Inside The Garden: Evanhealy Opens Flagship Skincare Boutique In North County

CARLSBAD, CA — Step inside The Garden in North County and you're stepping into the world behind an evanhealy skincare bottle.

That was the idea behind the skincare brand's new flagship boutique, tucked inside its Carlsbad headquarters alongside the company's in-house lab, product development, manufacturing and shipping operations.

"Imagine if you were to dive headfirst into a bottle of an evanhealy serum," Jamie Burkhalter, evanhealy's brand and retail experience manager, told Patch. "The Garden is what we imagine that might look and feel like."

For evanhealy, choosing Carlsbad for its first flagship retail location was an easy decision.

"It is where our heartbeat is," Burkhalter said. "Our daily operations and our team are just on the other side of The Garden wall."

The company, which has focused on plant-based skincare for more than 27 years, had long wanted its own retail location — a place where it could tell its story while showcasing the plants behind its products.

The Garden was designed to feel like an extension of the brand: organic, tactile and grounded in the natural world, Burkhalter said. Botanicals used in the company's lab and used in the products are displayed in their natural form throughout the space.

"It wasn't designed to be different, just us," she said. "That is what makes it unique, a physical representation of the evanhealy philosophy."

The goal is to give visitors a place to slow down, reconnect with their skin and experience skincare "as a ritual rather than a routine," Burkhalter said.

The Garden also offers a signature facial performed by a licensed esthetician. The treatment includes evanhealy's oil-and-water layering method, aromatic plant waters, cleansing, customized extractions, a clay mask and facial and upper-body massage.

Since opening, Burkhalter said The Garden has welcomed longtime evanhealy customers visiting from across the country as well as local residents discovering the brand for the first time.

"What we have been told is that our signature facial is otherworldly," she said. "It is slow and intentional with a focus of oil and water."

The flagship comes as evanhealy marks another milestone. The company recently became the first beauty brand to receive Regenerative Organic Certification from the Regenerative Organic Alliance, according to the company.

Evanhealy products are sold in more than 2,000 stores across the United States and Canada, but for now, The Garden is the brand's only retail location of its kind.

"It would be a dream to grow The Garden in different locations," Burkhalter said, "but for right now we are focusing our energies in Carlsbad."