Posted on :
10 August, 2010
By :Seema
Six awesome tricks to save moolah while touching spa heaven. Dig out those scented candles and get started.
1.Body Polish:
This is a complete body treatment. It will give you a new skin.
Things You Need: A massage cream.
Exfoliator: Mix 15-20 crushed sesame seeds, 2 tbsp honey and a few dried mint leaves.
Massage Oil: 50 ml olive or sesame oil mixed with 8-10 drops of essential oil. Choose according to your mood: Lavender relaxes, Jasmine makes you happy, Rose calms and cinnamon relieves fatigue.
Body Polish Mask: Mix the pulp of a small papaya and a cucumber with one part honey, four parts oatmeal, two parts yoghurt and one part orange juice.
Body Lotion: Mix 6 tbsp rose water, 4 tbsp orange juice and 1 tsp pure glycerin.
Cloth Bundle: Make a bundle of slightly wet, clean cloth filled with besan, oatmeal, dry and ground mint leaves, rose petals, almond meal and a pinch of turmeric powder. You will also need a small and a large towel.
How To Do It: Start with exfoliation. Mix the scrub and apply it on your body. After 10 to 15 minutes, massage your skin gently and then wash it. Prepare the bathtub with hot water and add a few drops of essential oil. Soak in the bathtub while rubbing the cloth bundle on your body. Lie and relax. After coming out, massage your body with the massage oil. Use medium pressure in long up and down stroking movements, following the muscles of the arms and legs. Remember, all massage sequences should end with upward strokes towards the heart. Rest for a few minutes and then apply the body polish mask. Lie on a mat and just allow your body to sweat and absorb the mixture full of vitamins and enzymes. Then rub gently all over and wipe off with a soft moist towel. After washing the mask off, apply the body lotion and then wipe off with a moist towel after 15 minutes.
2.Papaya Body Scrub:
This body scrub is easy to do at home and leaves your skin clean and rejuvenated. You can do it once a fortnight, but avoid for at least two days after a wax or razor session.
Things You Need: 1 small ripe papaya: 50g grain powder: 50g rice powder: 50g sea salt: 50 ml honey: 100 ml milk or curd.
How To Do It: Mash the papaya in a grinder and mix with all the other ingredients except for the milk or curd. Blend well with hand. Now steam your body all over with a portable home steamer or simply have a hot water bath. Apply the mixture all over your body, covering each and every part from face to toe. Then lie down on a plastic sheet for 20 minutes.
Next, take the milk or curd and apply carefully on each body part, scrubbing the area gently in circular movements. You can also use a soft loofah for scrubbing your skin. When finished take another warm, thorough shower. Wipe off the excess moisture and apply body lotion all over when your skin is still a little wet. Enjoy clean and smooth skin.
3.Retexturising Body Scrub:
This trestment will remove all dead skin, soothe your senses and lift your spirits.
Things You Need: A bathtub: 2-3 drops of rose lavender essential oil: 1/2 cup sea salt: 2-3 tbsp massage oil of your choice: a good shampoo and conditioner: 2 tsp liquid chocolate: nail filer: cuticle cream: 2-3 tsp turmeric powder mixed with 1 tbsp rose water: foot scrubber: a good body lotion.
How To Do It: Light some candles and fill your tub with hot water. Put 2-3 drops of essential oil and some of the sea salt. Mix the rest of the salt with the massage oil and apply it all over the body. Keep for 15-20 minutes and relax. Then wash off. Next, shampoo your hair and apply the conditioner mixed with a little chocolate: massage gently into the roots and tuck your hair under a shower cap. While you wait for your hair to heal, file your nails and put the cuticle cream on your cuticles. Then clean your face with the turmeric mix. Now just slip into the tub full of warm water. Relax and soak for 10-20 minutes. While you are in the tub, give your feet a nice scrub. After finishing, wipe yourself semi-dry and lather on a lot of hand and body lotion.
4.Mineral Polish:
It will make your skin smoother and shinier and remove all tan.
Things You Need: 6 tbsp of neem or tulsi powder and aloe vera gel as required to make a rich paste: 1/4 cup cleansing milk: a loofah, a body moisturizer.
How To Do It: Take a shower with hot water. If your skin is very dry, apply some cleansing milk and then take the hot water bath. Wipe your body semi-dry. Apply the paste in a circular motion, spending a few moments on every body part. Then scrub the body with a loofah, so that every last bit of dead and dry skin is scrubbed off. Take a shower with cold water and rinse the scrub off properly. Now apply the moisturizer and enjoy your new skin.
5.Cucumber Wrap For Pigmented Skin:
It will make the heat seep out of your sunburnt body. Its the best cucumber cooling recipe.
Things You Need: 1 kg cucumber with skin and pips, whizzed in a blender: 2 drops lavender oil: 2 drops tea tree oil: 2 drops chamomile oil: a cotton sheet: any branded moisturizer [Optional].
How To Do It: Cover your body with the cucumber mixed with the essential oils. Wrap your body in the cotton sheet and relax for 30 minutes. The cucmber feels cool and you will sense the heat being drawn out of your body. Take a shower and wipe off the water. The cucumber leaves your skin so soft that moisturizing afterwards is optional.
6.Dry Fruit Body Scrub:
Its a simple body spa treatment which will leave your skin smooth and soft.
Things You Need: 2 large towels: 2 sandalwood aroma candles for relaxing: 200g almonds powdered: 200g walnuts powdered: 1/2 litre milk: 1/2 kg fresh rose petals ground into a paste: 100g rice flour: 100g oatmeal: 100ml almond oil: 5 ml sandalwood oil: a loofah or damp towel.
How To Do It: Mix all the ingredients and apply all over your body for 20 minutes. With a damp loofah or hand towel scrub off in rotating movements and wash.