Methven launches new Shower Skincare system
Imagine having the best shower experience of your life, every day, for the rest of your life; a daily shower ritual that can leave your skin and hair in better condition and awaken your senses. Well now you can with the Methven Shower Skincare system, which is a unique four-step shower ritual that blends the benefits of aromatherapy with native New Zealand botanicals to deliver a shower experience like no other. Available in a choice of four experiences – Uplift, Fresh, Focus, and Bliss – and already a resounding success in New Zealand, the Shower Skincare in-shower and after-shower products are completely free from Parabens, Sodium Laurel Sulphates and synthetic colours. This exciting new range of skincare products, perfect for all the family, hits UK shores this month and is available exclusively from selected Methven stockists or via the Methven website.
Founded in New Zealand 125 years ago, Methven is now a world class international business, worthy of its reputation for innovative, high quality products, which are designed with users’ needs at their very heart. Spurred on by a passion for delivering life-enhancing showering experiences, Methven turns an everyday function into something really very special.
The enhancement of mind, body and spirit is the underlying philosophy of the new Methven Shower Skincare system. The convenient four-step showering ritual incorporates water purity, skin cleansing, skin conditioning and skin nourishing and provides a real home spa experience like no other.
Available in a choice of four experiences – Uplift, Fresh, Focus, and Bliss – each uses different ingredients to deliver a unique sensory shower. Uplift, with grapefruit and pomegranate, eases your mind and lifts your mood and helps promote improved skin elasticity, perfect to start the day. Fresh, with green tea and peppermint, re-energises and invigorates, whilst cooling and soothing the skin; ideal after a hectic day or workout at the gym. Focus, with rosemary and lemon, helps recharge your mind and spirit; great for settling the effects of stress and tension. Bliss, with jasmine and Ylang Ylang, calms and restores your zest whilst gently soothing and balancing the skin; nature’s sedative, it creates the perfect relaxating shower.
Step 1
Begin this unique shower ritual with water purity by stepping under the innovative Shower Skincare Handset, the Maia Satinjet with its integral dechlorination Vitamin C cartridge, which reduces chlorine in the water helping to counteract the drying effects (of chlorine) on skin and hair. With regular use, can help leave skin softer, and hair silkier and more manageable.
Whilst you shower under purer, dechlorinated water, enjoy the four different spray functions, each designed to deliver a different sensory experience and care for the skin by stimulating circulation and improving the delivery of oxygen and nutrients, indulging you in the most invigorating all over shower you have ever experienced.
By simply twisting the showerhead, the spray can be changed from either the standard Satinjet spray or the massage spray, to the facial massage option, allowing you to choose the sensory experience. When in facial massage mode, water passes through the outer jets only, creating a "breathing zone", which lets you enjoy a longer face-washing session. This gentle spray allows you to fully immerse your face without fear of broken capillaries. In body mode, water cascades over the skin rather than bouncing off, ensuring better coverage.
This stylish shower features a contemporary, smooth-style hose for easy cleaning, which is fitted with swivel ends to minimise twisting, and uses twin jets of water that collide and turn into thousands of tiny droplets, which are invigorating for the entire body, yet feel soft enough for the face.
RRP of the Shower Skincare Handset is £130.
RRP of the Vitamin C cartridge is £15.95 and should be replaced every month.
Step 2
Then, cleanse your skin with one of the luxurious in-shower body washes – available in a choice of four inspiring variants Uplift, Fresh, Focus, and Bliss – containing essential oils, glycerine and jojoba oil that work in harmony with the skin’s natural protective barrier. Decylglucoside – derived from plants – provides gentle cleansing to invigorate the skin and preserve its natural moisture balance, leaving it feeling more soft and supple.
RRP of individual body washes is £12.
Step 3
The next step is set to change the way we shower and care for our skin forever. Towards the end of your shower, rather than waiting until after your shower to moisturise, begin the skin conditioning and hydrating process with the award-winning and world’s first Shower Skincare Pod with Infusions cartridge.
Simply switch the Shower Skincare Pod to the ‘on’ position and lose yourself as a stream of essential oils and vitamins that is released into the water to soften and hydrate your skin, whilst enveloping you in the exquisite aromatherapy fragrance of your choice to restore a sense of well-being.
Methven’s in-shower skin conditioner provides a convenient and effective way to maintain a protective barrier – the hydro-lipid layer – for newly regenerating skin. The Skin Conditioner formulation consists of a blend of hydroscopic, water-binding or humectant ingredients, essential oils and botanical extracts. These soften the skin and support the lipid layers between skin cells, restoring moisture levels and helping to build an even skin texture.
The Infusions Cartridges can be stored in the shower cubicle in a convenient caddy, which can store three cartridges, with one at a time in the pod allowing different members of the family to select the Shower Skincare experience to suit their mood.
RRP of the Shower Skincare Pod is £125.
RRP of individual Infusions Cartridges is £10.
Step 4
Finally, nourish your skin with the after-shower body crème, filled with a light yet enriched Shea butter that forms a natural, protective barrier sealing in the precious moisture and promoting the appearance of smoother skin. Glycerine improves skin softness by drawing in moisture and filling the gaps between the skin cells. Jojoba oil supports skin healing and it also closely resembles the skin’s own lipid (sebum), acting as a natural environmental barrier for the skin. You can help maintain optimum moisture and lipid levels by applying Methven’s Body Crème throughout the day, paying particular attention to very dry areas of the skin.
RRP of individual body crèmes is £14.
Shower Skincare Manager Belinda Kropach comments: “The Methven Shower Skincare system is a truly unique, life-enhancing shower experience. Our simple four-step showering ritual delivers possibly the most luxurious showering experience ever. Shower Skincare is suitable for all skin types, so is perfect for all the family and with regular use, people report an improvement in the condition and appearance of skin and hair, and they find it impossible to go back to the products they used before. Shower Skincare will genuinely enhance your life.”
