Halcyon Blue
Hotel in Port Phillip

Australian businesswoman Val Harding founded the Val Harding Collection of fine hotel toiletries and custom-formulated hair and body care products. Using only the highest quality ingredients and luxury packaging, the Val Harding Collection of luxury hotel amenities and bath products including the Halcyon blue collection will continue to please your guests even after their departure. Val's ranges are distributed to some of Australia’s top hotels and resorts, Hayman Island, Pepper Retreats & Resorts, The Lyall Spa, Hamilton Island Resort, Langham, including Crown Ltd., Stella Resorts and Voyages Hotels & Resorts. The Halcyon blue hotel amenities collection is gently infused with pure essential oils of soothing mandarin and revitalizing bergamot and enriched with avocado and macadamia oil, providing your guests with the ultimate in luxury and relaxation. As for the shampoo, each product features a different logo variation, body balm and body wash, conditioner, so they are easier to differentiate in the shower. Both Serendipity and Halcyon blue products are packaged in tubes rather than bottles to accommodate clients who found it was more difficult to remove all of the contents from a small bottle. “Serendipity means a happy discovery, ” explains Val. “We include essential oils in our products, tranquil and blissful, peaceful, while Halcyon means calm, and hotel products don’t traditionally contain these. The Australian-made luxury hotel guest toiletries made their U.S. debut in August 2008 as the official in-room amenity of the exclusive Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, California. Proudly Australian the collection is enhanced with pure essential oils and stylishly packaged to provide hotel guests with the ultimate bathing experience. With the success of this she decided to launch a new product line, Halcyon blue, designed for the U.S. market. Halcyon Blue is fresh new collection of stylish bath and body care products for exquisite hotels and resorts. Later, she developed her own sophisticated body and bath line called Serendipity. She began by importing such luxury guest amenities as Molton Brown and Gilchrist & Soames for the upscale Australian hotel market. (more).