Christine Valmy International
World Leader in Natural Skin Care Products and Education
Christine Valmy International has beauty schools in New York, New Jersey, Columbia, India and Romania. Our diplomas are accepted internationally.
Christine Valmy - Skin Care legend!
With persistence, innovation and commitment, company founder Christine Valmy has dedicated more than half a century to educating estheticians and improving the way people approach skin care throughout the world. In the United States, Ms. Valmy revolutionized the skin care profession by introducing the field of esthetics. She was recognized for her efforts in 1971 by the 92nd Congress of the United States who awarded her a citation for her work in training upcoming estheticians and establishing a new profession with countless job opportunities.
“Her contributions to education in America have been realized through the creation of the first school for skin care specialists in the United States, the Christine Valmy School for Estheticians” . . . the Congressional Record reads, “[Valmy] has, in effect, created a new, exciting avenue of careers for the young people of America and already hundreds of her graduates are building enterprising careers at their own skin care salons throughout the country.”
— 92nd US Congress
download the tribute to Ms. Valmy published in the Congressional Record
At
the heart of her success is a deep passion for skin care and commitment to
education. Her philosophy has always been to reveal the natural beauty of
the skin by developing skin care products and techniques that enhance the
biological functions of the skin and augment its long-term beauty and health.
She has strived to create techniques and products so that skin does not need
makeup to conceal problems, but instead can radiate with its own true beauty
because enduring improvements to skin health have been achieved. When she
arrived in the United States in the early ’60s, she was surprised to
see that makeup was typically used to hide unhealthy skin and she set out
to change this. Among her early endeavors was opening the first school for
esthetics in the United States in 1966. The Christine Valmy International
School for Esthetics had a huge impact on changing American attitudes towards
skin care and fostered the development of a new branch of the beauty industry.
Because of her success in increasing the demand for skin care salons throughout the United States, Christine Valmy obtained the trust and commitment of other estheticians and cosmetologists and in 1966, founded the American Aesthetician Association. In 1967 the American Aesthetician Association became CIDESCO Section USA when the US became a full member of CIDESCO at the CIDESCO World Congress in Ostende, Belgium. Christine Valmy served as president from 1967 to 1986 during which time CIDESCO USA merged with the National Cosmetologists Association (NCA). She continues to this day as a leading member of the NCA. In addition to organizing yearly National Congresses of Aesthetics, Christine Valmy organized the First National Congress of Aesthetics and Cosmetology in New York in 1967 and the CIDESCO World Congresses that were held in New York in 1972 and 1980. Ms. Valmy is the recipient of numerous awards including the CIDESCO Medaille du Merito, awarded for her Professional Standards and Status, and the highest honor of the Eighth French Congress of Esthetics. She was a trustee of the American Beauty Association and chairperson of the National Association of Esthetic Equipment Manufacturers. In 1976, President Gerald Ford nominated Christine Valmy for the Small Business Administrators Small Business Persons of the Year Award. In addition, Ms. Valmy has shown clear commitment to humanitarian concerns in the United States. She has served as a trustee on the board of People to People International, an organization founded by President Eisenhower to promote friendship and understanding in the world, and has been a member of the Advisory Committee of the Jersey City Job Corps Center for Women in New Jersey. Because of her vast experience in developing the field of skin care esthetics, in 1985, Ms. Valmy was appointed by President Reagan to serve on the United States National Council on Vocational Education to assist in the development of the country's policies of vocational education, in which capacity she served until 1991.
Christine Valmy has published several books on skin care, esthetics and her scientific facial method. With these and numerous other national and international achievements, Christine Valmy has earned the undisputed reputation as a worldwide authority in her field. Her success is not only a personal one but a national one because she is an integral part of the creation and history of scientific skin care as it exists in the United States today.
The Company . . . Behind The Scenes
Christine Valmy schools and product lines are recognized around the world for excellence. Today Christine Valmy's vision remains as vital as ever. Her daughter, Marina Valmy, shares her mother's passion for skin care and is positioning the company for continued excellence with each generation. With the support of its dedicated professional staff, the Christine Valmy company is taking natural beauty products and education to exciting new levels.
The Christine Valmy laboratory has spent years perfecting their products and bears the esteemed reputation of several generations of experience in all natural skin care product development and innovation. Combining ingredients from age-old traditions of Ayurveda (from India), and ancient China, with 21st century elements and techniques, Christine Valmy produces the most advanced, cutting-edge cosmoceuticals today. There are no other products available anywhere that can begin to compare with these wonderful formulations. Because they are based on holistic and homeopathic principles, they truly improve the skin and help even the most problem skin to become the best that it possibly can.