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Spa Experience – Spa Tips

May 18th, 2009
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Tips for Getting the Best Spa Experience

Anyone can schedule a massage or make an appointment to get a toenail touch-up. Coming away from every spa trip relaxed and ready to face the world requires a little preparation. Here are a few tips to help you master the pampering process.

* 1. Leave the kiddies at home. Most spas are considered an adult environment and do not permit children to tag along for spa services. When developing your spa budget, consider the cost of a babysitter. Some spas, such as Cloud 9 and Spa Royale, offer mini-services for kids. Contact each spa for age limits and the services they have available for kids.

* 2. Silence your cell phone. Just as you would at the movies or in church, don’t forget to turn off your cell phone; no one wants their massage-turned-nap interrupted by the outside world by your BlackBerry. Better yet, many spas recommend leaving the cell phone at home.

* 3. Arrive early. Getting into relaxation mode early can be important for every spa-goer, particularly first-timers. Showing up to your appointment ten minutes ahead of time gives you a chance to meet your therapist or spa technician, fill out paper work and get comfortable in a new environment. Being late, however, will often result in cancellation, although you’ll still be charged for the appointment. Check with each spa for its late arrival policies.

* 4. Give graciously. Many people are unsure of how to tip for most services, including after a massage or facial. Generally, spas recommend tipping 15-20 percent and can include the tip in your bill if requested. If your spa experience wasn’t everything you hoped for, note your personal preferences to the technician or therapist the next time you make a visit.

* 5. Wear comfortable, loose clothing. When getting ready for your spa time, dress in the spirit of the day: comfortably. Most spas will have you undress for a facial or massage and you’ll spend the rest of your time in a luxuriously fluffy robe. For facials, show up clean-faced or the spa can take off your makeup. If it’s your first time, make your appointment up to a week in advance of a big event to prepare for any unexpected skin reactions.

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Mount Dora Florida Inn & Spa New Services

March 5th, 2009
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MOUNT DORA – The historic Lakeside Inn is providing its guests with many new services, including bridal-party accommodations, yoga, health-conscious meals, diet coaching and spa treatments such as massages, facials and makeup artistry.

Massage therapist and spa owner Donna Swain is expanding to the historic inn, offering services inside its Sunset Building on Lake Dora. These will be offered to inn guests through special packages. The inn at 100 N. Alexander St. often has five weddings taking place on the weekends, so many spa services will be tailored for a bride and her party.

“This will be perfect for a whole bridal party to get ready,” said inn manager Paula Briskin. “It can be an all-day prep for a wedding.”

Swain added, “We will have a fabulous makeup artist. It will be very feminine. The girls can get their makeup done together.”

In addition to housing the first-floor spa, the Sunset Building contains 10 guest rooms. A bridal party could take over the whole building, Briskin said.

“It could be a fun girls’ getaway if they all stay here,” Briskin said of the wood-frame building built in 1914.

The Sunset Building resembles the rest of the inn, with original buildings dating to 1883. The long-lasting structures make the inn one of the city’s treasured historic landmarks.

Briskin also stressed the new health-fitness offerings, and said these packages also may be popular for a non-wedding crowd.

Though men aren’t excluded from these services, Briskin said women in particular will be drawn to the power walks by the lake, yoga classes, diet coaching, and health-conscious meals featuring vegetarian, vegan or lowfat fare.

“Every morning on the package there will be a 3-mile walk,” Briskin said. “Then you come back and have a healthy breakfast — a vegetarian or healthy breakfast.”

Meals also can be served to guests on the veranda.

Yoga, massage therapy

Briskin, a yoga teacher, said classes will suit the guests’ needs.

“I do a real hard-flow class where you work up a good sweat when the class is done, but that’s not for someone with back problems. The beauty of yoga is you take it at your own pace,” she said.

Massages will be part of these packages as well. Many of Swain’s massages — the Himalayan, for example — also utilize elements such as aromatherapy, hot stones and sea salt.

“I just had one,” Swain said. “I really wasn’t expecting much, but you leave feeling so grounded and balanced, and it soothes your nervous system.”

The spa services will be available by the middle of this month within a 750-square-foot space, which Swain had redone in pastel green and yellow tones. She calls the color scheme “essence of aloe and lemon green.”

Diet, nutrition coaching

For those on a health-and-fitness retreat, professional diet and nutrition coaching is offered, along with discussions on deep breathing and keeping a healthy mental state.

“It’s all about exercise, eating right and having a good mental state,” Briskin said. “Persons should ask themselves, ‘Do I know how to deep breathe?’ ”

Swain also owns Essential Therapies, a full-service spa she has owned for six years. She has worked as a massage therapist in Mount Dora for 12 years.

Briskin has been in the resort-spa business 25 years and took over as manager at Lakeside Inn when the former manager, John Bristol, died last year.

With the slumping economy so difficult for many Central Floridians, a Mount Dora retreat could be a better option than an overseas vacation, Briskin said.

“This is better compared to a trip to Europe — a long, expensive plane trip,” Briskin said.

Swain said the wedding packages will be popular despite the economic downturn because women will always want to get married in a pleasant manner.

“People will get married no matter what the economy is like,” Swain said.

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Home Spa Equipment to Enhance your Spa Results

October 25th, 2008
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Nine Easy Ways To Erase Age

More baby boomers than ever–about 78.2 million–are entering their golden years. They just don’t want to look like they are.

Do-it-yourself, home-use gadgets designed to treat wrinkles and other signs of aging through lasers, micro-currents, oxygen blasts and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are becoming increasingly popular. In total, the U.S. anti-aging skincare market, of which these products are a part, reached $1.6 billion in 2007, a surge of 63% from sales of $1 billion in 2002, according to Mintel, a global consumer, product and market research firm.

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And there’s no sign of slowing down. The global market is projected to reach $115.5 billion by 2010, according to a report by Global Industry Analysts, a market research firm. The United States and Europe lead this growth, with a 62.8% share of the global market based figures from 2007. And just today, a small company’s stock price soared over a new drug it claims can reduce wrinkles.

Even though the spa industry is thriving (with 32 million regular visitors hitting U.S. spas in 2007, according to the International Spa Association), at-home tools could make a dent in that success. The solutions are not only convenient, they can cost significantly less over the long term. Read more…

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Spa Tips for People with Alergies

June 21st, 2008
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Allergic Girl’s Spa-Goer Tips

I love spa treatments as much as the next chica, but I don’t love feeling itchy, sneezy, or wheezy during (or after) them, when I’m supposed to be in a supreme state of relaxation. Here are some steps this Allergic Girl follows when heading to the day spa.

1. Call ahead. If you have allergies to foods, perfumes, lotions–anything, really–call ahead before making that spa appointment and speak to management. Tell them your allergies, your needs, and ask what kinds of products they use. If they give you a hard time, go somewhere else: It’s your treatment, not theirs.

2. Become a label sleuth. Before going into that little room, ask to see the spa’s product line. Read the labels. Once in the room, ask your aesthetician to show you her bottles of the goop. My lovely waxer at Bliss Spa knows the whole drill. (Her child has allergies too, so she gets it.) If there’s something you can’t use or are allergic to, speak up! This is your treatment, not theirs. (Sensing a theme here?)

3. BYO. If your allergies are severe and plentiful, bring your own lotions, creams, oils, nail polish–whatever you need to in order to ensure that you will have a relaxing, allergy-free experience. I did this recently in Bermuda at the Mandarin Oriental’s Spa at Elbow Beach, where they were happy to use my small bottles of fragrance-free oil and lotion.

4. Even the nonallergic can get allergic. At the wonderful Standard Hotel in South Beach, my friend was offered a free herbal bath. She become a human teapot, soaking in a tub of hot water as staff members added a human-size tea bag full of herbal goodies and then let her steep. About five minutes into the bath, my friend started to turn pink. She thought maybe the water was too warm. Later, she had wine with dinner and that’s what did it: herbs + liquor = red, blotchy, and itchy all-over allergic reactions. We alerted the staff, who exclaimed, “This never happens!” But, dear ones, it does. Just because you aren’t an allergic girl doesn’t mean you can’t get allergic.

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