Canadian Brands and Making Some Switches
It's a crazy time. When our neighbours to the south have chosen to be lead by a crazy, horrible human being, the impact is quickly being felt. There is always eventually a silver lining! The silver lining is certainly everyone's push to rally behind our government and each other to support Canada and Canadian goods and services.
Six weeks ago, we started to develop our own plan at The Summit.
- We have reached out to further strengthen our relationships with our Canadian brands.
- We developed a special offer from GM Collin (Montreal) to assist our clients save on skin care. (Free travel size cleanser or treating mist with the purchase of a serum or cream).
- We put Canadian flags on all of our Canadian brands in our on-line store.
- We expanded our Kaia Naturals (Toronto) so we could switch our ingrown hair and body pigment products from PFB Vanish (US).
- We added country flags to all of our brands on-line to help people making purchasing decisions.
- We added Renaissance (Quebec) body accessories as we phase out Daily Concepts (US).
- We increased our purchasing of US brands (Jane Iredale, Skinceuticals, Glymed+, HydroPeptide) before the tariffs happen to stabilize pricing for clients.
- We added GMC Medical brand (a division of GM Collin) to add products with very similar composition to some of our US products.
- We are testing process with several Canadian brands to add to our collection and potentially make other switches (nails and body care).
- We have reached out to our US brands - that have Canadian distribution to get support for maintaining prices as much as possible.
- We learned that Skinceuticals - now owned by French company L'Oreal - has plans to move their production to their labs in France to produce Skinceuticals as the need arises. Their annual small price increase in February they held off to see how things would unfold.
- We learned that HydroPeptide is working hard with our Canadian distributor to maintain pricing as long as possible. No changes yet after March 4th tariffs came into effect. Fingers crossed.
- We learned that our Canadian distributor for Jane Iredale (that had a planned price increase for April 1st) has now had to implement an addition price increase for April 1st to reflect the tariffs that were imposed. If you are reading this before April 1st a reminder that our 10% off sale on Jane is in effect until midnight on March 31st! We plan to hold pricing after April 1st until May 1st due to the extra inventory that we purchased to maintain pricing.
- We are reviewing all of our behind the scenes products (laundry, cleaning etc) to insure they are Canadian brands for future purchasing.
- We are reviewing all of the products used in our services and transitioning to Canadian as much as possible.
We are ready to help in whatever changes you wish to make or not make. Drop by, e-mail or call us and we can give you advice on any changes within brands you are wanting to make.
Here are some great switches some of you have already asked about:
Looking for a great Tinted Sunscreen? GM Collin's Tinted SPF 45 that was launched last summer is a huge winner and quickly becoming a client and staff favourite!
Looking for a highly effective Vitamin C Serum? GM Collin's Vital C15 Serum contains 15% Vitamin C plus Ferulic Acid and Camu Camu Extract. This is a powerful anti-oxidant trio and our best selling Vitamin C Serum. Yonka (France) also makes an exceptional all natural Vitamin C Serum (Serum C20) with Vitamin C, Pomegranate and Tumeric.
What is the Best Pigmentation Treatment for home? - GM Collin's new Dark Spot Treatment is the perfect treatment to reduce pigmentation and protect from new pigment development. We are also testing a new cream and serum from Phytomer which contains some of our fave pigment lightening ingredients!
What is a great Canadian Retinol? We have very well formulated retinol creams from GM Collin and GMC Medical that cover the range between .03 and 1.0%.
What about creams and serums with AHA's, Hyaluronic Acid and Argireline and other peptides or A.G.E. regenerators? We have exceptional serums and creams with high % and excellent formulations for all of these skin renewing ingredients in Canadian and French brands.
Here are our current Canadian brands:
