Meet Zane Bermaka

A childhood rooted in nature

I grew up in Latvia, a small, green country on the Baltic Sea, on a family farm. Apple and cherry trees, berries all around the house, and the woods just a short walk away, where I spent hours looking after our sheep. We grew almost everything we ate. My childhood was, quite simply, perfect.

My mother was a medical doctor. In Soviet times, modern medicines were hard to come by, so she always reached for nature first: cranberries in winter, garlic, herbal teas. Only if those didn’t help did she turn to something stronger. We were rarely ill.

That’s where my love of plants began. Even now, when I think about the plant world, I get goosebumps. I believe every plant on this Earth is here for a reason. For me, natural care was never a trend. It’s simply how I was raised.

Why I created Atlantis Skincare

I worked in the skincare industry for ten years. Again and again, I watched women buy an expensive big-brand cream, then come back for a different one, and another. I kept asking myself: if a cream really worked, why would you ever change it?

So I started reading the ingredient lists. Most were water and synthetic ingredients. But nature gives us so many wonderful ingredients, I thought. Why aren’t we using them?

That question led me to train as a formulator. Learning how formulas are really built changed everything for me. For my anti-ageing formulation diploma, I made a cream for my own very dry skin, which had become even drier after 40. I started using it, and my skin changed. That cream became the beginning of Atlantis Skincare.

A name that came in stillness

For a long time, I hesitated to start my own brand. Then, on a retreat in Santorini, I sat in the sun and decided to meditate. Within about ten minutes, everything came to me: the name, the logo, the products I should create.

When I got home, I described the logo to a friend, a web designer. She looked at me with wide eyes: she had seen the very same symbol. That’s how Atlantis Skincare was born. I’ve always felt it wasn’t only mine. It was given to me to share.

Beyond the jar

During my training, I learned that genes are only part of the story. Much of how our skin ages comes down to how we live: what we eat, how we move, how we rest and how we feel. That opened a big question for me: what else can I do to help women age well?

So I kept learning.

• Skin nutrition and lifestyle health. Your skin is your largest organ, and it reflects what’s happening inside. I trained as a Facelift Diet Coach™ with the Skin Nutrition Institute, and qualified as a health consultant in lifestyle change, to help women nourish their skin and their whole body from within.
• Faceplastic. I trained as a Faceplastic specialist and am now a Faceplastic trainer, with the International Institute of Osteopathy and Faceplastic. This method works with the face, body and scalp, releasing the stiffness, tension and old patterns we collect over a lifetime. It includes face taping and nine different massage techniques.
• Emotional work and meditation. I carried fear, anger and resentment in my body for many years. Working through them taught me how deeply our emotions live in us, and how much lighter we feel when we let them go. The meditations for my rituals came to me in my own meditation practice.

I’ve felt the difference in my own body. When I eat well and stay active, I feel and see the change. When I slip into old habits, I notice that too.

The Atlantis Skincare Natural Rejuvenation Method

Everything I’ve learned now comes together in one method: the Atlantis Skincare Natural Rejuvenation Method, rooted in three seeds: for your skin, your body and your mind.

• A seed for your skin: waterless, handmade formulas built on flower waters and cold-pressed seed oils.
• A seed for your body: simple food habits that nourish your skin from within, and face and body techniques that release held tension.
• A seed for your mind: morning and evening rituals with meditations to bring you back to calm.

What I want for you

We’ve been taught two things that aren’t true. The first is that we have little value. But women are born to create. Give a woman four walls and she makes a home. Give her a few potatoes and she makes a meal. Too many of us have forgotten our own light.

The second is that we must stay young and perfect forever. Natural rejuvenation isn’t about chasing youth. It’s about feeling well in your body, so you can move freely, think clearly and enjoy everything life offers.

When you find Atlantis Skincare, I want you to feel valued. I want you to feel special. And I want you to fall in love with yourself again. Not a polished, perfect version, but the real you. Many women tell me the scent of our creams reminds them who they are. That means everything to me, because the way a woman loves can change the world.

With love, from my soul to yours,
Zane Bermaka