Ahh, lazy days at the spa… what woman doesn’t want to go and spend hours being pampered and waited upon? A lot of women do not take the opportunity to visit the spa because they aren’t even quite sure what a spa is or what they have to offer. Do they do massages? Steam treatments? Mud baths? Just what does a spa do?

The services offered vary from spa to spa, but you can almost always expect the same sort of treatments being available, though perhaps in slightly different variations. We will go over some of the spa treatments you can expect to find and just how they can help you.

Facials

Facials are an expected service at any spa. You can expect to see treatments that will exfoliate your skin, shrink your pores, rejuvenate your skin and make you ten years younger. These are usually achieved through the use of scrubs, steam treatments, deep moisturizing treatments, deep cleaning masks, peels, and massage techniques.

The goal of a facial is to remove any of the dry, old skin cells from the surface of our skin so that the newer, younger and fresher skin can shine on through. Massaging and steam treatments also help bring blood to the surface of our face, helping us looking younger and also help nourish our skin. To expedite the anti-aging process, a lot of facials also use collagen products to tighten the skin and reduce the appearance of wrinkles.

Body Treatments

Skin is not only on our face, it covers every inch of our body! For this reason, spas also offer a wide array of different body treatments to choose from. Some of the treatments you can expect to find include:

• Body Polishes
• Body Wraps
• Aquatherapy
• Vichy showers

Aquatherapy’s goal is to help increase the circulation in your body. You will find yourself soaking in an aqua-jet tub filled with warm water and your favorite essential oils, a load of moisturizers and exfoliating agents to again help slough off any dead skin skills.

A body polish involves the scrubbing of skin so that dead skin cells are removed. This helps make skin smoother, more youthful, and it helps unclog our pores.

Body wraps are also quite varied, though they most often involve a salt scrub followed by a seaweed or mud bath. These will help remove any unwanted impurities from our skin.

Vichy showers are often given at the end of any body wrap or body polish. You lie on a well cushioned table and enjoy a spray of warm water from up to 7 shower heads at a time. Your skin is left hydrated and your circulation is kicked into high gear, improving the overall health of your skin.

Massage

Everyone expects a good massage when they go to the spa! Massages have come such a long way that the types that you can expect to find at a spa are incredibly diverse. Definitely contact your spa of interest beforehand and ask them what type of massages they have available, and what the benefits of each massage are. The most common that are always offered are the Swedish massage and a deep tissue massage, but you may be surprised by what your spa has to offer.

Nail treatments, foot treatments, hair removal and specialized medical treatments can also be found at spas. Be sure to ask for their full line of services before you go so that you can be sure that you are pampering yourself just the way you need to be pampered.