When the sun shines, life feels better, brighter colours, warmth on our skin, freedom to be outside and importantly a healthy colour that makes us look and feel better. The Piz Buin brand traces its origin back to the inspiration of Franz Greiter, a young chemistry student, who suffered severe sunburn while climbing Piz Buin, a mountain on the Swiss-Austrian border, in 1938. In a small laboratory in his parents' home, he formulated a product that would protect the skin against the adverse effects of the sun, a product that would later become known as Piz Buin.