THANN is THE NEXT BIG THING

We, at THANN, have been featured in countless of magazines before and each one of them is very exciting in its own right. But, we are absolutely thrilled about the NEXT BIG THING MAGAZINE's 2011 Fall edition as it not only boasts of Canada's top designers (Ottawa's very own David McCaffrey gets a well-deserved mention), the Ottawa Fashion Week and the Royal Queens of Fashion but guess what?

THANN gets a full-page feature via the most anticipated section!! The Beauty Editorial!

These THANN products were hand picked, put to the test, scrutinized and have been given the seal of approval by the magazine's Beauty Editor - Afia Agyeman! What indeed is the best way to welcome the fall season but by preparing your body, mind and soul using the best of the best in skincare and beauty - THANN.

Check out the NEXT BIG THING MAGAZINE's

CONFESSIONS OF A BEAUTY EDITOR

In honour of this privilege in being featured in one of Canada's most Fashion and Beauty forward magazine, THANN Skincare is having an Exclusive Sale!!! We are giving back to our loyal and new customers by offering a BIG 25% discount on ALL THANN Products featured above! In-store and online.

Mention or enter promo code: NEXTBIGTHINGMAG.

Call us biased but we think THANN is ALREADY THE BIG THING!! 

Editor's (and Owner's) Note: We would like to thank Ola George, Editor and Afia Agyeman, Beauty Editor of Next Big Thing Magazine. What an absolute thrill and pleasure to be given such an honour!

FALLin' IN LOVE with THANN

THANN for a Beautiful Fall

With fall comes many things: the changing color of the leaves, putting away summer clothes, packing up from vacations, heading back to work or school and for many of us, planning new and beautiful ways to spend the fall like prepping and beautifying your skin and body!

To show our love and appreciation to our loyal customers and to welcome our new ones, we are offering a HUGE THANN Fall Welcome discount! A incredible 20% OFF sale is being held today and tomorrow only.

Why not use this sale to stock up on your most beloved items or try new products you’ve been thinking about? This is the perfect time to prepare your body, soul and mind for this season, and THANN is here to help you achieve exactly.

Now, here's some ideas on how to treat yourself (or a loved one) with THANN’s Exclusive 20% off sale:

Try a travel set

THANN has Oriental Essence, Aromatic Wood and Sea Foam travel sets, each containing: shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, rice extract body milk and bath and massage oil. If you’ve been thinking about trying new products, this is an easy way to test new ones. This would also make a great gift for the frequent traveler or gym goer in your life.



Seafoam Exotic Travel Set



Aromatic Wood Exotic Travel Set

Oriental Essence Exotic Travel Set 

Refresh your skin

Many of us are guilty of spending too much time in the sun, neglecting to wear sunscreen or have jobs that keep us outside all day long. Fall is the perfect time to repair your skin and get it ready for winter. The Detoxifying face mask absorbs toxins and helps clean up your pores. The cucumber and rose extracts keep your skin calm, clean and nourished. The Shiso Facial Cleanser will leave your skin feeling refreshed and clean, while also removing excess oil.

Love your body

As you prepare for what fall and winter will bring, treating your body right will help you survive the change in weather. The Sea Foam Bath and Massage Oil is scented with peppermint oil to help relieve stress, while also containing essential fatty acids and vitamins to leave your skin smooth and soft. Combined with thyme, rosemary and eucalyptus components, the Sea Foam Bath and Massage Oil helps contribute to your calm mind and body. As a daily treat for your bath or shower, the Sea Foam Rice Grain Soap Bar detoxifies your skin, leaving it clean and cool, and leaves it gently exfoliated.

                                     

 Try the THANN Skincare Bar

Always wanted to try THANN Skincare products or visit the famous THANN store? Now is a good time than ever to head over (if you're in Ottawa or visiting the Nation's Capital) and try THANN's famous Skincare Bar for the ultimate pampering experience with detoxifying facial or revitalizing hand scrub. Relax in an Asian-inspired environment that will awaken all your senses yet calm your body, mind and spirit.

Don't miss! THANN’s 20% OFF sale ends Friday at midnight. To get your 20% off, present your coupon in store or enter the code ENJOY20 online. And remember – it’s never too early to start your holiday shopping!

Hurry and shop now!



Spotlight: Soft and Smooth Skin

Can you feel that subtle cool change in the air and the temperature starting to drop? We may have to face the sad reality that summer is almost officially over but that doesn't mean it's the end to the never ending quest for beautiful and soft skin.

You've got a few days left to flaunt that tanned bare skin and let the sun kiss you just a few times more! Why not make sure you take advantage of the last dog days of summer and indulge in THANN's world famous body scrubs. Believe me when I say this... you just can't stop touching yourself afterwards!

Why Exfoliate?

Well, why not? Exfoliation is the process of using a gentle abrasive agent on the skin, it is the simplest way to cleaner, softer, smoother body. It is also the perfect way to prepare your body for most other spa treatments and relaxation therapies.

Exfoliation works by removing the dead cells on the surface of the skin. This unblocks the pores, which are then able to absorb creams and oils much more efficiently. Exfoliation is particularly good for cellulite, by boosting the circulation and for removing the hard skin that builds up on the feet, knees and elbows.

 

Formulated with fine sea salts, THANN body scrubs have a coarse but gentle texture that makes it ideal for exfoliation and for stimulating body circulation. Sea salt contains about 97 percent sodium chloride, plus important trace elements, such as calcium, zinc, iron, and magnesium that can be absorbed through the skin and act as catalysts for many vital biochemical reactions.

Round-up of the famous THANN Body Scrub line:
 

   

AROMATIC WOOD Salt Scrub

• Sea Salt, Orange Peel, and Essential Oils are blended to gently exfoliate, cleanse and leave skin with a healthy glow.
• The Vitamin-E rich Rice Bran Oil acts as a natural anti-oxidant and moisturizer.
• Nutmeg, Orange and Tangerine oils relax the mind and harmonize the body and spirit.

 

ORIENTAL ESSENCE Salt Scrub

• Lemongrass oil stimulates circulation and has an antiseptic property.
• Kaffir Lime oil containing natural AHA clarifies and moisturizes the skin.



SEAFOAM Salt Scrub

• Thyme and Peppermint oils clarify the skin and refresh the mind and spirit.
• Rosemary and Eucalyptus oils promote good health and mental well-being.

Why don't you pick up one today? Take the evening off, light up some candles, draw yourself a warm bath, maybe pour yourself a glass of wine (or two), grab your favourite book and scrub yourself away to a gloriously soft and smooth skin!

Did you kow that you can learn more and shop online? Visit http://www.thann.ca/ to get more details!

The Miracle of Shiso

Did you know that same ingredient they serve with the popular Japanese culinary specialty sashimi (freshly prepared raw fish) is the same stuff that contains potent ingredients to beautiful radiant skin?

For over a thousand years, Asian herbalists have noticed that Shiso plants have the ability to survive the most extreme droughts and climatic conditions, as well as helping the surrounding plants to grow. As a result, Shiso has become the jewel of Japanese culinary art, as well as an important ingredient in macro biotic food because of its healing powers. Shiso is used in salads, spaghetti, meat dishes and it is also prepared as a flavorful herb in a variety of dishes, including Japanese pizza (Okonomiyaki) topping.

Shiso provides a strong taste with intensity that might be compared to that of a mint. Shiso is rich in omega-3 fatty acid and alpha-linolenic acid with anti-inflammatory properties and has a prominent anti-oxidant effect. With Shiso’s valuable properties, it is widely used in medical, food, and cosmetic industries worldwide.

With today's increasing environmental hazards and the damaging rays of the sun, Shiso is the miracle ingredient to prevent your skin from pre-mature aging. And for the first time in cosmetic history, THANN's research and development team combines art and science to unlock the miracle of Shiso!!!

THANN have successfully dissolved the Nano Shiso in Rice Bran Oil without using any chemical intervention, which means it has pure and concentrated ingredients to help give you that soft and smooth skin!  THANN Shiso Collection contains Vitamin B1 & B2 to protect and revive skin cells by providing anti-oxidant benefits that are more effective than any artificial anti-oxidant in the market. When massaged on skin, the Nano Shiso particles combined with Rice Bran Oil will easily absorb into skin, providing various benefits as natural anti-oxidant, moisturizer and emollient. 

Take advantage of this week's Thann Special Promo! Go and visit http://www.thann.ca/ for more details!





Thann Thursday: Discover the Rice Collection

  

If there's one thing strikingly noticeable about Asian women is that they have (in general) beautiful, luminous skin. It's not a secret that they have a strict regimen of both skin care and diet that provides that inherent glow but there is also something that have been kept a secret from the West until recently.

Today, let's unravel that secret...

Rice Bran Oil.

What is it you ask? Despite its uncommon use in skincare in the West, this oil has a long and successful history in Japan where women, known as the “Rice Bran Beauties” have been using the oil on their face and body for hundreds of years. Rice Bran Oil is the oil extracted from the germ and inner husk of rice. Rice bran Oil has been shown to reverse the effects of aging by slowing the formation of wrinkles thanks to its concentration of three Vitamin E's.

 

Rice Bran Oil is full of antioxidants, such as Vitamin E, ferulic acid, linoleic acid, oleic acid, palmitic acid, and oryzanol. The oil acts as both a carrier and emollient. In Japan, Rice Bran Oil is used as a skin and hair beauty enhancer. It is also used throughout the world in a variety of cosmetics, especially for those that treat dry and mature skin. 

Benefits of Rice Bran Oil

* High in antioxidants to fight free radicals and aid in slowing down the effects of aging.

* Considered to be hypoallergenic, making it ideal for clients even with the most sensitive skin.

* Protect collagen and elastin to maintain the suppleness of your skin.

* High in fatty acids, making it very beneficial for mature, delicate and sensitive skin.

* The small molecules enable it to penetrate into the skin without being greasy.

Did you know that Rice Bran Oil is the key ingredient in Thann’s skin care products? Only the highest quality of Rice Bran Oil is used in Thann products to provide all the benefits that it has to offer. Today is the perfect time to try the benefits of this century old Asian beauty secret! From now until August 17th, you get 20% OFF discount on all items in the Rice Collection:

Try Thann’s beautiful range of natural Bath & Massage Oils (containing 95% of rice bran oil), which can also be used as intensive weekly moisturizing treatments. For face care, The Rice Collection also contains a high percentage of Rice Bran Oil. 

Lastly, for lips so soft and smooth, don't forget to pick up the Rice Extract Lip Balm! With Aloe and Rice Bran Extract, the soft and smooth texture of this Thann lip balm enriches your lips with natural plant extracts that moisturizes and nourishes all day and all night long.



The Ultimate Grand Prize



We can't even tell you how excited we are to share this amazing news with you! Just over a week ago, after all the hard work and the unbelievable long hours over the course of a year, we finally got THERE!

Got where you ask?



Well, we finally broke into the United States market via our highly anticipated premiere at ShopNBC!!!

And broke into the US we did! We had an incredibly successful stint that we actually sold out a few of our top best sellers within minutes! Hence, the free flow of champagne, the abundance of delicious mini cupcakes and the endless joyful laughter at Friday night's celebration party!



It was perhaps one of the most adrenaline-pumped hour of our lives!

The amazing and luxurious Thann Body Butter.



We also had a superbly successful Twitter campaign, headed by Twenty York Street, which created the perfect amount of buzz we needed to accompany our long-awaited debut at ShopNBC!



Super delicious mini cupcakes courtesy of: Little Cakes.

We are very, very happy about this and we would like to share this huge success with you - our loyal clients and friends! In honour of Thann's major milestone, we have joined forces with one of our closest partners in the hospitality industry, the famous Arc Hotel, to give you:

The Ultimate Thann + Arc Hotel Grand Prize Give-away!

Ottawa's first luxury hotel, the Arc Hotel is dubbed by Time Magazine as "The Place to stay in the Nation's Capital!" Imagine an urban oasis that welcomes guests to a place of luxury and design, an unmatched sophistication that will give you an experience like no other.

Are you ready to hear the details of the Ultimate Thann + Arc Hotel Grand Prize Give-away?

Your Ultimate Arc Hotel experience is so incredible, we are so excited to share these details with you:

• One night stay in a MAJESTIC KING ROOM
• VIP Valet Parking
• Belgium Chocolates
• Sparkling Wine upon arrival
• Arctinis
• Breakfast for 2 

And if all these are not enough, how about a huge beautiful basket of Thann's best and most coveted products?

Absolutely brilliant, right?!

 

To enter, all you simply have to do is follow THANN Skincare and Arc the Hotel in Twitter and Facebook and submit your entry (in Twitter or Facebook) by filling in the blanks:

My favourite @thannskincare product is ____ and I deserve @arcthehotel stay because ____.

So, what are you waiting for? Go and enter, now!

Good luck!

Photos courtesy of: CL Buchanan Photography.