Find Your Inner Glow at Epi Center

Date: November 10, 2008 | Category: Beauty, Featured, Skin Care

After a particularly grueling month of work, I noticed that my staff was starting to look a little bit, well, unwell, and I realized that as a team we all needed a little bit of TLC to get us back on track. There was never a question in my mind that the place for us to all recharge would be the Epi Center MedSpa, the nation’s original medical spa, which has recently given itself a facelift and gone green.

Epi Center has been a trendsetter in the skin rejuvenation industry since it opening a decade ago. It has offered beauty treatments with the expertise of a board certified plastic surgeon since its founding in 1988 by Margaret Mitchell and world-renowned dermatologist Dr. Patrick Bitter Sr., MD (who developed the revolutionary PhotoFacial treatment, the results of which are truly extraordinary!) Today, Epi Center combines its beauty-enhancing medical procedures with 100 percent organic treatments in an eco-friendly environment in sustainable LEED-certified offices at 450 Sutter Street in San Francisco.

I was thrilled to be appointed the “green style police” for the project, helping Margaret ensure that its design adhered to architect and designer William McDonough’s strict “Cradle to Cradle” standards. We chose linens, window treatments and carpets that met his standards (and mine!) and created an environment that is relaxing and environmentally-friendly. The spa is beautiful and my team is (again) too after being treated to the 100 percent organic facial, during which each woman’s skin was assessed and treated individually with the spa’s Eminence organic skin care line, which uses natural ingredients like yams and plums to do the work instead of chemicals.

Afterwards, some of us were treated to makeovers with the spa’s line of mineral makeup, Minerologie and we all left looking and feeling very different than when we entered.

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