OUR STORY

ISLAND BY PANIKEKE

EXPLORE THE PACIFIC WITH ISLAND BY PANIKEKE!

" Your piece of the beautiful Pacific Islands without ever leaving home!
We have voyaged across the vast Pacific Oceans & its exotic Islands to uncover its best kept secrets.
Harnessing the pure beauty of its untouched landscapes and the rejuvenating healing properties of its pristine homegrown resources.
Captured in our range of Island by Panikeke products, awaiting your arrival to Island Paradise! "

 

THE ISLAND EXPERIENCE:

Island By Panikeke is a beauty brand that embodies the beauty of the Pacific Islands!
Since its founding back in 2015, our vision was to create a range that highlighted the natural beauty of the Pacific & to showcase its uniqueness by offering the ‘ISLAND’ experience throughout our entire product range. We wanted to give our users the experience as if they were on an Island tour by your very own tour guide Panikeke – hence our brand name Island by Panikeke.
You can see this through our fragrances that highlight different Island experiences from A’hiti Escape to Isle of flowers. Our Island By Panikeke range is the perfect gift for a special loved one, a memento to remember your island travels or a well deserved self care Island spa day.

 

 

DISCOVERING THE ISLAND OF PANIKEKE:

ISLAND BY PANIKEKE FOUNDER - Kiteli Keith Toma 
Island by Panikeke is a proud sister brand of Panikeke - The Pacific Island Beauty Shop.
Island By Panikeke is one of the original skincare products our founder ‘Kiteli’ started when he began his Panikeke Empire; a chain of Pacific Island retail shops which humbly started from selling one soap & one lotion at the Otara Flea Markets.
Island By Panikeke originally started as that very 'one soap and one lotion' kiteli formulated using Organic Coconut Oils and exotic ingredients he sourced from the Pacific Islands.
A simple solution he came up with to combat the status quo people often told him ‘that there was no economic or significant value in the Pacific Islands’.
Kiteli did not believe this and saw the untapped beauty of the Pacific Islands, its bountiful natural ingredients, untouched landscapes, the beautiful Pacific Island culture and most of all the values the Island culture taught him from the tough Island lifestyle and the power of resilience, being able to create something so beautiful from absolutely nothing - The Island Way!
Island by Panikeke still carries that very same ethos today from our Otara Flea Market days, which is to showcase the unique beauty of the Pacific Islands with the world, sharing its powerful homegrown ingredients, clean chemical free beauty and distinct preserved way of life, through Island by Panikeke, our Island gift to the world.