Elemis is the leading luxury British spa and skincare brand favoured by over 5.7 million spa-goers every year. The successful combination of natural active ingredients with cutting-edge technology has enabled Elemis to bring to market some of the most influential anti-ageing products and professional spa-therapies the beauty industry has ever seen.

Elemis is the leading luxury British spa and skincare brand favoured by over 4 million spa-goers every year. The successful combination of natural active ingredients with cutting-edge technology has enabled Elemis to bring to market some of the most influential anti-ageing products and professional spa-therapies. Elemis professional spa-therapies and products are available through an elite network of over 1000 spas and salons around the world such as the Elemis day-spa flagships in London, Miami and Hong Kong.

Led by its award-winning efficacy trialled anti-ageing and Skincare range, Elemis’ formulations are designed to dynamically treat the skin with powerful results. The carefully crafted relationship between natural ingredients and scientific advances allows Elemis to create multi-active formulations to ensure maximum therapeutic activity. Developed first and foremost for professional treatments guarantees depth and reliability in every product, ensuring that lifestyle concerns can be dynamically addressed in spa and at home.

Through innovation and constant evolution, Elemis’ goal is to constantly strive for new discoveries in medicinal skin science. Elemis is a way of living and is embracing the ever-changing needs of today’s hectic lifestyles.

philosophy

With every new product launched and every spa-therapy performed, Elemis’ goal is to address specific skin and body conditions using potent formulations that dynamically treat the skin with powerful results.
Elemis has four key principles that are core to its philosophy:

Defined by nature

Elemis is committed to understanding the earth’s natural resources, continuing to source the latest ground-breaking active ingredients. Nature has a powerful affinity with the skin and when combined with technology it can achieve everything we need for phenomenal skincare and anti-ageing results. Elemis never compromise on quality and quantity of actives and remains a range that can be trusted for integrity, purity and efficacy.

Led by science

Elemis invests in cutting-edge technology to find breakthrough development techniques, which can be used to draw the most active ingredients from natural resources. It is this relationship between nature and science that allows Elemis to create multi-active, efficacy trialled formulations to ensure maximum therapeutic activity in every product. Elemis’ determination to find the ‘next generation’ in medicinal skin science ensures that the brand continues to meet the ever-changing needs of the client.

Treatment led

Elemis’ unique point of difference is that every product is created for professional treatments first and foremost. This enables Elemis to gain feedback from their therapists, the laboratory and independent professional bodies before launching into the retail arena. Elemis call this its ‘playground of development’ where maturity can sometimes take up to three years. Once launched as a homecare product, it is guaranteed to offer the most effective, professional results.

A personalised lifestyle prescription

Elemis sees every customer as an individual; no two programmes of skin, body and lifestyle management will ever be the same. Daily routine and the environment we live in constantly change and can directly affect long-term results. Personal and unique, Elemis looks to build and develop its customer through awareness and understanding. Using therapist intuition and new technology, such as facial mapping, empowers Elemis to give realistic and definitive expectations.

Elemis products do contain:

• Medical grade and real therapeutic quantities of actives
• Active natural bases to ensure maximum benefit
• Organic extracts
• First extraction pure Essential Oils, distilled from fresh plant material
• Natural emulsifiers and skin softening emollients

Elemis products avoid:

• Animal testing
• Animal derived collagen
• The use of synthetic perfumes and colouring
• High levels of synthetic detergents and preservatives
• Mineral Oil, Alcohol and Silicones for improved texture
• Genetically modified crops

Research & Development

“We start with an idea, we create a vision, we believe in our vision and we make it happen”

Elemis invests heavily in clinical trials, research and development. Its scientists continually strive for new discoveries in medicinal skin science, focusing on finding cutting-edge technologies to enable Elemis to unearth and formulate the most active ingredients from nature.

Every new product goes through a rigorous research and development programme. From day one, the concept of the product is challenged to ensure it answers the brief, pushes the boundaries of skincare and delivers real results, beyond expectation.

From field to face, Elemis scientifically controls every aspect of the product formulation, ensuring quality, efficacy and exceptional integrity. From the seeds selected and the type of soil, to the selection of extraction process – Elemis ensures that all formulations have maximum therapeutic activity. Natural ingredients provide every resource necessary for creating powerful products that can truly benefit and enhance the skin.

With every new product created, Elemis has five core principles they abide by during research and development.

Ingredient integrity

Every ingredient Elemis uses in its formulations must have medical grade actives of real therapeutic activity. Elemis is seen as the most innovative leader in advanced phyto-therapy and aroma-therapeutic spa and skincare formulations. In many products on the market, the synthetic base of a formulation will simply be used because it feels pleasant on the skin with no therapeutic benefit. The base makes up a large proportion of the product, so Elemis insists that it too must have a positive natural impact on the skin, either to nourish, protect or to help other ingredients penetrate deep down.

All ingredients are derived where possible from organic extracts, revolutionary Absolutes, first extraction pure Essential Oils, natural emulsifiers, skin softening emollients, medicinal herbs and clinically proven collagen boosting Seaweed extracts, transferring the purest form of living energy to your skin.

Proven results

Every product created must achieve a purpose with proven efficacy. Whether for fighting high colour, minimising wrinkles or helping to reduce dark circles, the product must achieve what it promises.

Elemis never enters into focus trials or the battle of percentages as it is commonly known i.e. 99% of women felt their skin looked smoother. Instead Elemis invests heavily in independent clinical trials to see the physical effect on the skin whilst using the product, which is much more accurate and realistic.

In all independent clinical trials, products must achieve a ‘statistically significant’ effect on the skin, otherwise they will go back into re-formulation and re-efficacy trials. Elemis genuinely believes that if the product has no affect whilst in use then it cannot be launched into the market – the proof is in Elemis’ customer results and feedback which are constantly monitored.

Cutting-edge technology

Elemis strives to find the newest, most effective techniques to keep pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved from natural skincare. Recently, Elemis came across the powerful benefits of collagen boosting seaweeds farmed off the coast of Malta and the patent pending Tri-Enzyme technology for the state-of-the-art Resurfacing Range. Elemis never settles for copycat formulations, it always looks to take the lead in the most innovative formulations.

Exploring all aspects of nature with new discoveries in the field of Vitamins, Minerals, Marine and plant medicinal therapy, Elemis offers something as close to nature as possible – with maximum results. In addition Elemis has devised computerised lifestyle programming and clinical imaging that helps therapists understand individual skin deep down. Every discovery keeps moving the brand forward, whilst delivering optimum results.

Environmental awareness and responsibility

Elemis uses the finest ingredients from nature but never takes resources that are endangered, that would damage their environment through removal or take precious plant matter that would affect local communities. Rare or protected plants are not harvested from their native environment but grown in France and harvested under control. Plants are harvested once a year allowing small animals to live and thus participate in the biodiversity of the environment.

ISO 14001 certification of the manufacturing division of Elemis ensures environmental responsibility such as: optimisation of waste handling and 75% recycling rate (plant residue used as fertilizer, plastic recycling). A new system of water recycling, 'Phytorestauration', is being implemented where water used for tank cleansing is now recycled in filtering gardens, preserving the eco-system. This innovative system is only made with natural plant resources, no chemical or physical treatment. Each plant used has a targeted action to fix pollutants and act as filters. For instance: Iris’ are used as a filter to treat Phosphor or Nitrogen, Reeds are used for the degradation of organic matter, finishing with Bamboo and Willow filters. The division is currently working on a new approach (ecoconception) which will include the manufacturing process, as well as the full life-cycle of the product (for instance drums must be recyclable).

Never compromise on quality

Elemis formulates only with the ultimate in ingredients and never settles for second best. The laboratory uses the finest ingredients and the first extraction from distilled plant material.

Many Essential Oils on the market may use up to the fifth extraction. This means that at each stage of extraction the effectiveness of the product is diminished and becomes simply a marketing claim and ingredient listing. This is much cheaper of course but has little or no therapeutic effect.

Addressing specific skin and body conditions, the unique and potent formulations dynamically treat the skin with powerful results, whilst re-awakening the senses.

With these principles in mind at every stage, Elemis continues to produce products that are the first of their kind and that guarantee maximum therapeutic activity. Elemis formulates to perfection, formulates with activity and formulates for results.