What is a spa?
the word spa comes from the original Latin prefix "health by water", where Solus = health, Por＝ = via, Aqua＝ = water, which means water is used to achieve health. The method is to make full use of the physical characteristics, temperature and impact of water to achieve the effect of maintenance and fitness. SPA (French solutpor aqua) means "healthy water", and SPA(Spring pute air) of British leisure culture means "enjoying pure air in the mineral spring area". The wonderful smell of SPA has spread for hundreds of years, and it has been recorded in Greek literature in the old days. Adding minerals, aromatherapy, herbs and flowers to water can prevent diseases and delay aging.
in a narrow sense, SPA refers to SPA for beauty and health preservation, with various forms, including cold bath, hot bath, alternating hot and cold bath, sea bath, hot spring bath and tap water bath. Each bath can relax tense muscles and nerves to a certain extent, eliminate toxins in the body, and prevent and treat diseases. In recent years, it has been found that spa combined with various aromatic essential oils massage can accelerate fat burning and have slimming effect.
in a broad sense, SPA includes well-known hydrotherapy, aromatic massage, bathing, dead angle removal and so on. Modern SPA mainly achieves all-round relaxation through the five sensory functions of the human body, namely, hearing (therapeutic music), taste (herb tea, healthy diet), touch (massage, contact), smell (natural aromatic essential oil), vision (natural or imitation natural landscape, humanistic environment), etc., and integrates essence, qi and spirit to realize the relaxation of body, mind and spirit. Now SPA has evolved. SPA is the most common form of spa. According to the examination, the name of SPA originated from a small town called "SPA" in Belgium during the Roman Empire, because there was a hot spring there, which was famous for its beauty and even treatment of diseases. It was only in modern times that scientists uncovered the secret of hot springs. The essential oil in the water came from the immersion of thousands of flowers and plants on the local mountains in the upstream water source. So now people simulate the construction of similar environment and water quality, so that it has a healthy and bodybuilding effect on the human body, that is, the modern "SPA."
the key to modern SPA is water resources and water equipment, such as barrel bath, wet steaming, dry steaming, shower and hydraulic massage bath, and minerals, seabed mud, flower extracts and plant essential oils are often used to improve water quality and act on human body. In real life, SPA has the following functions: beautifying face, relaxing body, soothing body and mind, healthy skin, treating diseases and so on.
SPA has different themes, some of which focus on relaxation, soothing and detoxification. Some focus on bodybuilding and slimming; There are also heavy aromatic essential oils, marine running water or pure herbal therapies. However, no matter what kind of SPA, it can meet the basic needs of six pleasant senses, such as hearing (therapeutic music), smell (natural flowers and incense), vision (natural landscape), taste (healthy dining), touch (massage care) and thinking (inner relaxation).
The pleasure of the p>SPA provides an outlet for the pressure of internal hoarding, which enables people to enjoy the body, mind and spirit in harmony and balance for people to taste. Beauty in body, mind and spirit is the dream of modern urbanites in a healthy state in the future. The pleasant fragrance blown by SPA gives people care and comfort from body, mind and spirit, cares for your face, cares for your soul, and makes you full of vitality and spirits from the inside out.
the origin of p>SPA
As early as 15 BC, Indians used this kind of "magic water" to heal wounds and relieve pain, and the ancient Greeks also used it as a panacea for treating diseases and strengthening the body. In luxurious ancient Rome, people even used the natural difference of water temperature to divide public bathrooms into very hot, slightly hot and cold pools. It has become a public exchange place for warriors to wash their dirt.
In the 15th century, the name of SPA came from a small valley called Spau near Liege, Belgium, which is a hot and warm area rich in minerals. Local residents treated various diseases and pains by soaking in hot springs. Therefore, the local hot spring bath is well known. After the 18th century, SPA became popular among European aristocrats, and became the first choice for aristocrats to take a vacation and keep fit.
in addition to the SPA, the ancient Romans also used natural mineral springs in other parts of Europe for healing. Later, more and more hot spring resorts appeared all over the world. California, France, Britain, Italy, Austria, Japan, Taiwan Province and other places in the United States have well-known SPA health centers, and spa, a leisure and beauty method, is also very popular in these places.
with the development of the times, people constantly endow SPA with newer ways and richer connotations. Nowadays, SPA, a SPA method that combines ancient traditions and modern high technology, is no longer the exclusive pet of nobles, but has gradually become a fashionable and healthy concept for modern urbanites to return to nature and eliminate physical and mental fatigue, integrating leisure, beauty and decompression. With the five senses therapy, all kinds of activities related to relieving pressure, body and mind can be called SPA.
Beautiful Legend
Legend has it that three or four hundred years ago, Greek doctors suggested that hydrotherapy could prevent diseases. Until the 14th century, there was a small town called SPA in the forest area of Ardennes, Belgium. Residents found that there were many natural springs gushing out here, with extremely low salinity and no mineral impurities. Whether drinking or bathing, it was of great benefit to the human body. Residents used it to treat pain and diseases, so it became the birthplace of modern SPA.
It is also said that hydrotherapy was discovered by Sebastian Kneipp, a Catholic priest, in the 19th century. He used cold and hot Hydrotherapy to stimulate body function, promote blood circulation and relieve stress, which was very effective, and gradually evolved into the popular "hydrotherapy".
It is also said that Spau, a small town in Liege, Belgium, is surrounded by beautiful forests and hot springs rich in minerals. Residents go to the hot springs to treat diseases, and at the same time, they can refresh their minds and enjoy natural gifts in nature, hence the name SPA. And send various forms such as beauty and body building.
the charm of spa
the atmosphere created by spa is unique: in the elegant space with beautiful sound and lingering fragrance, you can enjoy the caress of water drops, petals, green leaves and soil, and suck the fresh breath from the plants in Yuan Ye, a natural forest. Everything is so warm and quiet, as free as birds flying in the sky and fish swimming in the water, and you can forget all your worries. The grass is growing in the wall, and the world of mortals is rolling outside the wall. It seems like a lifetime ago, but Taoyuan and the world of mortals are only close at hand.
SPA includes facial care, music massage, aromatherapy, lymphatic detoxification, hydrotherapy, mud therapy, ocean therapy, yoga, five senses therapy, etc. It takes health care, beauty, fitness and comfort as the main purpose, and uses water, color, sound, light, plant aromatic essential oil, dead sea mineral mud and even hot stones as beauty treatment tools, which is full of human vision (color. Although there are weight-measuring, detoxification and pressure-relieving, some focus on beauty and slimming, some focus on herbal therapy, etc., the love brought to you is all spring rain, which makes people "intoxicated and don't know where to go."
In the SPA world, you can beautify your face, keep fit, relax and keep healthy, and feel the moisture of flowers, rain and dew and the gentle care of the beautician. After washing with fragrant flowers and Merlot water, you are tired when you step out of the SPA, and you are smelling of flowers and plants, which is really a vanilla beauty. No wonder many city ladies, working girl and romantic gentlemen are fascinated by it, and it has become a way for them to show their taste in life.
SPA not only provides facial, hand and foot beauty, but also offers various courses of health care, body shaping and weight loss. Besides female clients, the clients can also urge the accompanying male clients to do physical health maintenance. The hot springs here are usually drinkable, which has remarkable curative effect on gastrointestinal diseases. Because most people's obesity is caused by indigestion in the gastrointestinal system, such hot springs can treat gastrointestinal diseases on the one hand, and promote lymphatic circulation on the other hand, metabolize excess fat and waste in the body, thus making the digestive system of the body stronger.
therefore, the SPA can be said to be a "body and mind beauty charging station" to supplement energy.
types of SPAs
according to different uses of spas, they can be divided into: urban SPA(Day Spa), beauty spa (hotel/resort spa), club SPA(Club Spa) and mineral spring spa.
■ Metropolitan SPA [day SPA]
Due to the limitation of dense land and narrow population, metropolitan spas are usually located in famous restaurants, shopping centers or independent storefronts, and their treatment courses are not as long as those in resorts. In view of the tense urban rhythm, it is a very efficient leisure way to have a course of treatment that can restore fatigue in a short time.
■ Beauty SPA
Most of these spas are women. Most of them are for organizing skin, shaping and maintenance. At present, many spas in China are transformed from beauty salons.
■ Club SPA
In Taiwan Province, most of these spas are membership-based, and their main purpose is to keep fit and exercise, and provide basic ways to use various spas. It has developed into a compound leisure center that combines massage, beauty and hydrotherapy, and the gym has also been included, becoming a more extensive leisure center.
■ hotel/resort SPA
combining with the first-class hardware and service management of hotels and resorts, providing spa enables hotel residents to completely relieve fatigue and enjoy another new feeling of complete relaxation, whether in business or leisure travel.
■ mineral spring SPA
is located in hot springs or cold springs. At present, there are many hot springs in Taiwan, so soaking in hot springs can be regarded as a kind of spa in general!
■Hair SPA
The latest popular trend in Europe and America has recently been introduced to Asia. They have improved the space of traditional hair salons and separated them from the space, so that guests can consult and suggest before deciding on the services they want, and help them to relax with essential oil massage first, then carry out comfortable and gentle spa massage and shampoo, or further spa treatment, which are also collectively called hair spa.
■ Other types:
Chinese herbal bath salt
Magic effect: foot soreness, bacteria removal
anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, blood circulation activating, fatigue relieving and foot qi strengthening, which is the specialty of Chinese herbal bath salt. Therefore, it understands the voices of outdoor workers best. If you are a busy photojournalist, market researcher, or salesman, standing and running for a long time, not only the soreness of your legs and feet is obviously increased, but also the unpleasant smell is very easy to appear, which is actually a sign that bacteria are beginning to flourish. Foot is the root of essence, feet are discouraged, and the whole person is certainly discouraged.
Matching method
1. Angelica can promote blood circulation and dredge collaterals, cinnamon can warm kidney and help yang, and eliminate waist fatigue. Crocus sativus has analgesic effect. They are all good raw materials for pedicure.
2. Soak your feet in hot water with bath salts of Chinese herbal medicines for 3 minutes, and rub them with each other at the same time. Or put your five fingers in your toes and stretch your toes outward, which can have a particularly good soothing effect.
(2) Kanebo's hot spring bath salt
Hot spring bath salt
Magic effect: waist and neck are sore
Hot spring bath salt contains sulfur, magnesium salt, calcium salt and other mineral components, which can activate bones and muscles during soaking, increase blood circulation, and solve the urban problem of sub-health well. When you fall into the predicament of poor sleep and easy fatigue, especially when your neck and waist are tired all day, but your body has no pathological changes, try hot spring bath salt. Think about it, where do we get so much time and money to soak in hot springs in the suburbs of Beijing? Isn't it great that a good hot spring bath salt can take Tianlongyuan and Xiaotangshan home in the suburbs of Beijing?
Matching method
1. Dissolve about 3 spoonfuls of hot spring bath salt in the bath water, and stir while putting it. Adjust the water temperature to 38℃~4℃, which is the body's favorite temperature, and at the same time, it can give full play to the effect of bath salt.
2. Before taking a bath, you'd better wash your body in the shower, which can help your body adapt to the water temperature well. The bath time is 2 ~3 minutes. There is a small way to soak in the bath. Put your hand on the edge of the bathtub, slowly lean back, and repeatedly suck your stomach and bulge your stomach, which can help you relieve the pain of your back and shoulders. You will feel as if every pore is shouting and cheering, and it feels like a stick.
3. The minerals in the hot spring itself will also penetrate into the body skin through the epidermis, playing a very good role in beautifying the skin. The so-called which warmed and smoothed the creamy-tinted crystal of her skin, presumably also just so.
(3) L 'Occitane Lavender Bath Salt
Essential oil bath salt
Magic effect: mental exhaustion
Essential oil is called "oil", but it is actually not a real oil, you can also call it a plant hormone. Its beauty for human body is that it is not external regulation, but starting from nerves to improve people's psychology, mood and mind. Therefore, it is added. It is like a magician of the mind, calling back your perception of a happy life when you are tired and helpless. Taking a bath with essential oil bath salt before going to bed can create a very quiet and wonderful atmosphere.
Matching method
1. Geranium essential oil can relieve stress and anxiety, while chamomile bath salt and rose bath salt can help relieve nervous nerves and calm emotions; Lavender bath salt can relieve headaches; Rosemary bath salt can enhance memory. While taking a bath, you might as well give your brain a bath.
2. If you can't take a bath, pour them on the wet bath cotton or towel, and rub them back and forth on the wet body. The essential oil in the bath salt will be distributed in the air with the temperature of hot water, and the small space will suddenly be filled with comfortable and romantic flavor.
(4) BEJAS Scrubbing Body Bath Salt
Natural sea salt
Magic effect: Legs and feet are swollen
Natural sea salt is a kind of crude salt, which can make the body sweat and help the useless water to be excreted. Moreover, because many sea salts are mixed with natural seaweed ingredients, seaweed is a great expert in removing edema as we know at present. In addition to women who have these troubles, pregnant women and people who have high heels all the year round are very suitable for using sea salt to solve edema troubles.
Matching method
1. Mix the sea salt into a paste with a little hot water. Apply it to butterfly sleeve, elephant legs and other places. If the adhesion is not good, use olive oil or Portugal.