Taiwanese Aboriginal Facial Mask Skin Care by TENART BIOTECH LIMITED

A´ Design Award & competition 2016.4.16

DESIGN NAME:
Taiwanese Aboriginal Facial Mask

PRIMARY FUNCTION:
Skin Care

INSPIRATION:
TenArt Biotech goes after the quality, safety, innovation, and fashion of personal-care products. Based in Taiwan, we have abundant agriculture, rich biodiversity, and ancient culture of indigenous people. Therefore, we add local elements into our products, and use eco-friendly ingredients to show the beauty and lavishness of Taiwanese culture.

UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The product includes the beauty of Taiwan’s aborigines. Gained the patents, the formulas includes Taiwan’s local plants such as bitter melon, pigeon peas, and Formosa lily. The package is inspired by the aboriginal legends, and printed with non-toxic soy-based inks. The shape of foil bags is designed as ” orbicular sky and rectangular earth”, representing a balance of Yin and Yang. The gift box features endangered Black-faced Spoonbills, and made of stone paper to show the love of earth.

OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION:
Image that you can easily have an at-home face spa by yourself and revive skin effectively in just 15 minutes! Wash your face, and use the serum in the upper part of the foil package. Then, take the mask sheet form the lower part of the package. Take the middle mask & put it on your face, and in just 20 minutes, the eco-friendly and oil-free essence will be tightening up pores, smoothing out fine lines. The masks are SGS certified and suitable for any skin type.

PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION:
The products are available from 2014. Sales in Taiwan and overseas.

PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY:
The formulas follow the Taiwanese aboriginal culture and legacy, and feature the Taiwan’s local plants such as bitter melon, pigeon peas, and Taiwan Sun Moon Lake Ruby Black Tea. The product includes top quality plant extracts, and contains no animal ingredients. The mask sheet is made of Japanese natural silk, with high infiltration. The masks were passed the SGS Human Patch Test and Ultra Trace Industrial Safety Hygiene Test. Each mask is individually packaged in a 9-layer foil sachet designed to keep the mask sheet & serum fresh and highly effective. Each foil packaging showcases exclusive, stunningly beautiful artwork inspired by Taiwanese Aboriginal culture, printed with environmentally friendly soy ink. We also create a mobile APP to help customer evaluate their skin to get the suitable mask.

SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES:
Width 16cm x Depth 3.5 cm x Height 19.2 cm. 2ml Vital precursor serum. 30 ml essences in one single facial mask. Japanese natural silk facial mask sheet used, with high infiltration. 9 layers of Aluminum bags pouch for safest quality.

TAGS:
skin care, green life, facial masks, Taiwan,

RESEARCH ABSTRACT:
Customer Feedback after service. We invite 10 bloggers and customers to try out our masks and share their feedback on bloggers and facebook. The general outcome is fantastically great. All of the customers agree that our mask sheet as a cultural experience of Taiwan. 9 out of 10 them consider our masks as the best souvenir for foreign guests and willing to buy our package for their overseas friends. Besides, our mask sheets were also ranked second as the best souvenir by millions of Chinese customers via the investigation conducted by Shop Taiwan.

CHALLENGE:
No one considers facial masks as souvenir before. However, Maskindom consider our facial masks as a kind of cultural experience for beauty of Taiwan. Therefore, we look for the indigenous elements from ancient tribes in Taiwan, and transform them in to fashionable design. We also follow the aboriginal tradition and custom to design our formulas, using local plant to as the ingredient in our serum. We asked different experts, ranging from archaeologists, dermatology specialist, paper artists to designers, to make it happen. Via our project, the meaning of facial masks are reconsidered by the customers. Skin-care is not only a healthy procedure, it is also a part of cultural experience and can be a representation or signature of a country.

ADDED DATE:
2016-02-15 10:37:16

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IMAGE CREDITS:
Images: provided by TENART Biotech

PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS:
"Bitter Melon Facial Mask. Patented. Patent No. M484958. TENART BIOTECH. 2014" "Black-faced Spoonbills gift box. Patented. Patent No.D155293. TENART BIOTECH. 2013"

CLIENT/STUDIO/BRAND DETAILS

NAME:
MASKINGDOM

PROFILE:
With the belief of a love, Michelle Sung founds MASKINGDOM, the leading facial mask brand of "green, non-toxic, and effective". The products are formulated with natural plant extract, and all of our products are alcohol free, Paraben free, mineral oil free, artificial dyes and fragrance free. The products passed the SGS Human Patch test, and avoid 26 kinds of allergens spices regulated by EU norms and 102 kinds of ingredients that harmful to human health announced by "Ministry of Health, Japan". MASKINGDOM also use eco-friendly packaging such as biodegradable stone paper, and vegetable nontoxic soy inks, to show the love of nature and earth.

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