Getting ‘skin-timate’ with D’s Body Therapy

BEAUTY therapist, fashion designer and all-rounded fashion entrepreneur, Denyse Grant, has carved out a special place in Guyana for her D’s Body Therapy industry. She doesn’t just create beautiful clothing that fits her clients – picking out the correct colourful fabrics, textures and styles- but her work is much more specific and detailed than that.

The entrepreneur has been in the business of fashion designing and sewing for over 20 years, however, just over eight years ago she found her niche in the skin care and therapy industry in the form of the D’s Body Therapy.

“We are on a mission is to create, develop, manufacture, and distribute natural and effective body care products of the highest quality, using top quality raw materials that are natural and great for every skin-type and gives real results, and we never compromise on quality,” says Grant.

According to Grant, it is definitely a challenge putting time, thought, caring, information and energy into each day’s work in order to produce the best and highest quality products that can be offered in and out of Guyana.

She told the Pepperpot Magazine that the products being offered by D’s Body Therapy are from the freshest organic fruits, vegetables and herbs. She said that they believe that nature offers the best for safe and effective skin care and that beautiful skin begins with healthy skin. With that in mind, she stated that her company sets out to discover a unique blend of ingredients that are safe for all skin types and supports the skin’s natural barrier. The result of this specialised blend of herbs and organic oils ingredients support optimal skin health for real beauty results while promoting overall well-being.

MULTI-TASKING
Grant is the wife of Pastor Neil Grant and she herself is very active in the church as well. In addition, she said that she takes the role of a full-time wife and mother of two young sons very seriously. But this does not keep her from putting her best efforts into her work in the beauty industry as a beauty therapist; also as a seamstress and fashion designer.

She said that eight years ago, after years of research and experimenting with various blends of organic oils and natural products she found her niche on the local market with natural and chemical free handmade soaps, body oils, lotions, herbal hair food, lip balms, among other products.

HONEY PRODUCTS
Grant said that her interests were supported by the fact that her husband is a beekeeper, and she has been using honey as a key ingredient in the creating of more natural and safer products. Whenever possible the company hires local people and utilises their own farm supply of organic herbs and honey from their rainforest beehives in order to create the best.

“Our vision is to have D’s Body Therapy be a household name and to be the best that we can be in the natural body care business. Producing natural and herbal beauty products that are free from harmful ingredients, and make them accessible to consumers across the globe is part of our main vision,” she said.

Further, D’s Body Therapy aims at being able to accomplish the goal of producing products that are second to none; at the same time establishing a specialised brand, which is aimed at one customer at a time, as well as making fantastic natural products, being unrelenting in delivering the highest performance skincare products to customers, Grant posited.

CUSTOMER SAFETY IS ENSHRINED
She noted that her business places extreme importance on safety as they believe that their beauty routine should not be something to worry about. For this reason, they continually do research on the safety of every ingredient to ensure that there are no known health concerns about their products so that the products remain free from harmful ingredients.

“Furthermore, we make efforts to stay up-to-date on the health impacts of the ingredients that we use. We formulate our products to contain as many natural, organic and naturally-derived ingredients as possible,” she said. “In addition, we pledge to conduct our business in an environmentally aware manner emphasising reuse and recycling, the use of natural base ingredients, and the application of appropriate technology. We believe that everyone deserves access to natural and safe personal care products and we strive to empower and educate our consumers about the benefits of using natural and herbal ingredients by showing them how effective clean and natural beauty products can be.”

Grant concluded that the pursuit of excellence in any endeavour, but especially when it comes to taking care of people, is a path that requires a relentless mindset to overcome obstacles by constantly finding better solutions. And this, she says, goes well beyond the initial business plan.

Based on her emphasis of both the business of clothing and skin care, she stated that she believes in a culture of possibilities and positivity, which starts from within; that as leaders and culture shapers there is a need for them to be present, be always quick to listen and slow to speak, sharing the vision of the industry far and wide, not just in the form of quality, but quality and exigency.