Enhance your wellbeing and vitality with a simple and affordable home spa treatment session.
In the 21st century, people are working more hours than ever before. Stress and working excessive amounts of overtime are factors that can contribute to coronary heart disease. There are studies that support this.
Taking care of yourself to improve your health and increase your sense of wellbeing will help to reduce your stress. The option of a DIY home spa treatment provides an opportunity to unwind, decrease your stress levels, all without leaving your home, or going to any significant expense. This is particularly favourable option, because when you are at home, in your own time – a DIY home spa treatment fits in with your lifestyle, and if you are busy and can’t get away to a spa retreat (either because of time or expense) then you will find this opportunity hard to refuse.
The trickiest part is finding the time. Once you have found the time – and it is vital to schedule me-time into your day to day life – by having a few tools, treatments and some know how, you can get right into the DIY at home spa experience.
Focus on Indulgence of all of Your Senses through a Tranquil Spa Sanctuary
A really good at home spa experience will be a delight to all of your senses – touch, smell, taste, hearing, and sight. By incorporating a soothing environment to your at home spa venue, it will help you maximize the pleasure of your experience.
A spa is generally associated with water – so creating an atmosphere in your bathroom is a good start. Make sure you have fresh, fluffy towels. If you line-dry your towels, you can fluff them up a little by putting them into your dryer for five minutes on warm. Soft fluffy towels are one of life’s greatest pleasures, especially if they are slightly warm to the touch.
For a relaxing scent – if you don’t prefer candles, a reed diffuser is inexpensive and convenient. It takes about 2 days for the scent to fully ripen, so keep this in mind when timing your spa. Otherwise, for instant olfactory pleasure, you can’t beat the aromatherapy candle. For safety it is wise to use a holder for the candle, and keep well away from small children and pets.
A sound machine that plays soothing sounds is a great option to use over and over, otherwise you can’t go past the MP3 player dock, or the CD player. You can pick up tranquil soundtracks from your local library. Either play these directly on your CD player or load them onto your MP3 player. Make sure you keep either device well away from water.
Detox with Green Tea
Hydrate yourself with some water, and then make yourself a wonderful detox indulgence – a cup of green tea. The health benefits of green tea are endless. This is a good way to start off your DIY home spa experience.
Moisten Your Skin with a Steam Facial
After you have had time to wind down with your cup of tea, take ten minutes to give yourself a steam facial. Boil 4 cups of water. Add some dried herbs such as chamomile, and leave to cool slightly, as you don’t need to burn your face. When the temperature of the steam is tolerable, put the water into a bowl, and put a towel over your face and the bowl, and allow the steam to circulate in your little steam tent for about ten or fifteen minutes.
Sooth Stressed Hair with Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Before you have your steam facial, get a couple of teaspoons of extra virgin olive oil, and apply it throughout your hair. Wrap a warm towel over your head and leave for about twenty minutes. When you hop into the shower next, simply shampoo it out to remove the residue.
Treat Your Body with a Natural Exfoliating Treatment
Next it is time to get into the shower for an excellent body exfoliation treatment and to rinse the olive oil out of your hair with shampoo. For the body exfoliating treatment get yourself a handful of sea salt and add a teaspoon of honey to it for an excellent salt scrub. Rub all over yourself, and then rinse off in the shower. Alternatively, you can use brown sugar, as it is less abrasive and more suitable for sensitive skin.
For a Wonderful All Over Moisturising and Soothing Body Treatment
Get a handful of regular rolled oats, and either put them in a muslin cloth, or a handkerchief, and run yourself a bath. Drop the oat-filled muslin cloth into the bath and then enjoy a luxurious soak in the tub that will soothe and moisturize your skin after an exfoliation treatment.
Don’t Forget to Treat Your Feet
Using a pumice is a great way to shape up dried out heels, and remove dead skin. Use the pumice on your feet while you are in the bath. Once you are out of the bath, rub some vitamin E cream over your feet to soothe them. A foot cream containing peppermint is also a good way to soothe and revitalize tired and aching feet. Palmers have a great foot balm – it is rich, moisturizing, soothing, and smells great.
Moisturise Your Body with Oils
Either jojoba oil or sweet almond oil are wonderful to apply on your body, while you are still damp. Don’t dry off until you have applied the oil, being slightly damp will aid in the oil being absorbed into your skin. Once the oil has absorbed, then towel dry yourself, and your skin will feel amazingly soft and supple.
Add a Dash of Glamour to Finish off Your Spa Treatment
To finish off your spa treatment, a quick manicure will never go astray. File your fingernails and toenails to the desired length, and then apply a good quality hand cream. Once your hands have absorbed the hand cream, ensure that there is no residue left on your nails beds, and then apply a quick couple of coasts of your favourite polish.
You Have Just Soothed Away Your Stresses in Around an Hour
This at home spa treatment would have probably taken around about an hour. Considering that the most important person that you need to take care of is yourself – that is a very minor investment of your time. Self-care is so important, when you feel better in yourself, you are better able to take care of all the other things you need to do.
Go and take some time out to self-care without guilt and increase your wellbeing.
Source:
Wilde, L. 2005, The Busy Woman’s Home Spa Book, London: Ryland Peters and Small
Further reading:
Home Spa Index (accessed 27th October 2010)
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