Grapeseed Co. Skincare : Fresh from the Vineyard to Your Face

Here at The Grapeseed Company, we source local wine waste as the antioxidant rich base of our entire product line. Fall marks harvest season in the wine world, which means we collaborate with wineries up and down the California and Oregon coast to source red wine grapeseeds. This morning, my friend and Whole Foods Market Forager, Stacey, and I drove up to the Santa Ynez Valley to visit Bernat Winery and Vineyard for a grapeseed pickup.

Here's a peek inside our day and a little behind the scenes view of how we bring your fresh, vineyard to face organic skincare and bath products!

Here I am on the Bernat Vineyard grounds, checking out the grapes...

Meanwhile, Sam and his team have been pressing off syrah grapes this morning,

and have created this wine waste from the process of squeezing
juice from the grape.

The red wine seeds are amazing for your skin! They are concentrated with potent antioxidants and a powerful polyphenol, called resveratrol, that are the base of our product line at The Grapeseed Co. 

We take the wine waste back to our facility in downtown Santa Barbara, and go through a process of prepping the seeds for use in over 100 different skin care, bath, body, soap, hair care, men's skin care and baby products.

 

Harvest Crush Syrah Wine Soap

Bernat Winery is owned by Sam and Shawnda Marmorstein, who also own the delicious Los Olivos Cafe and Wine Merchant (a must stop in Los Olivos!) You can find Grapeseed Co. products at The Los Olivos Wine Merchant, and in the lovely vacation rentals they have on their vineyard... 

  

 

check out the gorgeous view! Plus a peek inside one of the vineyard cottages, where you will find this comfy bed looking out on the view above

...and the bathrooms stocked with Grapeseed Co. products!

Stacey and I having a little selfie fun in the mirror :)

 It's pretty neat to see full circle, the source of the products right outside the window. This soap is literally made with the seeds from
the vineyard you are staying at.

 

How cool is that?!

Grapeseed Co. Clear Skin & Mind Set Gifted at Primetime Emmy's GBK Gift Lounge

The Grapeseed Company Brings Wine-Based Vinotherapy Skincare Line to GBK’s Primetime Emmy Gift Lounge

The Grapeseed Company (thegrapeseedcompany.com) will have its Clear Skin & Mind Gift Set included in The Artisan Group® press bags for GBK's Gift Lounge Honoring the Primetime Emmy Nominees and Presenters. The event takes place August 22-23 at an exclusive location in Beverly Hills.

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Clear Skin & Mind Gift Set from The Grapeseed Company.

...relax, unwind and get your skin glowing!

Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) August 19, 2014

Santa Barbara-based The Grapeseed Company (http://www.thegrapeseedcompany.com) will participate in GBK’s Gift Lounge honoring the Primetime Emmy Nominees and Presenters, in association with The Artisan Group®, where its Clear Skin and Mind Gift Set will be gifted to members of the press stopping by The Artisan Group exhibit. The by-invitation-only Gift Lounge takes place August 22-23 at an exclusive location in Beverly Hills, California.*
The gifted travel-size duo ($32.00 at thegrapeseedcompany.com) includes a 1 oz. Rose & Grape Serum and a .25 oz. Clear Headed Roller Treatment. Rose & Grape Serum is an all-time The Grapeseed Company favorite, perfect for targeting pesky lines on any skin type. Clear Headed is a new, natural way to relieve a cloudy head; just roll on pulse points at the wrists and temples.
The Rose & Grape Serum is a luxurious, rich 100% plant-derived serum formulated to feed delicate facial skin. Antioxidant rich organic rosehip and grapeseed oils are blended with hydrating jojoba and healing carrot seed to help diminish fine lines and wrinkles, promote cellular renewal and rejuvenate dehydrated, aging and sun-exposed skin.
Clear Headed Rollerball Treatment, with peppermint, lavender and grapeseed, has a cooling metal rollerball to apply the relaxing, essential oil blend to pulse points. Offering wonderful aromatherapy benefits, Clear Headed is a great antidote for stress and headaches, and enhances deep breathing moments.
“This is an amazing organic skincare set that lets you relax and unwind and get-your-skin-glowing,” noted The Grapeseed Company founder and CEO Kristin Fraser. “We think it will be perfect for celebrities dealing with the bustling award season in Hollywood.”
The Clear Skin and Mind Gift set is vegan, paraben and gluten free and tested on people, not animals.
The Grapeseed Company organic skin care, hair care and home ambiance products are handmade in small batches from antioxidant rich red wine grape seeds and skins upcycled from the byproduct of the local California wine industry. The Grapeseed Company also offers an eco-friendly pet care line, Dirty Dog Organics, formulated with strictly natural ingredients and free of parabens, sulfates and phthalates.
Founded in 2004, The Grapeseed Company is the first U.S.A. based company to take local wine waste and turn it into natural, anti-aging skin care products. In 2013, it received Savor The Success’s Fastest Growing Company of the Year award.
Kristin is acknowledged for her innovative approach to creating skincare products and has been featured on MariaShriver.com as an “Architect of Change.” She recently spoke in Barcelona, Spain, at the largest cosmetic conference in the world, about creating a niche business in the beauty industry.
The Grapeseed Company team operates a retail store in downtown Santa Barbara, California, along with a wholesale business that supplies spas, Whole Foods and other high end retailers. The company has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Health Magazine, LA Times, Vogue and others. Read more The Grapeseed Company press.
To learn more about The Grapeseed Company, contact Kristin Fraser by email. Follow the company on Facebook (FB.com/thegrapeseedcompany), Twitter (@grapeseedco), Instagram (@grapeseedo), and Pinterest (@grapeseedco). View its 2014 catalog here.
For press inquiries regarding The Artisan Group, visit theartisangroup.org.
*This event is not affiliated with the Primetime Emmy show; The Grapeseed Company is not in any way affiliated with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
ABOUT THE GRAPESEED COMPANY & KRISTIN FRASER
Kristin Fraser is the founder and CEO at The Grapeseed Company (http://www.thegrapeseedcompany.com) creating botanical beauty from wine made fresh in Santa Barbara, California. The Grapeseed Co.’s bath & body products are made from the finest quality natural and organic ingredients to feed the skin. Every product created by The Grapeseed Co. is paraben and sulfate free and fragranced with intoxicating blends of pure essential oils and fruit and plant essences.
The Grapeseed Company’s niche products and unique business model have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Health, The LA Times, Shape, Women’s Health, Edible Magazine and more.

Join us in Downtown Santa Barbara for May 1st Thursday

Swing by the store to pick up your May First Thursday Passport today!

Enjoy *FREE* mineral makeup makeovers with our new, affordable, effective line, Everyday Minerals!

 

WE ARE LOCATED AT:

21 W ORTEGA ST

DOWNTOWN SANTA BARBARA

CALIFORNIA

How does The Grapeseed Co. turn wine waste into organic skin care?

We often are asked, "How do you create botanical beauty
from the byproduct of wine?"

   

Watch how we turn local, antioxidant rich red wine waste into amazing natural skin care, right here in Santa Barbara, California!

VISIT THE GRAPESEED COMPANY STORE & SCENT BAR

21 W. ORTEGA STREET

in DOWNTOWN SANTA BARBARA

HOURS

MONDAY - FRIDAY 10:30-6pm

SATURDAY 10:30-5pm

Join us at Whole Foods for Chocolate & Rose Spa treatments & Port tasting at the Bar

You're invited to spa, chocolate & port 

night at Whole Foods in Santa Barbara

  Join us this Friday at 5PM for some Valentine's inspired fun after work! Our founder and formulator, Kristin, will be at the bar teaching you how to make a luxurious chocolate body scrub right at home. Create your own spa treatment by combining this recipe with The Grapeseed Company's decadent, water-free, vinotherapy moisturizing lotions and whipped body butters.

Taste locally made port wines and chocolates from Paso Robles while you watch Kristin's live demo, and take home a some of what she whips up for your own spa treatment at home (free of charge!)

WHERE: 

Whole Foods Market 

The Buzz Hive Bar

3761 State Street Santa Barbara

WHEN: 

Friday Feb. 7th 2014 

from 5 to 6 PM

Cheers, we look forward to seeing you Friday!

NEW RELEASE! vineyard rose glycolic peel

One of the best kept secrets for keeping aging skin looking fresh and beautiful is deep exfoliation. This vinotherapy glycolic peel can be used weekly to brighten and renew your grapeseed glow. Enjoy the benefits of our new rose glycolic peel with 5% glycolic acid for professional exfoliation, combined with the anti-aging power of resveratrol, from grapeseeds. The deluxe kit includes fan brush for professional application at home + grapeseed oil sample for use after the glycolic treatment.

 $30.00

BUY IT HERE!

 anti~aging skincare from the vine™

click here to see all of our new releases!  

NEW RELEASE: vino crush face + body polish

 Exfoliate, detoxify and cleanse with our new 
Vino Crush Face + Body Polish 
made with fresh wine country ingredients. Your skin will love our vinotherapy brown sugar scrub created with local red wine grapeseeds, crushed lavender buds and fluffy organic brown sugar, plus detoxifying rhassoul & purifying kaolin clays. 100% natural formula safe for face & body use, with a natural earthy, delicious wine country scent. (no additional essential oil or fragrance is added to this product)

 
3oz $16.00

10oz $40.00

ORDER HERE!

NEW Release: VINO LUX wine infused bath salts

VINO LUX | wine infused bath salts

This potent blend contains 4 exotic, purifying salts: Himalayan Pink Salt, Dead Sea Salt, Pacific Sea Salt & Epsom Salt to cleanser and soothe your skin. Infused with antioxidant rich grapeseeds from wine country, omega fatty acid rich argan oil and local honey. Indulge in bath bliss with vinotherapy luxury… just like a day at the spa in wine country. Available in summer crisp chardonnay and pinot dreams

12oz VINO LUX wine infused bath salts $18.00 ORDER NOW! 

Introducing VINO LUX spa line by The Grapeseed Co.

VINO LUX | the fruitful bounty of local harvests, exotic ingredients & our delicious vineyard essential oils blends. Experience antioxidant rich spa vinotherapy with grapeseed, argan and avocado

Click here to check out all of our new items from the VINO LUX line

Featured Retailer: Wax'd

Our next featured retailer takes us all the way to Mandeville, Louisiana! Wax'd is one of our newest wholesale partners. The Grapeseed Company joined their treatment menu and retail space in late 2012.  We are honored to have partnered with such a great company. Founders Brett & Michelle White are very passionate about what they do! If ever you are in the Mandeville area you must stop in for a wax or other specialty treatment.  Brett filled us in on what Wax'd has to offer and what makes them unique.

1. Tell us about your store?  Wax’d is a Full Body Waxing & Esthetics salon for men & women. We also offer chemical peels, diamond-tip microdermabrasion, deep cleansing facials, massage therapy, & airbrush spray tans.  

2. What makes your store unique/different?  Wax’d is “The Anti-Day Spa, Day Spa”!!  When we decided to open Wax’d, we wanted to make sure that the services come first!  Wax’d offers all of the services without the typical snobby attitude most salons have.  Wax’d is set up to be relaxing and comfortable, while allowing our guests to have a good time & enjoy themselves.The products that we offer for retail are all natural & as organic as possible!  This is VERY important to us, & our guests! We really did a lot of research before introducing any products to our guests.  The products have to compliment the guests experience & they need to be unique to Wax’d.

3. How have you taken initiative to become a greener business?  Our main focus is to only use natural & organic products with all of our services, wherever possible.  We have also recently upgraded our online booking & point of sale systems to be able to email our guest a copy of their invoice, & even send text messages for appointment conformations & follow-ups.

4. What is your best selling Grapeseed product?  It would have to be a pretty close (3) way tie between the Summer Crisp Chardonnay Soap, Vanilla Almond Cinnamon Massage/Bath Oil, & Lemon Cake Sugar Scrub!  Our guests LOVE all (3) of these!! 

                   founder Michelle White beside a lovely display of Grapeseed Co products at Wax'd

5. What is your personal favorite The Grapeseed Co product? We have just added the Coco Cabernet mask to our back bar, for our facials.  I had the opportunity to experience this amazing product first hand. Simply put...I LOVE IT!! Michelle LOVES the Fresh Cut Herbs Body Lotion, & Alishia, our other esthetician, LOVES the Lemon Cake Sugar Scrub!!

Book an appointment:

Brett & Michelle White (Founders)

Wax’d

1675 Hwy 190

Mandeville, LA 70448

985.778.2005

www.WaxdBody.com

office@waxdbody.com

Wax’d - Mandeville on FB

Wax’d is open Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm

Featured Retailer: Oreana Winery

We continue our spotlight on The Grapeseed Company's wholesale partners... We're kicking off the year with a "Cheers" to Oreana Winery & Tasting Room.  Oreana is a valued wholesale partner who has been with us from the beginning and is also one of our neighbors here in Santa Barbara. If you get an opportunity to wine taste while you're in town, you must visit Oreana!  They have a great indoor/outdoor tasting room located in the heart of the Santa Barbara's Urban Wine Trail (aka Funk Zone).  Tasting Room Manager, Kimberlee McCoy, explains the uniqueness of this fabulous winery...

1.  Tell us about your Winery?

The old Bob Woolever’s Tire Shop was vacant and abandoned, looking like a scar in the downtown “Funk Zone.” Christian Garvin swung by one night on the way to dinner and thought the space looked mighty enticing.  The tire shop had some great winemaking attributes including lots of electric power, concrete floors and a brick structure that is ideal for climate control and barrel storage.

Nearly eight years later, the winery is known for two things – great wines and fabulous parties.  From small batches of Pinot Noir to our sizable Red Table Wine, Oreana has a wine for everyone.  Current production is about 10,000 cases.

Stop by for wine tasting, wine by the glass, and music on the patio on the weekends! Bring your friends and family and have a good time! 

2. What makes your Winery unique/different? 
Where to begin… We are never too busy to have a good time and all that time spent listening to the grape press and waiting for wine to age gives us lots of opportunities to come up with weird ideas for parties. Previous celebrations have included: Cinema in the Cellar featuring Jaws & King Kong, an Evening of Sea Shanty talent show, The Beaver Moon Harvest Party, the annual RocktoberFest concert series, Wieners & Wine Hot Dog extravaganza, and one time a guy just played the bagpipes. It was standing room only…

We are also available for private events.  Please contact Christina at 805-962-5857 x2 or christina@oreanawinery.com to book your event.

3. How have you taken initiative to become a greener business?
 Stating the obvious first, we recycle all corks and bottles as we pour through them.  Also, we use empty bottles and corks for new products.  In our tasting room we sell cork boards and candles that are made out of our wine bottles. On sunny days, we keep the big doors open for light to save electricity.

4.  What is your best selling Grapeseed product? 
The Surf Body Lotion 4oz. is our best selling Grapeseed product.  It is a great scent for men and women.  The 4oz. bottle is perfect for traveling and we see a lot of out-of-towners in our tasting room.  The lotion works well and makes skin feel moisturized and soft.

5.  What is your personal favorite Grapeseed product? 
My favorite Grapeseed product is the seasonal lip balm.  It comes in great flavors and is very soothing for chapped lips.  I especially like the sunshine day scent, however, all of them are delightful. 

Visit Oreana Winery! 
205 Anacapa St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805-962-5857

open: Monday - Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday - Sunday 11am - 6pm 
www.oreanawinery.com 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/OreanaWineryTastingRoom 
Twitter: @OreanaWinery

Featured Retailer: VINO + THERAPY STUDIO

 We could all use a little R & R around the holidays...   

The Grapeseed Company has a great idea on how to do this!  Book yourself an appointment at Vino+Therapy Studio.  This spa is a real treat for wine lovers! Ahhhh....

Patty (Kristin's mom) and Nena (owner, Vino + Therapy Studio)

 

We are happy to end this year by featuring one of our fabulous wholesale partners,
Vino + Therapy Studio in Atascadero, CA.  They not only sell products from The Grapeseed Company in their retail boutique, but also use our products in their spa treatments.  Owner Nena Benson gives us the scoop on this fun & luxurious spa.

1.  Tell us about your Spa?

As the only full service wine therapy day spa on the Central Coast, we’ve tried to provide a wide selection of services that exhibit the healing and rejuvenating properties of wine used during the beautification process. Our services range from the simple to extravagant and are meant to accommodate a wide range of needs and wants. As we like to say, " Come Get Pampered by the Vine, While drinking dam fine local wines!"

2. What makes your Spa unique/different?

We are positive you’ve never seen a Day Spa quite like this on the Central Coast before – we guarantee it! Check out all that we have to offer the wine enthusiast who also loves to be pampered. We are bringing Italy here but at a fraction of the costs:) 

 3. How have you taken initiative to become a greener business?  
As some of you may know, Wine therapy, also referred to as Vinotherapie or Vinoterapia in Italian, has received much attention in Tuscany and other European Countries. Bringing this concept to the Western U.S. is new. When applied topically, studies have proven extensive benefits. These Grape seeds, stems and skins  (which is what the wine makers throw away) all contain high quantities of powerful antioxidants, minerals, pectic, sugars, tannins and vitamins that are fundamental to the skin’s well being. We only use products that are organic & has the byproduct of wine making. One of our favorite lines is the Grapeseed Company! Our signature wine foot soaks are created with corked wine, and whatever extra herbs that are in season. We use organic cleansers while cleaning the spa.   

4. What is your best selling Grapeseed product? 
The Vino Gel cleanser & The Serums! TRY THEM & YOU WILL FIND OUT WHY!!!! Amazing......

 Kristin and Anna (Kristin's sister)

This is a fabulous wine therapy treatment, all the way around and 
a wonderful place to bring loved ones. We'll be back!

~ Kristin Fraser Cotte ~ Founder + CEO The Grapeseed Company

 

5. What is your personal favorite Grapeseed product?

I love love love the Grapeseed Serums! It's a must in my life & it should be in your too! Being a medical Aestitcian, I have used many products. Some natural & some not so much. This serum is a keeper for preventive aging & dehydration of the skin.

 Visit Vino+Therapy Studio!

5990 Entrada Ave Atascadero, CA 

(5 short miles from Paso Robles Wine Country ) 

805-466-8466 (vino) 

http://www.vinotherapystudio.com/

12 days of xmas savings: Mojito Man daily essentials $26

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 TODAY ONLY: 

Wednesday December 12, 2012

CLICK HERE to grab the 

Mojito Man daily essentials

for just $26! 

Combo of 2 bestsellers in our Mojito Man line, the full size vitamin packed shave gel & body wash with our special mojito essential oil blend to help prevent ingrown hairs. It comes wrapped up in a sheer fabric reusable gift bag complete with a nice loofah mitt to bring some "mojito manliness" to your daily routine! It makes a great gift for any guy!

Check out the rest of the 12 Days of Christmas Savings 
special offers here! Or visit our  
Deal of the Day to see what product you can save on.

cheers!

12 days of xmas savings: Dirty Dog Organics freshen' up kit $14

12 Days of Christmas Savings

 TODAY ONLY: 

  Monday December 10, 2012

CLICK HERE to grab the 

Dirty Dog Organics freshen' up kit

for just $14! 

Dirty Dog essentials...this cute little set includes an adorable paw print sheer bag (you can reuse for treats!) filled with our fabulous "Doggie Deodorant" 2oz fur freshener and 2oz itch & ouch balm.

Check out the rest of the 12 Days of Christmas Savings 
special offers here! Or visit our  
Deal of the Day to see what product you can save on.

cheers!