Product line brings Bath City
BIRMINGHAM
— Margot’s European Spa is celebrating not only 21 years at its downtown
location, but also 34 minerals that are said to work miracles.
Margot’s
offers a new line of products called ME or Mineral Essentials, made of natural
minerals drawn fr om the Mount Clemens Mineral Basin.
Margot
Kohler’s spa at 280 N. Old Woodward is the only place in Michigan where the
products are sold.
The
ME line contains anti-aging sprays for the face, body washes and lotions, foot
pampering products and even bath salts that one woman credits with keeping her
mobile.
Carey
Dejazghere, 26, was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis when she was young. Her
whole body hurt. Doctors told her she would be in a wheelchair by the time she
was 18.
Then,
her dad gave her a gift certificate to take a healing bath in the mineral water
at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. It made all the difference in the world, she said.
The
minerals seem to lubricate Dejaeghere’s muscles like oil worked for the Tin Man
in the, Wizard of Oz.
“Ever
since I started taking the baths, I’ve felt fantastic,” said Dejaeghere of New
Baltimore, “It revitalizes you.”
Dejaeghere,
a spokesperson for Jeep, does commercials and car shows. Before, she said she
could, barely stand up all day. Now, her new energy and attitude keeps her
working much more, she said.
And
she doesn’t have to visit the spa or hospital for the baths; she can take them
at home using Mineral Essentials bath beads. Dejaeghere said, she’s trying get
her family to give it a try.
Sue
Gans owns the well from which the highly concentrated mineral water is pumped.
It is said to have the highest mineral content of any body of water in the
world.
In addition
to arthritis,
the minerals
from
the basin, which
was first discovered by
Charles
Steffens in 1865, are said to alleviate the pains and symptoms of eczema,
rheumatism and other aches and pains.
Whereas
the Dead Sea has anywhere from eight to 21 minerals, Gans said Mount Clemens,
mineral water has 34. The water is so concentrated with minerals, in fact, that
the water comes out of the pump looking like black sludge.
There’s
no danger of the basin drying up, Gans said.
Gans,
a real estate broker from Bloomfield Hills, learned, about the well after
talking with a chemist in Oak Park about starting a line of beauty products. The
chemist’s next door neighbor happened to own the well and was in failing health.
Gans bought him out.
That
was seven years ago. Two, years ago, she developed a line of products called
Ache Away and then got into the beauty business.
“People
are really funding out about minerals and they are so good for your skin,” Gans
said. Cosmetic companies have started infusing minerals into their products, she
said.
The
products are formulated by the Mardale Corporation of Troy and sold by the world
renowned Greenbrier Spa in West Virginia.
Kohler
said she is excited about the new line of products.
Kohler
has diplomas and certificates from around the world. She was medically trained
in skin care and worked in Ann Arbor before opening her spa in Birmingham 21
years ago.
“Our
(focus) has always been on well-being in conjunction with beauty,” she said.
“It’s all about the quality,”
