Men now make up nearly a third of all spa-goers, according to the International Spa Association. Spa Finder reported that male attendance in spas has increased nearly 900% in the last 4 years. Although men like to maintain a rough and tough demeanor they too have a desire to be confident in their appearance. Men have now broadened their interests beyond the basic massage and into mani & pedi’s, facials and even waxing! Spas everywhere are designing services and package for their male clientele only. The benefits of these services for men go beyond personal satisfaction. Where women see a day at the spa as a luxury, men now see it as a necessity; massage and facial to relief the stress from golfing in the sun etc. It becomes a tool for success in their everyday life.
Why They Need It
Men and women may have different skin types but the basic rules still apply. Cleanse, exfoliate, tone, restore and build and protect. A daily regimen based on this rules along with monthly visits to the spa for facials and even microdermabrasion sessions, is the key to healthy, clear male skin. The act of shaving is very harsh on the skin causing irritation, redness and even small cuts just waiting to be filled with the pollutants in our air. A stressful work day combined with sitting at a desk, wearing a heavy suit and even shaking various hands is the perfect combination for a sweaty, germy, stressed out body and mind. Men needed their down time too but don’t always have the time.
The Perfect Antidote
Men may not find all that a spa has to offer their cup of tea but there are a few services and products that can be a great ally in quest for a healthy, confident body inside and out. A package of services is the best way to go, all services you need at once, for one price.
1.Facial- a deep clean nourished and refreshed face and neck. Opt for the Microdermabrasion every once in a while for an intense exfoliation and complete hydration.
2.Deep Tissue Massage- for releasing the tension caught from your neck and shoulders to your lower back, from a hard day’s work. Making business deals on the golf course to sitting in meetings all day can wreak havoc on your body leaving you feeling tired and stiff.
3.Waxing- Intimidating we know but effective in removing all cave man like features for an extended period of time. Women love well groomed man and a little manscaping never hurt anyone!
4.Pedicures- for healthier, pain free feet no fluff or frills. Taking care of your feet is not typically a priority for men but that doesn’t mean they don’t need it. A regular pedicure is a great preventative measure for ingrown toenails, calluses and fungal infections.
The Bottom Line
No more judgments or assumptions. The spa is a gender neutral place of relaxation and renewal. Still a little skeptical men? Take the lady in your life with you, a win-win situation for you. She’ll be happy you have a romantic side and you will leave asking yourself “why didn’t I do this sooner”! Trust us it’s worth it!
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Fountain of Youth
Spa originates from the Latin word spargere, meaning to pour forth, scatter or sprinkle. Native Americans, Persians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans all believed in the curative powers of mineral waters. Their bathing rituals or ceremonies performed in a particular spring, well, or rivers were thought to evoke physical and spiritual purification.
While modern day spas have significantly evolved since pre-historic times, at Body Beautiful Spa, we’ve always believed in “Salus Per Aquam,” Latin for “health through water.” It should be no surprise that we are drawn to water’s nurturing effervescence in our desire to bathe, swim, soak and heal. Every living cell in our body is made up of water and surrounded by water. Every one of our body's tissues and organs, as well as our body's daily sustaining process, such as thinking, nerve function, blood circulation, digestion, and elimination, requires water in order to function properly. Skin is intricately tied to the overall health of your body. When your body is properly hydrated, you'll look better and feel better.
Dehydration leads to so many unpleasantries in your body from dry skin to over worked kidneys possibly leading to kidney stones and even urinary tract infections. A great way to monitor you hydration is to look at your urine. If it isn’t clear, you’re not drinking enough water! Exercise is a compliment to water hydration. During exercise the body sweats and the water your rehydrate with penetrates deep through the skin, tissues and into the bloodstream. Here the water’s healing benefits are in action eliminating toxins and stress, leaving your body clean inside and out. Dehydrated skin can also lead to signs of premature aging eventually leading to wrinkles, and if it’s not treated properly, it has the potential of causing some health conditions internally as well as externally. Remember, 6-8 eight ounce glasses of water a day but for those who workout or spend a good amount of time outside need to increase that amount. Increased water output requires increased water input.
Here in Arizona the environmental effects of our dry heat can be very damaging to our skin. Proper skin care is essential. A quality anti-aging serum, a dehydration mask, as well as an enriching moisturizer in your skincare regimen, in addition to regular moisturizing facials and body wraps, can make all the difference.
While modern day spas have significantly evolved since pre-historic times, at Body Beautiful Spa, we’ve always believed in “Salus Per Aquam,” Latin for “health through water.” It should be no surprise that we are drawn to water’s nurturing effervescence in our desire to bathe, swim, soak and heal. Every living cell in our body is made up of water and surrounded by water. Every one of our body's tissues and organs, as well as our body's daily sustaining process, such as thinking, nerve function, blood circulation, digestion, and elimination, requires water in order to function properly. Skin is intricately tied to the overall health of your body. When your body is properly hydrated, you'll look better and feel better.
Dehydration leads to so many unpleasantries in your body from dry skin to over worked kidneys possibly leading to kidney stones and even urinary tract infections. A great way to monitor you hydration is to look at your urine. If it isn’t clear, you’re not drinking enough water! Exercise is a compliment to water hydration. During exercise the body sweats and the water your rehydrate with penetrates deep through the skin, tissues and into the bloodstream. Here the water’s healing benefits are in action eliminating toxins and stress, leaving your body clean inside and out. Dehydrated skin can also lead to signs of premature aging eventually leading to wrinkles, and if it’s not treated properly, it has the potential of causing some health conditions internally as well as externally. Remember, 6-8 eight ounce glasses of water a day but for those who workout or spend a good amount of time outside need to increase that amount. Increased water output requires increased water input.
Here in Arizona the environmental effects of our dry heat can be very damaging to our skin. Proper skin care is essential. A quality anti-aging serum, a dehydration mask, as well as an enriching moisturizer in your skincare regimen, in addition to regular moisturizing facials and body wraps, can make all the difference.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Your Skin Care Secret Weapon, Continued
Sometimes just using a soap to cleanse skin is not enough to remove all the excess oil and dead skin cells – that’s where body scrubs can be extremely useful. Using a scrub can help clean skin’s surface and unclog pores which helps with cell turnover.
Body scrubs are essentially exfoliants that also rehydrate your next layer of skin, leaving it smooth, velvety soft, and providing you with a radiant glow. Especially useful when end-of-summer tans begin to fade or mid-summer sunburns begin to peel, the body scrub is also a natural remedy that scratches the itch for those with sensitive skin. By using some sort of whole-body exfoliation weekly, you will see a huge difference in the way your skin looks and feels.
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| Body Beautiful Pure Fiji Sugar Scrub |
A sugar scrub, such as our Pure Fiji Sugar Scrub with fresh sugar cane crystals, contains naturally occurring alpha hydroxyl to gently buff away aging skin cells, polish your skin clean and unclog pores- leaving it glowingly healthy. Since a sugar scrub is all natural, there are no harsh side effects – this means you can use a sugar based scrub no matter if you have oily, dry, combination or mature skin.
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| Herbal Salt Scrub at Body Beautiful Spa in Phoenix |
An alternative to sugar scubs are salt scrubs, such as the Herbal Salt Scrub. While the differences between the salt and sugar scrubs are few, the most significant difference is that sugar scrubs usually dissolve quicker than salt scrubs do. This makes them less abrasive than salt scrubs. In addition, sugar scrubs leave your skin tasting as good as it looks and feels!
Friday, June 10, 2011
Your Skin Care Secret Weapon!
One of skin care's best secret weapons is exfoliation. While many people know what exfoliation is on a basic level, or that it is something they “should” be doing, to many of them don't. Men often believe skin care treatments are for women only, and women often put it off as too time consuming to fit into their already too-busy schedule. This is too bad too since exfoliation can help lead them to having the smooth, clear, healthy skin they're looking for.
Your skin continuously undergoes a natural renewal process. When we are young, it takes approximately 25 – 28 days for our skin to completely renew itself. As we age, this renewal process slows down. The key to younger looking skin is to keep that renewal process in motion. This is where exfoliation comes in! Exfoliation oxygenates, brightens and refines the skin by revving up the skin’s metabolism, sloughing off excess dead skin, and ultimately helping to maintain cell turnover as you age.
Many people develop dull, lifeless looking skin because their stratum corneum (top-most layer consisting of dead cells) becomes too thick. Men and women should exfoliate once a week to remove the dead skin cells from the top layer of your skin. Accumulated dead skin cells make your face look bumpy, coarse, and even extremely dry. They also clog pores, trapping dirt and oils that become blackheads, pimples, and other facial blemishes.
Exfoliation can be performed chemically or mechanically. Microdermabrasion, dermaplaning and salt scrubs are forms of mechanical exfoliation. Chemical peels, and quality home care products, such as Skin Scripts Glycolic and Retinol Pads with Kojic and Arbutin (available at Body Beautiful Spa in Phoenix) exfoliate chemically. Both chemical and mechanical exfoliation remove the top-most layer of skin, in order to remove all the fine hairs and dead skin cells and are excellent treatments for freshening and revitalizing skin.
Many don't think to do so, but did you know that you can and should exfoliate your scalp? It cleanses product build up away, relieves itchiness and flakes, and helps with dry skin. In order to exfoliate the scalp you can create a mixture of 1 tablespoon brown sugar, 3 tablespoons of conditioner, and 1 table spoon of olive oil. Mix that together then apply in sections to your wet scalp and massage well with your finger tips. Follow with shampoo and conditioner! Mmmm, didn't that feel good?
Your skin continuously undergoes a natural renewal process. When we are young, it takes approximately 25 – 28 days for our skin to completely renew itself. As we age, this renewal process slows down. The key to younger looking skin is to keep that renewal process in motion. This is where exfoliation comes in! Exfoliation oxygenates, brightens and refines the skin by revving up the skin’s metabolism, sloughing off excess dead skin, and ultimately helping to maintain cell turnover as you age.
Many people develop dull, lifeless looking skin because their stratum corneum (top-most layer consisting of dead cells) becomes too thick. Men and women should exfoliate once a week to remove the dead skin cells from the top layer of your skin. Accumulated dead skin cells make your face look bumpy, coarse, and even extremely dry. They also clog pores, trapping dirt and oils that become blackheads, pimples, and other facial blemishes.
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| Microdermabrasion |
Many don't think to do so, but did you know that you can and should exfoliate your scalp? It cleanses product build up away, relieves itchiness and flakes, and helps with dry skin. In order to exfoliate the scalp you can create a mixture of 1 tablespoon brown sugar, 3 tablespoons of conditioner, and 1 table spoon of olive oil. Mix that together then apply in sections to your wet scalp and massage well with your finger tips. Follow with shampoo and conditioner! Mmmm, didn't that feel good?
Friday, April 30, 2010
Summer is near!
Everyone wants to look their best! Especially when putting on your bikini and exposing your body. You want to look healthy, clean and walk around with that summer glow. At Body Beautiful Spa we offer Bronzing & Salt Scrubs that will give you that extra glow you want to look your best. Achieve luxurious golden glowing skin with applied color and buffing. Combine this service with a salt scrub for best results.
Not only are we getting ready for summer, but Mother's Day is just around the corner as well. We want to treat your family, and your skin. Try a 50 minute Swedish Massage for just $50! Or try a 50 minute Swedish Massage AND a 50 minute Classic Facial for just $95. Treat your mother to a day she won't forget. Let her get out of the house, and have her be pampered for once.
Not only are we getting ready for summer, but Mother's Day is just around the corner as well. We want to treat your family, and your skin. Try a 50 minute Swedish Massage for just $50! Or try a 50 minute Swedish Massage AND a 50 minute Classic Facial for just $95. Treat your mother to a day she won't forget. Let her get out of the house, and have her be pampered for once.
Happy Mother's Day to all.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Look fresh for the summer!
Try our laser hair removal treatments. Choose between underarm, face, chin, lip, legs, bikini, arms or combine which ever treatment you prefer. We are running a promotion of 6 treatments of Bikini + Underarm for $625. Be hairless by summer!
Male and Female choose between Brazilian Wax $39 or Bikini Wax $25 First time clients only. Look your best, and feel your best.
FREE LASER for first time clients. Underarm, Chin or lip. YOUR CHOICE!
Try our Whole Body Salt Scrub. Leaves your skin smooth and radient. A boost of confidence is always needed. $80
HCG DIET!
Medical Weight Management.
Our professional staff will consider all the factors of your health into consideration before starting your plan. Schedule an appointment with us today for a consultation.
HCG works directly with the Hypothalamus gland. This gland controls body fat and helps to develop the reproductive organs during puberty. hCG stands for Human Choriogonadotropin, the hormone produced by pregnant women in the early stages of pregnancy. Research suggests a small, daily hCG injection or taken orally (approx. 125 IU to 200 IU) results in a weight loss of 1 to 2 lbs per day, when accompanied by a very low calorie diet of approximately 500 calories.
Under the influence of HCG, fat is being extracted from the cells, where it is stored in the fatty tissue. When these cells are emptied and serve no other purpose, the body breaks down the cellular structure and absorbs it. When this happens the body replaces some of the extracted fat with water which is retained. Because water is heavier than fat, the weight scale may show no loss of weight even though fat has actually been consumed to make up for the deficit in the 500- calorie diet. When such tissue is finally broken down and the water is liberated through urination. This is the reason for the appearance of no weight loss on the scale while following the instructions of the diet.
After the fourth or fifth day of dieting the daily loss of weight begins to decrease to less than a pound or somewhat less per day, and there is a smaller urinary output. Men often continue to lose regularly at that rate, but women are more irregular in spite of faultless dieting. There may be no drop at all for two or three days and then a sudden loss which will re-establish the normal average. These fluctuations are entirely due to variations in the elimination of water.
Male and Female choose between Brazilian Wax $39 or Bikini Wax $25 First time clients only. Look your best, and feel your best.
FREE LASER for first time clients. Underarm, Chin or lip. YOUR CHOICE!
Try our Whole Body Salt Scrub. Leaves your skin smooth and radient. A boost of confidence is always needed. $80
HCG DIET!
Medical Weight Management.
Our professional staff will consider all the factors of your health into consideration before starting your plan. Schedule an appointment with us today for a consultation.
HCG works directly with the Hypothalamus gland. This gland controls body fat and helps to develop the reproductive organs during puberty. hCG stands for Human Choriogonadotropin, the hormone produced by pregnant women in the early stages of pregnancy. Research suggests a small, daily hCG injection or taken orally (approx. 125 IU to 200 IU) results in a weight loss of 1 to 2 lbs per day, when accompanied by a very low calorie diet of approximately 500 calories.
Under the influence of HCG, fat is being extracted from the cells, where it is stored in the fatty tissue. When these cells are emptied and serve no other purpose, the body breaks down the cellular structure and absorbs it. When this happens the body replaces some of the extracted fat with water which is retained. Because water is heavier than fat, the weight scale may show no loss of weight even though fat has actually been consumed to make up for the deficit in the 500- calorie diet. When such tissue is finally broken down and the water is liberated through urination. This is the reason for the appearance of no weight loss on the scale while following the instructions of the diet.
After the fourth or fifth day of dieting the daily loss of weight begins to decrease to less than a pound or somewhat less per day, and there is a smaller urinary output. Men often continue to lose regularly at that rate, but women are more irregular in spite of faultless dieting. There may be no drop at all for two or three days and then a sudden loss which will re-establish the normal average. These fluctuations are entirely due to variations in the elimination of water.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
beauty from within.
Low self esteem problems comes from within, especially when it comes to women, teens and even children. Help yourself to feel and look better. Discover ways on how to rebuild your confidence with exercise activities and training lessons on how to encourage positive thinking. The only beauty that doesn't wrinkle with age is a positive and nice attitude. All you have to do is become your own best friend. Be the person you want others to be. Set the right example. Show the kindness you want others to show you. The most beautiful women are the ones who show compassion and love without having to spend money. The real, lasting beauty comes from within! With the right attitude, beauty is inevitable. Looking flawless or wearing stylish clothes doesn't bring you the whole package. To be complete, you must feel complete. Start with a smile or a hello, and feel the difference in your heart. It is free and it gives you more beauty than you'll ever know.
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