BY MATT LINDSEY

North Country This Week

CANTON – Two Canton sisters are now the new owners of Glow Skincare and Spa, 75 Main St.

Siblings Sarah Franklin and Susan Lorenc bought the business from Carmen Gendebien. The deal will be finalized April 26.

Gendebien is stepping down as owner to pursue her new business venture, A Wholesome Glow, which offers soaps, oils, body creams, lotions, milk baths and more that are made using locally sourced ingredients from her husband’s farm.

The new entrepreneurs plan to offer expanded hours, new products and, down the road, might renovate space upstairs to host parties for bridal showers, “little princess” parties or just a girls’ night out gathering.

Hours will expand to include Mondays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Thursdays they will stay open later, until 8 p.m.; and Saturday hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Hours will remain 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

“We have expanded our retail and will have gifts to suit everyone and every budget, men included,” Franklin said.

The current staff will remain, as well as all services. The business will now offer 90-minute massages, half hour scalp massages, and airbrush makeup application. “Just in time for prom and bridal season,” Franklin said.

She said customers are sure to see some changes to the interior. There are “some new colors on the walls, furnishings and lots of retail,” Franklin said.

“My sister and I have always talked about going into business together but could never find the right opportunity that suited both of our backgrounds,” Franklin said.

Lorenc works as a massage therapist at Glow.

“The staff is amazing and to be able to purchase a reputable business from someone like Carmen who has put her heart and soul into this spa is just an amazing opportunity,” Franklin said.

The sisters are Canton natives. Franklin graduated from Clarkson University with a BA in accounting. She has worked as an accountant, project manager for an architecture and interior design company in Chappaqua, and as a branch manager for Robert Half International in Colorado.

She and her husband moved back to Canton in 2006 and she’s been a licensed real estate agent with Pat Collins Real Estate since 2013. She has three children.

Lorenc graduated from Cornell University with a BS in biology and went on to receive her master’s degree in science education from the University at Buffalo.

She taught Regents chemistry and Earth science in Buffalo before moving to Pennsylvania where her husband completed his residency program in emergency medicine.

The couple moved back to Canton in 2003 with her two young children.

After spending years as a stay-at-home mom, Lorenc returned to the working world to help offset the “empty-nest syndrome” she would soon faced with.

She decided that massage therapy was a good fit because it would allow her flexibility in her schedule and engage the science part of her brain, Franklin said.

She commuted to North Country Community College in Saranac Lake for two years to complete her associate’s degree in massage therapy.

She is a now licensed as a massage therapist and “could not be happier with the career choice” that she made, Franklin said.