Adipeau
For powerful skin
Adipeau is a science-led skincare range built around one idea: that the fat cells beneath your skin determine how firm, full and healthy it looks.
Most skincare works at the surface. Adipeau works deeper, targeting the dermal fat cells that support your skin's structure from below. When those cells are healthy and small, they actively support collagen and elastin production. When they become bloated and inflamed - through ageing, menopause, weight changes, or sun damage - they suppress it. That's what drives sagging, volume loss, crepey texture and cellulite. Adipeau does.
It's one of very few skincare products in New Zealand backed by registered clinical trials and peer-reviewed science - designed for people dealing with sagging skin, crepey texture, cellulite, and facial volume loss who want something that works at a deeper level than a standard moisturiser.
I came across Adipeau while looking for something genuinely different to recommend to clients dealing with volume loss and skin laxity. The science behind it is legitimate, and the founder Ivan, is as genuine as they come. I love his story - that he created the Adipeau formula ‘by accident’ during his work on something entirely different! Adipeau become one of my favourite recommendations for clients who want to do more to keep their skin strong and healthy between treatments. Plus - aside from all of that - they double as excellent moisturisers!
- Caroline Wallace-Hughes, Lucere
Not treating a skin concern? This might be your new everyday routine and favourite moisturiser!
You don't need sagging skin or cellulite to love Adipeau. Some of the most devoted users come to it simply because it makes their skin look and feel extraordinary - and then notice over months that it quietly keeps getting better.
Here's the routine I use on days when I want my skin to look its absolute best with the least effort: after cleansing, I layer on the Strength Gel over my full face and neck. Then the Volume Cream on the areas under my eyes and the sides of my mouth as a spot treatment. I go and do something else for five to ten minutes, then come back and rub in whatever is left. The residue behaves like a beautiful rich moisturiser - my skin goes luminous and a little glassy. And makeup goes over the top beautifully.
Most people who find Adipeau Strength Gel are dealing with one of three things: skin that has started to feel thin and crepey - on the neck, arms, or thighs; sagging around the jaw or cheeks; or cellulite. The Strength Gel addresses all three through the same mechanism: supporting the health of the fat cells beneath the skin that give it its structure, firmness and tone.
This is a face and body product. It applies to the full face, neck, decolletage, arms, thighs - anywhere the skin feels weak, loose, or crepey.
Key Benefits:
Clinically proven to significantly reduce the appearance of cellulite, including severe cases
Firms crepey and sagging skin on the face, neck, arms and body
Strengthens weak, fragile skin
Supports the skin barrier with a light breathable protective layer
All skin types including sensitive skin
150ml - a full-size supply for face and body
How to use Strength Gel:
Apply a thin layer over the full area - face, neck, jawline, arms, thighs, or wherever the skin feels weak, crepey, or loose. Do not rub in. Leave for a few minutes until dry to touch. The gel forms a light protective layer that stays on the skin and keeps working. Apply twice daily.
Consistency over weeks is what produces results - most people notice a change in skin feel from around two weeks, and visible change from four to six weeks.
Using with Volume Cream - there are two approaches and both work well:
Gel-first method: Apply Strength Gel first over the full face and neck, then apply Volume Cream on top over hollow areas, leave ten minutes, then rub the remainder across the whole face. This is Adipeau's own recommended priming approach - the gel helps prepare the fat cells first, which can help the cream absorb and work faster.
Cream-first method: Apply Volume Cream first as a spot treatment to hollow areas, leave ten minutes and rub in, then apply Strength Gel over the full face and neck.
Or: simply use Strength Gel in the morning and Volume Cream at night - equally effective and easy to stay consistent with.
Free shipping on NZ orders over $150. Authorised Adipeau stockist.
Volume loss doesn't happen because of dehydration or lack of collagen cream. It happens because the specialised fat cells beneath the skin - the ones that give the face its structure and fullness - slow their renewal rate as we age. The areas under the eyes, the sides of the mouth, the temples, and the cheeks are where this shows first and most.
Adipeau Volume Cream is a spot treatment designed to restore fullness to areas that have hollowed or flattened over time. Its hero ingredient - black wild ginger extract, the patented active at the centre of Adipeau's published research - supports the renewal of the dermal fat cells that give the face its structure. Apply to hollow areas, leave ten minutes, rub in. Fuller, more structured skin over weeks of consistent use.
Key benefits:
Supports natural facial volume restoration through dermal fat cell renewal
Targets hollow cheeks, under-eye hollows and marionette lines
Plumps and smooths crepey skin
Improves skin glow and surface quality
Non-comedogenic - will not block pores
All skin types including sensitive skin
How to use Volume Cream:
Apply Volume Cream like a mask directly to the target area - under-eye hollows, the sides of the mouth, hollow cheeks, or temples. Do not rub in immediately. Leave for ten minutes until it goes translucent, then rub in any remaining excess across the whole face. Whatever is left on your hands makes an excellent hand treatment.
Apply twice daily. Visible improvement typically begins from four to six weeks of consistent use - deeper volume changes take two to three months or longer.
Using it as a moisturiser:
Apply a thin layer and leave for a few minutes before rubbing in, the cream produces an immediate luminous finish that lasts through the day and sits beautifully under makeup. This is a great way to try the product and works as a standalone finishing step on days you want effortless skin.
Using it with Strength Gel - two methods, both work well.
Cream-first method: Volume Cream on hollow areas first, leave ten minutes and rub in, then Strength Gel over the full face and neck.
Gel-first method: Strength Gel first over the full face and neck, then Volume Cream on top over hollow areas, leave ten minutes, rub the remainder across the whole face as a luminous finishing step.
Or: Strength Gel in the morning, Volume Cream at night - equally effective and easier to keep consistent.
Free shipping on NZ orders over $150. Authorised Adipeau stockist.
The two Adipeau products are designed to be used together - the Strength Gel addresses skin that has become weak, crepey or loose across the face and body; the Volume Cream addresses specific areas that have hollowed out or lost their fullness. They work through the same underlying mechanism but are optimised for different presentations of the same problem. Most people dealing with visible skin changes are experiencing both.
Buying the bundle saves $41 versus buying individually, and means you have both products from day one to find the routine that works best for you.
What's in the bundle:
Adipeau Strength Gel (150ml)
Face and body product. Applies over the full face, neck, decolletage and body. Clinically proven to firm crepey and sagging skin and reduce the appearance of cellulite. Leave to absorb for five minutes - do not rub in. The light protective layer stays on the skin and keeps working.
Adipeau Volume Cream (60ml)
Spot treatment for hollow areas - under the eyes, sides of the mouth, cheeks, temples. Apply like a mask and leave for ten minutes, then rub in. The residue works beautifully as a full-face finishing step - the skin goes luminous and sits perfectly under makeup.
How to use both:
There is more than one way to use these two products together and all of them work. Here are the three most common approaches:
Gel-first method:
Apply Strength Gel over the full face and neck. Then apply Volume Cream on top over hollow areas. Leave ten minutes, then rub the remaining cream across the whole face as a finishing step - the skin goes luminous and sits beautifully under makeup. This is Adipeau's own recommended priming approach.
Cream-first method:
Apply Volume Cream first as a spot treatment to hollow areas - under the eyes, sides of the mouth, hollow cheeks. Leave ten minutes. Rub in, then apply Strength Gel over the full face and neck. Leave five minutes and carry on with your routine.
Split routine:
Strength Gel in the morning, Volume Cream at night. Same results, easier to stay consistent with. A good option if mornings are rushed.
All three work. Twice daily, every day is the constant that matters. Most people notice skin feel changing from around two weeks; visible firmness from four to six weeks; volume changes from two to three months.
No specific skin concern? This is still your routine.
You don't need to be treating sagging or cellulite to get a lot from Adipeau. The bundle works beautifully as a simple, high-performance daily routine: Strength Gel over the full face and neck, Volume Cream as a spot treatment on the under-eye and mouth area, a few minutes while you get on with your morning, then whatever is left rubbed in as a luminous finishing step. If you wear makeup, this is a beautiful base.
Saving $41 vs buying individually. Ships from Lucere in Masterton - NZ stock, no international shipping waits.
Free shipping on NZ orders over $150. Authorised Adipeau stockist.
Meet Adipeau
Ivan Galanin didn't come to skincare through beauty. He came through biotech - as the founder of two companies developing treatments for rare genetic disease and cancer. When he turned his attention to skin, he brought the same standard of scientific rigour with him, and what he found shocked him.
Most skincare, he concluded, is built on fake science. Unpublished studies. Vague methods. Shaped data. Adipeau exists as a direct response to that.
The science behind Adipeau centres on dermal fat cells - the specialised cells beneath the skin that give the face its structure, volume and firmness. As fat cells become bloated and unhealthy with age, they weaken the skin and drive the sagging and volume loss we typically associate with getting older. Adipeau's formulations work to shrink those bloated cells and support the regeneration of new, healthy ones - a mechanism validated in collaboration with Dr Volker Lauschke at the Karolinska Institute and published in Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
Adipeau's clinical studies are registered on clinicaltrials.gov and the UK Clinical Trials Repository - a level of transparency almost unheard of in skincare.
Over 500 skincare professionals worldwide use Adipeau in their practices.