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Luxe Spa Ottawa Uses Dermalogica
The Moment Your Skin Changed. Forever.
When Dermalogica meets skin, skin health is redefined. Dermalogica is the number one choice of skin care professionals and consumers worldwide. Why? Because for over 25 years, we've been dedicated to delivering skin health results through education, innovation, and professional recommendation, not through advertising, frilly packaging, promises of miracle cures, or overblown hype.
Education First
While the Dermalogica story begins in 1986, the force of change in the industry started in Los Angeles, circa 1983. Jane Wurwand, a tenured, United Kingdom-trained skin therapist new to the American "esthetician" industry, recognized that continuing skin and body therapy education was practically non-existent in the United States. While her training had been comprehensive and serious, US students entered the industry licensed yet under-trained, and worse, under-respected.
Jane put her education in action, opening a small classroom in Marina del Rey, California under the name The International Dermal Institute (IDI). She invited licensed skin therapists to get hands-on with the postgraduate training so critical to making them competitive in the business. Today, IDI is considered the international gold-standard for postgraduate skin and body therapy training with over 40 locations worldwide.
The Making of Dermalogica
While teaching at IDI, it didn't take long for Jane to realize no product line embraced her belief of skin health as opposed to "beauty," so she developed her own. And in 1986, Dermalogica was born. The vision was clear - a product line free of common irritants and ingredients that could cause breakouts (including lanolin, SD alcohol, mineral oil, artificial colors and fragrances) that would improve skin health, and were only available from qualified skin therapy professionals trained at The International Dermal Institute.
As a brand, Dermalogica immediately upset the prevailing paradigm of beauty and glamour by classifying skin care as a health issue as opposed to a cosmetic concern. Just as we removed common irritants from the ingredient menu, Dermalogica also introduced a powerful new element into the brand identity: the specialized expertise of the professional skin therapist.
Then, as now, all our products are manufactured in the USA, we have never taken part in animal testing, and Dermalogica is sold only where professional consultation and professional treatments are performed by professional skin therapists. In just over 20 years, Dermalogica has become the number one choice of skin care professionals worldwide, prescribed more often than any other product available.
Dermalogica is a privately owned company (meaning we are not owned by a beauty conglomerate, holding company or financiers) driven first by education and research. We take pride in being true pioneers in the industry, growing from a modest store-front in Marina del Rey to the now 145,000 square foot Corporate Headquarters in Los Angeles (and locations worldwide in close to 50 countries) -- never wavering on our initial vision of skin health and the skin health professional.
Know Your Zones
Truly understanding your skin is the first step towards a lifetime of skin health. Start with a Dermalogica professional skin therapist: fortunately, with over 75,000 of them in 48 countries, chances are you have a skin health expert just around the corner.
Armed with Dermalogica's unique Face Mapping skin analysis, your Dermalogica professional skin therapist will decode your skin - zone by zone - and equip you with the real advice and results-driven regimen only available from a trained professional.
We're Not Pretty. (Or beautiful. Or pampering. Or luxury.)
We're far too interested in guiding you to a new level of skin health fitness! So, while our packaging may not be designed to color-coordinate with your bathroom, you can always be sure that we've spent our time on delivering your skin the high-performance formulas it needs. Plus, we'll never use common "beauty" ingredients like Mineral Oil, Lanolin, artificial colors and fragrances or other cheap fillers. Sure, it's easier to formulate with them, but the bottom line is they're just bad for your skin. Instead, we use ingredients that we know will work - our confidence founded by skin care professionals worldwide who use our products in their treatment rooms every day because they get results.
Now that you know our story, it's time to explore the story of your skin. Experience our online Speed MappingSM for the product regimen that will change skin health forever!
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Luxe Spa Ottawa Uses Cleanstart
The clean start story
As the first skin care system aimed at helping teens cut through the hype to get their healthiest skin ever, you may be surprised to find Clean Start is rooted in skin health legacy!
Clean Start was created by the skin health experts at Dermalogica, the brand that's been changing the face of skin care for more than 25 years. It became clear that no one was addressing the needs of teens - not only with products that get results, but also with the education they need - when Dermalogica Founder Jane Wurwand's own daughters entered their teenage years.
Skin care product choices available to teens may be ample, but they aren't good choices. Products for teens often contain harsh and inexpensive ingredients to strip the skin of oil, and are filled with artificial fragrances and colors - all things that can irritate and strip oil from skin, causing more problems than you started with!
And so we began to develop Clean Start, but not without knowing that we needed real skin care situations from the teens we were trying to help! Instead of creating a focus group (too formal, and quite simply, not fun), we invited a council of young adults to work with us on the naming of the products, the labeling, packaging copy, and what worked - and what didn't.
The result is Clean Start, a system of eight dual-action, fun, fresh, skin-healthy products that feel and smell great without being full of stuff that's bad for skin - such as artificial fragrances, colors, mineral oil, and S.D. alcohol. Another thing you might like: we don't test on animals.
We invite you to explore this site to learn more about your skin, and how Clean Start can help you build a better relationship with your skin for a healthy future.
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Luxe Spa Ottawa Uses St. Tropez
It's now over a decade since we revolutionised self tanning. Before St. Tropez, customers looking for a natural looking sun-free tan took their chances with products that offered patchy, streaky and frankly orange results. Our innovative original formula changed all that in one sleek, sweep of the hand. Overnight, our customers discovered a simple, reliable, professional self tanning system that delivered professional results first time, every time. With our truly radical formulation, St. Tropez has since become the iconic tanning brand of our age. And with a continual line of innovative products designed to deliver exactly the tan you want with a wealth of skin benefits, too, the future looks golden.
Benefits of a Sun Less Tan
Our extensive range of high performance products not only deliver a flawless, safe tan but they're also crammed with nourishing ingredients designed specifically to improve the tone and condition of your skin. More and more research has shown that sun exposure can damage our skin in a variety of ways. The cumulative effects of sun exposure are very real, causing damage to the actual structure of the skin leading to premature ageing, loss of elasticity, uneven colour and even illness.
We are exposed to two different types of ultraviolet light from the sun, UVA and UVB rays. UVA rays damage the skin and cause cells to age prematurely. Skin becomes thinner, more prone to fine and coarse wrinkles as well as rough to the touch. It loses its tone and elasticity, becoming less flexible as well as blotchy. And then there's cancer. UVB rays from the sun can directly damage the DNA of skin cells, causing sunburn and possibly leading to cancers. There's a direct link between sun damage and skin cancer, so it's imperative to protect your skin throughout your life from sun damage. St. Tropez products work without sun exposure to give you an ultra even, all over tan but they do not contain sun filters. So, if you use St. Tropez to give you a bit of color before you venture out in the sun or just to have a healthy-looking glow for every day, you need to use a sun cream with a high SPF value, every single time.
After more than ten years at the forefront of sun-free tanning, we understand what works best for you, as well as staying ahead of the curve on emerging trends and hot new looks. Every product in our expert range is infused with 10 years' experience of flawless tanning. Each one has been developed with the very latest innovative ingredients, guided by expert insights.
With St. Tropez you get exactly the tan you want, first time, every time.
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Luxe Spa Ottawa Uses OPI Nail Polish
A family-owned company committed to the highest quality products and to our customers' well-being, OPI has long been a leader in the community and within the Professional Beauty Industry. Quite simply, we are dedicated to excellence.
OPI was founded in 1981 by President & CEO George Schaeffer, who immigrated to the U.S. as a child from post-World War II Eastern Europe. OPI continues to be family-owned, with Schaeffer and Suzi Weiss-Fischmann, Executive VP & Artistic Director, at the helm, and has grown to become the world leader in professional nail care.
With this position comes responsibility, and OPI has always been committed to providing our customers with the finest quality in products and services.
From its inception, OPI broke through nail industry barriers. OPI was one of the first in the nail industry to focus on and limit sales of product to and through beauty professionals only, and to realize the importance of education in both the sale and use of the product. From the very beginning, OPI has shown its commitment to quality by putting batch numbers, instructions and ingredients on all of the products it sells. OPI has a dedicated team of scientists who ensure product quality and safety, and bring the latest technology and advances to its product offerings.
OPI also takes a lead within the Professional Beauty Industry in raising the standards by which the industry operates. OPI is active in numerous industry associations whose aim is to ensure that consumer safety is always preserved, through products and services which are developed to meet and exceed safety standards. The company works closely with federal, state, local, and international agencies and scientists for the same purpose.
In addition to its commitment to customer service and safety, OPI is committed to the safety of its own employees. Work-safety seminars are held at the company's headquarters several times each year, and employees are urged to make safety a priority.
Probably more than any other professional nail care product it produces, OPI is renowned globally for its Nail Lacquers, with each shade created by Weiss-Fischmann based on her impeccable color forecasting, sense of style, and instinct for what women want. The brilliant, chip-resistant, professional OPI Nail Lacquer formula is available in over 200 fashion-forward colors. With clever names that customers look forward to with each new Collection, OPI Nail Lacquers are beloved around the world, and trusted by professionals. Neither OPI Nail Lacquers nor any other OPI product or service are subject to animal testing.
OPI is well-known for its philanthropy and dedication to giving something back to the community. The Schaeffer Family Foundation, established by Schaeffer, Weiss-Fischmann, and Miriam Schaeffer, OPI Treasurer, has donated millions of dollars to multiple charities, with an emphasis on those which support health-related causes and children's education.
In addition to helping those in need across the U.S. and around the world (including a matching-funds donation of over $350,000 to the American Red Cross to help with recovery after Hurricane Katrina), the Foundation donates to the most local of causes, including a community health clinic in North Hollywood for those without health insurance. The Schaeffer Family Foundation also awards OPI employees' children with computers.
OPI continues to be unrelenting in the fight against diversion of Professional Beauty products, spending millions of dollars in an effort to protect consumers from unwittingly purchasing tainted, unsafe product, and to help the Professional Beauty Industry maintain its high standards of quality.
OPI's reputation is built on its commitment to quality, safety, innovation and excellence - a commitment it honors with every product, every day.
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Luxe Spa Ottawa Uses AG Hair
Almost immediately, AG set itself apart from the competition. John and Lotte Davis focused not just on what was in their products, but what wasn't in them. And they ensured every product went out the way it was intended, by manufacturing everything themselves. Something they're very proud to say they still do today.
Use. Love. Repeat. It really is that simple. And in the more than 20 years AG Hair Cosmetics has been around, we've proven it. In fact, when we asked the countless people who use our products every day what makes us different, their answer - "AG just works."
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Luxe Spa Ottawa Uses Moroccanoil
The luxury brand, Moroccanoil, is the originator and leading manufacturer of professional Argan Oil hair products and the fastest growing independent company in the professional salon industry.
A powerful antioxidant and UV protector, Moroccanoil's proprietary Argan oil blend is rich in vitamins and natural elements that fortify the hair, including Vitamin F (Omega 6), Vitamin A to improve elasticity, Vitamin E to protect against free-radicals, and Phenols to shield against environmental stressors.
Salon-exclusive Moroccanoil products have a strong following among leading runway, film, television and celebrity stylists who search for the very finest for their A-list clients. Moroccanoil is a backstage fixture frequently used to create hair for major magazine covers, fashion editorial spreads, as well as for award shows including the Oscars, Golden Globes, Grammys, Independent Spirit Awards and MTV Awards.
Moroccanoil's Argan oil is harvested under a free trade program which provides substantial socio-economic support to thousands of families in the Souss-Massa region of Morocco. Revenue from this project provides income to families and helps improve the working conditions of rural women. It is also used for reading, writing and management classes, as well as for modern infrastructure and technology that help make harvesting easier and more efficient, ensuring long-term management of the Argan forest.
There is only one Moroccanoil brand on the market. Look for the bright turquoise blue label with the large copper M in the Moroccanoil logo. These are the only genuine, proprietary Moroccanoil products.
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Luxe Spa Ottawa Uses Experience Hair
We combine the most technologically advanced ingredients and formula's to manufacture complex's and anti-aging protection for your hair. We are dedicated in developing hair products that are nutrient-rich, high in anti-oxidants, and also maintain the integrity of our planet.
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