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Torn Ranch new Mind and Body Collection complements spa environment

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Torn Ranch Makes The Spa Experience A Little Sweeter
 

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Torn Ranch, the leading wholesale gourmet food and gift purveyor, is making the spa experience sweeter with their new Mind and Body Collection. Designed to complement the luxe spa environment, the collection spins antioxidant and omega-3 rich ‘Superfoods’ that are known to boost skin health and radiance into distinctively decadent treats including Dark Chocolate Blueberry Walnut Clusters, Tea Infused Chocolate Indulgences, and Dark Chocolate Gogi Berry Crunch Clusters.

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Torn Ranch, the leading wholesale gourmet food and gift purveyor, is now making the spa experience a little sweeter. The newly released Mind and Body Collection is a suite of all-natural nibbles created with both health and craving in mind to nourish the spa-goers body and pamper their palate.

The premier collection spins antioxidant and omega-3 rich ‘Superfoods’ like dark chocolate, walnuts and blueberries that are known to boost skin health and radiance into distinctively decadent treats including Dark Chocolate Blueberry Walnut Clusters, Tea Infused Chocolate Indulgences, and Dark Chocolate Gogi Berry Crunch Clusters.

Designed exclusively to complement the luxe spa environment, the Mind and Body Collection is candy for the eye and weaves seamlessly into the spa aesthetic. Torn Ranch makes the gourmet confections — designed by their own master chocolatier — at their chocolate-making factory and nut roastery near California’s wine country then wraps each one in tranquil colors and designer boxes that accommodate private label needs.
The Mind and Body Collection is a bit of a departure for Torn Ranch, who primarily caters to the guest amenity needs of high-end, four- and five-star hotels and resorts including Wynn, Four Seasons and Ritz Carlton resorts.
Chief Executive Officer Sue Morrow, who describes the spa line as a natural extension for the company, said,

“The collection is a response to demand from resort spas that are facing new challenges in the crowded marketplace and tightening economy; to remain competitive and increase client loyalty spas must add new programs to their marketing efforts.”

Morrow notes the Mind and Body Collection pampers skin as well as the spa’s bottom line. “The all-natural, preservative-free ingredients we selected for the collection have specific benefits for the skin,” said Morrow. “For example, our Berry Blossom Trail Mix is rich in omega-3 fatty acids that can help moisturize dry skin from the inside out.”

The diversity of the product suite makes it ideally suited to several spa-centric marketing and sales programs that enhance the bottom line. Indulgences from the Mind and Body Collection pair perfectly with spa gift cards — which continue to be a revenue generator for spas despite the overall market downturn.

Sometimes the smallest ‘extras’ can reap real rewards for day spas; treating each guest to an individually wrapped Dark Chocolate Green Tea Bar following a treatment ups the luxe factor of the experience and increases client loyalty. Likewise, a bowl of Chocolate Covered Blueberries or Spa Mix in the reception area provides a quick and healthy boost for guests who are running on empty. Extra guest amenities can also help assuage client frustration when an esthetician is running behind schedule and a treatment is delayed.

Torn Ranch will be spotlighting the Mind and Body Collection at Skin Inc.’s Face & Body conference and expo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco August 17th and 18th.

About Torn Ranch

Located near wine country in Marin County, California, Torn Ranch has been crafting gourmet food and gift items for more than 30 years. Torn Ranch uses only natural ingredients and no preservatives and all products are made fresh to order at their own bakery, nut roastery and chocolate-making facility. Each item is hand-packaged and can be customized to accommodate unique requirements including private labeling and one-of-a-kind gift baskets

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Spa Products and Beauty Product demands Sustainable Packaging

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Demand for Sustainable Packaging for Beauty Products Continues to Grow

Eco-friendly packaging is becoming a larger movement in the beauty and personal care industries, sparking new demands and innovations.

Sustainable packaging is making the transition from niche to mainstream as manufacturers come under pressure to go green. Reflecting the development of the green trend, the organizers set aside an entire hall to bio-based packaging at the recent Interpack trade show in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Looking to the future, many commentators expect sustainable packaging to take up even more floor space.

Speaking at Interpack, Andy Sweetman, market development manager of Innovia films, said in a few years we could see a similar trade show devoted solely to bio-based packaging. And looking specifically at the beauty market, Mintel analyst Nica Lewis told CosmeticsDesign.com, “Environmentally friendly packaging is the next big area for development.”

Rapid expansion

Green packaging has already made an impact on the industry and is currently one of the fastest-growing ethical trends.

More than 600 beauty products have been launched with eco-friendly packaging claims since March 2006 in Europe alone, according to figures drawn from Mintel’s Global New Products Database.

Many companies in the market for sustainable packaging are undergoing rapid expansion to keep up with growing demand. For example, bio-based cosmetics packager Cereplast reported a 134% increase in gross sales to $913,152 for the first three months of the year.

“The demand for our bio-plastics continues to grow rapidly as demonstrated by our triple-digit revenue growth in the first quarter of this year,” said Cereplast’s CEO Frederic Scheer. “Our compostable resins and hybrid resins continue to generate a tremendous amount of interest in the marketplace, fueled by both continually mounting environmental awareness and rising fossil fuel prices.”

Remaining challenges

Environmentally friendly packaging has significant potential but a number of challenges stand in the way of future growth.

No complete eco-friendly solution currently exists. Instead, manufacturers have to choose between recycled, recyclable and biodegradable materials or even less packaging. Neither of these options fully satisfies the demand for economical, eco-friendly, functional and secure packaging. For instance, biodegradable materials are expensive and not ideally suited to many applications.

Even reducing packaging weight is not the easy and cheap solution it appears because of the restrictions it imposes on the ability of beauty manufacturers to communicate and deliver convenience.

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New Life Systems Purchased by Scrip

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Scrip buys New Life Systems

Scrip Companies recently acquired New Life Systems, a manufacturer and catalog distributor of massage and spa products, to bolster its presence in the spa and wellness market. Terms of the deal, were not disclosed.

New Life Systems and its sister company, Lotus Touch, are a consumer and business-to-business hybrid. They target massage therapists, aromatherapists, and their clients.

According to Kray Kibler, Scrip Companies’ chief financial officer, the New Life acquisition breathes new life in its existing spa businesses, Day Spa Warehouse and Scrip Spa Supply. Both spa businesses market via catalog and via Internet, said Kibler.

In addition to the spa divisions, Scrip Companies provides chiropractic supplies and equipment through Hessco, a business it acquired in July, and through its Massage Warehouse division. The spa and chiropractic business also sells via a catalog and via the Internet.

Personal Genetic Health Helps you to Age Better - Now in Spas

Know Your Personal Genetic Health to Age Better Now!

With National DNA Day on April 25th, Suracell Inc. urges Americans to use their genes to promote healthy aging


At the local drug store, do you stock up on everything touted as “good for you?” Convinced there’s nothing you can do to improve the way you age? Think again, says Suracell, Inc., the pioneer in personal genetic health. With National DNA Day on April 25, Suracell is urging Americans to be proactive about their genetic legacy. By discovering your personal genetic health (PGH) profile through physician-supervised DNA testing, a nutritional supplement and lifestyle plan can be customized specifically for you, so you are not a passive victim of genetic inheritance.


“In today’s world, you take your car to the mechanic, he plugs it into his computer and has enough information to know what’s wrong and how to fix it. DNA testing provides that same window into your body’s health, allowing a medical professional to know how to help you strengthen your genetic make-up,” says Vincent Giampapa, MD, founder of Suracell, renowned anti-aging physician, plastic surgeon and author of five books including the newly released, “The Gene Makeover: The 21st Century Anti-Aging Breakthrough.”

Suracell wants the public to know we can now age better than our predecessors. The company is the first to create a physician-supervised, DNA test available only through a medical, health or wellness center affiliated with Suracell. The test utilizes cheek swab samples and biomarkers that are sent to certified testing laboratories where your Personal Genetic Health (PGH) profile is determined. Once your results are sent back to Suracell, they are reviewed by medical professionals, along with findings from your lifestyle questionnaire. The team evaluates how efficiently your body handles the five key biological processes critical to healthy aging:

– Blood sugar control — Inflammation control — Protection from oxidative stress and resulting free radicals — Optimal gene expression related to cardiovascular health — Normal cellular and DNA repair

The Suracell team then creates your individualized PGH Program, comprised of specific nutritional supplements related to your genetic makeup and unique needs, as well as lifestyle recommendations for healthy aging. Only Suracell emphasizes specific genetic characteristics related to the five key healthy aging processes when developing these personalized programs.

Suracell “Core Nutrition” products can be ordered without DNA testing, while the “Repair” products are included as part of the complete PGH Program.


Suracell’s DNA Analysis kits are available through medical spas, physician offices and wellness centers nationwide.

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I have taken the tests, and am waiting for my results. It has been over two weeks, I will keep you posted.

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Recess - Take a break from Chemical Nail Services

 

 

Looking for a spot where you won’t have to choke on toxic chems just to maintain that mani-pedi? Check out the recently opened recess, that does more than toe the line.

Airy and sweet, this 2,000-square-foot nail palace is eco-chic. and not just from the LA girls looking to fix chipped color. recess earned top marks from leadership in energy and environmental design (LEED). going green means this shop smells clean. hoof it to the beauty bar to customize your treatment with formaldehyde and paraben-free soufflé lotions and aromatherapy soaks. choose from a heavenly array of scents such as blooming rose, summer guava and indian spice. put your foot down and add a salt/sugar scrub or clay mask. fancy yourself a germaphobe?

Technicians employ the finest medical grade sanitation equipment for utensils. every client receives a new set of files, buffers and toe separators. the towels are made from an anti-microbial bamboo and cotton blend, and pedicure basin liners are used only once for each foot treatment.

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Mud Moguls Ahava Dead Sea Products

 

 

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About 20 years ago, a SPA technician named Ziva Gilad spotted some mud-covered women on the shore of Israel’s Dead Sea. Every day she would watch the women, whom she jokingly called gingerbread cookies, douse their skin in the rich mud and let it wash away as they floated on top of the saltwater. One day, after noticing a woman bottle up some mud to take home, Gilad had an idea for a company, and in 1988 she helped start a skin-care line that makes its products using the black mud and gray-white salt from the Dead Sea.

The tiny company, Dead Sea Laboratories, grossed nearly $1 million in its first year, most of it from boutique sales within Israel. Not bad for a 30-person start-up, but Gilad and her partners, members of four kibbutzim near the shore, wanted more, especially after seeing American tourists take products home in their suitcases. They wanted to make a mark in the U.S., a must-win market for any luxury-cosmetics company. After several years of modest success, Ahava broke through in 2000. Its secret? The company found that thriving in the glamorous world of high-end beauty often depends on the not-so-glamorous business of marketing and distribution.

Dead Sea Laboratories first tried entering the U.S. market in 1992, after the company persuaded buyers at Bloomingdale’s and Saks Fifth Avenue to carry its products under the new brand name Ahava, which means love in Hebrew.

But it would take more marketing–and more money–to turn Ahava into a global brand. It got both in 2000, when an investment company called B. Gaon Holdings–owned by Israeli mogul Benjamin Gaon–noticed its potential and invested more than $10 million. “It needed someone from the investment world to give them a push,” says Michael Etedgi, the Israeli-born CEO of Ahava North America. Gaon lobbied Ahava’s U.S. distributor to get its products into more department stores and persuaded the company to try new product lines, including one for men, and to spend millions on magazine ads. “Big brands start in the U.S.,” says Etedgi. Ahava products are now sold in 33 countries, generating nearly $150 million a year in sales, and the company has three flagship stores in the U.K., Germany and Singapore.

Of course, marketing alone isn’t enough to compete against L’Oreal and Este Lauder. Ahava had to stand out. So Gilad and her partners try to re-create the purifying experience of bathing in the Dead Sea. Unlike the smooth, delicate creams of competitors, Ahava’s products–such as the creamy, pale brown “energizing body mud masks” ($18) and coarse, white “uplifting butter salts” ($22)–look and feel like the mud and salt they’re made from. “Each bottle is like a mini–Dead Sea experience,” Gilad says. “Other companies may have the money and the power, but we have the sea.” Ahava is the only cosmetics company with the right to mine the Dead Sea for its mud and salts. (Other companies can buy them from Ahava.)

There is a drawback, however, to stressing its Israeli provenance: “Any product that says MADE IN ISRAEL will have some impact on selling in countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran,” Etedgi says. That means Ahava may be missing out on the torrid growth of the luxury market in some parts of the Middle East.

In the U.S., the luxury-skin-care market is approaching saturation. The number of skin-care brands sold in department stores has more than doubled over the past 10 years. “Everyone is in the game,” says Karen Grant, a senior beauty analyst for the NPD Group. Ahava hopes that luxury consumers looking for natural products will respond to the company’s mineral-based product line. “It gives them an edge,” Grant says.

Ahava is still a small player in the cosmetics industry, but it has big plans. Disney’s investment arm agreed to acquire a 16.9% stake in the company from Gaon; Sex and the City’s Kristin Davis signed up as its first celebrity endorsement last fall; and next year in New York City, Ahava plans to build a demonstration pool of concentrated saltwater, in which consumers can slather on mud and float. It’s the next best thing to taking a dip in the Dead Sea yourself.

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Economy - US SkinCare continues to show growth

 

US skin care market still has potential despite economic woes

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Despite lower spend attributable to worries over the US economy, market researchers say that the skin care category is still likely to show plenty of growth potential in the year ahead.

In a recent presentation given by Leigh Anne Rowinski, director of client solutions at Information Resources, new market information shows that the US Health & Beauty market grew by $382m in 2007, a significant fall compared to the growth figure for 2006, which stood at $910m.

However, despite the figures showing that growth rates are slowing for the industry, Rowinski’s presentation also demonstrated that core segments in the mass skin care category are still reporting strong growth.

As a whole the US total skin care market (for which IRI also includes hair care) is currently valued at $15.1bn and grew by 2.9 percent in 2007, but breaking down the category into its individual segments reveals some far more dynamic statistics.

Facial skin care leads the pack

The face segment, which accounts for 20 percent of the total skin care category - a total of $3bn - proved to have the highest growth, registering a gain of $202m, which was 7.2 percent higher than last year.

Undoubtedly this growth is attributable to continued interest in increasingly sophisticated and technically advanced facial skin care products that focus on anti-aging properties and are often as not positioned as premium products.

Interestingly Rowinski points out that for the core anti-aging and facial moisturizer products, the higher the price and the positioning of the product, the greater the growth rate currently appear to be.

This suggests that the premium rated products in this segment are proving to be more popular, in line with consumer desires for functional Facial solution products with proven efficacy and quality.

Top facial skin care launches in 2007

And the top three facial skin care launches in 2007 were Aveeno Active Naturals Positively Ageless, with sales of $20m, Neutrogena Acne Stress Control Treatment, which had sales of $17.2m and Garnier Nutrionisted Skin Renew Moisturizer with sales of $17m.

Likewise the body wash segment has also shown healthy growth. It accounts for 12 percent of the total spend in the skin care segment, and grew by $126m in 2007, the same level as the year before.

However, the highest rate of change was registered in the sun care segment, which currently represents 6 percent of the total skin care category.

Increasing awareness of the dangers of too much exposure to the sun means that sales of sun care products have been positively impacted, translating to segment growth of $67m, a figure that was 8.3 percent higher than in 2006.

Finally, looking at the additive ingredients that make up the skin care segment, the presentation showed that the biggest growth trend is for vitamins, closely followed by SPFs, oil-free formulations, antioxidants, salicylic acid and retinol.

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It’s only a natural progression, along with facial treatments such as Botox and chemical peels, why not have doctor exclusive beauty products? Understanding your skincare needs is best understood by your doctor who then can recommend which products are appropriate for use after treatment. Allergan, best known for Botox Cosmetic and the dermal filler Juvederm, is the one leading the way for this doctor-exclusive skincare trend.

Allergan presently has two skincare systems that you can only find exclusively through your physician: Vivite and Prevage MD. Vivite is a cosmeceutical skincare system that consist of 10-20% glycolic compound while Prevage MD has the highest concentration of Idebenone (1%) of any other cosmeceutical. Along with Prevage MD, the other Prevage series of products is a collaboration of Allergan & Elizabeth Arden.

Now it has just been announced that Allergan will also be working with Estee Lauder brand, Clinique to develop a skincare line that will work with in-office procedures and will be sold exclusively through a physician this Fall. I find this new trend intriguing–skincare so powerful that you can only get it from a doctor. Whether it actually works or not may be mute, but the psychology behind it may just boost visits to the doctor seeking out a skincare miracle.

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