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Company

Company overview

SkinHealth Systems Inc. supplies the equipment and consumables that providers use to perform Hydrafacial skincare treatments. Its customers are mainly medical professionals and medical spas, alongside estheticians and other beauty businesses. It reaches them through its own sales teams and distributors. Providers use the equipment for years but replenish single-use tips, solutions and serums as treatments consume them; these repeat purchases generate most of the company’s revenue.

The business depends on providers buying reliable systems, attracting consumers and using those systems regularly. More treatments create more demand for supplies, provided customers keep buying the company’s products. Some providers refill authentic bottles with cheaper, unauthentic products, reducing its sales of solutions and serums.

Its treatment systems are regulated as medical devices, while Boosters and serums are marketed as cosmetics. Device promotion must stay within authorized uses, and cosmetic claims must stay within what cosmetic rules permit. State rules governing estheticians also affect who may offer Hydrafacial treatments without physician supervision.

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Source: SEC filing

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Related companies

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SkinHealth's results depend chiefly on Hydrafacial treatment volume and repeat consumables purchases, with Cartessa a closer facial-treatment competitor than most of the supplied medical-device companies.

  • Apyx Medical and SkinHealth both depend on spending on elective aesthetic treatments and providers' equipment budgets: Apyx sells Renuvion surgical systems to cosmetic surgeons, while SkinHealth sells Hydrafacial systems and recurring consumables to aesthetic providers. Watch Apyx's Renuvion business for clues to cosmetic surgeons' equipment spending, rather than Hydrafacial consumables demand.

Agenda

in 16 daysThu, Nov 5

  1. Time to be announced
    Major

    SkinHealth Systems Inc. earningsThis company

    SkinHealth Systems’ report will show whether aesthetic providers are still buying Hydrafacial systems and whether those installed systems keep driving consumables sales.

  2. Time to be announced

    Apyx Medical Corporation earningsAPYX

    Apyx Medical’s report will show whether cosmetic surgeons are investing in Renuvion systems, offering a clue to provider demand for SkinHealth Systems’ aesthetic equipment.

in 28 daysTue, Nov 17

  1. 8:30 AMET pre-market

    Retail Sales MoM (Oct)

    Retail sales track how much consumers buy from retailers; stronger consumer traffic can support spas’ and other providers’ purchases of SkinHealth’s Hydrafacial systems and consumables, while weaker traffic can pressure those sales.