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June 8, 2004 Headlines This Issue
-- New Orleans Spa Getaway Sweepstakes now underway
-- SpaWire Creates Forum for Spa and Salon Professionals
-- Enterprising Farmers Find Alternative Use for Produce
-- Investigation: Dangerously Dirty Day Spas and Salons in Tampa, Florida
-- Superior Exfoliation and an Alternative to Microdermabrasion
-- Skincare Products Blended from the Vine
-- Spa Management for Hotels/Resorts Seminar
-- Iceland's Spa Culture Hits the Boiling Point
-- Prescription Based Vitamin C Skincare
-- Thai Lanna Spa Association Launched
-- The Feel Good Factor
-- Spatography: A Sensorial Journey with Linda Troeller
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Life on the dairy farm for the Cheesmond family has been tough in recent years. The effects of foot-and- mouth disease, and problems with pricing in organic farming, have taken their toll on their County Durham business. They could probably do with some pampering themselves, but instead have decided to try to keep business going by opening a health spa on the farm, and helping others to unwind. (BBC News June 1, 2004)
A trip to the hair salon or nail salon is supposed to be a relaxing, stress-free experience. You expect the place to be clean, the equipment to be safe. But some salons are cutting corners and putting your health at risk, as people like Carol Rice have found out. An ABC Action News investigation discovered poor sanitary conditions in dozens of bay area salons. Toque de Classe Salon, on North Florida Avenue in Tampa, is riddled with obvious health code violations. (ABC Action News Tampa 05-27-04)
Denude Med, a medical day spa in Annandale, Virginia, specializing in the treatment, restoration, and maintenance of the skin's appearance, announces the addition of dermaplaning to its extensive menu of skin care procedures. Denude Med is one of the greater Washington area's only medical spas to offer this exfoliating treatment first embraced ten years ago by Japanese men and women. (YaHoo Press Release June 1, 2004)
The debate about whether a little wine is good for your health has gone on for years. The new question is: Is wine -- or at least wine-based products -- good for your skin? Yes, says Mathilde Thomas, founder of Caudalie, a French skin-care company that is built around the vitamins and anti- oxidants found in grapes. (San Jose Mercury News May 30, 2004) Full Story (Requires Free Sign-In)
As a Hospitality Professional you have one foot in the "Spa Business" and the other foot squarely in the "Hotel/Resort Business". You have special needs and this seminar is designed to address them. Resources & Development® presents four intensive days of education, lectures, workshops, and roundtable discussions. This Seminar offers attendees cutting edge industry strategies and practical techniques for producing real results. Be prepared for action and ready to learn about how to effectively analyze and control the complex mechanisms of your Spa Operation in an interesting and fun setting. Enjoy networking with other Spa Directors, Hotel Executives and General Managers in this exciting study of best practices for Resort and Hotel Spas. A variety of speakers will be presented, and the seminar includes Spa Lab, where participants will spend an afternoon in the 30,000 sq ft Spa Vita di Lago
at the Ritz-Carlton to experience being a guest before discussing certain operational issues.
Icelanders have been hot-tubbing longer than any other people on Earth. Wracked with volcanic activity, Iceland is also covered with natural steam vents -- places where hot water just shoots out of the ground. That gift of infinite, free, running hot water has put a heated public swimming pool in every Icelandic town and village. Icelandic yuppies trade gossip in their civic hot tubs before work, and Icelandic moms take the kids swimming every day after school. Iceland's number-one swimming hole, the Blue Lagoon has expanded in the past few years into a full-fledged spa. (Frommer's News and Highlights, June 1, 2004)
Obagi Medical Products has introduced the first and only prescription based vitamin C skincare system, the Obagi-C(TM) Rx System for Photolumines(TM) skin. While vitamin C cosmeceutical products only superficially penetrate the skin, the Obagi C-Rx System contains a patented combination of prescription strength 4% hydroquinone and professional strength vitamin C (L-ascorbic acid) to increase penetration to all layers of the skin. Full Story
With strong support from the Chiang Mai Health Department, the Thai Lanna Spa Association was officially launched during the World Congress of Holistic Medicine, recently held in Chiang Mai, with the overall aim of raising standards within the northern spa industry. "We introduced our association during the Congress to emphasize the unique link between northern spas and the traditional herbal treatments for which the North is famous," explains the association's President Mrs Chitra Klanprayoon of Ban Sabai Spa. Currently with 20 member spas, the new association will focus on promoting northern art & culture in Chiang Mai spas, utilizing local products, oils and herbs, and supporting the environment. However, its most important task will be to work closely with sister spa associations in Bangkok, Samui and Phuket to help the Public Health Ministry draft standards for the spa industry and devise government-recognized training programs for therapists, spa managers and spas operators. (Tourism Authority of Thailand June 5, 2004)
The word "ritual" has a beautiful, mysterious ring to it that makes its meaning all the more solemn. Ritual tends mostly to be associated with religion and places of worship, but it has a place in every day life too - there's something to be said for creating a sense of ceremony in even the most secular of things, like lovingly preparing a meal, gardening, or filling your home with lit candles in the evening just because. It's got much to do with elevating every moment in life from the mundane to something more cherished. Spa owner Elizabeth Brandt of Sérénité Wellness Centres evidently thinks so too, having incorporated the ritualistic element into things that are already
renowned for making us feel so good - massages, aromatherapy, facials, body wraps and polishes - at her new Cape Town beachfront property. The name - Sérénité Lifestyle Rituals
- says it all. Here, in Mouille Point, a few metres away from the glittering Atlantic, you don't go for a "treatment", which has such a clinical association (treatment implying
that there's a problem that needs to be fixed). Rather, a "holistic lifestyle ritual" is chosen specifically with you in mind.
The Spa Association (SPAA) has announced a partnership with Troeller, whose work has been termed, "mesmerizing" by Spa Finder magazine. SPAA will market the
CD Rom of images which include photographs from the holistic to the sublime with entrancing shots of men and women taking the waters and enjoying spa excursions.
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