Our latest venture...

[Pompal 09.]

Relax & Rejuvenate has gone stationary with our first bricks & mortar location, Neroli Spa & Apothecary.

We are the first independent spa in the country exclusively using the Elemis treatment menu.

3 Treatment rooms - 1 wet, 2 dry as well as a nail loft that can accomodate 4 technicians.

The website is http://www.Neroli-Spa.com and will be updated again in the new year.

We plan to have 2-3 additional locations in the next 5 years as well as some hotel-based Spa-only versions of our concept.

 

[WMC-90]

Good luck. The website looks great and the spa looks lovely. It's a shame your'e located in New Orleans or New York - two places I'll be going to in summer 2007.

 

[Me Fornever]

Your website is beautiful and your place OMG its GORGEOUS!! You guys did a beautiful job!
And Ukgal if you are coming to New Orleans and you want to know of some places to have a spa day send me a PM I will give you some places. I live 45 minutes away from there.

 

[ange]

Congrats and best of luck on this new adventure.

 

[Paul S]

breathtaking!

 

[Vicki <3 my little chubba]

Good Luck! May 2007 be your best year ever! :

 

[naveen a]

Congratulations and good luck!

 

[Celina]

Yeah...best of luck

I wish you nothing but the best of luck in your new venture. Keep us posted on things!!!

Blessings and Light-
Johnny

 

[momof3]

RelaxandRejuvenate,
I appreciate your direct and very helpful business knowledge. I am excited for you and your new venture. I wonder if you will share with us how you decided to use Elemis exclusively. I wish you both well!

LeContefairy

 

[salsa]

Bravo,

Excellent website, hoping you the best success in 2007.


Jason

 

[Brigitte]

Elemis

We considered several options before deciding on Elemis

1) Mix and match menu using the best of our favorite brands for the different treatments. Too complicated for the technicians and too costly since not all brands have professional use sizes.

2) Sundari branded menu. A little too obsure

3) Kerstin Florian branded menu. Also a tad obscure, but they are the brand for a fab resort spa in Southern VA (three hours from here) that is starting to get well known. They have great high-end skin/face products that would fill a whole in our retail lines. Downside - they just signed up a nearby resort spa (less than an hour away) to use their menu so we would not be the only ones in the area

Elemis offered fabulous training (a week for skin care, a week for body treatments, at no charge). They are very detailed and do dictate exactly how each treatment should be done - number of strokes, etc. Surprisingly, the techs and the clients love that aspect of it. Very ritualized. They also come back twice a year for refresher training.

All of the treatments are aromatherapy of the highest quality. 80% plus of our treatment clients buy products. After a week of offering treatments we already have to re-order!

The line is not too well known, but their use on Steiner cruise ship spas (same parent company) and their presence in some very high end locales (the spas at some CT and NV casinos, spa "pods" going in to NOrdstroms) is starting to build their brand. They also have a high end skin care line for retailing.

They have some unique treatments built around their incredible products. Every massage includes dry brushing of the skin to exfoliate and enhance the moisturizing effect of the oils used in their massage, among other things.

We are located a 1/4 mile from the VA school of Massage - also owned by Steiner - so our future hires will already be familiar with the treatments and product lines.

Finally, it was a bit of a mutual love-fest around the fact we were the first free-standing spa to sign on as an Elemis-only menu offering.