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Royal Treatment: How You Can Take Home the Pleasures of the World's Great Luxury Spas

by Steve Capellini

ISBN13: 9780440507765
ISBN10: 0440507766
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Discover the beauty and health practices of the most renowned spas in the worldSwith step-by-step instructions for enjoying similar treatments at home.

Purifying Southwest desert clay baths...rich, hot olive oil hair packs...wonderfully relaxing full-body massages...delicious calorie-burning meals--you can create a new level of luxury and health in your life without ever leaving home.

In The Royal Treatment, leading spa consultant and trainer Steve Capellini describes the natural healing ingredients and fabulous special services from a dozen great American spas. You will join Steve as he travels from one exclusive retreat to the next, sinking into a mineral bath at the ethereal Sonoma Mission Inn north of San Francisco...reveling in a seaside hydrotherapy treatment by a great kahuna, or healer, at a pearl-hued resort on Oahu...and feeling the electrifying results of an Herbal Wrap at the Enchantment Resort in magical Sedona, Arizona. Then Steve uses his unique expertise and years of experience to tell you how to perform similar sensuous and rejuvenating therapies at home. Indulge yourself or a partner in pleasures that refresh the body and uplift the spirit as you discover:

  • Everything you need to create a home spa

  • A "conscious pleasure chart" to choose which treatments to use for relaxing, rejuvenating, energizing, or beautifying

  • Jojoba oil and flower extracts for foot and scalp routines

  • Exfoliating sea salt rubs for sloughing and stimulation

  • Herbal essences and other fabulous oils for bathing

  • Tantalizing spa recipes for weight loss and "youthing"

    And more. . . .
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    About the Author

    Steve Capellini, a traveling spa consultant and trainer, was named "the best massage therapist in the United States" by Travel and Leisure magazine; Self magazine also named him one of the top therapists in the U.S. As a long-standing member of the International Spa and Fitness Association, he has had unique access to the owners and upper management of the world's finest spas. He has appeared on "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" and "CNN Prime Time", and has written numerous articles for sports and health magazines. He lives in Miami.
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    ISBN:
    9780440507765
    Subtitle:
    (how you can take home the pleasures of the great luxury spas )
    Author:
    Capellini, Steve
    Publisher:
    Dell Pub.
    Location:
    New York :
    Subject:
    Beauty & Grooming - General
    Subject:
    Massage
    Subject:
    Health resorts
    Subject:
    Relaxation
    Subject:
    Self-care, health
    Subject:
    Rejuvenation
    Subject:
    Balneology.
    Copyright:
    1997
    Series Volume:
    vol. I, no. 2
    Publication Date:
    c1997
    Binding:
    Trade Paper
    Language:
    English
    Illustrations:
    Yes
    Pages:
    xiii, 238 p.
    Dimensions:
    9.18x6.18x.65 in. .92 lbs.
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