe is designed to integrate seamlessly. It doesn’t compete; it supports. It restores the skin’s foundation, so everything else you choose to do is elevated by skin that is stronger, healthier, and more radiant.
To me, skincare is not routine; it is ritual. A daily act of slowing down, of breathing deeply, of reconnecting to self and to nature. Vanderohe was born out of this philosophy: that beauty is not simply what we see, but what we feel when our mind is clear, our body is nourished, and our spirit is at peace.
Every bottle carries this intention. It is my way of helping you find a moment of stillness, a quiet rebalancing, and the reminder that true beauty — the kind that radiates — comes only when the mind is at ease and the skin is deeply nourished.