About Us
At GreenBlissEcoSpa, we believe everything in life is connected: people, business, and community. The health of each is dependent on the others. When you are a healthy, vital, and peaceful person, then you are more apt to seek out and insist on those qualities in your home life, your work place, and ultimately the world around you.
To that end, Green Bliss is dedicated to providing our customers an opportunity to renew their spirits and nurture their innate, natural beauty without exposure to the harsh chemicals and invasive procedures practiced by other, more traditional spa service providers.
We strive to use the most ecologically sound methods to treat and educate our clients while keeping pace with the newest trends emerging in the green and holistic lifestyle movement. Equally important is Green Bliss’s dedication to creating and promoting a model for community-based, environmentally responsible business practices.
Our Pledge To You
GreenBlissEcoSpa treatments are always eco- friendly. No parabens, chemical or artificial preservatives, surfactants, or emulisfiers are used in our products or treatments. Our products are:- Organic and sustainably harvested when possible
- From local artisans and craftspeople, from owner-operated, and/or from small business interests
- From vendors who engage in fair trade practices
For Ourselves We:
- Choose products that have minimal and or recycled packaging.
- Buy in bulk to avoid excess packaging and shipping.
- Encourage staff to car-pool or use alternative means of transportation when possible.
- Use as many methods of paperless transactions as possible through the use of email and e-commerce.
- Contribute 1% of gross to organizations which work to promote a healthier, cleaner environment, more compassionate urban life, equality for all people regardless of race, sexual orientation, or gender, and healthier, safer children. We have chosen front-line activist groups who have little or no overhead who make a difference by working in a more focused, streamlined way. See below for our list.
For Our Customers We Encourage & Support:
- Issuing party invitations through on line invitation services such as E-vite to reduce paper usage
- Guests to arrive by carpool/alternative means of transportation
- Re-cycling of empty glass, metal, and plastic containers leftover from the party
GreenBliss EcoSpa Giving Campaign:
The future health of our planet and its people depends on many small but devoted acts that contribute to the larger effort. When you choose to host a Green Bliss Eco Spa party, or when you buy a product from us either in person or through this website, a portion of your purchase goes directly to supporting these organizations. We invite you to learn more about how they serve their community and our world at large, by clicking on the links to their websites.- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center
- Los Angeles Coalition To End Hunger And Homelessness
- Healthy Child Healthy World
Business Affiliations:
- Sustainable Business Council of Los Angeles
- Campaign For Safe Cosmetics: A coalition of public health, educational, religious, labor, women’s, environmental and consumer groups. The goal is to protect the health of consumers and workers by requiring the health and beauty industry to phase out the use of chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and other health problems and replace them with safer alternatives.
A recent study of personal care products (shampoo, skin care cream, shaving lotion, baby powder, etc.) and cosmetics revealed that a third of the 7,500 products assessed contained chemicals that are linked to cancer.
Of the more than 10,000 chemical ingredients in personal care products, 89 percent have not undergone safety testing. Consumers use as many as 25 different personal care/cosmetics products in a day and up to 70% of what is applied to the skin is believed to be absorbed into the body.
Many of these chemicals have found their way into our bodies, our breast milk and our children, and diseases linked to synthetic chemicals - including breast cancer, testicular cancer, and reproductive problems - are on the rise.
To learn more about this issue visit: www.safecosmetics.org
Randi Ragan, Green Living Expert
Now, in addition to running the daily business of GB EcoSpa, Randi currently consults, writes, and speaks about green living, holistic beauty and health. (RecoveryView.com on holistic support for addiction recovery, Hot Mom’s Club.com on green mothering issues, and Health and Wellness for CocoEco Magazine). She has been a featured speaker at the annual BodyWise Conference for teen girls, and regularly speaks at both private and public Los Angeles area schools on “smart beauty” for teenage girls. She has been featured on the NBC program “Your LA” , on the Expert Village website, and in a video segment on Sprig.com. She was a principle organizer and Host speaker at the 2008 Urban Sustainability Retreat and Salon, a panelist at the First Anniversary Conference for Women of the Green Generation, and the Sustainable Business Council’s forum on Green Health & Wellness. She is currently at work on a book about mindful green living from A to Z. Randi’s home and garden was featured in a photo essay for Sprig.com (Washington Post/Newsweek Group) about the greening up process she and her family have engaged in since its purchase 8 years ago. This process includes growing some of the flowers and herbs used in her company’s spa treatments. Thank you so much, Randi! |
Formerly
a documentary filmmaker and writer, Randi spent 12
years in the wellness industry as a yoga and meditation
teacher, lecturer, spiritual retreat leader, and
creator of customized healing ceremonies and rituals
(1994-2006). Her teaching and workshops were featured
at some of Los Angeles’ top yoga studios, and
she regularly counseled industry leaders from the
worlds of entertainment, finance and business, and
seniors’ health care, with her yoga and meditation
techniques. During these years, her work took her
to top retreat centers and spas in Southern California,
Hawaii, and Mexico.
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