With trips to the spa and home treatments, you can achieve healthy skin to help look your best. First decide on your venue, based on time, budget and personal needs. Professional skincare and beauty treatments are regulated by the state and take place in commercial health spas, medical spas, clinics and salons. Home treatments are as close as your kitchen or bath. For the best of both worlds, augment a schedule of frequent self-care with face and body spa services.
Home
For facial skin care, commercial masques are made for your skin type or area of concern. Masques that feature kaolin clay are good for drying and firming, and products rich in glycerin, lanolin or oils will drench skin with moisture. Bath skincare and beauty treatments for the body also serve specific functions. If skin is dry from sun or winter weather, a milk or oil bath restores moisture levels. Bubble bath and soaps with oatmeal in them are made for exfoliating.
Hands and feet need extra attention occasionally. Add a moisturizing treatment to your usual manicure and pedicure encourages beautiful and healthy skin, Heavy lotions with a coconut oil base or those formulated especially for hands and feet are ideal. For greater results, you can purchase mitts and booties that can be heated in the microwave.
Health Spa
Skincare and beauty treatments at the health spa help you achieve optimum skin function. When blood flow to the small blood vessels near the surface of your skin is efficient and unrestricted, your skin seems to “glow.” Professional estheticians cleanse, exfoliate, moisturize and massage facial skin, leaving pores clear and improving circulation. Salt glow treatments, body wraps and full-body massages use many of the same principles to promote healthy skin.
Day spas also offer professional manicures and pedicures, which may employ a paraffin skin care treatment to soften and moisturize your hands and feet. Manis and pedis often incorporate hand and foot massage as well for the benefits to circulation.
Medical Spa
Medical spa skincare and beauty treatments are performed by licensed medical professionals, either specially trained estheticians, dentists or medical doctors. Skin care at the medical spa focuses on facial rejuvenation, which generates or reveals new, healthy skin.
Esthetic treatments include botulinum toxin injections, for skin firming; photofacials, for evening the skin tone; and microdermabrasion and chemical peels, for extra-strength exfoliation. Medical spas perform these services at safe intervals to preserve skin health.
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