A mother, a daughter, an idea long in the making.
Maison Skin was founded by Kate McGrath and her daughter, Chloe, two women, a generation apart, who have spent their lives in the same conversation. About what beautiful skin really is. About what luxury means when you have seen it from the inside. And about why the women they knew best could no longer find a place in beauty that understood them.
Kate has spent more than three decades inside the world's most considered beauty houses, leading luxury skincare and fragrance through Australia and beyond. She knows what is behind a label, how a great formula is made, and what separates the genuinely transformative from the merely marketed.
Chloe came to the work differently, through years spent in her mother's office as a child, through a career of her own across brand and editorial, and through a growing conviction that the women she most admired had been quietly priced out of the conversation about their own skin.
Together, they built Maison Skin.
The Founders
Kate McGrath
Founder
Thirty years inside the houses that defined modern luxury beauty. Kate has led brands, opened markets, sat in boardrooms in Paris and laboratories in Switzerland, and built a quiet authority across skincare, fragrance and prestige beauty. Her standard is simple: a product either works, or it has no place on the shelf.
"After three decades in this industry, the women I cared about most — my friends, my peers, my daughter — had nowhere to go. Beauty had become loud, performative, and very young. I wanted to build something quieter. Something true."
Chloe McGrath
Founder & Creative Director
Chloe oversees the brand, the edit, and the voice of the house. She brings a younger sensibility to a category that often forgets to evolve — translating her mother's lifetime of expertise into a destination that feels modern, intimate, and deeply considered. Her instinct for what is genuinely beautiful is matched only by her impatience with what is not.
"I grew up with my mother's discipline for quality and her instinct for what actually works. Maison Skin is the destination we wished existed when we walked into a department store together — a place that takes her seriously, and takes me seriously, too."
What we believe
We believe that fewer, better products will always outperform a bathroom full of impulse purchases. That the most beautiful skin belongs to the woman who has cared for it consistently, not enthusiastically.
We believe luxury is a promise — and that the only currency in beauty that still means something is whether the product delivers on it. We do not carry brands we cannot vouch for. We do not stock what we would not use ourselves.
We believe the women we serve are accomplished, discerning, and tired of being marketed to. So we do not market to them. We speak with them — the way a friend with thirty years of expertise would, over a cup of tea, in good light.
A small house, deliberately
We carry fewer brands than most. We know each one personally. We have stood in their laboratories, met their founders, and held every product we stock against the only standard that matters — whether we would recommend it to each other.
Our consultants are clinically trained. Our editors are working beauty writers. Our packaging is considered. Our shipping is complimentary. And every recommendation we make comes with the quiet confidence that someone — usually one of us — has tested it first.
This is the house we have built. We hope you will feel at home in it.
— Chloe & Kate