Skincare products are meant to plump and firm, hydrate or even tone your dermis and epidermis. They’re meant to relax and aid you, even if it’s just cosmetically. Calm and considered, most skincare routines — especially the advanced ones — are minutes-long meditations; time to reflect on what’s ahead but also cleanse yourself of what’s already been done.
But while Flamingo Estate‘s new skincare set does instill peace and tranquility, its origin story is far more…serious.
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The Ski Chalet Kit comprises three products: the Skin Strength Salve, Skin Strength Serum and Skin Strength Muscle Soak. The latter of them was inspired by a life-saving bath drawn by a woman named Jane on Flamingo Estate founder Richard Christiansen’s rugged trip to the center of Antartica, the South Pole.
You see, Christiansen started his trip in South Africa, on a Russian plane that’d take him to a Russian base at the edge of the continent. From there, his troop would trek the thousand-mile journey to its middle. But, just as it happens in movies, things went awry, and Christiansen was thrust into a life or death situation — at least for his group mate Igor, “who looked like a villain from a James Bond movie,” Christiansen wrote on social media.
“We were all tied to each other in case one of us fell through the ice to the water below. Sure enough, big and tall Igor did fall through the ice into the freezing water underneath — almost dragging us with him.”
