{"id":37917,"date":"2022-10-10T18:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/?p=37917"},"modified":"2022-10-10T18:05:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:05:03","slug":"at-complexions-spa-owner-denise-dubois-brings-a-holistic-approach-to-her-processes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2022\/10\/at-complexions-spa-owner-denise-dubois-brings-a-holistic-approach-to-her-processes\/","title":{"rendered":"At Complexions Spa, Owner Denise DuBois Brings A Holistic Approach To Her Processes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37918\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37918\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/10\/denise-dubois-vc-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/10\/denise-dubois-vc-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/10\/denise-dubois-vc.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Dubois, owner of Complexions Spa for Beauty and Wellness.<br \/>\u00a92022 Saratoga Photographer.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Susan Elise Campbell<\/p>\n<p>If beauty were only skin deep, innovative professional aesthetician Denise Dubois would have had no need to evolve her day spa into Complexions Spa for Beauty and Wellness.<\/p>\n<p>A 1984 graduate of Catherine Hinds Institute of Esthetics, Dubois opened Complexions Spa in 1987 when \u201ca day spa was not really heard of,\u201d she said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe foundation of the business has always been skin care,\u201d said Dubois. \u201cOriginally, Complexions occupied 1,200 square feet and had four facial rooms. Besides me there was one other employee who did make-up and answered the phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today Dubois and her licensed staff offer non-surgical cosmetic procedures, wellness and nutritional consultation and coaching in addition to facials, massage, hair color and design, manicures and pedicures, and more.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Services are performed from two addresses, in Albany and Saratoga Springs, but<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>with one overarching holistic approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLifestyles impact how we look and feel,\u201d said Dubois. \u201cThere is a range of medical spa services we can use once we understand what\u2019s going on in the inside and what a client\u2019s lifestyle is like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\"><b><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s2\"><!--more--><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span>Dubois said that 10 percent of aging results from genetics. The rest is \u201cextrinsic aging,\u201d or the environmental factors that cause the type of conditions that MediSpa modalities can often address.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask clients discovery questions to get to the root cause of a condition,\u201d she said. \u201cThere may be pain, acne, brown spots on the skin, many of which are induced largely by external factors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Often the root cause is stress, according to Dubois.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStress reduction is the number one reason clients come to the Spa,\u201d she said. \u201cStress triggers stress hormones that impact health and well-being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, Dubois had the opportunity to purchase 221 Wolf Road nearby the original spa and rebuild it to meet LEEDS Gold specifications.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe building was completely gutted. Only the foundation and four original masonry walls remained,\u201d said Dubois. \u201cIt is the first LEEDS Gold spa in the U.S. for new construction. And this accomplishment took us into our \u2018green and clean\u2019 mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dubois said the additional overhead of obtaining Gold status was quickly recouped by the building\u2019s energy efficiency, and that reducing the carbon footprint is its own reward.<\/p>\n<p>The second location on Broadway in Saratoga was opened in 2014 to \u201cbranch out into the community and allow clients another destination,\u201d she said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Looking back over her decades of entrepreneurship, the green building was one of the top highlights of her professional career. Another is the recent launch of the skin care product line that carries her name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDubois Beauty is a clean product line and a collaboration of two laboratories and several chemists,\u201d she said. The products are designed to clean, clarify, detoxify, nourish and protect the skin using \u201cthe best clean, active ingredients and inspired by the nature and spas of upstate New York,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Educating people has been a goal of Dubois, who earned her life coach certification from IIN, the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoy every opportunity to work with clients and extend nutrition and wellness consulting to them, but also to mentor team members and see them grow over the years,\u201d said Dubois.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Facing COVID together challenged the business, she said. The staff has not yet been fully replenished since the pandemic, but Dubois said that while some providers had to close their doors, Complexions Spa is once again in a growth phase. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI plan to continue expansion into the medical spa arena with some new procedures,\u201d she said. \u201cI am always looking for ways to grow and help clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One client has been with Dubois since before she started her own spa, and several employees have worked alongside her for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a wonderful 35 years,\u201d said Dubois.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dubois said the industry today looks like it did \u201chundreds of years ago when people went to European bathhouses to get spa treatments for their health. When day spas started to become popular, many thought of them as a place for pampering. Now we are treating people to help them look and feel their best in body and in mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visit complexions.com and duboisbeauty.com for more information on products and services or to make an appointment at one of the two Complexions Spa for Beauty and Wellness locations: 221 Wolf Road in Albany and 268 Broadway downtown Saratoga Springs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Susan Elise Campbell If beauty were only skin deep, innovative professional aesthetician Denise Dubois would have had no need to evolve her day spa into Complexions Spa for Beauty and Wellness. 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