Careers

SA Fashion Week

Dermalogica was involved in the luxurious week of fashion which was held at the Crowne Plaza in Rosebank between 29 March 2012 and 1 April 2012. Skin Bar was offered to all the top models from across the globe where dermalogica made it’s mark as the necessity to start off the show- prepping the models skin before make-up and hair. It’s not surprising that many of the models were already loyal users of Dermalogica and absolutely love it! It was definitely a great opportunity for us to be a part of fashion week and as received great brand exposure. We look forward to being part of the next fashion week in September 2012.

Sorbet Golf Day

Hot Spot together with Sorbet, the organiser of the event, hosted the golf day in the beautiful surroundings of the Houghton Golf Estate. Our Hot Spot team had the opportunity to introduce Shave and our Solar range to many of the golfers. A shave sample pack was gifted to each guest at the awards dinner and it was a great opportunity to interact and educate them on the benefits of Dermalogica.

Dermalogica UK wins Guild Awards of Excellence for Best Skincare Supplier

Dermalogica UK wins Guild Awards of Excellence for Best Skincare Supplier The Guild Awards of Excellence are different to many industry awards because they are decided by the professional skin therapist, the people who actually use the products and utilise the support. There is no judging panel, so every vote made is by the people that really count! The Guild’s brief for the award was “great service, attention to detail, understanding your needs, going the extra mile, or something else which makes you want to carry on placing your business with that supplier” With all the other nominees and other professional brands on the market we are so pleased to have been voted Best Skincare Supplier by the professional skin therapists!

Overnight Repair Serum Launch

This month saw the launch of the much awaited Overnight Repair Serum into skin care centres across the country. This masquerade themed event was held at some of the top venues and hotels in Johannesburg – The Venue, Melrose Arch, Durban – The Oyster Box and Cape Town – 15 on Orange. Guests were treated to an arrival cocktail and a masque of their choice for the evening, which they got to pose for the camera with. During the event guests were educated on what makes Overnight Repair Serum such an incredible, must-have product as well as being treated to an awe inspiring performance by PJ Powers. Thank you all for joining us at this great event.

What a great success

The Colisseum, a Platinum Dermalogica skin centre, held a buffet breakfast event on Saturday, 10 March 2012, at the Cipriot Hall in Bedfordview as a spoil for their top clients. Together with the skin care owner and a great Dermalogica team, this day was a memorable and successful event for The Colisseum. The clients were treated to an al’ carte breakfast while being entertained by a belly dancer as well as being educated and given tips on how to prevent ageing.  This presented the perfect opportunity to launch the new Overnight Repair Serum with its lymphatic drainage massage that all who attended enjoyed practising on themselves. Due to the overwhelming interest and success of the Overnight Repair Serum launch, huge contributions were made towards FITE! Congratulations to the Colisseum on a fantastic event.

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Press Roadshow – Tea with d

“For me, personally, mind, body and soul is my real debut” – Joss Stone Which is exactly what Dermalogica set out to do at this fun meet and greet Dermalogica Debut that was held in Cape Town at our concept space store and Johannesburg at the new Lifeday Spa in Rosebank. Our National Marketing Manager, Heloise van Rensburg and the new edition to our tribe Siobhan Gaskin who has been recruited as the Communications Manager met with press and key media partners to discuss upcoming product renovations, collaborations and dare I say… some new product launches in the near future! Tea with d being our theme, attention to detail was not missed by our invited media. Our guests loved their ‘d’ notebooks to write in, the delightful ‘d’ cupcakes that were served for dessert along with our much talked about d centre pieces. After the presentation press got sent off to the skinbar where our skin therapists let them play with the products and taught them how to do self-acupressure at home. The day ended off with a relaxing treatment and a goodie bag (that included a Dermalogica debut greatest hits cd) to take home. Now that’s what I would call a Dermalogica day!

10 February 2012 – Fashion with a cause

The Camps Bay strip was star-studded in style on Friday 10 February at the Heat magazine powered by Red Carpet Fashion Show 2012. Celebrity hosts Elana Afrika and Katlego Maboe took to the stage, introducing SA’s leading fashion giants KLuK, Port, Stefania Morland, Jagadi and a fresh new designer on the scene, Joanna Hedley, with BeachCult. The Heat glam fashion event celebrated the empowerment of women through Dermalogica’s joinFITE initiative. Red Carpet Concepts handed over a cheque of R16, 000 to the initiative. Dermalogica didn’t shy away from spoiling its guests for a second; the goody bags for the 500 VIP guests were filled to the brim with incredible products, gifts and treats. “All the hard work pays off in the end when you’re able to look back at what you’ve achieved and feel proud. We couldn’t have chosen a better initiative to back” says Red Carpet Concepts MD and Red Carpet Fashion Show event organizer, Jade Allen.

Dermalogica goes “glamping” with Brutal Fruit

Dermalogica passion rose blossoms

“Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.” – William Shakespeare Roses are arguably the most beloved flowers in the world. They symbolize love, friendship, and sympathy with an elegant beauty. They’re also known for being one of the most fragile and time-consuming flowers you can attempt to grow on your own. When Lee Killian the group manager for Body Therapy sent us a picture of her Dermalogica passion rose coming alive in her garden we couldn’t resist sharing it with all of you! Lee clearly is an expert gardener in the making. We are always interested to see who has green fingers and so please keep the pictures coming on how your dermalogica passion roses are growing.

1 November 2011

26 October 2011

Be inspired by… Jane Wurwand

Jane Wurwand is the founder and owner of Dermalogica and The International Dermal Institute. She has also been instrumental in creating joinFITE.org, an empowerment initiative that aims at providing loans to women empowering them to start their own businesses.

A key turning-point was reading Half the Sky by economists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. I had already been thinking about Dermalogica’s 25th anniversary (2011) and the thousands of professional women our brand has guided into business through professional skincare. But something was missing.

Reading Half the Sky gave me fresh perspective on the need to empower women, and in doing so, fight poverty beyond the so-called “first world”. I began exploring ways to reach out to women who were entrepreneurs in small, rural places and villages, not to mention remote places ruined by war and genocide. It became evident that microlending was the only way to get to them. And this is how joinFITE began.

I have always advocated for women’s financial independence. It’s part of my upbringing. I was raised by a strong mother who was widowed young and never remarried. She raised us four girls with the knowledge that a woman must never depend on a man for her survival. My husband and I are raising our two teenage girls with the same viewpoint. The fact that I have two daughters who are about to enter the world as young adults definitely is part of my current thinking. I was at a fascinating summit roundtable of feminist thinkers last summer, and I spent a lot of time talking with Gloria Steinem, the legendary women’s-rights activist. I was lamenting the fact that it seemed such a vast issue; there was little we could do to make a real impact. I asked for her advice. She gave me a cool, appraising stare and said simply “Do more.”

Women inspire me, starting with my own mother, who was rock-solid. There was no question that she was the mama lion. She protected us when we needed it, but also raised us to be strong, curious, willing to share, able to solve problems, and ready to go off on our own as soon as our feet could carry us. With that gracious and powerful foundation, I have been inspired by thousands of women who have been drawn to our business. Often, their stories are far more dramatic than my own. They achieve the impossible every day, once they recognise, understand and engage their own power. It is quite literally breathtaking.

Every woman involved in FITE is just like us. If she is a mother, and 80% of the world’s women are mothers (according to the World Health Organization), she has laughed and cried and worried about her baby, whether she’s in Durban, Dubai or Dallas. Feeling that connection as a woman to other women is what drives us to take action. We write cheques for good causes, but we also roll up our sleeves and do the dirty work.

Skin, hands and touch are how I have defined myself as a professional for 30 years. I also believe that the skin-touch “experience” humanises, heals and bonds women, and people in general. I was recently in South Africa launching FITE, and my team here presented me with a handmade necklace of smooth, glossy glass beads – mostly red, which is my power-colour. The necklace was made by a woman who is a recent recipient of a FITE microloan in KwaZulu-Natal. I did not meet her when I was in South Africa this last time. To be perfectly honest, it is unlikely that I shall meet her. Rather than feel sadness in this, I feel the weight and smoothness and coolness of the small, red beads that she wove for me to wear. It is as if this woman is saying: “I feel you. I know you, because you are just like me. I know that you are there, and I am here, too.”

Health and beauty are not the same conversation. I live in Los Angeles, where there is too much emphasis on beauty: tall, slim, fair, blonde, a woman who is perpetually 22 years old, with large eyes, perky breasts, flat belly and long legs. This is a dominant “meme” around the world today, sustained by the entertainment industry and other media. To me, beauty means authenticity. Of course, this does not preclude colouring your hair if you want to. The beauty comes from knowing why you are colouring your hair, if you do, or having Botox or cosmetic surgery, if this is your choice. I think that this is the aspect of aging no one talks about. People who look great in their skin at 50, or 60, or beyond, are people who know who they are, and who really live in that place.

You must be authentic to be beautiful. I recommend the great children’s book, The Velveteen Rabbit, to friends who seem traumatised by the aging process. It’s the story of how toys become real when their stitches and button-eyes are literally rubbed off by the little boy who loves them. What you ingest and inject to stay young and beautiful can only “undo” so much. The truth really starts to tell itself once the perfect mask of collagen and elastin begins to give way.

Health is another story. I swear by my pilates classes, and many glasses of filtered water throughout the day. I love lifting weights and running, and I know that intensive physical activity is key for me to maintain energy, focus and clarity. Finding the right physical exercise, the right duration and the right regimen for your own body is key, though. There is no one monolithic fitness approach which works for everyone. Swimming, kick-boxing or rock-climbing may be better for you personally. You have to find out – then get off the couch and do it.

I’m also a good eater. The machine needs fuel. I have never been one to starve myself! I just make sure to avoid the “white poisons”, white flour and white sugar.

Living in Southern California, I am blessed to have fresh fruit, veggies and salads at my fingertips year-round, and I feel sure that big heaps of greens are key to health, and beauty, for that matter. There also are those moments when I really enjoy a great pizza, not to mention a martini. I’m no purist, and I don’t believe in this puritanical notion of “balance”. We go off the rails, and then we need to pull ourselves back into line. It’s what makes us interesting.

The campaign

The objective of joinFITE.org is to lend financial backing to 25 000 female entrepreneurs worldwide between 2011 and 2012. The second “wave” of this objective is to re-invest the money that the FITE recipients pay back. The cycle of debt-payment and re-investment of assets is the heart of microlending success, and expands the sphere of influence created by FITE exponentially. FITE can literally put millions of women into business for themselves, if you follow this algorithm. The idea is simple: through buying a specially marked Dermalogica product, and using the unique code, or by donating directly, you choose the recipient you would like to help. You get to read her story, and follow her journey as she achieves her goal.

Longevity supports this worthy cause and hopes you will too, by adopting your own loan recipient on www.joinFITE.org. As Gloria Steinem says: “Do more.” We here at Longevity have taken Wurwand and Steinem up on this challenge – and invite you to do so too…

17 October 2011

Overnight Repair Serum

 

7 September

Jane Wurwand on SA TV

When Dermalogica founder Jane Wurwand was in South Africa a couple of months ago she did many interviews magazines, radios and TV shows. Below are the clips from All Access, Expresso and Hello Doctor, if you missed them.

Jane on All Access

Jane on Expresso

Jane on Hello Doctor

6 September

Annet King and Whitney Johnson, Getting Hands-On With Aging Skin

5 September

UltraCalming™ scoops top Heat award

Our UltraCalming™ range has just been voted Best Skincare Range 2011 in the heat Hair & Beauty Awards 2011. All products in the running for the awards were tested by a panel of judges consisting of readers, heat staff and a few celebrities. The UltraCalming™ range, which is targeted at sensitised skin, has broad range appeal as almost everyone suffers from sensitised skin at some point, and it can be used by anyone.