Meet Our Member: Larissa - Representing RINGANA Fresh Skincare & Wellbeing
We’re delighted to introduce Larissa, who is 38, a mum of four and lives with her husband and family in the beautiful North Yorkshire countryside near Harrogate.
Health, skincare and wellbeing have become a real passion of hers, and she’s currently studying Nutrition alongside building her RINGANA business. For Larissa, the two fit together perfectly.
Her aim is to take a genuinely holistic approach to wellbeing – looking not only at what we put on our skin, but also at how we support our bodies from within.
She loves being able to help people find skincare that suits their individual needs while also introducing them to targeted supplements, functional drinks and simple everyday wellness routines.
As a busy mum of four, Larissa is also very realistic. She’s not interested in complicated 15-step routines or wellness that feels impossible to maintain. She loves products that are beautifully formulated, effective and easy to incorporate into real life.
That is one of the things that first attracted her to RINGANA.
SO, WHAT IS RINGANA?
RINGANA is an Austrian fresh skincare and supplement company founded in 1996.
And “fresh” really does mean fresh. Rather than creating cosmetic products designed to sit in warehouses and on shop shelves for years, RINGANA follows a fresh-production philosophy. Products are manufactured in small batches and distributed directly rather than through conventional retail channels. Because of this freshness concept, RINGANA products actually have a best-before date – something that is very unusual in the skincare world. It also explains why you won’t find shelves of RINGANA products sitting in a department store.
When Larissa exhibits at an event, she can show you the products, let you experience the textures and fragrances, talk through your skin or wellness needs and recommend a routine – but your products are then ordered and sent through RINGANA’s direct distribution system rather than coming from stock that she has been carrying around for months.
For Larissa, that difference is hugely important.
THE “WOW” FACTS ABOUT RINGANA
Freshness instead of years of shelf life - Most conventional cosmetics need to remain stable through production, transportation, warehousing, retail and then months or even years in somebody’s bathroom. RINGANA turned that model around.
The company produces continuously in small batches and distributes directly. The result is skincare designed around freshness rather than maximum retail shelf life.
There is an actual best-before date.
RINGANA’s fresh cosmetics have a best-before date precisely because they aren’t designed to remain on a shop shelf indefinitely. It’s a simple idea, but once you think about skincare in the same way you think about fresh food, it suddenly makes a lot of sense: why should we expect highly active plant ingredients to remain unchanged for years? Airless technology protects what’s inside. Fresh formulations need intelligent packaging.
RINGANA uses sophisticated airless dispensing systems to help protect the formulation from oxygen and contamination during everyday use. Instead of repeatedly putting your fingers into an open jar, the product remains protected inside its dispensing system. This is particularly relevant when creating products without the conventional preservation approach associated with long-term retail storage. Fresh active ingredients are at the centre of the philosophy
RINGANA focuses heavily on carefully selected plant-derived ingredients and active substances, combining nature with modern formulation and production technology.
The philosophy isn’t simply “natural for the sake of natural”. It is about selecting ingredients for a purpose and processing them in a way that preserves their quality.
Sustainability is built into the concept - Sustainability is another important part of RINGANA’s philosophy – from responsible sourcing and environmentally conscious production to carefully considered packaging and its direct distribution model. The company continually works to reduce its environmental footprint, proving that high-performance skincare and wellbeing products don’t have to come at the expense of the planet.
Skincare is only one part of it
RINGANA is much more than a skincare brand.
The range brings together:
Fresh skincare & body care – face, body, oral care, sun care and targeted products. Supplements – targeted nutrient combinations designed for different needs and stages of life.
Functional drinks – including innovative formulations that approach beauty and wellbeing from within.
Baby & children’s skincare – specially formulated products for delicate young skin.
This is what makes the concept so interesting to Larissa personally: it allows her to look at beauty and wellbeing from both the outside and the inside.
Innovation doesn’t stop at skincare - One of RINGANA’s newer examples of this “inside-out” approach is its beauty drink, which combines ingredients including a plant-based amino-acid complex designed around the structure of Type I collagen, plant-derived hyaluronic acid from snow fungus and sea-buckthorn oils. It is a great example of how the company sits somewhere between modern skincare, nutrition and wellness rather than fitting neatly into just one category.
Products for the smallest members of the family too - RINGANA also has its FRESH baby range, developed specifically with delicate baby and children’s skin in mind. For example, its baby SPF 50 uses mineral UV filters and is formulated without fragrance or colourants, mineral oils, silicones or conventional preservatives.
For Larissa as a mum of four, having products within the same philosophy that extend to family life is particularly appealing.
WHY YOU CAN’T JUST PICK RINGANA UP IN A SHOP
This is probably the question Larissa gets asked most. The answer is actually one of the things that makes the company interesting. Traditional retail requires products to be manufactured, transported to distributors, stored, sent to shops and then potentially remain on a shelf for a considerable period of time. That doesn’t fit particularly well with a company whose entire philosophy is based around freshness. RINGANA therefore uses direct distribution.
Larissa’s role is the personal part of that model: helping clients understand the range, work out which products suit them and put together an individual skincare or wellness routine.
The products themselves then come through RINGANA’s distribution system rather than sitting in her garage, car or stockroom waiting to be sold.
WHY I CHOSE IT
What attracted Larissa wasn’t simply another beauty brand. It was the combination of fresh skincare, intelligent formulations, nutrition, supplements and a much more holistic view of wellbeing. Studying Nutrition alongside her business is a natural next step for Larissa because she wants to understand the bigger picture. Skin doesn’t exist in isolation from the rest of the body, and wellbeing isn’t created by one cream, one supplement or one “miracle” product.
Her goal is to build something based around education and individual guidance – helping women understand their skincare, discover products that fit their lifestyle and, where appropriate, look at nutrition and supplementation as part of the wider picture.
And being based here in North Yorkshire means she can build that around her family while working remotely, meeting clients personally and taking RINGANA to exhibitions and events throughout the area.
Larissa commented on her membership since joining Yorkshire Ladies Links
“Every Yorkshire Ladies Links event I’ve attended has been such a genuinely positive experience. From Reset & Rise to the Ladies Business Lunch, there’s always been such a warm, welcoming atmosphere and a real sense of women supporting women. The events are beautifully organised, inspiring without ever feeling intimidating, and they make it so easy to meet and connect with other women – both personally and professionally. I’ve come away from every event feeling inspired, energised and really grateful to be part of such a lovely community here in Yorkshire.”
Contact Larissa
Webpage: Larissad.ringana.com
Larissa Domogalla: 07551977756
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