G.M. Collin – Skin Care for the Stars from Canada
G.M. Collin - Skin Care for the Stars from Canada This is the first time I am experiencing G.M. Collin Skin Care from Canada. I mean, there are soooo many brands out there, you cannot know [...]
TalkWellness Impressions: attending ISPA Conference & Expo for the first time
TalkWellness Impressions: attending ISPA Conference &Expo for the first time I applied with ISPA conference in January 2018 with a session proposal. After some personal phone conversations and a couple of email exchanges with a [...]
SpaTree – bringing the Spa back to Nature
SpaTree - bringing the Spa back to Nature Modern Lifestyles seem to be about downsizing, going back to the roots, simplifying lives, becoming more in tune with nature. So the question today is: How can [...]
Soaking in a Japanese style Wooden Bathtub: Waking up the deepest part of your Spirit
Soaking in a Japanese style Wooden Bathtub: Waking up the deepest part of your Spirit The Global Wellness Trend Report 2017 ranks Wellness Architecture second (and no, just because the identification of wellness trends has been [...]
Spa Trend 2018? Beauty from Within: Nutricosmetics and Beauty Supplements
Spa Trend 2018? Beauty from Within: Nutricosmetics and Beauty Supplements ‘True beauty is the beauty from within…’ sounds like a cliche? Well, you might argue, why then do we use thousands of external beauty products [...]
How to turn every Shower into a Spa
How to turn every Shower into a Spa Everyone knows how to turn a bath tub into a spa experience with bath bombs, bath salts, bubble bath… you name it. But what if you don’t [...]
My newest piece of jewellery is beautiful, stylish, and …. a health tracker
My newest piece of jewellery is beautiful, stylish, and …. a health tracker Women around the world understand that beauty, and wellbeing, and health come by being smart about it. Beauty is something every women [...]
Can doing business and doing good go side-by-side? Healing Summit 2017 Take-Away
Can doing business and doing good go side-by-side? Great take aways from the Healing Summit 2017 What a super treat to having been invited to the Healing Summit 2017! After I just had the [...]
Four Great Take Aways from the GWS 2016
Four Great Take Aways from the GWS 2016 Four days of non-stop program: Attentively listening to industry leaders Discussing topics Making new friends Catching up with old friends Activities, dinners, receptions, speeches… I was knackered [...]
Sage Tonic – a ‘sensory platform’ approach to our five senses
Sage Tonic – a ‘sensory platform’ approach to our five senses Sage Tonic. Sounds like a new facial spray. But is by far bigger than that! Sage Tonic is a holistic program to stimulate and [...]
Eminence – skincare company with the green factor
Eminence - skincare with the green factor Some years back, facial oil was for skin care freaks, not for everyone. I am so happy that the perception towards facial oils has changed greatly. Skin care [...]
myrto-naturalcosmetics is a small skin care company with a big soul
myrto-naturalcosmetics is a small skin care company with a big soul I love those kind of stories: young and (family or single-owner run) small skin care company produces innovative and high quality organic skin care in small own [...]
User friendly Spa Website. “Don’t make me think!”
User friendly Spa Website. “Don’t make me think!” A recent -and poor- web experience is the reason for today’s post about the user friendly spa website: I looked up flights between Salzburg and Cologne, two [...]
Tooth oil by Ringana – So Fresh!
Tooth Oil by Ringana - So Fresh! I am sooo happy I can present yet another great skin care brand from my chosen home country Austria. The small country wedged between Germany, Hungry and [...]
Bathing History II: Spa History at Barbara Baths
Bathing History II: Spa History at Barbara Baths In order to understand our contemporary spa culture, I find it important to dig deep into spa history. Part I of this mini series Bathing History: The [...]
Alpine Spa Indulgence at Wellness Hotel Jesacherhof
An Alpine Spa Indulgence at Jesacherhof It is one of those days… I hardly slept the night before. I am in a pretty foul mood. I don’t feel like driving the two hours to my [...]
Buddha Exhibition with 232 masterpieces
Buddha Exhibition with 232 masterpieces The Buddha Exhibition in Voelklingen/Germany was an impressing and humbling experience for me. Never before have 232 masterpieces from India, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Indonesia, China, Japan, Nepal, and Tibet been shown [...]
SPA Manufactur® – waterless skincare from Germany
SPA Manufactur® - waterless skincareI know, I am really behind with product reviews, which is owed to the fact that I have had some lovely and exiting addition to the family which totally occupied all [...]
Derma ID – unique skin care concept
Derma ID – unique skin care conceptI don’t like it.I love it, love it, love it!The Phyto Recovery Oil by Derma ID, from the ‘my cosmetic pharmacy’ line. […]
Kindred Skincare Co. – 100% Organic Oil based Skincare
Kindred – 100% organic oil based skincareDuring my last trip to the US I got in touch with Frances from Kindred Skincare Co. by mail. After communicating back and forth for a while, Frances recognised [...]
Cryo Therapy – Ice Age 2.0
Cryo Therapy - Ice Age 2.0 What was the coldest temperature you have ever experienced? For me until now it was -37 C, which was not so unusual in Finland back in 1985 in January [...]
Europe’s first forestSPA, experience nature at waldSPA
Europe’s first forestSPA, experience nature at waldSPA About one month ago, the family owned and run 5* Hotel Forsthofgut in Leogang (in the Salzburger County) has opened the doors to their newly expanded waldSPA® (wald [...]
Pedicure Bowls made from bamboo, sugar cane, corn and rice?
Victoria’s Essentials – Incorporating Pedicure Bowls AustraliaPedicure Bowls made from bamboo, sugar cane, corn and rice?Sounds impossible?Well, I admit I haven’t come across such an innovative product in a long time! And it has a [...]