Daria Diaz

Australia

Daria Diaz is the founder of Gaia Uncovered, a tallow-based skincare brand she has run since around September 2021 from the Sydney area in New South Wales. The brand is now rebranding to Yinera, carrying the same web domain and Daria's story across both. Daria studied a Bachelor of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Herbology at the University of Technology Sydney, and her earlier roles included working as an acupuncturist. Her store holds a 4.9 out of 5 rating across roughly 793 reviews via Judge.me.

Daria describes her background as spanning acupuncture, herbal medicine, human biology, physiology and chemistry, and identifies as a TCM practitioner. That grounding informs how she approaches her products. She explains that she hand-formulates everything herself using in-house crafted herbal infusions, working with tallow, lard and ghee, with no outsourcing.

The focus of Daria's work is personal. She recounts struggling with cystic acne from the age of 14, an experience she says motivated her to create tallow-based skincare. Yinera reflects that aim, offering a complete tallow-based skincare routine built on the formulations Daria develops by hand.