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FAIRFIELD – The health and beauty business called Hush & Co. moved into its own space this year, setting up shop at 50 S. Ninth St. in the former home of Financial Moxie.

Hush & Co. was founded by Helen Drish, a 2021 graduate of Fairfield High School who is the daughter of Terry and Angie Drish. Hush & Co. was previously inside the former location of Scarlett & Co. when it was on East Burlington Avenue.

“I ended up getting an opportunity on this building, which I didn’t want to pass up because my dream was always to have my own storefront,” Drish said sitting inside the business’s new home.

Drish acquired the building in April and moved in on May 1. She has three times as much space as she had in her old location, where she was in a part of the building that didn’t have windows. Now she has plenty of room to display all of her products, with multiple rooms for her various services that include a tanning bed, bronzing bulbs, Hydrafacials, dry salt therapy, infrared light therapy, waxing and more.

Drish described a Hydrafacial as a process that gives skin a refreshed and smooth appearance by sucking out the pores.

Drish’s mother Angie sells retail items in the store, too, such as skin care products, salt exfoliating scrubs, and other wellness materials.

“She’s been traveling with me, and we just got back from a work trip to Vegas,” Drish said in late July.

Drish has always loved to dance, and she taught dance after high school. She never saw herself as an entrepreneur opening her own spa, but that’s the career she landed in, and she’s glad she did.

“Now that I’m here, I really do enjoy it,” she said.

Drish said her interest in her current career as an esthetician began during her senior year of high school, when she started researching skin care products to treat her hormonal, cystic acne. She felt that, if she went to esthetician school, if nothing else she’d at least figure out what was happening to her own skin.

“I worked the front desk at a couple of salons in high school, and I always really liked talking to people and helping them,” she said. “I really like being able to get up every day and get to know someone or build a relationship with someone.”

Drish went to esthetician school at the PCI Academy in Iowa City. While there, her focus shifted from her own skin issues to helping other people. In fact, she discovered that her classmates told her the same story, that they too were interested in esthetician school to understand their own bodies, and that interest grew into a skill they could use to assist others.

After graduating from PCI, Drish rented a salon in Mt. Pleasant for three months before moving her business to Fairfield. She moved into an office inside Scarlett & Co. in the downtown. It was a good business relationship, but Drish dreamed of having her own storefront. She began saving up to purchase her own building, and out of the blue, the building on Ninth Street became available.

Hush & Co. is open Tuesday through Saturday. From Tuesday through Friday, the business is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Saturday it’s open 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.