We provide top quality and highly effective skin care products directly to you, wherever you are, online, building on 50 years of customer satisfaction gained by our professional activity at our home, in Ticino, Switzerland.
Marketed until now under the brand name R. de Landor, our preparations are based on gerontological science, aiming to support the skin by regenerating all its components.
Istituto Hella is also synonymous with Nature, and our products are based on natural ingredients wherever possible and where the effectiveness of natural products is clearly proven by science. The company’s approach is focused on quality and not quantity. Istituto Hella is not a universal supplier covering the entire market, but a specialist boutique, which remains at the top of the market and focuses on skin repair and regeneration products. Even our accessory products, DO and RE, are not simple cleansers, but professional tools to ensure that our skin care and repair products work to the best of their ability, preparing the skin and acting in synergy between them.
Prelude was born in 1977, when a group of biologists, dermatologists and chemists developed cell revitalising elements from in-vitro cultures. The results achieved in the treatment of 3rd degree burns with these elements showed that it was possible to transmit regenerating mineral and plant sources transcutaneously. Prelude was created by combining these elements in a cream for aesthetic and healing purposes.
Istituto Hella now proudly produces the Prélude products, exclusively for you.
Istituto Hella was founded in 1965 by Hella, a courageous girl, who, having studied cosmetics and worked in various countries, returned to Switzerland to launch one of the first beauty salons in the Canton of Ticino: the Istituto Hella.
From a small provincial business, Istituto Hella has become a benchmark for cosmetics in Ticino, founding the local professional association (AESI) and then becoming a reference partner for the “Prélude” product family, which, sold under the brand R. de Landor, has remained at the top of the skin care sector in Switzerland since 1977.
Our courageous and mould-breaking founder continued her activities until her passing in 2018. Since then, in fitting tribute to her memory, her spirit and her inspiration, Istituto Hella has been reborn, in a new form suited to the virtual and boundless world of the 21st century. A form that combines the quality and personal service of the past with the today’s online presence and sustainability requirements. The same products that made the original Istituto Hella great are back, more modern, more sustainable, but no less effective, in the new, online and virtual Istituto Hella.
With the same passion and competence as always.