New Face Polish

The re-formulated Face Polish is now suited to all types of skin. Whether you have oily, dry, normal or a combination of these, it will gently scrub away those dead skin cells leaving your skin soft and smooth.

Face Polish is a creamy wash off cleanser containing gentle almond oil and olive esters along with cleansing castor seed oil. Powdered bamboo juice and Rhassoul Clay provide very fine exfoliating granules that won't tear at your skin like ground apricot kernel or ground walnut shell that some commercial scrubs contain.

Rhassoul Clay has been used for centuries as a soap, shampoo and skin conditioner. The finest spas across the globe currently utilize it for the therapeutic benefits.
It is mined beneath the Atlas Mountains in Morocco and it must be extracted under extremely special conditions. When first mined it appears as a polished brown, soap-like clay, chunky in appearance. After further natural refinement the end product is smooth.
Rhassoul Clay's most impressive properties in skin improvement are its capacity of absorption and adsorption due to its high level of ion exchange.
Clinical studies conducted in two different facilities in the US evaluated Rhassoul use for skin conditions.
The results of this study revealed:

• Reduces dryness (79%)
• Reduces flakiness (41%)
• Improves skin clarity (68%)
• Improves skin elasticity/firmness (24%)
• Improves skin texture (106%)
• Removes surface oil and oil from inside and around blocked pores 
• Removes dead skin layers, resulting in general smoothing of the surface skin.

It is for these reasons that I've incorporated this wonderful natural product into Skinflint Face Polish.

You can purchase it now on special for $18 at the Skinflint Online Store

Why Change?

That's the question many people have asked me when I've mentioned that I'm changing my brand name.

The answer is simple, yet will take a little bit of explanation. If you're interested, please read on. If not, just read the last paragraph!

When I originally began researching skin care products, I realised that the big companies were making millions of dollars putting sometimes questionable ingredients into fancy bottles and selling them for high prices. Their advertising budgets were enormous, using film stars as a selling point to promote their products.

In my quest to produce more natural products, using plant based ingredients, I researched a number of 'eco friendly' natural products already on the market. I found that these products, although natural and plant based, had very little in them that was of any benefit to the skin. They were little more than plant oil, water and emulsifier.

My formulation experiments included more advanced ingredients, such as the big companies were using, but in a natural base like the eco friendly companies. My ultimate aim was to educate my customers to ignore the fancy packaging and glossy magazine ads and look at the ingredients. In short, I wanted you all to be more discerning; to get the best value for money products. That's where my name came into being. Skinflint - it had the word 'skin' and its definition loosely meant to be careful with your money. Perfect.

As time has gone on and my loyal customer base were pleased with my products, I continued to research new ingredients. My products became more and more sophisticated with added 'super ingredients' and my customers liked the results they were getting.

Five years on, I look at my formula and I can see that I'm putting a top notch product into, in many cases, basic packaging and basic labelling. I would dearly love to use even more'super ingredients'. But, the fact is, they are very expensive. And so a decision was made to change my branding, making it more upmarket. Bottles and labels will reflect the quality of the product inside them. Innovative and highly regarded ingredients can be incorporated into specialist products such as an anti-aging serum and a repair cream. I don't feel that the brand name Skinflint is in synergy with this sort of product development.

My new brand name is simple and the labelling and packaging is still simple & practical, but stylish at the same time. I would like to have my products standing proud in the front of a hair salon or beautician's shelves, rather than hiding behind all the others. I know my products are good, I use them and love the results. My customers tell me how much they love them. Now, I want them to look great too.

The new brand name and packaging will be revealed in the very place where Skinflint began, my home town of Nyabing. If you'd like to see it and be in the running for a great prize, then come along to the CWA Market Day at the Nyabing Pavilion on Thursday 6th December. Doors open at 9.30 am. Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea is available and is, of course, all home made.
See you there!

Re-Branding

If you've been following me on Facebook, you'll know that I'm changing my brand. The products will remain the same, but will be in different bottles and jars and with a different logo and brand.

I wanted my customers to be skinflints, but with a brand called Skinflint, it sounds like I am!
I've realised that I'm putting top quality expensive products into basic jars and bottles with a cheap sounding brand name.

So, in order to move on and go a little upmarket, I have developed my new name and logo. I will reveal all on my Facebook

I've designed labels, got my logo, getting my website designed and designing business cards. Whew! It's been hectic and exciting.

Regular customers who came to my stand at the Albany Show were given a sneak peek of my logo and labelled jar. All comments were very positive, I'm pleased to say.

I was planning on the 'reveal' in March next year, but due to the fact that I'm introducing some new products and have also run out of labels and containers for some of my products, it looks like it's going to be much, much sooner than that. Total switchover will be later, but the new brand will start appearing on labels shortly.

Keep an eye on my Facebook page for details and a competition to celebrate the launch.