DermUs Skin Care

In this blog, we delve deep into the fascinating origins of the business and the journey behind its inception.

Describe your business including what products and services you provide

DermUs Skin Care is a specialized skin care shop in Spencer, Iowa. We are located downtown and enjoy teaching our customers to look past slick trendy glamor marketing to focus on result driven active ingredients. At DermUs we have been working for over 23 years to help people feel good in their own skin thanks to a careful mixture of scientific rigor and aesthetic experience. We combine advanced medical grade skin care products with innovative treatments to ensure blissful mini moments of self-care with outstanding results. Our services include waxing from head to toe, facials of every variety, microdermabrasion, microneedling, spray tans, microblading, microdermabrasion, lunch time peels and medical grade chemical peels, lash perming and tinting, brow lamination as well as makeup lessons and special event airbrush makeup applications and free skin care and makeup consultations to complement our amazing array of on hand skin care products and color cosmetics.

We want everyone to love every inch of their skin, it’s our passion.

Every person has their own vision of beauty. And every skin type is beautiful and unique. Our goal at DermUs is to develop a treatment plan designed to assist each individual achieve their aesthetic goals in a safe and effective manner. We have products for newborns and those who are ‘not so new’.

Include your business website url?

www.dermus.com

What makes the business unique?

DermUs is not an Ulta or Sophora however we DO offer many skin care and cosmetic lines to provide skin care and cosmetic solutions for every skin type/every age/every issue from acne to anti-aging ... From the fun prom makeup and classic wedding makeup .. for the starters and those who started long ago. We offer holistic and organic lines, sunscreens for EVERYONE and can help with the weirdest of the weird skin allergies

Is your business involved in any community initiatives or charitable activities that you want to share?

Mock Interview with high school students

All Main Street promotions

Send representative to middle school as special guest speaker for health and wellness classes

Available to students from not only our community but surrounding schools that want to job shadow

Support Kiwanis

Support our community high school and surrounding schools with $ for yearbooks

Last year we provided donations to over 75 fundraisers and already this year we have provided support and donations both monetary and products/services/gift cards to 26 organizations and fundraising efforts for our community

Currently, DermUs provides job shadowing opportunities to high school students. Career experiences are needed for all Spencer graduates and DermUs offers shadowing for those who think they might be interested in the field. Robin Edwards also offers mock interviews to satisfy careers class requirements and she has volunteered and conducted educational talks within classrooms at both middle school and high school health class and careers classes. DermUs has even hosed continuing education classes for estheticians both in Spencer at our downtown store and through Faust continuing education curriculum in Spirit Lake. We have also found a win win with the local community theatre and high school drama department. We donate our dead cosmetic inventory for use in productions.

What drew you to start your business in our community?

Love this community and how it supports small businesses. We have the BEST clients!!!

I love being part of Spencer downtown ‘beauty row’. The salons that surround us are filled with our friends, neighbors and clients. There are enough clients for us to share and we all know our strengths. You would never want me, Robin Edwards, to do your hair. I am happy to share contact information with my clients looking for great cuts, colors and special event looks. DermUs also provides referrals to our clients who we are not able to get in for mani’s or pedi’s at DermUs due to our lack of staff able to offer these services at this time. Same goes with massages. Many of us also work together to offer continuing education opportunities. We also all come together to address changes in legislature that affect our licensing regulations.

How long have you been in business?

started DermUs the end of 1999