![]() But, this company was bought out so it is just a subsidiary now and not an independent company. Unless things have changed that status in the past couple of years. No one seems to know why it was discontinued. It could be that the company was not making enough money off the product. Not through bad sales but through higher costs to manufacture. Rumor also has it that it was discontinued to cut down on the competition. If you do not count the brief exit from the store shelves, you can say that nothing happened to it. The product is back and is being sold by major and minor retail outlets. ![]() The formula seems to be the same as well. ![]() You may have to check SEC records as the company that made this sunscreen product was sold to an unnamed company from Canada. That company may have spun it off or re-sold it to someone else. Many people think that Ocean Potion is the company that owns No-Ad but those products were made by the same company mentioned earlier in this article. Yes, we have seen many different stores, both large and small retail outlets, marketing this product today. The price looks affordable but then we have not looked at the prices of the competing sunscreen options. We also see it listed for sale at Walmart and Target. You can do some comparison shopping to get the best deal. Plus, it may be a good idea to stock up in case they stop production again.As anyone who's ever perused the aisles of their local drugstore or beauty supply chain can tell you, finding the best skincare products is hard. That's why our Good Housekeeping Institute Beauty Lab scientists are always testing the latest and greatest innovations in skincare, from drugstore picks to luxury beauty brands and everything in between, to find the best products in the world that are actually proven to work. Straus, SCCR's chief executive officer, said he had no comment on reports of the company's sale and move out of Brevard.īeard said he and DeAngelo are interested in restarting at least two skin care brand, based in Brevard, and will be meeting with local economic development officials soon to discuss options for manufacturing and distribution.Ĭheck back with FLORIDA TODAY to updates to this story.The GH Beauty Lab thoroughly evaluates skincare products using technical Lab instruments and consumer feedback. DeAngelo's biggest coup came in 1991 when a local Walmart agreed to sell one Ocean Potion product.ĭeAngelo sold most of the company, about 70 percent, to Source Capital in April 2012. He quickly outgrew that space and moved the operation to Cocoa. Gary DeAngelo, a former commercial Realtor who began making skin lotions out of his Virginia Beach house in the 1980s, started Ocean Potion in 1988 in Suntree. Promotional tube of Ocean Potion sunscreen often are distributed at various public events which have served to increase recognition of the company and Brevard. SCCR has been a Brevard mainstay for more than a quarter of a century. "It just sort of progressed since then," Beard said. "They let the employees know about three weeks ago that there was this potential to happen," said Danny Beard, the company's director of consumer events and corporate promotions who received his layoff notice last week ![]() SSCR currently is mostly owned by Source Capital LLC, an Atlanta-based private equity firm. The deal to an undisclosed Canadian company will leave about 130 people without jobs as manufacturing operations for SSCR products are moved to a facility in northeast Georgia. Cocoa-based Sun & Skin Care Research LLC, a 26-year-old Brevard County company that manufactures skin care products under the labels of Ocean Potion, BullFrog and No-Ad, is to be sold this week. ![]()
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