Pamela Rae

Pamela Rae is the creator and pioneer of the Healthisbeautynow.com Symposiums and online community.  Prior to these events, Rae founded Solavie® Eco-Global Skin/Hair System, the first unisex skin and hair care line designed around the body’s response to environmental conditions.

“Nature holds the answers to more questions than we know how to ask,” says Rae, who looked to the resilience of native plants in different eco-systems to create an effective total body care solution.    Rae, a native of Northern California, and a former NCAA athlete, has always had a special affinity for the outdoors.  Her fascination with all things green, and with the therapeutic magic of wilderness, grew during her college summers as a guide and counselor at the Stanford Sierra Camp.

Rae earned a degree in Human Biology from Stanford University, where she was well known amongst both faculty and fellow students for challenging universally accepted concepts and theories.   Rae’s questioning approach extends to the development of Solavie products, which is not based on traditional skin typing, but instead on conditions that may be present where the user lives or travels, such as wind, sun, humidity or lack thereof, pollutants and much more.

After graduating, Rae began a career in high tech and marketing, but still, she longed for the mountains, and eventually settled in Sun Valley, Idaho, where she founded the Solavie Spa Retreat.  The spa’s point of departure was the discovery by Rae of a very special local hot spring.  No two springs found in nature are ever alike.  Each has a unique mineral composition, and Rae’s find proved through testing to have an ideal mineral composition for the health of skin and hair.  Today, the water from this proprietary source is used exclusively in Solavie products.

The idea for the eco-global line came to Rae quite literally out of thin air.  She noticed that visitors to the spa from many different parts of the world all had a similar complaint.  The skin creams, body washes, shampoos and conditioners they had brought with them were no match for the low oxygen air of a mountain resort.  So she developed the Mountains line – the first Enviro-type® in the Solavie system.  Five other Enviro-types would follow soon, based on Rae’s knowledge that condition of skin and hair reflect direct environmental factors, and must be brought into balance accordingly for optimal health.

Rae, an avid environmentalist and the mother of four, currently resides in Venice Beach, California.