MERIDIAN

01 — THE BRAND

Everything we make has to be explainable.

MERIDIAN is a professional cosmeceuticals house working out of Riga. We make five families of preparation for cosmetologists and clinics, and we publish what is in every one of them.

02 — HOW IT STARTED

A supplier that could answer the question.

The company began with a complaint rather than a formula. A cosmetologist buying a carboxytherapy kit asked her supplier what concentration the activator was, and after three emails still did not have an answer — because the distributor did not know, and the manufacturer would not say.

That is normal in professional skincare and it should not be. A practitioner is legally and professionally responsible for what they put on a client, and they are expected to accept it in an unmarked bottle on the strength of a brochure.

So the rule came before the catalogue: nothing leaves here without its volume, its pH, its key active and its concentration printed on the outside and published on the website. If we cannot state a number, we do not sell the product.

03 — WHAT HAPPENED WHEN

Twelve years, five families.

  1. 2013

    One preparation

    The first carboxytherapy gel, made for four clinics in Riga who had asked for it by name.

  2. 2016

    The enzyme line

    Enzymatic cleansing added, on the argument that resurfacing without abrasion belongs in every treatment room and not just in the expensive ones.

  3. 2019

    Peels, and a refusal

    The professional peel system launched — and a retail version of it declined. Controlled-depth acid is not a home product and we will not pretend otherwise.

  4. 2024

    Training first

    Courses became a product in their own right. A protocol is worth more than the bottle it is written for.

04 — HOW WE WORK

Three things we do not move on.

  • 01

    The numbers are on the label

    Volume, pH, key active, concentration. On the packaging, on the website, and in the same words in all four languages. A practitioner should never have to email us to find out what they bought.

  • 02

    Professional means professional

    Some of what we make is for trained hands only, and it is marked that way rather than quietly sold to anybody. Turning a clinical peel into a retail line would be the easiest money available to us.

  • 03

    A protocol, not a promise

    Every family has a written procedure behind it: contraindications, client selection, session sequence, and what to do when the skin does not behave the way the textbook says.

05 — WHO IT IS FOR

Cosmetologists, clinics, and considered home care.

Most of what we make is sold to people who do this for a living. A small part of it — barrier repair, post-procedure care — is safe and sensible for daily use at home, and that part is labelled clearly as such.

See the catalogue

One honest note

MERIDIAN is a demonstration. The company, the history above, the products and the certifications are invented, and the shop runs in Stripe test mode. The engineering underneath it is real; the brand is not.