Repêchage

Beauty From the Sea®

Professional Cosmetics Since 1980

Pioneers in the search for products based on algae since 1980. Made in the USA. Precursors of algae extraction technologies and pioneers of algae-based treatments and cosmetics in the USA, Repêchage® has created a complete range of highly nutritious algae-based products used in spas and wellness centers around the world.

Repêchage® researchers constantly study the benefits of specific algae, for all skin types and for therapeutic uses. The rich combination of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and antioxidants present in algae, make it an ideal ingredient for detoxifying, oxygenating, balancing and moisturizing our skin, as well as regenerating and anti-aging benefits.

Our algae are harvested in the waters of the British coast of France and processed in the USA with patented methods to bring the nutritional benefits from the sea to the skin. We combine the famous properties of wellness and beauty of algae with the purest natural ingredients that the earth offers along with the best technological innovations in the field of aesthetics. Simply the most effective formulas in the world for skin care, face and body treatments and cosmetics.

The Professional Skin Care Line Difference

The Repêchage difference is our commitment to being the best in every aspect of the skin care business, from creating the best seaweed-based products to providing the most in-depth education and training.

“My wonderful aesthetician introduced me to your wonderful products. Nothing has worked for my sensitive skin before & I've struggled with sensitive skin all my life. Not anymore thanks to Repêchage!”— Internet Retail Customer

1 - Commitment to Professional Esthetics

Lydia Sarfati, Founder and CEO of Repechage, is proud to be a licensed esthetician and has dedicated her career to work with estheticians and the professional beauty industry. Her passion is to ensure that when you purchase a Repechage product, that you have the resources to seek a professional recommendation so that you know how best to care for your specific skincare needs.

Repêchage® is proud to be exclusively available through professional skin care centers, spas, medical centers, salons and through repechage.com, all staffed with qualified estheticians and beauty professionals who are available to answer your questions.

2 - Commitment to Education

Repêchage® is committed to education. Our advanced esthetic training programs are available globally. Our extensive educational programs improve the professional industry standards so that you get the best out of your salon and spa experience.

"I want to raise the bar on education and give every esthetician the tools she needs to achieve success. I also want every esthetician and beauty therapist to be proud of her profession."— Lydia Sarfati

3 - Commitment to Salon Success

Repêchage® has one of the strongest salon support systems available in the beauty industry. Our extensive business support programs help our salons and spas focus on what’s most important – providing the best treatments and services to you!

4 - Commitment to Excellence

Repêchage® is made proudly in the United States of America with the finest ingredients from around the world. Repêchage® is a global experience. We are presently in over 40 countries worldwide, with our corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility located in Secaucus NJ, right outside NYC.

5 - Commitment to Developing the Best Products

Our research and development team is committed to creating only the very best products using the most advanced ingredients bringing the greatest results. Our in-house quality control systems check every batch twice to ensure the finest, purist quality of product. We stand by our commitment to delivering the finest products, ingredients and formulations.

6 - Repêchage® Concept Salon and Spa

When you visit a Repechage Concept Salon and Spa you know that there is a professional standard that has been met. Our concept salons and spas are committed to ongoing education and training to learn the latest in skincare science and the best facial protocols and techniques. We welcome you to visit one of our concept salons and spas in the Americas, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Find a spa nearest you.

Lydia Sarfati and Repêchage - The Original Seaweed Authority

Repêchage Pure Seaweed Filtrate

At the heart of all the Repêchage products is our rich pure, exclusive seaweed filtrate. The Repêchage Pure Filtrate of Seaweed complex is derived by a proprietary extraction method that creates a fluid containing all the rich seaweed phyto-nutrients in their most potent form.

Why Seaweed?

My personal commitment in creating the most beautiful products that are effective and produce results really came from my own personal experience with the sea.

Lydia circa 1977 at the opening of the Klisar Skin Care Center in New York City
Repêchage was born from my travels in the 1970’s. In Israel, my attention was drawn to the flavors and smells of the country’s desert vegetables and fruits. I discovered the farming community was using seaweed as a bio stimulant and fertilizer. In a dry climate, farmers were able to produce an abundance of fruits and vegetables.

After meeting with seaweed harvesters and marine biologists all over the world it became evident that seaweed was the most complete and natural source for health, beauty, and wellness, and was going to be what I focused on with skin care.

The seaweed plant has no roots so it feeds through osmosis, absorbing minerals and vitamins from the seawater. Because of its feeding process, seaweed becomes a dense concentration of vitamins, minerals, trace elements, macro elements, phytohormones and amino acids. I discovered two species, Laminaria digitata and Ascophyllum Nodosum, which were both complete sources of nutrients, containing 42 trace elements and minerals, 18 amino acids, 12 vitamins, phyto hormones, and natural anti-oxidant material such as phlorotannins, sulfated polysaccharides, fucosterol and fucoxanthins.

C-Serum, the Original Seaweed Serum

It was from this research that I created my first professional treatment, the Four Layer Facial®. Named the Facial of the Century by Cosmopolitan UK, this ground-breaking facial incorporated layer upon layer of seaweed and minerals from both the earth and the sea. The Four Layer Facial circa 1980 and the Four Layer Facial in 2015.

Top editors and clients found that nothing made skin more luminous and hydrated. One of my first at-home products was C-Serum Seaweed Filtrate. C-Serum®, short for cytoserum, is our special seaweed Laminaria Digitata filtrate, the first layer of the Four Layer Facial, and it has been my secret for perfect skin since 1980. The C-Serum Seaweed Filtrate, circa 1980 and the C-Serum Seaweed Filtrate today.

Repechage Algo Mist

10 years later, in 1990, we created Algo Mist®, a unique combination of seaweed filtrate extract, Vitamin C, Gingko Biloba, Aloe and Orange Water. Unlike other products that are pure water in a bottle, this spray hydrator helps keep skin feeling smooth and soft through-out the day. Algo Mist® Hydrating Seaweed Facial Spray.

We now have scientific research on several different species of sea plants, all with unique properties influenced by the oceanic regions where they grow and formulated into over 100 different award-winning professional and consumer products.

Why Repêchage?

Repêchage means second chance, a second chance for all of us to have beautiful skin. What inspired me to call my company Repêchage were the reactions of those who first experienced the Four Layer Facial®. The results were amazing. Everyone said "Wow! My skin has never felt so wonderful! It's like being reborn!" But its original meaning came from fishermen trying once more to make a catch by casting out their nets again, to literally "re-fish" or "re-pesce," so the connection to seaweed and the sea was perfect. To me, it means that anyone that has struggled to have great skin can have a Repêchage, a second chance.

Sustainably Harvested

In the US, off the coast of Maine, Repêchage has worked with leading scientists and aquaculturists to sustainably harvest several species of nutrient-rich seaweed. It is key to source seaweed from the most pristine environments, such as off the coast of Down East Maine.

Seaweed can be wild harvested, or grown through aquaculture. For wild harvesting the harvest takes place early in the morning, during the lowest tides of the spring and summer months that accompany the new and full moons.

Seaweed drying on ropes on the Maine coast. Photo courtesy of Repêchage. Or, seaweed can be grown on ropes suspended in seawater, harvested by boat along floating lines and gathered into nets or large storage bins on harvesting boats. Crops are harvested over a period of a month or two until temperature conditions limit the growth of the crop. The seaweed is initially stored in wet chambers then dried at temperatures that minimize degradation of bioreactive compounds.

Most manufacturers of seaweed-based products use the oven drying method of processing. This method yields a product, which contains trace elements but may be deficient in vitamins and amino acids that are heat sensitive.This is where Repêchage makes all the difference. Once dried, the seaweed is packed and sent to our ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facility. There, by an exclusive proprietary method, Repêchage chemists expel the intercellular fluid from the fibrous seaweed tissue while retaining the activity of the vitamins, minerals, trace elements, and amino acids, processed into the pure filtrate in small artisanal batches. You know when it’s a filtrate day---the whole facility smells like a day at the beach!

The Repêchage Manufacturing Facility in New Jersey

This filtrate is then properly refrigerated and stored for six months to allow the liquid to reach its full potency. Then, it is incorporated into the Repêchage products until the next harvest arrives. Nothing is purer or more effective at helping skin look and feel smoother and softer.

Going Forward

In 2015, Charles Yarish, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Stamford, became a consultant to the Repêchage Board of Directors, working with David and I to create harvesting possibilities right in here the USA. As a leading environmentalist and aquaculturist, Dr. Yarish is sharing his research with us to help create sustainable, organic seaweed harvests that can benefit both us and the ocean.

It is like coming full circle: the sea has provided us with so much, and we need to give back in return. We invite everyone to enjoy our seaweed-based products. Welcome to Repêchage! Welcome to Beauty From the Sea!

Science of Seaweed

Bringing together the remarkable health and beauty benefits of seaweed and the finest natural ingredients the earth has to offer. Simply the world's most effective formulas for skin care, body treatments and cosmetics.

The Many Skin Benefits of Seaweed

Forerunners in sea plant technologies and pioneers in seaweed treatments and cosmetics in the US, Repechage has created a full range of seaweed-based skincare products featured at top spas globally. Our EcoCert, seaweed is sustainably grown and harvested from the pure seawaters off the Brittany Coast of France and off the coast of Maine, then processed in the USA by our proprietary method.

Where Science Meets Skin Care

At Repêchage, we are always conducting ongoing research for new applications of our seaweed as well as investigating the newest ingredients to help address problems relating to the skin. It is for this reason that we have asked Professor Charles Yarish, Ph.D., professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut in Stanford, CT to join us as a member of the Repêchage Board of Directors. Below, Dr. Yarish provides interesting insights into the many important applications of seaweed in skin care.

Letter From The Founder

I warmly welcome you to Repêchage®: in other words, what I consider a universe of beauty, well-being and professional dedication to personal care. A true mission that I have pursued with passion for over thirty years.

Since the launch of Repêchage in 1980, my personal commitment has always been to develop innovative professional treatments and home skin care products that are absolutely effective. A demanding job also the result of the precious collaboration of a tireless staff at the service of both the company and the partners who have chosen us in the world.

It is thanks to this close-knit team that we can transmit to the Distributors and Sector Operators who have chosen us all the know-how necessary to manage a successful business: product information, training on the patented Repêchage protocols, marketing courses aimed at improving techniques sales and custodian care.

Lydia Sarfati

Lydia Sarfati is the founder and CEO of Repêchage®: a leading US company, worldwide, in the creation of skin treatments and cosmetics based on seaweed. Creator of the exclusive Four Layer Facial® Four Layer treatment, Lydia Sarfati is often cited in prestigious magazines including Vogue, In Style, Glamor and The New York Times. Channels such as CNN, CBS and FOX also provide advice and suggestions.

In the sector for over 30 years, Beautician and owner of Beauty Centers, Lydia Sarfati creates exclusive products with her company and works as a consultant. Its protocols and manual skills are taught in over 200 schools worldwide and are practiced by beauticians from many countries. Her commitment and professionalism have helped to raise the prestige of the beauty industry category in the United States - and abroad - and have earned her a place of honor at "Esthetics America", making her a member of the " Skin Care & Spa Council Director of Intercoiffure North America ". He is also President Cidesco USA and author of the book "Success at Your Finger tips: How to Succeed in the Skin Care Business". The awards include the "Les Nouvelles Esthetique's Crystal Award", the "Dermascope's Legend Award", the "ICMAD's Cosmetic Entrepreneur Award for Leadership", the "NCA Pillar Award for Education Leadership". She was also recently awarded the prestigious "Chevalerie Knight Award" of the Intercoiffure Mondial.

A Family Based Business

Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer, David Sarfati has completed a production plant of excellence with a technology that makes it possible to produce a patented algae extract - the basic ingredient of Repêchage products. His commitment and leadership are fueled by the passion to provide the best working environment to employees as he believes that they will passionately provide the best products and services for you and your customers. Together with Lydia, listen to your needs to offer the best business solutions to help us grow together. We take care of you.

Lydia Sarfati Academy

"By attending a class in-person, beauty therapists are able to participate in hands-on learning, which is so important in our industry.

They will be able to touch and feel products, see the results in person, and gain invaluable experience utilizing the treatment products. I truly believe in continuing education whenever possible, so take advantage of either opportunity to learn as they arise!"— Lydia Sarfati

Learn From Our Team of Skin Care Experts

The Lydia Sarfati Post-Graduate Academy offers hands-on training in advanced esthetics and business building techniques. The Repêchage training program is very different from other skin care certification programs.

It is designed for the beauty professional who wants to understand “why” and “how” in addition to product knowledge. It is for this reason that all classes at the Lydia Sarfati Post Graduate Skin Care Academy are designed to empower attendees with superior knowledge, enhanced skills and strategic spa and salon business solutions.

We provide monthly on-going classes throughout the year. Our many courses include instruction on specific skin concerns.

In addition, we provide product knowledge that not only details in-depth information on ingredients and product benefits, but also demonstrates proper retailing techniques as well as consultation.

“Lydia Sarfati has very high standards when it comes to education. The Post-Graduate Skincare Academy is the place from where every esthetician gets the tools she needs to achieve success in the skincare business.

The Repêchage Corporate Educators offer you the best education support; they are always ready to answer any question about the products, the benefits and how to use the products for maximum results. The best part of Repêchage Education Support is that we learn not only about the products and skin anatomy, but Lydia answers every question when it comes to the SPA business – this is what makes the difference. So, if you what to achieve success, you definitely need to join Repêchage family!” — Nicoleta Ion, Lead Educational Trainer, Professional Brands, Romania

Come To Where It All Happens

Just minutes outside of New York City and easily accessible by car, train and bus, this state-of-the-art training facility offers a large workshop area, showers, and a theater-style media center. Post-graduate continuing education classes provide hands-on training as well as practical business solutions for estheticians and salon owners.

Dedicated to esthetic excellence, the Academy exclusively features Rep êchage treatments and products. Instructors include the Lydia Sarfati Skin Expert Team. Special guest experts make appearances throughout the year.

Become Certified

Classes are open to all estheticians, cosmetologists, spa and salon owners, personnel, and esthetic students and undergrads. Certificates are awarded after successful completion of each class and do not replace the required certification by your state. Repêchage certificates are to reflect only your knowledge of the Repêchage treatments and products.

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