Go-To Skincare Pty Ltd

Last week we invited fifty of our closest friends to Golden Age Cinema & Bar to celebrate the launch of our 2024 Holiday Collection. Something we’ve never done before. (But loved! So expect more!) The 11 extremely limited sets were there to admire irl, to pick up, to swatch, to help our customers decide what they wanted to gift themselves. Naturally. And in between chatting with the Go-To team, they sat down for individual tarot and dream readings. The night-we-never-wanted-to-end also involved a very nostalgic screening of our favourite movie: Practical Magic. With popcorn and choc tops ‘cos we’re not monsters. Tickets sold out in one minute flat. With all proceeds donated to our charity partner, Orange Sky Australia. To everyone who attended - thanks for being the best Holi-date we’ve ever had.

Ready. Set. Gift. Go-To’s Holiday Collection - the one that sells out every year - is back. Brighter, bolder, and more joyous than ever. With 11 extremely limited gifts and sets to help you spread some serious cheer this season. (Or keep for yourself, ‘cos you deserve it.) For the second year running this undeniably unique print and packaging was made in collaboration with our best mates over at ALEMAIS. A celebration of the very vibrant and zesty DNA of both brands. We’ve got a gift for everyone in, what might be, the most coveted of all holiday collections to date, featuring: recurring icons (Twelve Days Of Go-To! Perfect Present! Sweet Sleeps!), brand new bundles (Good Habits! Overnight Success! Glow Getters! Facial In A Box!), and never-before-seen products (Bon Bons! Sweet Lips! Go-To Tarot!). Go-To is donating $1 from all marked gifts and sets, to our 2024 charity partner, Orange Sky Australia. A not-for-profit organisation that provides complimentary laundry services and warm showers to people in the community who are experiencing homelessness and hardship. Get giftin’ now. Discover the range at www.gotoskincare.com, as well as in-store and online at MECCA.

SPF isn’t optional. But we all deserve SPF options. That’s why we’re continuing to grow Go-To’s SPF family. Meet: Nifty Fifty, Nifty Fifty Fluid, and Nifty Fifty Mineral. Three SPF 50 broad spectrum sunscreen formulas to fit your skin, and your day, every day. With the same function (to help protect your skin from damaging and ageing UVA and UVB rays) this trio of antioxidant-rich, non-greasy SPFs are stacked with the very best in skincare. Obviously. We reckon wearing sunscreen should be enjoyable, easy and accessible for everyone. So we made products that are just that. Our Nifty Fifty family is designed to be flexible. So, liberally slather on the SPF you most enjoy the feel and finish of. The SPF you're actually going to wear. Pick your player: https://lnkd.in/g5b2YYuQ

Go-To is in great company in the Inside Retail Australia CX Index (Mecca! The Iconic! Bed Threads!), ranking #1 in the customer service category this month for providing superior self-service support options, high quality FAQs, live chat, email support, responsiveness, and resolution times: https://lnkd.in/gHNACEp6 If you’ve ever been in touch with our team to discuss your order, delivery, products, perks, you’ll know you’re speaking to Real People who Really Know Their Skincare (and Australia Post). That we also nabbed #29 for overall end-to-end online shopping experience in Australia is just the cherry on top of the Inside-Retail-CX-Index cake.

Always considering sustainability is a core pillar for the Go-To team, and it’s a tricky one to nail. Here our Product Manager (and longest serving employee) Kerry Guthrie shares some insights on how we try to do our best in the world of packaging and the environment.

Our CMO Leonie Faddy shared some thoughts this week with the team at Inside Retail Australia, reflecting on a career in beauty, (spoiler alert, the best industry), how data plays a role in marketing and why at Go-To kindness is king.

We’re not serious about much. Except skincare, of course.  And! Rewarding our very dedicated team. To round out the financial year, the Go-To team enjoyed massages and manicures, and were gifted soldered jewellery from the incredibly talented jewellers at Alana Maria Jewellery. Three self-care stations were set up inside Go-To HQ to help our staff unwind - the mojitos did a bit here, too - and to say a whopping big thank you for formulating/designing/marketing Australia’s go-to for skincare, daily. Between mouthfuls of brie we got to reflect on our wins, and look forward to all that’s yet to drop this side of Christmas...

To honour and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during NAIDOC Week 2024, Go-To HQ made space for a series of much-needed conversation starters in the workplace. To ‘keep the fire burning blak, loud and proud’, our soundtrack for the working week was exclusively made up of Indigenous artists. Yothu Yindi, King Stingray, Kid Laroi, Warumpi Band, and more. The team tuned into a live Q&A from Social Activist and Executive General Manager of Inclusion and Social Policy at Australian Football League, Tanya Hosch. A very candid discussion about enriching modern workplaces with the fabric of Indigenous culture (which prioritises history and connection). NAIDOC Week events and workshops, as well as Indigenous art, film and fiction, were championed across The Go-To Guide and Go-To socials as an authentic extension of the self-education our team are committed to pursuing year-round. And lastly, our senior leadership team arranged a gift for the wider team from House of Darwin; a clothing company who reinvest all profits back into social programs within remote Indigenous communities across the NT. Always was. Always will be.

Sydney CBD received a very un-subtle reminder last week that we, Go-To, know how to glow about town. 50 women wearing Transformazing sheet masks and fluffy white robes marched through Martin Place during lunch time, before hitting Pitt Street mall. In 10 minutes: You can cause a real ruckus. (Proof below.) In 10 minutes: You can get holy-shit-you’re-glowing skin. (Our bestselling sheet mask said so.) If you ever see Go-To in the wild, don’t be shy. We’ve almost always got our pockets stuffed with seriously good skincare to bribe pedestrians. That is: YOU.

Our vitamin A family just doubled in size. Introducing: Very Amazing Retinal. A silky, soothing retinal serum for the whole face. Doing vitamin A the Go-To way means opting for encapsulated retinal over retinol. Why? It’s better, faster, and less irritating on the skin. With this new serum we’ve thrown in niacinamide, peptides, and centella to brighten, hydrate, and calm your face. Calling it ‘Very Amazing’? The hubris! Not really, ‘cos it’s clinically proven* to: - reduce the appearance of fine lines by up to 40%  - reduce the appearance of wrinkles by up to 30%  - reduce pigmentation by up to 70%  - reduce skin redness by up to 70%  - smooth the skin by up to 55% When people say it’s time to 'get serious' about skincare. This is the serum they're talking about. Very Amazing Retinal is available at gotoskincare.com, and via our mates at MECCA. A+ skin starts here. *Based on a 12 week clinical trial of 33 participants.