December 2010 | Best Spa Treatments

2010-11-12T09:50:00.000-08:00

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Oasis

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Oasis Day Spa offers a wide variety of services that will leave you utterly relaxed and rejuvenated. Treatments include a skin-perfecting facial, rejuvenating massage, body wrap, and a popular manicure-pedicure package. Highly recommended is the Oasis Signature Facial (60 min/$110), which is individually customized and consists of a complete skin analysis, with exfoliation to stimulate cell renewal for a healthy complexion.

2010-11-11T10:04:00.000-08:00

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Paul Labrecque

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Paul Labrecque has built a reputation on his Manhattan salon & spas, which offer a full menu of the highest quality services. The Air Bronze tanning sessions (45 min/$95) have become very popular among those wanting a perfect golden glow all year round.

2010-11-10T10:28:00.001-08:00

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Warren Tricomi

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Located in the newly renovated Plaza Hotel, the 6,000 square foot space of the Warren Tricomi salon is a modern symbol of timeless style and visionary expertise. The salon carries a namesake product collection that can remedy the needs of hair on every level – from color and texture to creating body and shine. Stylists are also recognized for the signature dry hair precision cutting technique (price upon request).

2010-11-09T10:33:00.000-08:00

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Acqua Beauty Bar

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Acqua Beauty Bar offers clients crisp, new and inspiring products and spa treatments. The spa incorporates traditional Eastern techniques, holistic ingredients and modern technology to create a uniquely blissful experience. The spa team customizes facials and body treatments with extras like hot stones, acupressure, and reflexology. The signature treatment is the Body Slimmer (60 min/$110).

2010-11-07T10:57:00.000-08:00

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Ajune

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At Ajune you will receive nurturing care to help you look and feel refreshed, renewed and alive. The spa concept is simple, yet highly effective: they offer an unparalleled level of personalized attention and breadth of service. The Seasonal Winter Massage (60 min/$165.00) is the ultimate relaxing experience as the treatment combines a Swedish and Shiatsu full-body massage with steaming hot towels and an aromatic blend of healing essential oils. Warm stones are placed along the body to stimulate circulation and balance the chakras while you receive a relaxing foot massage.

2010-11-06T10:58:00.000-07:00

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Amore Pacific

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This therapeutic spa offers customers the secrets of centuries of Asian beauty wisdom combined with the latest in skincare technology. The service menu includes an array of product-focused treatments that are all customized at the spa's botanical mixing bar and carefully developed for each client’s particular needs. The signature treatment is the Halla Green Tea Experience (120 min/$250), which includes an exfoliating body scrub, intensive back, foot and lower leg massage, as well as an anti-aging blended facial masque and eye treatment.

2010-11-05T11:00:00.000-07:00

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Christine Chin

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To help clients find exactly what they need, Christine Chin has organized her collection of products to meet any and all skincare conditions. Christine Chin believes that effective levels of performance ingredients are behind quality skin care and she works to stabilize fragile ingredients to ensure they travel from the product to the skin. The Glow Facial (90min/$120) is the signature treatment, which consists of a deep pore cleansing, a shiatsu facial massage, and a custom-blended ginseng mask.

2010-11-04T11:02:00.000-07:00

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Susan Ciminelli

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At Susan Ciminelli all of the products are made from the rarest, purest ingredients on earth to help nourish and detoxify. Each service brings your body into balance, creating an inner peace and harmony that is the source of the famous Glow. The spa is well known for the Deep Tissue Massage (60min/$155), which will loosen tight muscles, relieve stress and reduce tension.

2010-11-03T11:04:00.000-07:00

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Townhouse Spa

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Townhouse is the perfect place to socialize in a quiet, serene setting. This new concept of spa-as-lounge was inspired by New Yorkers who desire to linger at the spa into the evening hours. Offering new exclusive spa treatments from celebrity stylists and skin care collections, Townhouse encompasses three floors: one for men, one for women and one to shop, mingle and dine. The signature treatment is the Townhouse Relaxation Massage (60min/$135), which consists of a tailored blend of light to medium Swedish strokes that will induce compete relaxation.

2010-11-02T11:11:00.000-07:00

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Dorit Baxter

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With a reputation for affordability, the Dorit Baxter Spa has been thriving and is constantly acclaimed by beauty and fashion magazines for its innovative treatments. With a variety of popular services Dorit Baxter is well known for its Spa Sports Facial treatment (60min/$98), which blends a warm mint-tea-solution wrap to soften perspiration bumps that appear on the face as a result of exercise-induced sweat. The healing masque of camphor, thyme and kaolin balances the skin, helping to reduce impurities and minimize pores.

2010-11-01T11:13:00.000-07:00

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SkinCareLab

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During the winter months, freezing air and overheated rooms can really exacerbate the drying effects on the skin. SkinCareLab is always on the lookout for improved ways to exfoliate and to stimulate collagen production, so the skin emerges smoother and more radiant. The SkinCareLab Facial (60min/$160) is a medically based deep cleansing treatment based on a unique enzyme-protein enriched complex by Epicuren.

2010-10-29T11:14:00.000-07:00

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Soho Sanctuary

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Soho Sanctuary offers a variety of treatments in a relaxing environment that provides an escape from the city’s hectic pace of life. All of the therapists are highly skilled and use only all-natural products. The “Sanctuary Signature” (60 min/$125) is a highly recommended facial, which includes skin analysis, gentle exfoliation, a mask and a light massage.