Spa Night

Make one night a week spa night. My night is Sunday night; I love spending part of the afternoon getting ready for my personal beauty treatments. I make a body mask, a hair mask, a facial steaming formula, and a face mask. I also make sure I have the following on hand: a cuticle treatment, a gentle skin cleanser, an eye cream, two cucumber slices, a bath oil, a hair rinse, a facial toner, a facial oil, a rich body butter, and a hand and foot cream.

Here’s what to do on spa night:

Step One: steam face for 10-15 minutes using an EO formula for your skin type.

Step Two: step into a warm shower, gently cleanse skin and get hair wet.

Step Three: apply hair mask and wrap hair in towel turban style.

Step Four: apply eye cream to protect eye area, then apply facial mask.

Step Five: apply cuticle conditioner and then full body mask.

Step Six: Lay back and relax with cucumber slices on eyes for 15 minutes.

Step Seven: Rinse off in the shower and then let it fill the bathtub, treating the water with a bath oil if you have dry skin.

Step Eight: Soak at least 10 minutes while you use a pumice stone to remove dry skin on your feet, knees, elbows, etc. Then wash your hair and follow it up with a hair rinse.

Step Nine: Tone your face and then apply facial oil.

Step Ten: Slather a rich body butter over the rest of your body and if possibly use a special formulated cream for your hands and feet. Follow up with cotton socks and gloves that you keep on overnight.

You will wake up feeling like a queen!

I’m often asked where do I relax with a hair mask, a face mask and a full body mask? It’s, let’s face it, messy. I’ve tried a variety of strategies and have settled on using old pillows in the bottom of the bathtub. The tub tends to be wet from my shower, so I line it with a few old towels, and then drape an old beach towel over myself once I’m all masked up to keep warm. I also light candles, put some relaxing new age music on, and make sure I have my timer set (I’ve fallen asleep before).

When the time is up, I wrap pillows and towels in the beach towel and throw this bundle into the washing machine before I go to sleep.

This method is fairly comfy, and has the supreme advantage of keeping all the mess in the bathroom.