Eternal Child — From Humble Beginnings to Successful Business

This is the story of Natasha and Lindy van Diemen, despite growing up in Grassypark, the two sisters raised from humble beginnings to successful business owners and entrepreneurs – both driven by passion and determination to make a success.

Today they not only own Orisons Activations, a brand activation and promotions company but are the proud developers of the Eternal Child luxury body care products range as well as the wellness Spa, situated in the southern suburb of Tokai – rated as one of the top Wellness Spa’s in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town.

In 1999 the two sisters decided to start a modelling agency. Although the two sisters are complete opposites of each other, they work well together as a team.

Sixteen years ago, with a good understanding of modelling Lindy and Natasha started Outlook Models. Soon their clients were also interested in them assisting with promotions and events. Natasha realized that there are many brands on the market that need to promote their products.

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Natasha van Diemen

Natasha used her entrepreneurial skills to create Orisons Promotions in 1999, a company which provides high quality active strategy’s and brand ambassadors to both main and formal markets.
As a business-woman she achieved great success in the events and brand activation industry over the past 12 years. In 2009 she was the winner of South African Breweries Kick-Start Competition and was funded a Mobile showroom, the first in the country. As Natasha had no formal training she decided to study at the Louis Group Business Academy in 2011, where she was awarded 3rd prize out of 70 students.

Lindy van Diemen

Lindy has been with Orisons since the start. She has managed activations, trained promoters, engaged in client negotiations and has closed many deals – Motorola, GrandWest Casino, Distell and SAB to name a few. She also managed major events such as North Sea Jazz Festival, Grand West smoking casino. Currently Lindy manages the Finance Department.

Orisons Promotions

Run by Natasha Van Diemen, Orisons has more than 11 years’ experience in taking brands to the market for clients such as SAB, Capitec, Grandest, Heart FM, KFC and many more and are equipped to service all markets.

As part of a business competition in 2009, called Kickstart, Natasha was asked to come up with a product or showroom that can enhance Orisons Promotions and make it easier for brands to reach out to the main market.

As winner of the competition, a mobile showroom was built and launched in 2010 at the Fernwood Estate as a South African Breweries and Orisons collaboration.

The first luxury mobile unit was used for corporate events and company branding by Nissan, GrandWest Casino, Pick ‘n Pay, Capitec, Avroy Slain, Curves Ladies Gym, Hansa Pilsner, Department of Transport, SAB, Western Cape Government, schools, and many more which quickly led to Orisons increasing its number of mobile units.

Today, Corporate Companies use the mobile showroom as a marketing tool to promote their products and services by going to private clients, taking their brands to the market. Using Orisons promoters trained in product and brand knowledge, interacting with their customers, assisting and hosting launches, measurable brand awareness is created. Orisons Promotions has  organized close to 400 activations with the mobile showroom in 2014.

Eternal Child was born

The story continues when corporate clients from Orisons activations requested Lindy and Natasha, as brand ambassadors, to provide hand and neck massages at some corporate events offering wellness days to their clients and staff. First they used body products provided by their clients, but then decided it was time to follow their own passion and produce their own luxury body products – a dream becoming a reality!

The name “Eternal Child” was born while brainstorming with staff in finding a suitable name for their new Body Care Company.  Lindy and Natasha decided to leave a legacy for their children – therefore the E for Eternal stands for Emma, Lindy’s child, and the C in Child stands for Chloe, Natasha’s daughter.

Background

In 2012 Natasha and Lindy started with the Research and Development of Eternal Child. Spending time learning about the wellness industry in Holland.  Together they created a luxurious range of bath and body products that would leave a person feeling as royalty. In October 2013 Eternal Child opened doors as a day Spa with 4 treatment rooms, providing treatment for individuals or couples.

Eternal Child became a brand designed and developed by the Van Diemen sisters and promoted through Orisons Activations. Presently Natasha is the spokesperson, attending all the workshops and interviews with her outspoken personality, while Lindy is the one that is office based, handling the finances and operations.

They started manufacturing the foot care range first, followed by other products in smaller quantities to personalize their product range for their clients.

From opening day Eternal Child Spa provided service to over 3000 customers. Clients from areas as wide as Franschhoek and Hermanus return frequently for pampering at the Spa and the rebooking of services is one of the successes of the business.

The Eternal Child Spa is well established creating an environment for the customer to feel at home. Their  qualified therapist’s treat customers with respect, dignity and supply them with a first class service and quality products that make them feel rejuvenated and relaxed.

Products

There are three product ranges available in the Eternal Child luxury product range. The Aloe, Pomegranate and Olive range consist of body wash, body lotion, body scrub, body salts, body butter, and massage oil.

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The only range that does not contain massage oil is the Pomegranate range which is more suitable for the youth, while adults prefer the olive range. The peppermint foot spa range comprises of foot salts, foot scrub, and foot butter.

The 100% organic products are available at the Spa – Rosegeranium mouse, Vanilla mousse, Ylang Ylang mousse, Kalahari scrub, a soy candle with lemon grass and vanilla are all natural products.
Apart from the luxury Spa products, Eternal Child also offers Bathroom accessories, a Lifestyle Clothing range with towelling gowns, T-Shirts, towels, as well as cosmetics, and lifestyle bags, not to mention the fragrant candles to create your own romantic atmosphere at home.

Eternal Child always emphasize the healing properties of their products.

Treatments

Treatments available at the Wellness Spa include Waxing, Facial, Manicure and Pedicure, and massage.

Eternal Child Spa offers couple and single treatments, and also welcomes mothers and daughters, teenagers and bachelorettes.  Spa packages with Eternal Child products can vary from Signature for him/her, His and Hers Sensational, Bride to be, The Busy executive, Pure Bliss or a Sparkling pamper for teens.

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Eternal Child specializes in Swedish full body, back and neck message and use message oil from the Olive or Aloe range to relieve tension and to de-stress the overworked body of the customer. A traditional Indian Head message technique is used on areas affected by mental and emotional stress, bringing immediate relief. After a body treatment there is also as an optional extra on the Eternal Child Menu to choose from.

Health benefits

With the stress-full life we are experiencing on a day to day basis, natural message and wellness treatments can be of immense benefit to your health. It does not only relieve pain, but promotes relaxation, reduce stress, increase energy and vitality, improves your skin appearance tone; eliminate bodily toxins and many more.

Mobile Spa – Corporate Events

Eternal Child can bring the mobile Spa utilising Orisons mobile showroom units with trained therapists to your office, home, corporate events or private functions to pamper your staff or customers with a 10-15 minute hand or neck and shoulder massage. They only use Eternal Child Body care and organic products for treatments, while body products are available to purchase.


The Mobile Spa is also used for Wellness Days, Women’s Events, Bridal Parties, Matric Dance, Baby Showers, Birthday Parties, Pamper Parties and many more. For Corporate Events hamper baskets are also made available on request.

Vision

Eternal Child’s vision is to extend their products as the number 1 choice of body care product throughout homes in the Western Cape – opening Spa’s in Cape Town, Northern Suburbs and Cape Winelands, each region with its own mobile Spa.  Part of their vision is to own a Wellness Centre and Training Academy where student therapists can be trained in-house.

Their focus is empowering the unemployed and disadvantaged by training and mentoring them to become skilled, while creating job opportunities. Eternal Child also plans a men’s and babies range to their list of products in the near future.

Social Upliftment

Eternal Child pledges R1 to their favourite charities of every product they sell. The team also engage in pampering the aged at old age homes on special holidays as well as on Christmas and Easter.

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The Newspaper believes that Natasha and Lindy van Diemen’s story of a humble beginning unto great successes is an inspiration to all our readers – start dreaming, your dream can become a reality!

All treatments are performed at the Eternal Child Spa, at 4 White Road, Tokai where all products are made available. An organic product range is also available at the Fruit and Veg City in Tokai.

For more information contact 021 712 2536 or visit www.eternalchild.co.za

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