What is body treatment?
Body
treatments are essentially a facial for your whole body and leave
your skin feeling velvety smooth and soft. The idea behind a body
treatment is that is just as important to cleanse, exfoliate, and
hydrate the skin on your body as it is the skin of your face.
Body treatments go back to ancient times starting with milk baths to soften the skin of Cleopatra. Also water therapies using sea water long revered for its high mineral content and therapeutic value in healing and alleviating ailments like arthritis and skin conditions.
The most popular body treatment is a body scrub, sometimes called a body polish, salt glow or sea-salt scrub. This is an exfoliating treatment that takes place on a massage table covered with a sheet and a large, thin piece of plastic. As you lay on your stomach, 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 whole body is scrubbed, which takes maybe ten or fifteen minutes, you shower it all off without soap, leaving a nice coating of oil. It's an invigorating treatment, and it's a good idea to get your scrub before your massage if you're having both.
(Source: Anitra Brown is a longtime freelance writer who specializes in spas, travel and beauty. A New York State licensed esthetician, Anitra is one of the few spa writers to have actually worked in a spa.
Anitra is one of 26 spa and wellness experts who serves on the nominating panel for SpaFinder's Wellness Travel Awards, given to global properties that help travelers get and stay healthy.).
A video on Single Body Treatments technique by FSC IHEC Bali ( Francisco International Hospitality Education) (SPA Training):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1avoQkTy6IU
Body treatments go back to ancient times starting with milk baths to soften the skin of Cleopatra. Also water therapies using sea water long revered for its high mineral content and therapeutic value in healing and alleviating ailments like arthritis and skin conditions.
The most popular body treatment is a body scrub, sometimes called a body polish, salt glow or sea-salt scrub. This is an exfoliating treatment that takes place on a massage table covered with a sheet and a large, thin piece of plastic. As you lay on your stomach, 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 whole body is scrubbed, which takes maybe ten or fifteen minutes, you shower it all off without soap, leaving a nice coating of oil. It's an invigorating treatment, and it's a good idea to get your scrub before your massage if you're having both.
(Source: Anitra Brown is a longtime freelance writer who specializes in spas, travel and beauty. A New York State licensed esthetician, Anitra is one of the few spa writers to have actually worked in a spa.
Anitra is one of 26 spa and wellness experts who serves on the nominating panel for SpaFinder's Wellness Travel Awards, given to global properties that help travelers get and stay healthy.).
A video on Single Body Treatments technique by FSC IHEC Bali ( Francisco International Hospitality Education) (SPA Training):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1avoQkTy6IU
How to choose a body treatment?
There
are literally hundreds of professional body treatments out there,
from the standard mud wraps to rather more exotic treatments, such as
body masks made from nightingale droppings and steaming baths filled
with beer.
First of all, you need to decide exactly what it is you want from the session and how you want to feel when you leave. For example, do you want...
First of all, you need to decide exactly what it is you want from the session and how you want to feel when you leave. For example, do you want...
- to have soft skin that feels nice to touch?
- to look and feel younger?
- to moisturise dry, flaky skin?
- to slim down a little for a big occasion?
- to relax and unwind?
- to recover after a sporting activity (e.g. marathon, big match, long hike etc.)?
- to balance your energies and leave feeling centred and 'at one' with yourself?
(Source: http://www.beautyresource.org.uk)
Further interesting viewing:
Aromatic Body Treatment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnbHvJiKCps
Dermalogica Body Treatment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AXIB71mF8
Check out the single body treatments:
Dermalogica Body Treatment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7AXIB71mF8
Check out the single body treatments:
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