# Deruba ## Facts | | | |---|---| | Origin | Germany | | Headquarters | Gräfelfing | | Owner | Remitan GmbH | | Status | Active | | Distribution | Pharmacy | | Website | https://deruba.de/ | Deruba is a German skincare brand built around a single product: a tinted face cream for facial redness with a sun protection factor of 50+. The cream is sold without prescription through pharmacies in a 30 ml size, and the brand is operated by Remitan GmbH, a company based in Gräfelfing near Munich [3]. Deruba's central idea, as the company presents it, is that one product can hide redness straight away, calm it over a longer period and help prevent new redness from forming. The brand has no public founding story and names no founder. Its earliest dated trace on its own website is a consumer test of the cream held at the company's premises in September 2015. Deruba remains on the market, although its website has changed little in recent years. ## History & milestones The company behind Deruba has gone through several names. Company register records list it as Naturwohl Derma GmbH and FGP Derma GmbH, then as PharmaFGP Derma GmbH from March 2016, before it took the name Remitan GmbH in December 2016 [6]. The Deruba website uses the current name even when describing events from before the change. According to the brand, its developers and "derma experts" arrived at the final formula only after extensive research and a long testing phase. The website describes a round of consumer testing in September 2015, when volunteers visited the company and applied the cream to their facial redness [2]. Participants rated the shade after application, the feel on the skin and how well the cream covered redness. The brand reports scores of "very good" for shade and coverage and "good" for skin feel. The site illustrates these results with first-person user accounts and before-and-after photos. It labels them itself: the reports are described as modelled on user accounts, the images as recreations of affected people, and the names as changed. At a later, undated point, the homepage announced a revised version of the product. It states that the formulation was improved further in collaboration with derma experts [1]. The website does not say when the change was made or what was altered. ## Ownership Deruba is owned and run by Remitan GmbH, whose address is Am Haag 14 in Gräfelfing, a municipality just outside Munich. The company is registered at the Munich district court, and its legal notice names Peter Gerckens and Michael Rudolf as managing directors. It lists the government of Upper Bavaria as its supervising authority. Remitan's registered business purpose is broader than skincare. It covers the manufacture, distribution and marketing of cosmetics and health products, in particular dietary supplements, dietary foods and medical devices [6]. No other brands appear on the Deruba website. ## Philosophy & positioning Deruba presents itself as a problem-solving product rather than a general skincare range. Its tagline describes it as "the cream specifically for facial redness". The brand frames its purpose around people who live with persistent redness on the cheeks and nose, and it describes the goal of its developers as creating a special cream that helps them "immediately and over the longer term" [4]. The company's explanation of redness follows a familiar outline. It attributes facial redness mainly to widened blood vessels that show through the skin, and it notes that dermatologists speak of couperose when the redness becomes permanent. It lists ageing skin, weak connective tissue, unsuitable skincare, poor diet, stress, alcohol and UV exposure as contributing factors. The brand's own figure is that about four million people in Germany, mostly women, are affected [5]. It also advises that any skin change that seems worrying should be checked by a dermatologist. The whole concept rests on what Deruba calls its "3-fach-Effekt", or triple effect. The company describes the three parts as follows: - an instant effect, in which pigments hide redness as soon as the cream is applied; - a long-term effect, in which existing redness is reduced over time; - a protective effect, in which a combination of UV filters with SPF 50+ is meant to help stop new redness from appearing. Deruba describes the combination as a new kind of product that had not existed on the market before. That is the company's own description; no independent assessment of the claim has been published. The brand also positions the cream as a replacement for both daily moisturiser and make-up, so it sits between skincare and make-up. ## Products & innovation The range consists of one product: Deruba cream, sold in a 30 ml size under the German pharmacy product number PZN 11008068 [5]. The company recommends applying it every morning to cleansed facial skin, and, where needed, to the neck and décolleté. It advises using it for at least eight weeks, and says longer use is also possible. The instant effect relies on what Deruba calls micro-encapsulated pigments. According to the company, these small capsules release fine colour pigments on contact with the skin and blend with the complexion. Specially matched green pigments are said to neutralise the red tone further. The company says the result is that redness is covered as soon as the cream goes on, leaving the complexion looking fresher and more even. The published ingredient list includes several colour pigments identified by their CI numbers, alongside titanium dioxide. For the long-term effect, the brand points to α-bisabolol, which it names as the active ingredient. Deruba combines it with shea butter, panthenol and what it describes as especially light nourishing oils. The company says this blend has a calming effect suited to sensitive, reddened skin, and that with continued use cosmetic redness becomes visibly less pronounced, giving a more even skin tone. The protective effect comes from a combination of UV filters. The ingredient list names, among others, ethylhexyl salicylate, octocrylene, butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane and titanium dioxide in nano form. Deruba says the combination blocks up to 98 percent of UVB radiation and clearly reduces UVA radiation [4]. The brand also lists what the cream leaves out. According to its product information, Deruba contains no paraffin oils, no parabens and no PEG or PGG compounds, which the company links to its suitability for sensitive skin [5]. The ingredient list does include fragrance (listed as parfum), as well as phenoxyethanol and benzyl alcohol. On packaging, the company says it uses recycled raw materials for the package leaflet and the folding carton [1]. No other environmental commitments and no third-party certifications are documented for the brand. ## Science & innovation Deruba supports its product with several performance claims, all of them published by the company itself. The website states that a study showed the cream soothes reddened areas of the face and reduces redness over the longer term [4]. It does not name the study, give its date, describe its design or say how many people took part. The brand further states that dermatologists rated the cream's skin tolerance as "very good" [2]. Details of that assessment are not given. A separate consumer test, according to the company, found that 98 percent of the women who used the cream would recommend it [2]. The size of the test group is not stated. The research page attributes the product's development to a team of derma experts and quotes a chief developer, Dr. Stefan Müller. The same page links the brand's focus on sun protection to growing UV exposure. It explains that UVB mainly reaches the upper layers of the skin and can trigger redness, while UVA penetrates deeper and can widen blood vessels. No patents, research partnerships or independent clinical publications are documented for Deruba. Its "triple effect" is a product concept and a marketing name rather than a patented technology. ## Current status Deruba is an active brand. Its website remained online in September 2026 and still described the cream as available over the counter in pharmacies, with the option of ordering through online pharmacies. The site is in German only, and the product is identified by a German pharmacy number, which suggests a market focused on a single country. The site itself shows few signs of recent change. Its most recent dated content goes back to around March 2022, and no new product launches or brand announcements have appeared since then. The company behind the brand, Remitan GmbH, continues to file in the company register. Deruba has no linked social media accounts and no documented press coverage or awards. ## Timeline {#belagg-timeline} | Year | Event | Source | |---|---|---| | 2014 | Wordmark 'Deruba' filed with the German trademark office (DPMA) in 2014 by the company registered on 13 Nov 2014 as Naturwohl Derma GmbH (today Remitan GmbH) — per Tier-4 register aggregator. | https://www.northdata.com/Remitan%20GmbH,%20Gr%C3%A4felfing/Amtsgericht%20M%C3%BCnchen%20HRB%20214977 | | 2015 | Consumer test of the cream at the company's premises in September 2015 (testimonial photos on the brand site). | https://deruba.de/ueber-deruba/ | | 2020 | Remitan GmbH (brand owner per deruba.de Impressum) listed with a control and profit-transfer agreement in favour of PharmaSGP Holding SE (register entry dated 10 Jul 2020 on Northdata). | https://www.northdata.com/Remitan%20GmbH,%20Gr%C3%A4felfing/Amtsgericht%20M%C3%BCnchen%20HRB%20214977 | | — | Formula reformulated/improved together with 'Derma-Experten' (undated 'JETZT NEU' notice on homepage). | https://deruba.de/ | ## Signature products {#belagg-products} - **Deruba® Creme (Spezialcreme bei Hautrötungen, LSF 50+, 30 ml, PZN 11008068)** — Deruba® ist in jeder Apotheke und in der Packungsgröße 30 ml erhältlich (PZN 11008068). — https://deruba.de/ueber-deruba/ ## Key ingredients {#belagg-ingredients} α-Bisabolol · Sheabutter (Butyrospermum Parkii Butter) · Panthenol · mikro-verkapselte Pigmente / grüne Farbpigmente · Lichtschutzfilter-Kombination LSF 50+ Source: https://deruba.de/ueber-deruba/ ## Proprietary technologies & patents {#belagg-tech} - 3-fach-Effekt (Sofort-, Langzeit-, Schutz-Effekt) — named product concept, not a patented technology · mikro-verkapselte Pigmente — https://deruba.de/ueber-deruba/ ## Sources 1. (T1) https://deruba.de/ 2. (T1) https://deruba.de/ueber-deruba/ 3. (T2) https://deruba.de/impressum/ 4. (T2) https://deruba.de/aus-der-forschung/ 5. (T2) https://deruba.de/haeufige-fragen/ 6. (T4) https://www.northdata.com/Remitan%20GmbH,%20Gr%C3%A4felfing/Amtsgericht%20M%C3%BCnchen%20HRB%20214977 --- Glowpedia · · Published 2026-09-30 Please cite with a link to the article URL.