A new trend in the spa industry is the development of environment friendly spas otherwise known as eco spas. These spas offer the same modern and high technology equipment offered by the regular types of spa but with a unique twist: Eco spas offer the innate beautifying and relaxing properties of nature. Eco spas are able to do this by providing a spa experience in an environment that closely resembles a natural setting. Most of these eco spas even provide rooms for spa treatments where the clients have an actual view of picturesque natural scenery such as mountains, rivers, and other beautiful land and seascapes.
To take the eco friendly theme a step further, eco spas also offer treatment products with 100% organic ingredients. All creams and oils used in eco spas are made from natural components with no artificial elements and chemicals added. Usually, even the food and drinks served at an eco spa are made from naturally grown plants and fruits.
Eco spas offer many unique and distinctive treatments. Most of these treatments are usually based on organically produced and locally available base ingredients in order for the spa to be more environment friendly and to leave a lighter carbon footprint.
You can get an exfoliating spa treatment from an eco spa in Bali, Indonesia that uses locally sourced Javanese coffee beans. In Costa Rica, you will be able to find eco spas that offer massages and therapies that use volcanic rocks taken from nearby volcanoes that are also one of the major attractions of the country. You can also get a full body scrub and polish using grape seeds from the same region in California.
At Vermont, there are eco spas that offer a body-polish spa service that uses maple syrup made from local ingredients. While in Wisconsin, there are eco spas that offer sandstone body polishes that use sand ground out from a variety of sandstone that is of ancient Cambrian form. In Pittsburgh, you can get a stimulating facial treatment from hot cocoa and even a full body wrap made out of hot chocolate. In Napa Valley, you can get a foot scrub and treatment made from rosemary that is combined with grape seed.
Whatever spa treatment you fancy, you would be far better off getting it at an eco spa than at a regular spa. For one, eco spas give you a much better treatment because of the more natural products that they use on your face and on your body. For another, eco spas do their part in taking care of the world we live in. Unlike regular spas, eco spas try to conserve as much energy as they can by trying to become “green”.
But if you want to go and have a destination specific spa treatment though, try to plan ahead and have it coincide with a vacation you are going to. This is especially important if the treatment you are craving for is more than a thousand miles away. After all, you would not want to waste the entire environment saving properties you get from going to an eco spa by cancelling it all out with the carbon emissions and other environment polluting elements you produce by travelling there for that purpose alone.
