Choose a greener future with Slow Beauty Eco Salon

This week Slow Beauty Eco Salon became a signatory to the Green Spa Network’s Pledge For A Greener Future.

The Pledge

As a member of GSN and the spa and wellness community, we are committed to promoting the vital connections between personal well-being, economic sustainability and the health of our planet. We recognize that consciously and continuously managing our environmental and social relationships is key to our success.

We understand that greening principles, products and technologies are continually evolving. We intend to respond to these developments and apply “best practices” that have a positive impact for our employees, customers and our local and global community.

Our goals are to:
– Provide and promote products, services and business practices that do not harm people, planet or prosperity.
– Engage in and inspire actions that result in a positive impact for personal and planetary vitality.
– Share our efforts with our local and global communities to raise their awareness of the connections between personal and planetary vitality.

To accomplish this, we will:
– Apply conservation practices to our use of water, energy and other resources.
– Adopt responsible reuse, recycling, and waste management and disposal practices.
– Reduce the use and promotion of products that contain hazardous substances.
– Source materials and supplies from companies that conduct their operations in a socially and environmentally responsible manner.
– Make these objectives an integral part of our business planning and decision making
– Commit to continual improvement and revision based on evolving sustainable values and practices and our ability to implement better solutions.

June 6, 2017November 9, 2023

Hair Removal: Depilation Vs Epilation

When it comes to hair removal, the difference between depilation and epilation is fundamental. Depilation is the removal of hair at the skin’s surface, while epilation is the removal of the hair below the skin.

Examples of Depilation

Shaving – Hair is tugged and cut off at the skin’s surface. This can actually make the hair appear to be darker, stronger and more coarse-feeling as it quickly grows back.

Depilatories – Depilatories are composed of harsh chemicals which work to disintegrate the hair at the hairline, weakening the hair and allowing it to be rubbed off. The chemicals in depilatories can be very irritating to the skin, leaving redness and soreness when used.

Abrasives – There are several types of abrasives. They are often like mild sandpaper, used to remove fine hair by rubbing it off, leaving the skin irritated.

Threading – Hair is tugged out by a very impressive ancient art of hair removal by a quick manipulation of hands, fingers, mouth and thread. A high percentage of hair is broken.

Examples of Epilation

Waxing – Wax is available in various forms, i.e., hot wax, cold wax or liquid wax, yet they all share several similarities. All wax products contain organic or synthetic resins or beeswax and are removed using cloth strips or the wax is allowed to harden (dry) on the skin and removed by gripping the edge of the wax.

Sugaring – Body Sugaring is a gentle hair removal method, suitable for all parts of the body. Safe and effective on all skin types and hair textures, sugaring is suitable for everyone. The sugaring paste used is a blend of natural ingredients with no chemical additives so there is no fear of any harmful side effects. The application of this unique product will also remove dead skin cells leaving the skin soft, silky and healthy.

Electrolysis – With this method, a fine probe (needle) is inserted into the follicle until it reaches the root. Electricity (galvanised current) is then conducted through the needle to kill the hair root.

Tweezing – Removing hair with tweezers is an ancient rite – and certainly has not improved much over the years. In modern times, women generally limit tweezing to the eyebrows.

Laser – Lasers use a process called photothermolysis. It consists of an invisible laser beam being cast over the area to be treated.

May 10, 2017November 10, 2023

Why Slow Beauty?

I imagine you’re familiar with the Slow Food Movement? It’s a concept that is permeating not just the food culture of today, but through our furniture, our clothing and our beauty industry as well. Today’s world is vastly different to the world in which we grew up. Change is constant and rapid, we are in a perpetual state of distraction, and in a society which encourages us to be switched on 24/7, where we are not only connected to our smart devices, to social media and to each other, the slow movement is here to remind us that there is more to life than the high of our next notification.

Slow Beauty is here to encourage you to “switch off”, to slow down, to stop and be mindfully in the present, and to enjoy every juicy second of it.

What is Slow Beauty?

Slow beauty is conscious choices culminating in better health and wellbeing, it’s rituals and renewal, it’s small movements towards balance, it’s a culmination of mind, body and spirit. Slow Beauty is self care.

In contrast to the fast-moving world of the beauty industry which sells us quick fixes and immediate results (along with invasive treatment options), we are also encouraged to fight against ageing. This breeds an inherent dissatisfaction with the natural ageing process and creates an enemy of our own body. Slow beauty encourages us to be the best version of ourselves, to be graceful, kind, thoughtful and generous, and to achieve this by first being all of those things with ourselves.