Spa Savvy Massage Therapists

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Comment by Alicia Barrera-Warwick,HHP,LE on August 29, 2009 at 9:29am

Hi Marissa, you may be interested!
The book is called, "Keep It Simple Spa", it's a guide for massage therapists and estheticians who want to turn themselves into a one-person spa by offering spa body treatments and add-on's to their menu and providing these services from their session room. Focus is room set-up, supplies needed, showerless procedures, marketing and promotions. I can let you know when it is available if you like. Thanks!

Thanks!

Comment by Marissa on August 29, 2009 at 7:19am

So, what's the name of the book? It's something that I would be interested in as well. Thanks Alicia.

Comment by Alicia Barrera-Warwick,HHP,LE on August 27, 2009 at 12:15am

Dallas and Rachel:
I have a book coming out in about a month that you may be interesed in. It focuses on showerless dry room spa treatments for your session room and includes step-by-step procedures for the classic spa body treatments that I mentioned earlier. Continuing education workshops are also a great way to learn how to perform these treatments as well. If you are in Orange County, CA I offer Spa Savvy workshops, if your not in my area you may want to check with your local massage schools, most of them offer spa related training as an advanced course and you can also check with www.NCBTMB.org for a listing of spa technique workshops in your area. When working with applying products to the body you want to keep in mind what the product is intended to do? Clays, muds, and seaweeds (powder) will work best if applied to a body that has been dry brushed first. You will want to wrap the body in thermoplastic if your are doing a full body mask and leave on for up to 15-25 min., remove the product with warmed steamed towels, apply toner with a facial round sponge and then apply an emollient moisturizer (shea and cocoa butters). That's it! Your body treatment is complete you can know perform your massage if your including that service after the body treatment.

Comment by Rachel Sheard, LMT, NCTMB, CIPI on August 26, 2009 at 1:46pm

Alicia,
When you order things from Massage Warehouse, do they come with application instructions? I get their catalog, and have ordered my sheets from them, and always look over their spa treatments, but wouldn't know what to do with the stuff if I bought it. I could probably figure it out with my experience in doing Set-N-Me-Free treatments, but seaweed and clay is a whole other element to deal with, so I wasn't sure.

Comment by Dallas L Richards LMT NCTMB on August 26, 2009 at 1:38pm

I am interesting in learning some new dry room techniques for my business. I was wondering if I needed to take any special classes before I start doing them or if there was a way of learning them online for CEU credits?

Thanks,
Dallas

Comment by Alicia Barrera-Warwick,HHP,LE on August 24, 2009 at 4:44pm

Hi Marissa!

Thanks for asking and I'll put in my 2 cents and if I miss any, I hope that someone else from the group will chime in! Thanks!

Salt and Sugar Scrubs, The finer the texture the easier on you for clean-up.

Body Polish - with easy on, easy off products, I find fruit based such as pumpkin and cranberry easy to work with.

Body Wraps - Emollient based (shea and cocoa butters) for moisturizing and Seaweed, Muds, and Clays for drawing impurities from the body work well. You will need to apply a heavy moisturizer afterwards.

Add-on's work as well especially if you are introducing your new "spa" services. Add-on's include hand and feet wraps, as well as back spot treatments.

These are classic and basic, there are so many others out there but if your just starting, I would say start here. Here are a couple website that are spa supply retailers that I recommend: www.MassageWarehouse.com and www.UniversalCompanies.com

Good luck and let us know if you have any other questions - Alicia

Comment by Marissa on August 24, 2009 at 3:54pm

Hello everyone! I'm getting ready to celebrate a one year anniversary at my salon(renter) and considering offering dry room services to expand the menu. What are the most popular and well loved?

Comment by Alicia Barrera-Warwick,HHP,LE on August 22, 2009 at 11:13pm

Yes, I am familiar with Set-N-Me Free Company, they have a massage cream that heats up that I really like and yes, I do blend the Balance 7 oil myself. I am working on a toner too, but have yet to master that one!!

Comment by Rachel Sheard, LMT, NCTMB, CIPI on August 22, 2009 at 10:21pm

Alicia--
Do you buy that oil blend, or blend it yourself? Sounds great!

I do bodywraps and other body treatments from Set-N-Me-Free Aloe Company. They're a local company, but distribute all over the US and a few other countries too I think. Very clean, easy to use products.

Comment by Alicia Barrera-Warwick,HHP,LE on August 22, 2009 at 9:55am

Hi Cindy and Congratulations! Offering spa services from your room is an excellent choice. If you have any particular issues feel free to ask us!

Alicia

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