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Fiorina Garcia
Owner/Aesthetician/Brazilian Hardwax Specialist
Daydreaming, Daytripping February baby/believer/skintress/green beauty junkie/healthy living/beauty inside out advocate/vintagelover/craftylady/musiclover/ earthwarrior/advocate of all things green & clean/lover of the underestimated and disregarded/and BIG believer in eating for beauty!
Hello soul!
Welcome to my heart, and home, sweet to the soul, Whittier’s original, and authorized home of Osmosis Holistic Skincare, and of course, the Osmosis Dermal Facial Infusion, our most popular, and requested skin wellness therapy!
My name is Fiorina, but you can call me Fio, if you can’t roll your “r’. I’am half Mexican, and half Italian, or as I like to say, “half Chicana, and Half Latina,” which means I’m double the passion, about a lot of things, especially skin care! I am the creator, and caretaker of sweet to the soul, and have been a holistically driven Aesthetician in the skin care industry for two decades, specializing in natural based beauty, and hardwax Brazilians. However, long before then, I became a passionate connoisseur of healthy living, clean eating, and non-toxic beauty, that eventually lead me here, to you.
I started my journey towards wellness, and healthy living almost three decades ago, when it wellness was far from common knowledge.. For sweet to the soul, green beauty and healthy healthy living is so much more than just a catch phrase or marketing strategy. It’s not only a passion, but the way in which I honor God, this planet, you, and also my body. I become plant based, and fiercely dedicated to protecting and honoring this beautiful planet around 1995 after reading a book called “Diet for a new America,” back when there wasn’t the internet, and a time when common knowledge about how our food choices affect the planet, sentiment beings, and our overall health, wasn’t really available, or trendy. By consciously choosing to change my diet to a healthier, and more compassionate one, and to choose to walk lightly, reducing my overall globa,l and local footprint, I began to cement my current skin wellness philosophies back then, even without fully realizing it at the time.
Similarly, I became extremely passionate about skincare at about 14 years of age and became hungry for anything, and everything about natural beauty and skin wellness that I could get my hands on, which through the years, eventually, brick by brick, built the skin wellness philosophies of sweet to the soul. I remember purchasing what I thought were high quality skincare products from the department store, spending hundreds of dollars on a teenager’s salary, because even then I knew the importance of proactive, and preventative skin care. I also remember being fascinated by older women who had beautiful skin. and would always ask them their beauty secrets, and secretly tuck them away in my mind for later reference. Soon after that, I realized, and connected the dots to healthy eating to healthy skin. To say I was obsessed about healthy skin was, and still is, an understatement.
sweet to the soul from its birth has been built on the solid foundation of healthy, and green living, and incorporates natural healing, lifestyle, spirituality, diet, and nutrition into its skin wellness therapies, and even our hard wax services. We never use any skin care products with fragrances, coloring, FD&C dyes, parabens, phthalates, mineral oil, or other harmful ingredients, not only for your skin, but also for our planet.
I believe in Wholistic skincare, which is the care of the whole person, not just one part. Most standard treatments in the industry, such as chemical peels, and lasers, sadly too often wound and damage the skin rather than heal it. I believe that if we instead restore the skin with the skin nutrition its loses as it begins to age, the skin then will begin to naturally heal and exfoliate itself, thus improving the function and health of your skin overall. Choosing progressive treatments over aggressive ones are the one true way to healthy and vibrant skin. Of course, along daily physical movement, and a with a diet free from toxins, gluten, sugar, alcohol, dairy, and being mindful on how we choose to prepare our foods, which affect gyration of the cells, and shorten our telomeres, will either advance or slow down aging. I also believe that having a deep, and rich spiritual life wards off stress, worry, and anxiety, often plagued by the world, and wrecking havoc on the skin, is essential to not only to living peaceful life, but to healthy skin, longer. We must choose wisely, and choose mindful living, if we want healthier skin, and a happier life.
Lastly, I’d like to say that sweet to the soul proudly recycles every box, empty bottle, papers, even toilet paper rolls. Most of the items in the spa, from furniture, to decor, often are hand built or made locally, as well as vintage reclaimed from estate sales and/or thrift stores, purchased from small businesses, and/or made from natural, non-toxic materials. Green beauty is an extension of green living, and my hope is that sweet to the soul will always be an expression of that.
My goal is to make each person that walks through the threshold of sweet to the soul feel peaceful, safe, loved, worthy, blessed, and inspired to live a more conscious, Godly, and healthier life, not only for clearer, more beautiful skin, but for your SOUL, and also for the planet, the next generation, out of gratitude of what’s been received.
Please reach out anytime if have any questions. I’m here to walk you through the sometimes very confusing, and intimidating world of skin care, and marketing. Whatever it is you need, I'am here to empower, and to encourage you in your journey towards healthier skin, and a healthier life, regardless if you are a current client or not.
Thank you so much for visiting and choosing sweet to the soul for your wholistic skin wellness, and soul care destination! Peace be with you always, and please remember, “you are altogether beautiful, my darling, there is no flaw in you, no matter what you have been made to believe by the impossible beauty standards set by culture. You are a shining star, uniquely made by God to SHINE!!!!
With love, xo
Fio
Contact: Texts Preferable
(562) 309-1459
I KINDLY ask to refrain from early morning and late night texts; please try your best to contact me during working hours when possible. Please allow 24-48 response time when calling or texting, You may contact me, however, anytime on instagram, and I will respond when I’m online. Please note, I do not have social media notifications set on my phone, and I do not go on the socials daily, so please note if contacting me there. The recommended, and most convenient way to schedule is online at www.schedulicity.com, and all first time clients are redirected to book online initially. Visit our Instagram page at sweettothesoulbeautique for link to book or for any questions or inquires with quickest response time. Thank you for your consideration, we look forward to seeing your soul!