Spas have become very popular nowadays with new outlets opening daily. So what treatment are available at the spa? Apart from facials which has been previously treated here, body treatment is major spa treat. find out more.
Body treatments are essetially a facial for your whole body. It is just as important to cleanse, exfoliate and hydrate the skin of your body as it is the skin of your face. the most popular body treatment is a salt glow or sea-salt scrub, this is an exfoliation treatment that teke place on a massage table covered with a sheet and a large thin piece of plastic.
As you lay your stomarch, the massage therapist rubs a mixture of sea salt, oil, and aromatics like lemon into your skin. This exfoliates the skin and leaves it feeling velvety soft. once your body is scrubbed, which may takes ten or fifteen minutes, you shower it all off without soap, leaving a nice coating of oil. Its a good ideal to get your scrub before your massage, if you are having both.
Variations can come from the essential oils or scrub materals. You might get an orange blossom/peppermint, salt glow or cucumber salt glow, or a body scrub done with coffee grounds, finely ground pecan shells or grape seeds.
A body mask and body wrap often takes place after a scrub . After you rinse off the salt, you return to the treatment table, if you are slathered with mud, algae or seaweed and wrapped in a thermal blanket, its a "detoxifying" treatment that stimulates your metabolic system, speeding its ability to carry away waste products. If the products is cream or lotion it is a "hydrating" treatment. A body wrap can also be a wrapping treatment used to treat cellulite. It sometimes has a diuretic effect that aids in temporary weight reduction.
SALT GLOW- A salt scrub or glow (also known as a salt scrub or sea salt srub) is the most popular body treatment at the spa. The primary purpose of a salt glow is to exfoliate your skin. A skin also hydartes your skin because the salt is combined with oil and ussaully some aromatic like lemon, lavender or even figs. ( spas can get very creative here). The salt glow followed by a shower and an application of body lotion, and leaves your skin feeling very soft and fragnat.
EXFOLIATION- Spas are always talking about exfoliation. But what is it? why is it important? and can you overdo it?
Exfoliation is the removal of the oldest dead skin cells that cling to the skin's outtermost surface. When doen correctly exfoliation leaves the skin smooter and fresher looking. It also make penetration easier for products like serums that nourish the skin , exfoliation is an impotant part of facials and body treatments.
There are two forms of exfoliation
(1) Mechanical exfoliation
(2) Chemical exfoliation
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