Malibu sounds like California. Sun-bleached, golden, somewhere with a permanent summer and a Pacific Ocean view.

The reality is a factory in Hertfordshire, a family business and over twenty-five years of making sun care that works for real people, in real British summers.

That tension – between the name and the origin – isn’t confusion. It’s the whole story.

Where It Began

Malibu Sun was founded in 1999 with a straightforward idea: that proper sun protection should be accessible, reliable and made to a standard that families could trust, season after season.

Not a luxury badge. Not a clinical authority. Just good sun care, well made, at a price that meant people actually bought it and used it.

It worked. Over two decades later, Malibu Sun products are sold in more than 40 countries. The scent alone has done the marketing. “Smells like summer.” “Smells like holidays.” People say it without prompting – because the association is real, built through years of showing up for the right moments.

Made Here, for Everyone

Every Malibu Sun product is manufactured in the UK. Not outsourced, not shipped in – made at home, by a British team, to a quality standard controlled from start to finish.

There’s something in that worth saying plainly: British manufacturing means consistent quality, reliable availability and the ability to respond quickly when demand changes. Every bottle on the shelf is made the same way, every time.

The Name

Malibu isn’t geography. It’s shorthand for a feeling – warmth, energy, the shift that happens when the sun comes out. It’s the feeling of summer, wherever you are.

You don’t need a flight to Malibu for summer to start. You need the sun out and the bottle open. That’s been true whether you’re on a Cornish beach, a balcony in Manchester or a park in Edinburgh.

Global feeling. Local care. Made in Britain.

Sun Protection for Every Body

The range has grown from its origins to cover SPF 6 through to SPF 50+, bronzing oils, after sun, hair and lip care, travel sizes and bundles. Different products for different approaches to the sun – because “every body” was never just a marketing line.

Some people want SPF 50 for the school run. Some want tanning oil for a week in the south of France. Some want aloe vera after sun because yesterday was a long, good day. All of it belongs in the same range. All of it is Malibu.

Summer Starts Here

The scent that switches summer on. The bottle that’s been reached for since 1999.

Browse the full range and find yours.