In February/March the warning signs for COVID were across our television screens, in our timelines and confronting reality, this led to Director of Macquarie Medi Spa, Karla McDiarmid to approach skincare giant Dermalogica, to see what could be done for our local health facilities, in both Orange and Bathurst.

Karla explained, “I just felt for our healthcare services, they don’t get the gratitude they deserve, with the hours they work and it could have been any of us that were needing to be looked after.

Dermalogica were too happy to help and soon enough Macquarie Medi Spa received over 2,000 Ultra calming skincare packs to be handed out, with the Hospital to distribute as they need.

Karla continued, “We’ve never seen this in our lifetime, with the stress we’ve gone through we are seeing people coming in with more sensitive skin than ever before, so they are actually reacting to things they’ve never reacted to, they’ve got more redness and their skin is irritated and its all linked back to stress and our diets and lifestyle has changed. So, I think this is a great pack because anyone can use it.

It’s been wonderful too because as a business we have a 99% female customer base, a lot of the nurses are our customers so we know them, and it’s nice to be able to give back to them as they look after us.

We are so grateful to Dermalogica, we are blessed, and also so thankful that they were happy to support regional, it’s nice to be able to treat a country health service.”

Orange Health Service’s Di Gardiner added, “We thank Macquarie Media Spa and Dermalogica for their very generous donation for the staff here at Orange Health Service. We are very appreciative of all of the donations we have received; we have just been overwhelmed by the generosity of our community and the way they continue to think of our staff out here. Over the past three months everyone at the Orange Health Service has put in incredible effort and they are all going to be very excited to receive these goodies.”

The face packs will be distributed throughout all areas within the facility including; Allied health, Nursing, Medical, Pharmacy and Support services.

Well done Macquarie Medi Spa!