Body Systems Daily

Spa COLOR

Body systems — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:47:42 GMT

On our list of topics in Spa Fresh Magazine this month, one of the topics is Color Trends, particularly the trends of color used in Spas or any Spa environment. With this in mind, I went to a local spa that I have went to for services for several years and realized that they slowly painted every square inch of the spa, brown. Not really a gray-brown but more of a yellow-brown. But they didn't stop with the walls. Paintings, the bathroom, tables, chairs, flooring...even the wall decoration are the same type of brown.

Now don't get me wrong...love brown (as you can see by the Body Systems theme colors) but I noticed the overuse of brown when I saw the brown chair sitting against the brown wall decorated with a brown piece of art.

Remember Mom saying that too much of anything isn't healthy. Wow was she right!

They did leave one massage room blue. Why? Don't know. I do know that if I do get a massage in the blue room I finally feel relaxed. Sort of like finding an oasis in a brown desert.

Brown isn't the most relaxing color so it baffles me that this spa owner has decided to Brown-Out the Spa. There isn't even a Creme or Ivory to break it up. Makes the client feel at odds with the environment.

There are some wonderful spas out there that have taken the 1-color approach but they did it right. One color in various tones, and textures creates a wonderful mood if done in a base color that is relaxing to begin with such as blue, aqua, white or purple.

So remember, when designing a spa environment think of natural textures, and colors. You can do one color but think of the various forms or variations of that one color to create visual variations.

Shower Room

Body systems — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:49:33 GMT

I've just decided that the greatest "bath" invention is the Curved Shower Curtain. With a little bit of installation, this gives about a foot of additonal shoulder room in your shower and if you hate the shower curtain sticking to your skin in a good hot shower, then you've got to get one of these!

Mini Spa Re-Treat

Body systems — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 00:20:36 GMT

Ever have one of those days or weeks that seem to fly by and you haven't even had time to look at your To-Do list let alone take time for yourself to relax?

One of my favorite things to do is take a long soak in the tub but rarely is there any time in the day to relax like this. I love to take 1 or 2 spa products and create a quick bath/shower/spa treatment which only take 10-15 minutes.

RECIPE: MINI SPA RE-TREAT

INGREDIENTS: Whipped Shea Butter & a great emusifying or shea butter-based scrub.

INSTRUCTIONS: Get into the shower/tub and shampoo and cleanse as normal. (You can also wait and cleanse after your spa treatment.) Apply Whipped Shea Butter to hair and fill up the tub with some warm water. As the water is filling in the tub, take your scrub and exfoliate the body starting with extremities and moving in a circular motion towards the heart. Then slip into the bath water and soak for about 5-10 minutes. This does two things: Rinses off the scrub and fills the water with moisturizers and ingredients to detox the skin and rejuvenate the body as a whole. After your great soak, just rinse out your hair. For oily hair, you may want to shampoo again but for normal to dry hair just pat dry.

FINISH: To finish your mini-spa retreat, apply Whipped shea butter from head to toe. The Shea Butter has a very low melting point and melts into the skin and doesn't feel greasy.

Now in your 15 minutes you managed to treat your hair, exfoliate the entire body, detox your internal skin layers and deep treat your skin with shea butter. Now that's what I call multiple mini spa retreat that doesn't take 4 hours and cost much at all.

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