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Joie
de Vie
...the
joy of life
Natural Ingredients and
Holistic Approaches
to Healthy,
Clear, Smooth Skin
Please bear with
us as the web site gets a make over!
Joie de Vie is the web
site we established when the skin care center by the same name was in
downtown Portland. That facility has closed but the products are still sold
online via this web site.
Joy-Marie's
professional experiences began over 35 years ago when she was a make up
artist, styling advertising shoots, working in stores like Nordstrom, I.
Magnin, Lipman & Wolfe in Oregon and California. As a full time
make up artist at Nordstrom for 10 years, she represented Lancome,
Borghese, La Prairie, Prescriptives and more top brands. Her
interests began to focus on skin care and she moved to Los Angeles to
continue her education in that field. After graduating and receiving her
aesthetician's licensing, Joie
de Vie was founded in 1985 as a skin care practice. The name Joie de Vie is now for our
fourteen year old web
catalog. Joie de Vie as a skin care salon closed after
she was injured in a car accident and needed to focus on her recovery
but the web site continued and she became an advocate for consumer
education regarding all the harmful chemicals that were in cosmetic
formulations and the lack of oversight the FDA provided to protect the
public.
Currently we have been working with products developed by a number of
superior cosmetic chemists and aestheticians from around the world, consulting with dermatologists
and naturopathic physicians to form a holistic approach to skin care
practices and products. After all these years we have streamlined
our inventory to the products we've been able to document for superb results in the facial room and
for home-care. When loyal clients move from Portland they
continue to phone and order products expressed to their new
homes. In the facial studio our estheticians only use
certified organic, paraben and fragrance free products. We feature organic skin peels, Microdermabrasion and Ultra Sound/Micro Current
technologies. The founder continues her education in 2010, in Chemistry, Environmental Sciences and Public Health Education while still traveling around the USA
to learn the latest
ingredients, health news, naturopathic and dermatological medicines and aesthetic skin treatment protocols to better serve
our clientele and inform the public. Currently she is doing research
on pharmaceutical and personal care (cosmetics) ingredients that are
contaminating our water. You may not realize this but your local
waste water treatment facility is probably not doing anything about these
potentially harmful ingredients getting back in the streams, rivers and
oceans from your sinks, drains and toilet. Do not flush old make up,
skin care lotions or pills down the toilet or pour them down the
sink. Ask your local trash hauler what to do with them.
Here in Oregon, we are asked to put them in zip lock bags and set them in
the garbage container for pickup. The local landfill service
disposes of them so they don't pollute.
As a skin care/cosmetics retail business in Portland, Oregon, we have been shipping worldwide and delivering
around the Portland metropolitan
area for over 22 years. We have used a secured online
shopping cart, Virtual Cart, for over 15 years and we accept Visa and
MasterCard, processing payment information through secure electronic
technology. We do not buy or sell customer
information. If an online order form looks suspicious we call
the customer and their credit card company to double check so we can do our best to protect
our customers from stolen cards and identity theft. Most mail orders ship within
48 hours of receiving
customer order forms online but occasionally there is a delay as we order
"preservative free" items by request so they arrive to customers
door fresh as possible. In the USA we normally use Priority Mail.
Express Mail will be charged more than the figures on our order form,
which are based on Priority Mail.
We no longer ship outside of the USA due
to the fragility of our chemical free products and the continuing nuisance
of credit card fraud and mail theft.
Some products are hand made in a
FDA Certified, specialty lab so once in awhile there is a delay in shipping.
ALL SALES ARE
FINAL. We do not accept returned merchandise. If you are have
not tried our brands before and feel sensitivities or allergies might be an
issue, we suggest you see a retail location in your area to try products
out. Our web site is a courtesy and convenience for customers that
already enjoy and benefit from the brands we feature.
We are a retail
establishment and do not sell wholesale to other businesses.
Organic
and medicinal plant extracts and pharmaceutical grade botanical and mineral ingredients are used for
our skin care products and our
color cosmetics items are allergy tested. We feature products
developed by leading dermatologists, pharmacists and internationally known
cosmetic chemists. We led the industry in therapeutic grade organic,
preservative free skin care brands 20 years ago. It is a fact that
some of our vendors use some ingredients that are not certified organic
and some are developed in labs. We try to document all the
ingredients for every product on our web site. If you have a
question, email an aesthetician.
Our Covalence and Skintinu
brands are manufactured by an FDA Certified Lab that is recognized for cutting
edge technology in cosmetic and health care products and patented
formulas. We have lead the industry in retailing cosmeceutical skin
care products with formulas that include Beta Glucosamine, Resveratrol, Chirally Correct formulations, L-Arbutin, Polydatin, Spin Trap,
Epidermal Growth Factor, Palmitoyl Pentapeptide 3, Soy, Wild Yam and other
innovations. We
carry 100% natural Jane Iredale Mineral Make Up products - "where make up meets skin
care" for the treatment of sensitive and reactive complexion problems
and sunscreen in every product, even lipstick. We specialize in the treatment of
chronic problems like
rosacea, keratosis pilaris, melasma, age
spots, post inflammatory hyper pigmentation, eczema, psoriasis, acne, menopause related complexion problems,
diabetes skin care, sun damage and smokers skin. Peruse our
site for a variety of articles and current news items regarding health and
skin, beginning with Sun Protection.
 Aesthetician
Joy-Marie
applying a facial treatment.
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In her aesthetics practice, Ms. Peterson has
been working with alpha and beta-hydroxy acids and light
chemical peels for over 25 years, providing clients with safe and
effective skin resurfacing procedures.
Since 1998 she has
performed Microdermabrasion as well, developing a specialty practice
using the Ultra Peel from Italy. In 2000 she added the Ultra
Sonic Rejuvenation to her
services, using ultra sound technology to improve the look, feel and
health of skin.
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