What's the best facial treatment for my skin?
Our aesthetician can make a recommendation at the time of your treatment, after analyzing your skin, assessing its current conditions, and finding out more about your needs and goals. We believe in careful, sensitive treatments performed largely by hand in the European tradition. Please inform us of any special conditions requiring extra care. Our programs offer a more intensive treatment option for specific short-term objectives.

Our Dermal Analysis and home care consultations are available at no charge. We can help you decide on the best skin care regimen, and it doesn't have to mean tossing out everything,you're using right now.

Deep Cleansing Facials
For dry or aging skins, a facial moisturizes, lubricates, and oxygenates. In troubled skins, a facial reduces oiliness, congestion and blemishes. FaciaIs also firm lazy muscles, tighten pores, erase tiny lines, eliminate black heads and whiteheads, speed up sloughing off of dry, dead cells, refine texture of skin and improve color.

At Linda LaVelle's we will provide you with a carefully plotted home care program to meet your skin's specific needs. Amazing results have been achieved in one month with combined facials and at-home consistent care.

Ask about our money-saving cleansing treatment series, and you can resolve your skin care problems.

Anti- Free Radical Treatment
An algae-mineral masque combined with vitamins for a tight and radiant skin
appearance.

Oxygenating Facial Treatment
A treatment designed to improve hyperpigmentation and a renewal of skin moisture.

High Performance Cellular Treatment
A treatment designed to increase skin elasticity and firmness combined with vitamins and oxygenating masques.

Glycolic Acid Treatments or Alpha Hydroxy Treatment
A naturally occurring substance commonly found in sugar cane and sour milk which has been found to correct major skin concerns such as: fine lines and wrinkles, oily prone skin and acne, pigmentation problems, and dry cracked skin.

Aromatherapy Facial or Massage
There is a wide range of esthetic uses for essential oils. The uses include massage, hydrotherapy, stress relief, firming, toning, cleansing and moisturizing. Based on the desired effect and the skin type, specific
essential oils are combined for the synergistic effects.

Body Massages
Our specially trained masseuses help to restore muscle tone, give increased energy, supply a regeneration to aging skin, and stimulate circulation, as well as a complete feeling of "well being." May be combined with aqua pressure or thallasotherapy treatments in jacuzzi. Special massage such as Aromatherapy, Shiatsu, Reflexology, Swedish massage and Neuro-Muscular are available.

Massage benefits everyone - from the tiniest premature infant to the elderly and those with all manner of conditions. "Preemies" experience greater weight gain and shorter hospital stays; HIV patients experience an increase in immune system function; depressed patients experience a lift in mood; chronic pain sufferers experience reduced pain; elders show less evidence of senility; and arthritics gained increased mobility.

Dr. Saul Schanberg, biological psychiatry specialist at Duke University Medical Center, says, "We are hard-wired from birth to touch and be touched for survival." Researchers have found that something as simple as putting your hand on another's shoulder reduces heart rate, lowers blood pressure and stimulates the brain to release endorphins - the body's natural painkillers. In addition to proven physiological benefits, touch therapies also induce "a relaxation response" through changes in brain waves. According to Michael Picard, massage therapist at Westglow Spa in New York, "The body has forgotten what relaxation is ..."

Aromatherapy Salt Glo
Using a blend of sea salts, mineral salts and aromatic oils is gently massaged over the body to remove dull surface skin cells to improve circulation, thus providing a softer smoother skin.

Detoxifying Seaweed Wrap
To eliminate dead skin cells and release toxins, the seaweed rich in minerals and iodine comes from the west coast of Brittany. A warm blanket is applied to retain heat as the body detoxifies. The seaweed will improve elasticity- smoothness, and tighter appearance will tone and refresh the skin.

Herbal Body Wrap
Heat unbleached linen and herbs are the essential ingredients for this ancient Egyptian treatment. As the body is gently wrapped in a cocoon of comforting warmth, you can actually feel the toxins being released from every pore.

Revitalizing Body Wrap with Moor Mud
An invigorating body wrap combined with the detoxification and exfoliation powers of organic Hungarian mud. Warm blankets retain body heat, and essential oils are applied as a last luxurious touch.

Thalassotherapy with Seaweed
The Seaweed has been renowned for its ability to revitalize. It eliminates toxins and revitalizes the metabolism and is applied to a warm bath followed by a light manual massage.

OTHER SPA SERVICES

Balneotherapy with Aromatherapy
A blend of relaxing oils are added to the warm bath to soothe the skin and relieve stress and jet lag, while the aroma affects the nervous system for total relaxation. After the bath a light manual massage is applied to the face,
neck and shoulder area.

Traditional Manicure
Manicure combined with a restorative cuticle treatment to help build nails and repair and nourish nail bed, as well as heated mitts to soften and nourish hands.


Hand Treatment with Paraffin
Luxurious paraffin dip to soften and relax hands as well as a nourishment for dry skin.

French Manicure
Derived from France, a unique manicure designed to show off your beautiful nails!

Spa Manicure or Pedicure
A traditional manicure or pedicure combined with a glycolic treatment to soften and smooth the cuticles and tighten the skin, as well as aromatherapy oils to de-stress!

Corrective Make-Up Lesson
A private lesson specifically geared to applying make-up for day and evening and how to apply highlighting and contouring properly for each individual's face, as well as a diagrammed chart explaining how to use the cosmetics properly.


Teen Make-Up Lesson
An excellent beginning for the young lady! You learn proper skin care for your individual needs, you also learn how to apply and blend face, eye and lip make-up while coordinating colors with your wardrobe to achieve a soft, natural look. Your lesson is diagrammed so that you always have a chart to guide you.


Corrective Make-Up Application
For that special occasion and for when you want to look and feel your best, let our make-up artist perform a corrective eyebrow shaping and apply your make-up while coordinating it with the colors of your outfit.

Corrective Brow Shaping
Balances your individual features and expressions while shaping your brows.

Waxing
Removes unwanted hair which will not grow back for weeks.

Our skin care philospohy
We believe:

  • Skin care should be simple and give noticeable results - immediately & long term.
  • Every skin care product should be gentle - regardless of skin type.

 

Our Creed:

  • We choose close-to-the-source natural ingredients.
  • We choose plant-derived synthetics.
  • We choose plant extracts that have been proven effective in scientific studies.
  • We avoid the use of petrochemicals, solvent alcohols, animal-derived, or irritating, pore-clogging ingredients.
  • We use only natural, essential oils - or we don't use any fragrance at all if any allergic reaction were suspected.
  • We use soothing ingredients to calm skin!
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