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A few passing clouds. Low 62F. Winds WSW at 10 to 20 mph..

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Photo courtesy of Skin Experts

Skin Experts facial spa is located on Balfour Road in Brentwood.

Photo courtesy of Skin Experts

Skin Experts facial spa is located on Balfour Road in Brentwood.

Skin Experts opened in June, and the facial spa has been welcomed by East County residents.

The company opened the spot as the first of what it hopes will be many to showcase its hemp oil-based product line, Qul Beauty.

“We founded this company to be innovative and cutting edge, with all the greatest ingredients from around the world,” said Tom Schmidt, president and CEO. “We use hemp oil as some of our main ingredients.”

Schmidt said Brentwood was chosen for the first site not for convenience – the company is based in San Diego – but because of its proximity to Shelley Hancock, chief beauty officer and world-renown aesthetician. Hancock has owned multiple spas, and mentors aestheticians all over the country. She has hired and trained all of the aestheticians at Skin Experts and said she loves Schmidt’s Qul Beauty line and believes in its efficacy.

“I’ve been in the industry so long and seen so much and tried so many product lines,” Hancock said. “There’s just so much, that when they called and told me about their product line, I wasn’t that excited, but I said ‘Go ahead and send them to me.’ When they came, the presentation was beautiful.”

Hancock said the product was as good as the wrapping and began to try it on her clients, who also loved it.

“You don’t get the ‘wow’ factor often,” she said.

Skin Experts offers a variety of facials – they offer the entire line of take-home Qul Beauty products – and all new customers get one free facial.

“Until the Brentwood spot, we just sold our skin care line,” Schmidt said. “We really saw the benefit of hemp oil … during COVID, looking at our strategy, we thought we had this incredible skin care line and would like to have our own spas to handle it.”

Schmidt said his company is vertically integrated (streamlining its operations by taking direct ownership of production stages rather than relying on external contractors or suppliers), manufacturing and packaging its skin care products in California, and looking to open more spas now that the Brentwood location is up and running.

Another perk from the spa is beauty technology.

“In the industry, I’m known as the ‘machine queen’ or the ‘gadget guru,’” Hancock said. “I’m into equipment and we use high-tech equipment most spas don’t offer. To bring that to the game without charging an arm and a leg is really incredible.”

Skin Experts is at 2261 Balfour Road, Suite A, in Brentwood. For more information, call 925-390-5505 or visit www.skinexperts.com.

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