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How To Create a Spa Day At Home

Monthly plan to organize your time for relaxation

You may feel that you cannot organize a spa day or spa evening in your home. You may think that your house/apartment doesn’t look like the spa. You have clothes and toys from children everywhere, and everything somehow seems more like a mess than a spa.

And that is probably true. But, that doesn’t mean you cannot make it happen. With a bit of organization and imagination, you can enjoy the creation of new habits that can bring so much joy to your life.

I recommend a few steps to help you create your spa evening at home. Also, I recommend turning your spa at home into a habit and planning it as your monthly task. It would be a task that would help your relaxation and balance in your daily life.

So organized spa day at home monthly has several benefits such as a sense of satisfaction, to do something positive for yourself, a sense of relaxation that brings balance to your hectic lifestyle and helps build immunity and health for your body.

There are a few things to do to create your spa day/night routine easily:

  • Organize your space to be always ready
  • Prepare the product and gadgets you need for your spa session
  • Create your own spa night routine – find the best days and times for you to have a home spa session (by yourself, with your partner, or a friend)
  • Every week make it deferent
  • Boost your health
  • Your home spa concept
Plan Your Special Spa Day at Home
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Stimulation & relaxation of the five senses together is key to a holistic approach to your health.

~ SMELL – use candles, aromatic oils in a bath, masks, creams, oil diffuser, etc.

~ VISION – use special lights, candles, paint on the wall, flowers, etc.

~ TOUCH – etheric oils, Celtic salt, creams, masks, and all other product are very nice on touch.

~ TASTE – drink healthy mocktail, smoothie, or cold press juice + healthy bites to keep your sugar level low

~ HEAR – Music is vital too. Depending on your taste, choose something that relaxes you. Maybe you do not listen to this kind of music or sounds, but you would be surprised how these sounds can be peaceful. Try some music for meditation, some movie themes could be lovely, classical music, but you might want to look for nature melodies, too. Try Nature Sound and Calm apps to create your own ‘soundscape.’

ORGANIZING YOUR SPACE

You may not have a swimming pool, sauna, or steam bath, but you may have a tub and a yard or terrace.

Before you plan anything, organize your space to be ready for anything you want to manage in your home. Organizing a space can save you time and energy daily. Here are a few tips for creating a home easy to manage:

  • Stay focused while cleaning and creating your cosy space
    • When you’re doing something, whether it’s working at home or away from home, you focus. It helps you finish what you do faster and enables you to organize your space in the best possible way. To make the area nicely organized and functional so that you can easily create your spa day/night as you want.
  • Be smart about buying storage boxes different sizes
    • Buy beautiful boxes that will make your space pleasing to the eye. Take different sizes so you can pack all your things properly, as well as the things and preparations you need for your spa routine. Things organized in this way will save you time and energy.
  • Organize every small space
    • Creating your space in detail will allow you time for a spa at home. You will not get lost in looking for things.
  • Have “prime” areas in your house
  • Identify the items you use most often, then find a spot for them accessible when you are in a rush. 
  • Label everything
    • It is easy to be functional and organized when you see where you storage your things
  • Living Room With Clever Furniture
  • To avoid a mess and to have less cleaning is to have ‘smart’ furniture. That means to have the storage set up for
    • Small stings
    • Big things
    • Things and the product you are using the most
  • Clean out your closet at the end of every season
    • During this cleaning separate your close:
      • For work
      • For home
      • For spa treatment
      • For training, etc.
  • Set aside 10 to 15 minutes every day to clean

PREPARE THE PRODUCTS AND PLACE FOR YOUR HOME SPA SESSION

Products and gadgets

There are a few products and gadgets worth investing in. These devices you can use for years. They can positively change your life. On the other hand, the product you use for your spa session is not reusable, but it is worth investing in. They make your skin beautiful, and they help your mind relax, which leads to good health, which is the most crucial thing in your life.

I have a few recommendations to help you in your journey.

· FOREO LUNA 3 Face Brush and Anti-Aging Massager

Foreo Luna, you can use it via Bluetooth to have comfortable skincare. The device boasts ultra-hygienic medical-grade silicone bristles, and it cleanses deeply with adapting to the natural skin barrier.

· Beurer FB50 Luxury Foot Bath Spa With Water Heater

 The ultimate indulgence for overworked feet is massage, warm water, and bubbles. Also, magnetic and infrared therapies help to improve circulation and relax the feet.

One more gadget is handy in facial boosting treatment., It is an LED face mask with a combination of red and infrared light diodes that improves collagen production. Skin after that treatment is glowy and toned.

· The essential oil diffuser

You can use natural oils in the brand’s signature scents. It will scent your room and humidify the air electronically.

Cosmetic products that boost your skin and hair

When choosing products for your skin and hair, I suggest you be careful because it is one of the most important things for a woman.

Depending on your skin and hair condition, choose the products you use.

It does not matter if you ordered the products you would use, and they did not arrive on time, and you have already planned your ritual. You can always use the ingredients you use in the kitchen to eat, such as egg, honey, olive oil, turmeric, coffee, etc. For example:

  • If your skin is tired, you need to improve hydration with hyliaronic acid.
  • If your skin is oily and damaged, I suggest charcoal mask that cleanse and recover the skin.
  • If your skin is sensitive and without glow you will need to repair it with Jojoba oil .

Your home space convert into a spa

  • Make the bedroom your treatment room for pampering like massages and facials. 
  • Every spa has a relaxation zone, and the best place for relaxation could be in the lounge or a warm spot in the garden, or a sun room. This is when I use a home foot spa with a massager and additionally I love to add some etheric oil.
  • Or you can meditate with a guided meditation application. And, a glass of something refreshing and healthy can boost your treatment. It could be healthy ice tea with some extra herbs or fruits, or detoxifying tea, cold press juice, smoothie, etc.

  • Your bathroom should be the best space for warm bath. Use everything that can help you to relax like candles, or some special lights that can make an atmosphere. if you have music it could help you to relax too.

Boost your health

  • Make a whole story – Grab your nicest robe and towels. Make some refreshing water for extra hidratation and add mint, lemon, orange or strawberries.
  • Create your own spa night routine – find the best days and times for you to have a home spa session (by yourself, with your partner, or a friend).
  • Be creative and do it your way –  Every session make a special. Every week make it deferent. e.g. you can make a masks and leave it on the face while you read a book or write a journal. Or, you canuse that time to draw if you like that.
  • Hair mask or oil – At the same time when you are using face mask you can apply hair mask or oil. It will nourish your hair and gives your hair extra glow.
  • Happy feet treatment – you can do a combination of foot pilling, massage, foot mask and detailed foot cleaning.
  • Relax in a steamy tub – Add 2 full hand of mineral salts with lavander oil for relaxation. You can change etheric oil every time accorting to your needs:
    • Lavender – It’s mostly used to relieve headaches, anxiety, and insomnia
    • Tea tree – this oil helps in skincare especialy problematic skin with acne, nail fungus, and warts
    • Peppermint – Peppermint oil is a potent oil is great to improve respiratory function and relieving sinus congestion. Also helps in digestion, relieve nausea and improve brain function.
    • Orange. Orange oil may alleviate anxiety and stress. It is great for nervous system, as well as promote healthy lymphatic flow. This kind of citrucy oil can improve skincare after lights exposure.
    • Lemon. This oil is used for boosting immunity, circulation, and lymphatic flow.
  • Give your self time and focus –  Turn off your mobile, laptop or any kind of electronic device. Try some meditation to get yourself centered. It will help you reach emotional stability, relaxation and it eill teach you how to reset and control better your emotions.
  • Make your own treatments – be open to use some device like mini jade roller for your face to help in puffiness reduction as well as it boost smoothness. Or, you can add to that treatment manicure or pedicure treatment with tools for reasonible price. You will have salon-level nail treatment. I always recomend foot massage because it makes you erelax in 10 minutes and stimulate the whole body since our feet are directly conected to our organs.
  • Head massage – Besides foot massage, there is scalp massage that is so powerfull, where after just 10 minutes you can feel big change in your body and you can feel relax easily. Price of scalp massager are not high, so give it a try. Sometimes you can use it just between meetings for few minutes and it will help you to recove rapidly. Plus the size of massager is small so you can keep it in your bag.

How they did it before!

History of SPA

Ancient Greeks were the first to use spas and bathing for therapeutic purposes, besides hygiene and cleanliness. Also, Romans built thermal baths at natural minerals and hot springs. The Roman Empire expanded, and that is how the spas trend began springing up all over Europe and somehow became a practice to socialize, relax, or receive medical treatment.

After the fall of the Roman Empire came Christianity, the popularity of spas waned. In 1326, a Belgian ironmaster discovered a natural spring in the Belgian town of Spa, and a health resort soon appeared, and it is from here that we get the word spa. 

‘Today, it’s fair to say that spas are at the forefront of the holistic health and wellness movement. People everywhere discover that the most effective approach to health is maintaining a balanced body and lifestyle – something spas are experts in assisting with. They are home to some of the latest pioneering treatments and research into nutrition,

– ‘Spa’ is an acronym of the Latin phrase ‘Salus Per Aquam,’ meaning ‘health from water.
– ‘Spa’ is named after the Belgian village, Spa, where Roman soldiers used hot mineral springs to treat aching muscles and wounds from a battle.

Whilst many people associate traditional spas with Roman baths, there is evidence of spa-type therapies dating back thousands of years when there was a belief in the curative powers of mineral waters. Paul Joseph, the co-founder of Health and Fitness Travel, explains: “Spas, healing waters, thalassotherapy, hydrotherapy, and hot springs date back thousands of years – an ancient practice conducted long before the Greeks and Romans!”

One of the first written accounts of bathing being used as a curative process rather than a simple hygiene ritual was by ancient Greek philosopher Hippocrates, who was alive over 2000 years ago between 460 and 370 B.C. Hippocrates proposed that the cause of all ailments was an imbalance of bodily fluids and advocated that “the way to health is to have an aromatic bath and scented massage every day.”

This process, using bathing as a treatment of disease, is known as balneotherapy and is considered the founding principle of spa-going. Its influence can be seen today in everything from mineral-infused treatments or jumping in the hot tub after a swim to thalassotherapy – swimming in seawater to heal the skin.

In their early history, the primary use of curative baths was to heal the wounds of Roman soldiers during the reign of Augustus from 27 B.C. to 14 A.D. At this time, there were approximately 170 baths, known as a thermae, in Rome, and it didn’t take long before all the city’s citizens began to view baths as a form of relaxation. In 70 A.D., the Romans built a thermal bath spa around the hot springs at Bath, the first of its kind in Britain.

In 1326, Collin le Loup, an ironmaster from Liège, Belgium, discovered the chalybeate springs in Spa, Belgium. A famous health resort eventually grew around these springs. The term ‘spa’ came to refer to any health resort located near natural springs, with individual springs being associated with the disease they were thought to benefit from.

However, it was not only in Europe that rituals associated with spa-going were developing. From Japanese ryokan to Turkish hammams and Finnish saunas/steam rooms, different healing facilities were growing worldwide. By the Elizabethan era, spa resorts were fully ingrained into British culture, and since then, they have become more advanced but still stick to their humble, restorative origins.
Before long, people have the enthusiasm for spa treatments taken across to the United States, where the first mass-audience spa was established in Saratoga Springs, New York. By 1815, the area boasted two huge Greek revival hotels, with up to 500 accommodation rooms for visitors eager to take solace from the rapidly modernizing world.

Elizabeth Arden introduced the first-ever day spa in 1910, known as Manhattan’s Red Door Salon. This spa offered manicures, facials, and more, bringing it much closer to the modern-day experience. As Beth McGroarty, Research Director at the Global Wellness Institute, explains: “The modern concept of the spa really started to take off in the 1980s.” Over the next 20 years, spa days would be regarded as a treat for primarily wealthy women, who visited in groups to celebrate birthdays, hen dos, and other social occasions. Beth points out that “the big, recent story is one of explosive growth: the global spa industry grew from USD 60 billion in USD 60 billion in 2015 – while spa locations jumped from 71,762 to 121,595 in those same short eight years.”

The expansion of the modern-day spa’s demographic is largely due to a redefinition that has slowly been developing over the last ten years – and not just when it comes to men. Whereas most spas of the 1980s to early 2000s were luxury establishments offering lavish service to make the customer feel great, topped off with afternoon tea, today’s leading spas instead focus on intrinsic health. Wellness is now the ultimate goal, whether this is deep tissue massages that target pressure points, balancing steam rooms, or more carefully-tailored spa breaks to achieve certain benefits such as weight loss or detoxifying.

Beth McGroarty defines this process as the development of spas as wellness centers. This growing trend involves changes such as “adding everything from yoga, fitness or meditation classes, to having healthy food and spa cafes, to more alternative medicine approaches from Ayurveda to traditional Chinese medicine and reiki. We’ve even seen spas partnering with medical professionals to offer services which aim to accomplish a more integrative lifestyle change.” ‘

Global spa trends

As spas need new, more innovative treatments. The industry has begun searching for new global influences from different parts of the world, different cultures, and styles. That means that we can feel and experience the country’s culture on a holistic level, wherever we are. If you are in India, Tibet, or South America, you will feel an influence of the culture in all kinds of treatments.

Spas of the 80s and 90s were very much the same – a generic, Asian design of the space and just with a few massages. With globalization, more knowledge and more desire to create better treatments and services lead us to a new approach in spas in different countries.

In the last few years, the biggest trend was that people could experience local and authentic spas. Those spas use local healthy ingredients, including some traditional methods in curing for relaxation.

Typical treatments include:

Use this list as an inspirational list to create your spa at home.

Be inspired

Free yourself and believe in your creativity. Create your spa day at home. Take time for yourself and dedicate yourself. These treatments and sessions are not just for relaxation but are a time when you think of nothing but yourself. Then thoughts are purest and then you can use that same time for reflection!

  • What would you change about yourself?
  • Would you change some goals?
  • Why are you doing something you do?
  • Is what you are doing right?
  • Deal with yourself in a different way than before! enjoy life. Do you find it hard sometimes, sometimes it is relaxing, enjoy all those moments because it is your life!

Hopefully, you enjoyed this article. Let me know if I can assist you in creating the best spa day at home!

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