Touch – Savane Organic Skincare

Flux Trends Newsletter #40 by Dion Chang

Savane Organic Skincare range was recently launched. An entirely South African product, Savane offers a unique cosmetic that prides itself on how it is manufactured and the ingredients it contains. For thousands of years, the people of Southern Africa have relied solely on indigenous plants to protect their skin from the desert sun and harsh climates. Savane blends this ancient traditional knowledge with modern Green Science to create their products that contain Africa’s unique botanicals in their most potent form.

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A Skincare Line Grows in the Desert

www.style.com/beauty/beautycounter/2011/07/a-skincare-line-grows-in-the-desert/

18 July 2011

Savane boasts reparative and revitalizing extracts like marula oil to hydrate and nourish parched complexions; kigelia, a fruit that, in addition to tightening and purifying skin, also kills pre-cancerous cells; and rooibos, the region’s famed “red tea,” which is a potent antioxidant with anti-inflammatory abilities.

Savane isn’t just another green-leaning company out to jump on the “all-natural” bandwagon—with an extra touch of exoticism—either.

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From the Elle Beauty Desk, Elle Magazine July 2011

Beauty editor Lynette Botha on this month’s best buys, inspiring finds and other beauty news

If you’ve seen our Beauty Top 10 this month, you’ll know how much I’m loving all things natural – they’re good for the skin and gentle on the environment. In fact, the growing number of natural products that are available is a little overwhelming but nevertheless inspiring. Two local brands we love are Rain and Savane (www.savaneskin.co.za) which launched just last month. Try Savane Gentle Exfoliant with Rooibos, Marula and jojoba, R350; Savane Protective Moisturizer with Baobab, Manketti, Kigelia and Yangu, R660.

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Age Perfect: Products and News for Lasting Beauty
Longevity July 2011

HELP GIVE YOUR SKIN A LIFT:
As you age, so your skin loses elasticity and starts to sag. Give yours a lift with the new local, organic range from Savane.

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Plant Power: A New Generation of Naturals

VOILA July 2011
www.voilamagazine.co.za

Proudly South African, Savane combines the traditional knowledge of indigenous plants with modern green science in this range of organic skincare.

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Going Green: Luxury, SA-inspired skin care

House & Leisure, July 2011
http://www.houseandleisure.co.za/going-green/

There’s no doubt green is in and Africa rocks. A new skincare range making news here and abroad is Savane Organic Skincare, a certified organic luxury skincare range made in Africa from sustainable, fair trade ingredients and essences culled from all over the continent.

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Glamour Time: The Latest Beauty Secrets for Trendy Women

Sandton Magazine, July 2011

Beauty with integrity
Introducing Savane – a certified organic and ethical luxury skin care range. This natural, fair-trade skincare collection is made from the purest, highest-quality ingredients sourced from all over the continent.

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The Revolution: it’s green, but you can join it…

Property Magazine, July/August 2011

This month you simply must…

Indulge with Savane, a certified organic and ethical luxury skincare range. Reducing their carbon footprint was the creators’ main aim, and so the product is encased in 100% recyclable aluminium and has ingredients such as marula, rooibos, aloe ferox, and baobab pulp (with 10 times more vitamin C than goji berries). +27 (0)11 447 6159, www.savaneskin.co.za

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Hot Off the Press

Simply Green, July 2011

The Savane Organic Skincare range is made in Africa, certified natural and organic by ECOCERT, made with Fair trade ingredients, contains only sustainably harvested wild ingredients. packaged in recyclable eco-friendly packaging, is not tested on animals and contains no animal products and is suitable for all skin types. www.savaneskin.co.za

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Not Just Another Pretty Face
www.style.com/beauty/beautyguide/Summer_2011

“Savane is an authentic, certified-organic and fair-trade anti-aging skincare line from South Africa that delivers. I met co-founders Jennifer Peters and Stephan Helary at a sustainability conference in Boulder, Colorado, and immediately became a fan of their mission and their products. All the formulations are rich with antioxidant ingredients indigenous to Southern Africa. I love the aroma of this line; the essential oil blends are beautiful – woodsy and spicy.”

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Organic Skin Care Line Savane Features Authentic African Ingredients

By Suzanne Blecher
The Rose Sheet, June 2001

Savane Organic Skincare is bringing to the premium market sustainably harvested wild African ingredients that native tribeswomen have used for decades.

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We’re forever charmed by nature-inspired products, says Marie Claire.

Number One on their list?

Savane Gentle Exfoliant.

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Best ‘green’ product you’ve come across?

Savane Organic Skincare.

BAMBINA OLIVARES WISE is a freelance writer who speaks four languages and has lived on three continents. She wrote “Art Smart” and “High Style” for the June edition of House & Leisure.

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Savane Skincare: We go one-on-one with Jennifer Peters to find out more about Savane
www.ifashion.co.za
May 2011

It’s not only South African fashion that hankers after the international stage; SAVANE, the lastest in a line of organic, ethical product that is inspired by and made in Africa cracks it on the international stage.

We go one-on-one with Jennifer Peters to find out more about Savane and how it fits within this ethos….

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Sunday Times Lifestyle Magazine, 22 May 2011

SKIN DEEP

Beauty companies are focusing their energies on eco principles while trying to make us look good, and what makes the newly launched Savane Organic Skincare range even more attractive is that it is inspired by our own continent with its ingredients sourced from our soil.

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Beauty with Efficacy
http://www.liveeco.co.za/?m=7&idkey=1798
9 May 2011

Last week we were invited to the launch of a new ethical beauty brand, Savane Organic Skincare, at Lunar ́s eco chic store in Cape Town.

The skincare range is owned by the delightful duo, Jennifer Peters and Stephan Helary. The story of Savane Organic Skincare is the story of two global trekkers with one vision.

Respect for the planet and its people. Ethical production. Organic formulations. Beauty with integrity, beauty with efficacy. Sustainability.

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Jennifer Griffin blogs about Savane Organic Skincare

… An amazing line of organic skincare with South African natural products (I love the stuff – full of omega-3s).

And now it is available to buy in the U.S. www.zaega.com.

Check it out!

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LOVE AT FIRST SLATHER
A lucky discovery inspired the creation of African skincare brand Savane

by Bambina Wise
Wanted Magazine, April 2011

“Love at first slather.” So confesses Jennifer Peters as she recounts how Savane, the organic skincare range she started with her business partner, Stephan Helary, came into existence.

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Switch off for “Earth Hour” Switch off your lights between 8:30 and 9:30 pm on March 26th and join us and billions around the globe to celebrate “Earth Hour”. Make a stand to combat climate change, stop the degradation of

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Jennifer Griffin blogs about Savane Organic Skincare

I love Savane. It reminds me of my days in Cape Town and Joburg and is filled with oxidant killers such as Rooibos and baobab nectar. Yummy.

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Standing Out in a Saturated Market

Cosmetic News Weekly, 14 February 2011

Savane Skin is a new organic skincare range from South Africa, created by Jennifer Peters and Stephane Helary, who share a passion for conservation and the protection of the environment. Launched last October, the brand currently comprises six products, all of which feature plant-based ingredients culled throughout the African continent, such as rooibos, marula, aloe ferox and moringa, known as effective moisturisers and antioxidants.

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Savane Skin First Ecocert Line in South Africa

Cosmetic News Weekly, 7 February 2011

Savane Skin is a new organic skincare range that was launched recently in South Africa, the only skincare range in the country to receive certification by the international body Ecocert.

Founded by Stephane Helary, who is French, and Jennifer Peters, an American, Savane Skin makes use of moisturizing and nourishing properties of indigenous plants throughout the African continent, and blends them with modern science and environmental awareness.

The result is a potent and effective line of anti-ageing products that are packaged in recyclable, eco-friendly aluminium containers.

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Parlez Vous Francais? Whether you speak French or not, come join us at the Alliance Francaise this Saturday 22nd January, at Zoo Lake, for an all day French style flea market! Bring your friends, sample Savane, replenish your stock, and

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Who would have thought a “Sausage Tree” could help reduce your wrinkles? The Tonga and Shangaan women of the Zambezi valley have known that for centuries. They apply Kigelia fruit pulp mixed with water to their faces to ensure a blemish-free

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