Teen treats

Teenagers can join in the spa experience at Mandarin Oriental, Miami. The hotel's spa now offers a range of treatments designed for teenagers from sparkly manicures and pedicures to facials and scrubs. The menu is aimed at children aged 14 years or older who can also enjoy the spa's heat experiences and try their hand at a range of activities including make-up application techniques, belly dancing and salsa classes with friends or parents.

T: +1 305 913 8332

www.mandarinoriental.com/miami

K West Hotel – Notting Hill

K West SPA have launched a range of new treatments for men including: Blokes Pedi-Kure, Sports Pedi-Kure and ExeKutive Mani-Kure. All of the treatments use products by German company LCN. Road-testing the Blokes Pedi-Kure included tidying and softening the skin, a foot massage and nails buffed and groomed to an expert finish. The foot massage was particularly memorable and my feet and nails were left looking and feeling great. What next? Men-only nail parlours?

www.k-west.co.uk

Go Oriental

or some exotic pampering, the Veranda Chiang Mai – The High Resort has opened in Northern Thailand. The hotel's spa is located in an idyllic forest setting with private cottages containing large sunken baths, steam rooms, showers and twin treatment beds, perfect for indulging with your friend or partner. Once you've had your treatment, you can relax in the 'Ozone' rooftop infinity pool with stunning mountain views. The resort also offers yoga, stress release massage classes and Tai Chi.

www.verandaresortandspa.com

Publisher’s Pick

he quirky and innovative design of this new spa's menu caught the eye of Spa Secrets' publisher with its tonuge-in-cheek photography from the '40s and '50s. In leafy Surrey, Foxhills' brand new luxury £5 million HealthSpa looks set to become the ultimate weekend away. The spa has partnered with skincare brand Elemis and offers a day spa, spa garden and fitness arena. The day spa has seven individual treatment rooms, a couples treatment room, relaxation den, thermal suite, indoor pool, vitality pool, nail and make-up zone and Medi-Spa. The comprehensive treatment menu has been designed so guests can select therapies and treatments to fit their needs. We can't wait to try it out!

T: 01932 704555.

www.foxhills.co.uk

Lough Erne Golf Resort

The new Thai Spa at Lough Erne Golf Resort, Northern Ireland claims to be the UK's first wholly Thai experience. Everything from the treatments and therapists to the products and decor are Thai. The spa has eight treatment rooms (one dedicated to Thai massage), a light therapy sauna, aroma steam room, exotic rain shower, thermal suite, rasul and pool.

www.loughernegolfresort.com

Golden Body Glow Treatment at The Spa at Charleston Place hotel in South Carolina

Why not set yourself up with beautiful skin this summer! The Spa at Charleston Place hotel in South Carolina has introduced a Golden Body Glow Treatment using Artemisia Vulgaris (a root plant) thought to trap free-radicals and protect the skin against UV rays, pollutants and other external stresses that cause skin ageing. Your entire body is gently exfoliated with Gold Glow Body Scrub and Wrap to get rid of dry, dead skin cells and help to re-mineralise and revitalise the skin. To finish off the treatment in style, body oil and dusting powder are then applied to hydrate the skin and give the effects of shimmer and shine! The entire treatment lasts a blissful 80 minutes and costs from $185 (£92) and leaves you with a lovely golden glow.

www.charlestonplace.com

Corporate Detox programme at the Kempinski Hotel Barbaros Bay Bodrum’s Six Senses Spa in Turkey

Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean we all get time off work to relax. However help is at hand with the new Corporate Detox programme launched at the Kempinski Hotel Barbaros Bay Bodrum’s Six Senses Spa in Turkey. The hotel encourages business travellers to combine work with a unique detox programme designed to aid relaxation through treatments, exercise, meditation and a Brain Food menu. The idea is that corporate types can improve the productivity and quality of their meetings if they are relaxed and rejuvenated. Prices start from €780 (£610) for single occupancy including three night’s accommodation, all meals, treatments, meeting facilities and airport transfers.

www.kempinski-bodrum.com

Ghd Men’s Experience at the Titanic Spa

For a memorable spa experience just for men, head to the Titanic Spa in West Yorkshire for the ghd Men’s Experience. This scalp and hair treatment incorporates scalp exfoliation, massage and hair indulgence. Like nothing you will have tried before in a spa, it manipulates the head, massages the scalp, neck, hands and arms while providing your hair with much needed rescue remedies. Heavenly! From £35 for 30 minutes.

www.titanicspa.com

Aromatherapy Sports and Fitness Massage at the Landmark Spa

The new spa at the Landmark Hotel, London offers a much needed break from the tourist trappings of nearby Baker Street. A modern spa and health club, complete with sanarium, steam room, swimming pool, experience showers, gym, relaxation room and a treatment menu that ticks all the right boxes for men. Try the new Aromatherapy Sports and Fitness Massage — a perfect remedy for sports enthusiasts or those who lead an active lifestyle that uses lavender, clove and West Indian Bay essential oils to prevent strains and relieve aches and pains. From £75.00

www.landmarkspa.com

ChocoMinceur Body Treatment
The Ultimate Full-Body Indulgence

ISHI ChocoTherapy: Luxury Gourmet Skin Food

ISHI ChocoTherapy introduces the ultimate guiltless full-body indulgence – the ChocoMinceur Body Treatment.  Long considered beneficial for the skin, the worlds finest antioxidant-rich Crillo Cocoa treats the body to an invigorating natural slimming and cellulite reducing therapy. This delicious new spa and salon treatment will benefit the body and mind with the regenerating and detoxifying benefits of the finest plain and white chocolate.

The unique two hour sensory massage based therapy begins with a taste of luxury Domori chocolate that dissolves on the tongue to feed the body from the inside out. An antioxidant enriched, gentle Ambrosia Oil massage containing plain chocolate, dark Brazilian coffee and essential oil of Macedonian juniper berries stimulates natural circulation and attacks cellulite. 

The second course incorporates a mask of decadent Plain Chocolate Mousse. Made of the cacao, black cayenne pepper, caffeine and essential oil of Madagascan carnation cloves, the Mousse flushes toxins away while addressing cellulite and encouraging revitalisation and purification. To nourish the skin, smother the body in warm, non-greasy Gianduja Chocolate Oil – the mouth-watering natural aroma continues the multi-sensorial experience. 

Dessert calls for an invigorating rub of rich White Chocolate Cellulite Cream made from Crillo cacao and active ingredients such as caffeine, theophylline, milk proteins and vanilla essential oil to reduce orange peel skin and increase lymphatic drainage. The sensory journey ends with a light application of moisturising Chocolate Orange Cream. Made from juice of Caribbean blond oranges, milk chocolate and orange, cedar and essential oil, this lightweight Cream gently nourishes the body.

Treat your body and your senses to a beneficial chocolate delight with an ISHI ChocoMinceur Body Treatment.  An ISHI ChocoMinceur Treatment Box Set contains all five products necessary for eight indulgent treatments. 

Introductory 15% discount: £106.25 (for a professional kit with 8 treatments)

Stockist: 020 7580 4242 www.ishiuk.com

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Tono di Vino Body Treatment
Mediterranean Massage

ISHI VinoTherapy introduces an innovative, delicious way to enjoy the benefits of lush, organic Mediterranean grapes ö the Tono di Vino Body Treatment.  Grapes, rich in antioxidants, vitamins and essential fatty acids, fight free radicals to nourish tone and invigorate the skin.  This new Italian salon and spa treatment is the ultimate way to feed the skin with fruits of the Mediterranean.

The 2 hour sensory massage therapy begins with a herbal tea infused with dried red grapevine leaves.  The antioxidant-rich drink purifies and cleanses the body from within.  After the relaxing, healing tea, the body is gently massaged with Grape Must and Lavender Honey Exfoliating Scrub.  The Scrub, rich in natural fruit acids as well as alpha and beta hydroxyl-acids, delicately exfoliates and tones the skin.

Another more invigorating massage follows by massaging Nettare di Vino Tonic, a rich concentrate of red Salento grapes, virgin wood strawberry juice and edelweiss extract, to encourage lymphatic drainage.  A sumptuous Thermal Peat and Moscato Grape Mud Mask then infuses the skin with antioxidants while intensely combating cellulite. 

Distilled Aromatic Water is then used to immediately detoxify, stimulate and energise the body and mind.  Yet another pampering massage follows the full body cleansing ö Grapeseed Massage Oil with rosemary, rich in essential fatty acids, visibly firms the skin.  For dessert, an invigorating body rub with Pinot Noir Body Toning Cream firms and moisturises skin while increasing natural drainage. 

Treat your body and your senses to a gourmet Mediterranean delight with a firming ISHI Tono di Vino Body Treatment.   An ISHI Tono di Vino Treatment Box Set contains all five products necessary for eight indulgent treatments. 

Introductory 15% discount: £106.25 (for a professional kit with 8 treatments)

Stockist: 020 7580 4242 www.ishiuk.com

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Lifting Body Mask

Firm your face and body with VITAGE Lifting Body Mask.  Developed by cosmetic doctor Patrick Bowler, the mask utilises the powerful properties of naturally occurring vitamins, enzymes and antioxidants to lift and firm your face, bust, bottom or thighs.

VITAGE Lifting Body Mask contains active enzymes to lift and revitalise, they work at a cellular level to correct and repair. During the treatment it is combined with deep tissue massage, using vitamin rich oil to detoxify and decongest. The mask feeds the skin and stimulates the underlying contours producing an instant, revitalising lift.

The unique combination of natural enzymes and powerful antioxidants in the VITAGE treatments provide a variety of benefits which include tightening and toning for skin with poor elasticity, detoxifying and firming for areas prone to cellulite, oxygenating and stimulating benefits for stressed dehydrated skin and collagen production for sun damaged or mature skin. 

It is recommended as a course of 6-8 treatments with monthly maintenance or as an individual beauty boost, all skin types can benefit from this holistic, relaxing treatment.

Also from VITAGE:
Firming & Rejuvenating Vitamin C Facial, an intensive treatment that restores luminosity and radiance to the skin and repairs sun damage

Firming & Rejuvenating EyeTreatment provides intense rejuvenation for the delicate eye are, lifting, toning and reducing the appearance of fine lines and dark circles

Salon prices from £55 per area

For your nearest salon contact Cosmeceuticals Ltd on: 0870 850 6655

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Micro Dermabrasion Treatment Rises in popularity at K West Hotel and Spa

Crystal Clear Micro Dermabrasion, the treatment whose devotees include Victoria Beckham, Jude Law and Patsy Kensit, is fast growing in popularity at Londonâs hip design hotel, K West Hotel & Spa.

The treatment provides a complete facial in less than 30-minutes and gives an instant boost to skin.  It also reduces early signs of lines and wrinkles by improving the skins elasticity and tone. 

Guests can see an immediate difference in their face as the Micro Dermabrasion works to exfoliate and remove all the dead skin cells so leaving healthy, luminous and rejuvenated skin.  A course of 10 treatments is recommended, but the results are clear even after one treatment.

The Manager of K Spa at K West, Fiona O'Riordan, said  Crystal Clear was introduced into K Spa earlier in the year and has become incredibly popular in a short space of time. At K Spa we are now doing over 100 Micro Dermabrasion treatments a month.ä

There are three different Crystal Clear Micro Dermabrasion Facials to choose from starting at £40 for a 25-minute treatment, to £65 for a 55-minute deluxe version.

K Spa at K West is one of Londonâs best spas and offers a wide range of holistic EâSPA treatments, including massages and facials. There is also a dry flotation tank, whirlpool, saunas and steam rooms. Spa packages are available at K West and include overnight accommodation and treatments.

K Spa at K West, Richmond Way, London W14 0AX
For appointments, please call: 08700 27 43 43
www.k-west.co.uk

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BeauBronz ˜the first natural spray tan of its kind˜

BeauBronz is an environmentally aware company with a progressive and holistic approach to the beauty industry offering natural tanning solutions. This company was founded by QVC Lifestyle presenter and radio broadcaster Abigail Oleck, who in May 2004, due to the growing success of BeauBronz has lead her to winning Shell Live Wire Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for regional London .and also the award for Growth Potential in the Greater London Final. Abigail founded BeauBronz, because she was unhappy with present tanning solutions which she deemed to be too full of harsh chemicals. She wanted to bring out a product that could be used by people who were concerned about what they were putting on their bodies and as a result created BeauBronz ö The Natural Solution..

Award-winning BeauBronz is a little secret passed on amongst friends in the media and beauty industry. BeauBronz is an environmentally aware company offering natural tanning solutions of the highest quality which unlike other spray tanning products, contain no alcohol or harsh chemicals. The key ingredients ensure that you get the best result from just one single session, last days longer then other spray tans on the market, and enable the client to choose how dark they wish to go. BeauBronz spray tanning treatments are found in salons across the UK

BeauBronz supplies 3 tanning solutions: Bronz which lasts up 7 days, Bronz Forever which lasts up to 12 days and Bronz Quick Fix tan which develops in only 2 hours! BeauBronz's secret weapon is Dramatic Drops which can be added to the solution and allows you to go even darker. BeauBronz also provides a selection of luxurious home products and after care, ranging from tan extending body moisturisers to tan removing shower gels.

BeauBronz tanning treatments start at £25.

To find your nearest BeauBronz salon or for more information on BeauBronz please call 020 8767 9777 or alternatively visit the BeauBronz website:www.beaubronz.co.uk

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