Green Gold
VISITING A SPA IS MEANT TO BE A PLEASANT sensory experience: the calming smells, the soothing sounds, the warm colors. The more luxuriously a spa can indulge each sense, the more pleasing the experience is to the spa-goer. This explains, at least in part, the reason avocado is such a well-received ingredient in spa treatments. The pulp of the fatty fruit—almost 75 percent of its calories come from fat—has a creamy texture that feels decadent when applied to the skin. But avocados have more to offer the skin than simply a pleasant sensation. The green fruit is also a powerhouse source of skin-saving nutrients.Related posts
The Root of Aging
THE SCIENCE OF SKINCARE CONTINUES TO evolve with new enlightening discoveries on a seemingly daily basis. However, new discoveries, at least those that are truly effective, are usually the by-product of long and careful research that results in a solid understanding of the skin's response and often a new understanding of the skin's overall function. Most recently, scientists have become increasingly aware of the long-term effect inflammation has on the skin's health and appearance. It goes without saying that for most spa-goers, particularly those past the age of 30, aging is a primary concern.Related posts
Happenings
Dermalogica hosted a one day (re)Define the Future symposium with a primary message of achieving success in a tough economy. More than 300 skin therapists, students, and spa owners attended the event, which was held at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. The event included presentations by Jane Wurwand , founder of Dermalogica and The International Dermal Institute; Diana Howard , vice president of technical development at Dermalogica; and Annet King , global director of training and development at Dermalogica. "Skin therapists must become indispensable as skin health providers if they want to increase business while consumers are looking for ways to cut expenses," says Wurwand. "Luxury and pampering are entirely disposable when clients want to tighten their financial belts. There's no better time to pick up the phone and ask your most profitable clients to refer their friends, to tell them you have the tools they need to achieve the skin results they want." The event also included new product..Related posts
Power-Packed Pills
While the obvious results of a spa visit are a more outwardly beautiful self, the relaxation we impart treats the inside, as well. Your spa probably retails a wide range of products to beautify the hair, skin, and body, but you may want to consider offering products that do the same from the inside, such as vitamins and supplements. Offering internal supplements furthers the notion that beauty is not just skin deep and gives clients an additional tool to reach their beauty and wellness goals.Related posts
A Spa to Call Your Own
I think that spa-going is turning into a rite of passage. As a mother I want to pass on a clear message to my daughters that being good to one’s self is perfectly OK and necessary. In fact, I have just booked my nine-year-old daughter Paige into her first spa day camp. It is an entire day dedicated to girls to teach them how to care for their nails, skin and hair! What a fabulous idea (see that in our next issue).
This issue, you’ll read all about Canadian celebrity Sass Jordan as she tells us about her favourite spa. She prefers the quality of an out-of-the-way spa that gives incredible service to their clients. It is not the biggest or most architecturally significant but it offers unique treatments for people looking for lifestyle changes.
Spas aren’t just about beautifying the outside anymore. Within these pages you will find spas that treat health concerns, dietary habits and offer the latest in revitalizing technology.
Finding that extraordinary spa, for some us of there isn’t just ONE, but when you find a place you love, make it your special escape because we all need a place to call our own.
Stay well,
Mary
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VASKINIEMI
sauna establishment of the Finnish Sauna Society, in Helsinki.There are five genuine saunas heated with the firewood, three smoke saunas and two later types of saunas with chimney. You can go straight from the sauna to swim in the sea.
Popularity: 36% [?]
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HAMMAM
Hammam [hamam] known also as ‘Turkish bath’ is the
History of Hammam
Besides bathing, hammams always represented places to socialize and of religious cleansing. Hammam was an important part of Islam culture and their life. Even the wealthy citizens, possessing their own private hammams, visited the public ones in order to show the people their cleanliness. Hammam has also become important part of life for Moslem women, for whom it represented the only opportunity to socialize outside their homes. The
Bathing stages in hammam
Hammam usually includes separated parts for men and women. The process of bathing consists of several phases, leading the bather to the heavenly experience. These phases can be best described by the words of Mikkel Aaland. After his experience of Cagaloglu Hammam in Istanbu he wrote: “We entered the first stage of the five-step progression through the hammam. First is the seasoning of the body with heat; second is the vigorous massage; third is the peeling off of the outer layer of skin, and removal of body hairs; fourth, the soaping, and fifth, relaxation.”
An attendant, staff working in hammam called tellak leads you to the dressing room, where you get the cotton wrap – pestemal to cover your body, kese – a rough glove for the massage, and you slip into the special wooden clogs called nalin, that will prevent you from slipping on the wet floor, your bowl and natural black soap if you wish. First, you enter the hot steam room (harara) with the large, heated marble stone platform at the centre, on which bathers are laying. In the corners of the room there are niches with the fountains for pouring the water over your body. This is the hottest room of the hammam (45 ºC), where your body will start to perspire, and the pores start to open. Then, if you wish you can experience a vigorous Turkish massage. After the short relaxation, a tellak will pour the water over you, and then rub your back with the coarse (usually horse or camel hair) glove, removing the layers of dead skin. After the scrubbing, your entire body will be soaped and rinsed with the water poured all over you from the basin.
The bathing in hammam ends up in the resting room (soğukluk) where you will relax in the comfortable couches or sofas, let your skin pores to close and refresh yourself with the offered tea, coffee, or a soft drink.
Where to visit a genuine hammam?
If you wish to visit a genuine hammam, we recommend you the “Cağaloğlu Hamami” in
In
Popularity: 37% [?]
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Wet steam bath (”Turkish” sauna)
Wet steam bath is different from Finnish sauna, seats are made of ceramics and it is a rule to enter it completely naked. The temperature in steam sauna is much lower then in Finnish (dry) one; it is around 45ºC. The main particularity of these baths is high air humidity which is 100%. The heated steam is released to the sauna with the addition of essential oils creating pleasant aroma and additional health benefits. The main benefits of this sauna are in the revitalization of respiratory system. Furthermore, high humidity with a mild temperature opens the skin pores, cleans the impurities from the epidermis and beneficially affects the skin. Finally, steam sauna will relax your muscles and body in general. Steam sauna today is an integral part of almost every wellness and sauna centre, or thermal baths and SPAs in
Extra supplements and where you can try it
We recommend you to visit steam saunas in “Sauna land” in a Water park Atlantis, in
Popularity: 94% [?]
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Infrared sauna
Infrared sauna is a kind of Finnish sauna, but using the special infrared heater instead of “classical” sauna stove, which heats your body by generating the far infrared radiation rays, similar to those produced by sun. This kind of radiation is beneficial for the general health. Bathing in infrared saunas is completely different then in “regular” ones, the temperature is much lower (50 to 60ºC), but you still sweat same as in Finnish sauna. Infrared sauna dehydrates you, so it is recommended to drink plenty of fluids before and during the sweat bathing. Bathing in infrared sauna has many health benefits: cosmetic benefits for the skin – it kills acne, relief pain in the muscles, improving metabolism and blood circulation, helps with the faster recovery from injuries…and other similar benefits as all the sweat baths in general.
You can visit infrared saunas almost everywhere – mainly in sport and recreational centres, public swimming pools, SPAs and sometimes even in beauty centers.
Popularity: 43% [?]
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Roman thermae
Bathing has played an important role in the life of the ancient
The structure of thermae
Public bathing was practiced by the both, the rich and the poor. The difference is that the patricians, the reach citizens were accompanied by one or more slaves serving them during the bathing in thermae. They were also bringing their own bathing implements: brushes, oils for massage, dish for scooping water and the strigil (a small, curved, metal tool use to scrap dirt and sweat from the body).
The building structure of thermae was very complex, but it had three “principal” rooms: caldarium, tepidarium and frigidarium. Sometimes they have also had laconicum – a hot, dry area for inducing sweating.
The bathing process in therame
The bathing process often begun with some workout in the palestra where different sports and activities took place, in order to stimulate the circulation and keep the body in a good condition. Afterwards, the bathers were passing the three rooms of different purposes. Firstly, they would go to tepidarium – normally the largest room in thermae, decorated with the most precious mosaics and marbles. This was the place where the bathers firstly assembled and spent an hour or more, relaxing and being “oiled” (mostly using the olive oil). The following step was caldarium, very hot and steamy room, heated by the under floor heating system, with the bath of hot water (swimming pool). Very often, the laconicum was an integral part of the caldarium, where bather would stay for a short time and prepare its body for the massage. Afterwards, the vigorous massage was the next, followed by removing off the dead skin with the earlier mentioned strigil. The final phase of the bathing process was frigidarium where bathers would plunge into the large pool of cold water, refreshing themselves and withdrawing themselves to the one of the relaxing areas, library or assembly room to continue with the socializing and intellectual discussions.
Popularity: 45% [?]
