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By: Marc Miquel Helsen| Posted: on August 02, 2008

	UNDER ONE ROOF Bauman Laser and Electrolysis opened last week and Elmira Holistic Solutions opens its doors Aug. 8.

For one half of the business partnership, the move from Floradale to Elmira was a professional transition to a bigger venue, a move made to parallel the growth of the business. For the other, it was a move made to complement a personal choice to leave behind the hustle and bustle of a growing Waterloo for a quieter, calmer Elmira.
The meeting point for both is the newly opened, Basics Beauty & Beyond on Arthur Street North in Elmira. The facility, a reconverted old home, will feature two new businesses: Bauman Laser and Electrolysis (hair removal, advanced cosmetic procedures) and Elmira Holistic Solutions, which will offer natural health and nutrition services.
“It was time to move; I had been there for long enough,” said Rachel Bauman, who previously ran Bauman Laser and Electrolysis from her home in Floradale. After some 10 years in the business, Bauman, who purchased the business from a lady who once thinned her eyebrows, decided it was time to grow forward.
“Growth is always a good thing,” she said with a chuckle.
Bauman subsequently went back to school, learned the trade, bought the business and then expanded it from there.
In addition to laser hair removal and electrolysis, Bauman Laser & Electrolysis will offer customers a range of services, including waxing, eyelash and brow tinting, pedicures, wart removal and advanced cosmetic procedures (i.e. broken capillaries, skin tags, blood spots, moles).
The other half of Basics Beauty & Beyond will feature Elmira Holistic Solutions, offering, among other services, nutrition consultation, first-line therapy, detox programs, lymphatic drainage massages, reflexology and polarity, Jin Shin acupressure, and hot stone and chair massages.
Having moved to Elmira from Waterloo, Susan Nikyuluw also liked the idea of bringing her business closer to home. The “quiet” and “calm” of the town, by comparison to Waterloo, had a lot of appeal for Nikyuluw, who brings with her to Elmira many years of experience working as a registered nutrition consultant.
In the industry since 1995, Nikyuluw found her calling when she realized how changes to her own life helped her deal with some health issues at the time.
“I had to change my lifestyle, and realizing that … thought, ‘well, if it helped me, why don’t I try to help others?
“Because of changing my nutrition and my lifestyle habits, I got better, healthier. From that [came] my interest in helping others to do the same thing.”
Helping people deal with a wide range of ailments – from digestive problems to heart burn, or stress related issues – Nikyuluw devises health programs for her clients based on their needs and an holistic approach to health.
“People have to move, otherwise their whole system gets stagnant,” she said, noting that biking, walking or as little as 10 minutes on a trampoline can go a long way.
The other important component is nutrition.
“They say you are what you eat … or what you don’t eat.”
With two businesses already ready to go at the Arthur Street facility, Basics Beauty & Beyond has room to grow: Bauman is looking to lease out two rooms. The nature of those businesses remains to be seen, but ultimately Bauman would like to see them complement what is already there.
“It would be nice to have a one-stop shop,” she said.
“I think there are a lot of women around here that do business out of their house, and maybe they’re ready to have something separate from their home.”
Bauman Laser and Electrolysis opened last week; Elmira Holistic Solutions opens Aug. 8.

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