To Travel is to Live

Posted on 17. May, 2010 by TeamPP in News & Articles

By CEO Paul Penders

I am in the great position to be able to travel a lot. Traveling makes one grow, no matter what age we have reached, and what we have seen before.

Each travel is a new experience – and without new experiences, no life!

During the last couple of weeks, I have traveled from Western Europe, through Eastern Europe, with a stop-over in Dubai, before heading back to Langkawi, Malaysia.

When I arrived in Dubai, at first I thought there would not be much available in terms of natural cosmetics. But, after a few days, I knew I had been wrong!

I went to The Dubai Mall, which is by far the largest “complete and satisfying” mall I have ever seen in my life (and I have seen many!).

While strolling around, suddenly a wonderful surprise materialized in front of me… The Organic Foods & Café.

At first sight it looked like the same kind of stores I used to see in California, Florida, or New York, but that was only until I entered the store.

It was a very customer friendly place with a GREAT assortment of anything you could possible desire in natural and organic products.

I hardly believed my own eyes when I saw the truly wonderful section of natural and organic cosmetics, imported from the US, from Germany, and Switzerland, just to mention some.

Honestly speaking, I have never been in a natural product store that was so nicely and warm decorated, with such a huge assortment of several lines – and they were all affordably priced!

The manager of the Skin & Body Care Section was extremely helpful, and very willing to answer my many questions in a very informative way.

During my visit, I noticed only one natural color cosmetic line, and I am currently in contact with Mr. Nills, the CEO of Organic Foods & Café… and who knows… there might soon be two lines available. We would be pretty proud to be a part of this amazing natural organic cosmetics paradise.

Yes, to travel is to live; it beautifies our soul – even without the use of natural organic cosmetics!

More about Paul Penders products in several Middle East countries is to follow soon. We can hardly wait to tell you some exciting news…

Paul Penders

Links:
The Organic Foods & Café, Dubai

Paul Penders Natural Mineral Make Up – a Genuine Success
The New Natural Moisture Foundation

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2 Responses to “To Travel is to Live”

  1. Krista

    18. May, 2010

    Paul – love the stories about your travels. When I was in HK, I was also keen to look at the personal care products stores over there. I walked into a THAAN store in central HK and it was beautiful with shelves of natural care products which smelled so good. Plus the THAAN sales person came up to me, offering me a cup of warm tea. She patiently explained to me about their lines using banana leaf, rice and lemongrass (and at which I could not help but hide a smile because what she told me is what I know so well here in Malaysia. I have lemongrass growing in my herb garden!). If you have a chance to visit any THAAN stores worldwide, please do. I believe travel allows us to open our minds and absorb new experiences and new ideas which in turn makes us so much better as marketers, as business people, as humans. I also loved looking at Watsons stores in HK, where I went and looked at the personal care range particularly their organic range!

  2. paul penders

    21. May, 2010

    it is extraordinary fun indeed, feeling like discovery almost when you see something as you describe, but not expecting it to appen anymore. This was the case in Dubai, and as I gave up hope to see any natural cosmetics, suddenly that wonderful store Organic Foods & Cafe popped up in The Dubai Mall, certainly one of the largest and most beautiful shopping mall in the world. Between all that luxury stuff, I saw all these nice natural fruits, natural cosmetics imported from few places in the world and I felt like coming home :-) Traveling indeed is nice and soon will be in India studying the situation of natural cosmetics over there! Will be fun too!!!

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