Why Gaia Uncovered: Daria Diaz's Case for Tallow Skincare

By Daria Diaz

On the "Why Gaia Uncovered" page of her brand's site, Daria Diaz sets out the thinking behind her tallow-based skincare line and the background she brings to it. Daria is the founder of Gaia…

On the "Why Gaia Uncovered" page of her brand's site, Daria Diaz sets out the thinking behind her tallow-based skincare line and the background she brings to it. Daria is the founder of Gaia Uncovered, an Australian skincare brand she has run since around September 2021, working from the Sydney area.

Much of what Daria explains on the page draws directly on her training. She describes her background as including acupuncture, herbal medicine, human biology, physiology and chemistry, and describes herself as a TCM practitioner. That grounding follows a Bachelor of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chinese Herbology at the University of Technology Sydney, and earlier roles including work as an acupuncturist. Her perspective is that this clinical and herbal knowledge informs how she approaches formulation.

The page positions the brand around a single, clear idea. Daria and Gaia Uncovered describe it as Australia's first full tallow-based skincare brand to offer a complete skincare routine. The focus is on animal fats as a skincare base, with the product range built to cover a full routine rather than a single item. Daria explains that she hand-formulates products herself using in-house crafted herbal infusions, working with tallow, lard and ghee, with no outsourcing.

The response to that approach is visible in the numbers attached to the store, which shows a 4.9 out of 5 rating based on around 793 reviews. For readers coming to the "Why Gaia Uncovered" page for the first time, Daria's own explanation is the heart of it: a practitioner's training applied to a focused, hands-on idea about what skincare can be made from.