Spas are devoted to enhancing your overall well-being. Most spas offer various treatments from full body massages to foot reflexology and facials such as:-
• Day Spa – It offers spa treatments on a day-use basis. Places like 128 Faubourg, Salon by Sothys at the Pavilion KL, offer facial treatments and a signature massage that will alleviate stress from skin to make it highly receptive to treatment.
• Destination Spa – helps you lead a healthier lifestyle through a series of treatments, exercise, and educational programmes over a course of at least two nights. Some having a longer duration of three or seven nights. Even the cuisine served is exclusively selected for the purpose.
• Resort/Hotel Spa – located within a resort or hotel. It offers spa services, fitness classes and outdoor Jacuzzi or hot spring baths. It’s a good choice when one person wants spa and the other golf or scuba diving. It also works for business travellers and families.
• Airport Spa It is located in an airport and specializes in short treatments aimed at the traveller, like 15-minute chair massage and oxygen therapy. Some also offer longer treatments.
• Medical Spa – offers treatments that require a doctor’s supervision, such as laser removal of blemishes and Botox injections. It also offers other spa treatments.
• Mineral Springs Spa – has natural mineral, thermal or seawater that is used in hydrotherapy treatments.
• Club Spa – usually located in a fitness facility or health club providing overall wellness.
• Cruise Ship Spa – as its name suggest, is onboard a cruise ship that provides spa treatments, fitness and wellness components and spa cuisine menu choices.
• Fish Spa – a spa using Garra Ruffa fishes to nibble away on the skin and treat psoriasis sufferers to alleviate layers of dead cells. It’s usually combined with massage and other treatment such as reflexology. A popular fish spa in Pavilion is a remarkable place for you to get nibbled and kneaded by their team of trained masseuse. Offering head, shoulder and back massage to complement the fish therapy, you will leave with a great feeling after a session.
First-rate luxurious spa treatments delivered in a serene setting are the very heart of a quality spa experience. The most popular spa treatments, including massage, facials and body treatments lie in the hands of those who knead you. A massage feels good and has lots of health benefits, from improving muscle fatigue to eliminating stress, two very good reasons to make it the most popular service at a spa. Having many different styles of massage, you would need to have a basic idea what each type entails, including why it’s good for you, which type will best meet your needs, and how to get the most from your massage.
• Massage improves blood circulation, while delivering oxygen and nutrients to the cells to revitalise your organs.
• Massage stimulates the lymphatic system, which transports the body’s waste products more efficiently.
• Massage prevents and relieve muscles of cramps and spasms.
• Massage therapy can also help with pain management in conditions such as arthritis, sciatica and muscle spasms.
Reflexology is the skill of enervating over 7000 nerves on the feet, believed by reflexology practitioners to correspond to every muscle system or organ in the body. A non-invasive procedure that focuses on the body’s natural ability to heal itself, it differs from massage in that it pushes on pressure points on the soles of the feet to elicit an autonomic nervous system response or reflex. The nervous system helps trigger the brain to stimulate a response to the area for the body to begin to heal.
Body treatments can range from mud wraps to exfoliation scrubs to deal with your body’s skin. The most common types of body treatments are body polishes and body wraps. These treatment can be used to treat cellulite or just to improve overall skin condition and blood circulation. It sometimes has a diuretic effect that aids in temporary weight reduction.
If you’re slathered with mud, algae, or seaweed and wrapped in a thermal blanket, it’s a “detoxifying” treatment that stimulates your metabolic system, speeding its ability to carry away waste products. If used with cream or lotion, it’s a “hydrating” treatment.
A good complement to the spa experience is to have a facial done with the full works of cleansing, exfoliation, toning, treatment mask and moisturising. Depending on what facial you choose, the product you use should be suitable for your skin type to minimise the chances of an outbreak afterwards. If in doubt, bring your own moisturiser for the final step for your skin.
In as much as spas are good for relaxation, a good therapist is crucial to adding to that experience. Remember the name of the person who has served you and make your reservations in advance to ensure the same service the next time you return. A good spa is all about getting that personalised touch from top to toe.
