Maxwell & McIntyre Mission

We're in business to protect our planet, one smile at a time.

Maxwell & McIntyre was founded on a simple but urgent belief: that what you put in your mouth matters — for your health, and for the health of the planet. We looked at the oral care aisle and saw shelves full of synthetic chemicals, single-use plastic, and ingredients we wouldn't choose to put in our bodies. So we made something different.

Every product in our range is handcrafted in small batches in Kerikeri, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. We use certified organic ingredients, avoid SLS, fluoride, parabens, and artificial preservatives, and we never compromise on what goes inside the jar.

Honour. Heal. Smile.

This is more than a tagline. It's the three principles behind everything we make.

• Honour — we honour the whenua (land), using ingredients that work with nature rather than against it.
• Heal — we heal with nature's science, combining traditional botanicals with evidence-backed natural actives.
• Smile — we craft every product with care, so that your smile reflects both inner health and conscious living.

B Corp Certified

Maxwell & McIntyre (trading as Kora Botanics) is B Corp certified — one of fewer than 10,000 companies in the world to meet the rigorous standards of social and environmental performance set by B Lab.

We are the first New Zealand oral care brand to fund the recovery of 272,246 toothpaste tubes worth of plastic waste from nature. B Corp certification isn't marketing — it's a legal commitment to people and planet alongside profit.

Made in New Zealand, for the World

Kerikeri sits in the Bay of Islands — one of New Zealand's most biodiverse and historically significant regions. We're proud to make our products here, by hand, in a place that reminds us every day what we're protecting.

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