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Spa savvy

TOP TIP If a spa trip is a luxury too far, SPA DAYS AT HOME
look into an evening or day visit TRY A FULL-BODY MASSAGE using
instead. Or recreate the experience brushes and body oil at home, says
at home with spa-inspired products Roberta Griffiths, a spa
and treatments. director at The Spa at
Armathwaite Hall
O A spa evening at CHAMPNEYS (armathwaite-hall.com)
(champneys.com) costs £45 (a full day ‘Apply the body oil, and
is £99). then start brushing from
OA day at HOAR CROSS HALL SPA your ankles upwards,
RESORT in Staffordshire (hoarcross. always brushing
co.uk) is £89. towards your heart.’
OCHECK OUT deals at lastminute.com, OTemple Spa Drift Away
where you can find spa days on offer Relaxing Bathing &
from around £30. You’ll also find special Massage Oil, £25/100ml,
offers such as a spa day with afternoon templespa.com.
tea, or couples massage.
OMIDWEEK STAYS are often cheaper MUD WRAPS AND MASKS are another HEAT IS INTENSELY SOOTHING – and
than weekend ones, too. Most spas big trend that can be tried at home. A spas use the power of water to relax
include regular special offers at popular treatment at Titanic Spa in tired, sore muscles and stressed minds.
into a spa
discounted prices. Check out your Yorkshire (titanicspa.com) involves being Why not turn your bath into a spa
favourite spa’s website. coated in warm, organic mud to exfoliate treatment with rich oils a and
and nourish skin, followed by a herbal aromatherapy?
IS IT REALLY A steam and tropical rain shower. Natalie
Hart, the spa’s operations manager, OOlverum Bath Oil,
BARGAIN? Sites like suggests this home option: ‘Warm some £29/125ml (25 baths),
Dead Sea mud in the microwave and olverum.com, has been
Groupon and Wowcher apply it to your skin. Once the mud used since 1931, and its s
offer great deals – but has dried, wash it off under a warm distinctive fragrance
shower. Dead Sea mud is intensely contains plant extracts
take care to check out mineral rich, so it will soften skin and for a blissful bath.
reviews for unfamiliar stops any irritation.’
O Moa Dreamy Mineral
salons, as bargains may OMystic Moments Soak, £25/400g, moa.
Dead Sea Mineral Mud, london, contains
not be all they seem. £7.95/1kg, Amazon, cardamom and pine
Be particularly wary of includes enough mud and lavender essential
to use as both a face oils along with
deals for medical or and body mask. Himalayan pink salt.

invasive SERVICES
TREAT SKIN TO A CREATE YOUR OWN SPA SCRUB, says
SUCH AS BOTOX or LUXURIOUS SCRUB, Deborah Mitchell. You could use her
says Deborah Mitchell, dream oil (left), but, says Deborah,
laser treatments. In the the founder of Heaven creating your own couldn’t be easier:
wrong hands, these Skincare. She explains: O ‘Put a sprig of rosemary or lavender in
‘I combined oil with a bottle of good cold-pressed almond
procedures can go very seasalttocreatea oil or light olive oil, then leave it to
moisturising body infuse for a couple of weeks. When
badly wrong. You need
scrub that I use in my you’re ready to do the scrub, mix it with
to pick the BEST London spa and in my rock salt in your hands. To help reduce
shower at home.’ cellulite, massage the scrub from your
THERAPIST or doctor O Heaven Skincare’s feet upwards, then either shower or get
for you, not the cheapest. Dream Oil (£28/15ml, in the bath, where the oil and salt are
heavenskincare.com). wonderful for your skin.’

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