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Stressed Out? Why Facials are More Relaxing than a Massage

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facial-benefitsYour skin shows how you feel within. If you are anxious and stressed, your skin will suffer. You can’t hide the anxiety. Your face shows every worry. Improved appearance and immediate peace of mind are just two facial benefits. But should you get a massage or facial? Believe it or not, for long-lasting relief and destressing, many people find facials infinitely more relaxing. Why? Let’s find out how facials can help you feel like your happier self.

Achieving Ultimate Tranquility

An organic facial helps your facial muscles and overall body relax. Many clients feel deep relaxation and even calm slumber during a facial. This type of rest helps the anxiety and stress simply melt away. Facial benefits include relaxing the mind, facial muscles, scalp, and slowing one’s breathing. Slow breathing helps calm the body, easing worry.

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To Mom with Relaxation and Love: 3 Pamper Ideas

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spa-day-gifts-for-momYour mother deserves a day of pampering and comfort. After the sacrifice and love she has given you, it’s time to show her how much you appreciate her. Leave the stress of the city behind with the best organic spa in the region. Spoil your mother this year with spa day gifts for mom! Check out these awesome pampering ideas!

Facials

Nothing feels quite as luxurious as an organic facial. Enjoy deep poor cleansing and detox with these exciting spa day gifts for mom:

  • Organic Facials rejuvenate the skin, revitalizing your face, shoulders, and scalp
  • Anti-Aging Facial help nourish your skin and lessen creases and lines on the face, hands, and feet
  • Deep Poor Cleansing unclogs pores and helps balance blotched skin
  • Detox Facials combine a facial with a fruit peel to smooth and rejuvenate skin

Your mom deserves an incredible day of pampering with an organic facial. The peace and tranquility she feels will reduce anxiety and help her overall well-being.

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Essential Elements of a Holistic Skin Care Routine

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Beauty truly does come from within. And when building your holistic skincare routine, it’s not about getting the latest topical creams and ointments. Instead, focus on keeping your body healthy and happy on the inside by following these helpful suggestions.

Nutrition
Believe it or not, you can actually eat your way to healthier skin. It’s true! If your diet is healthy and balanced, it will show on your face. Avoid unhealthy foods that create a spike in your blood sugar, such as white bread, pastries, soda, and sweets.  Basically, stay away from anything that’s highly processed and/or contains extra sugar. Instead, opt for the food choices that are high in fiber, vitamins, antioxidants, and some healthy fats. Examples include beans, lentils, whole-wheat pasta, leafy green veggies, berries, apples, pecans, and avocados.

Water
You’ve heard it a million times, and that’s for a good reason: It’s true. Staying hydrated is hands-down, the best thing you can do for your skin. Water fills the cells of your body with oxygen and nutrients while removing toxins. It makes the skin plump and beautiful and is proven to slow the aging process by keeping everything taut and elastic.

Exercise
It’s not just for sculpting that peach booty in time for summer. By now, we all know that a regular exercise routine is vital for the overall health of our bodies, and that includes our skin. Something as simple as going for a walk around the neighborhood helps get the blood flowing and improves circulation. This promotes the transportation of oxygen to our skin cells and the removal of toxins.  Plus, working up a sweat can help clear out the pores. Just don’t forget to wash up afterward.

Sleep
We all know what a lack of sleep does to our skin. We’ve all had the late night followed by an early morning, and then been horrified by the dark rings under our eyes, and the colorless, drooping skin. Sleep is the time when our bodies rejuvenate. If you don’t get enough of it, the whole world can tell. Why do you think they call it beauty sleep?

Stress
This is likely nothing new for most of us. We all know that stress is bad in a lot of ways, but it’s also an unavoidable fact of our everyday lives. Obviously, you can’t remove all stress, but you can take steps to keep it under control. And if you’re successful, your skin will thank you. Stress can cause an acne breakout before a big event, or it can induce hives or rashes. And if you have existing conditions like rosacea or psoriasis, it can make those worse. So in other words, “keep calm and carry on.”

The 4 Best Ways To Transition To A Calmer Autumn

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the 4 best ways to transition to a calmer autumnGetting tired of the party atmosphere that summer inevitably brings? It’s nice to hit up the beach, but all the sand and hot weather can start to get a bit much. Thankfully, autumn is in the air. A return to routine, cooler nights, and sense of settling in. If you’re feeling a bit anxious about this sudden shift in seasons, we have the best ways to transition to a calmer autumn.

Celebrate summer

Summer is a fun season. It’s a time to party and catch up with friends. Even if you’re ready for a different season, you can still appreciate summer for what it was. End summer with a bang. Have that last beach picnic or backyard BBQ. If there’s a particular outdoor activity you love doing in the summer, be sure to find time for it. A paddleboard at sunset or a game of beach volleyball. Take that last road trip with your friends. It’s important to leave summer with no regrets; after all, it won’t come again for another year.

Finish projects

If you started a project in the summer, be sure to finish it. It’s always nice to start fresh each season. While we celebrate New Year’s with a list of resolutions, autumn is a more natural beginning. Finish painting that bedroom or harvesting your garden. The more summer projects you can finish, the better you can make room for autumn projects.

Plan a routine

Autumn is all about routine. Whether it’s back to school or back to work, there’s more of an emphasis on needing to wake up at a particular time and go to bed at a particular time. Think about how you want your day to look like.

If you’re a morning person, start the day off with a few minutes of meditation or journaling. If you’re a nice person, add these tasks to the end of the day. Think about what makes the most sense for you and what is the easiest way to stick to that routine. The easier you can fall into your routine, the easier it will naturally surround you.

Make a list

Who doesn’t love a good list? Think about both what you love about fall and what you want to accomplish in fall. Cooler weather means it can be easier to complete DIY tasks around the home. It’s also the natural end cycle with most gardens, so that will probably end up on your list.

Think about fun fall recipes to bake and family activities to indulge in. Think about everything you want to accomplish and then try to plan around them. Depending on where you live, fall can quickly turn into winter, so don’t procrastinate. Make the most out of this glorious new season. The best ways to transition to a calmer autumn involves a bit of planning.

Why Having A Facial Peel Is Essential In The Summer

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why having a facial peel is essential this summerReady to improve your face? Wanting to get a facial peel, but not sure when is the best time? Well, it turns out that a facial peel is essential in the summer. Here’s why.

Mops up oil

If you’re like most people, even a bit of exercise in the summer heat can quickly turn to an oily face. All that sweat means you’re working hard, but it’s also an open invitation for your pores to open up and turn into acne.

One of the ingredients in a facial peel is salicylic acid. This ingredient will actually absorb excess oil in the skin. If used in high-grease times, like the summer, it can naturally cut down on that bothersome greasy feeling so often felt.

Get picture perfect

Summer is all about looking as good as you can. Especially during wedding season. As you prepare to save the date, you might be thinking about a bit of life to your face. A facial peel is essential in the summer so you can always be camera-ready. The recovery time for a facial peel is just a matter of days, so you can get one done the week before a wedding and not have to worry about any issues.

Having a facial peel before a wedding means less cost on professional make up artists. Your skin will be so soft and supple, you can easily apply your favorite shades.

Let your skin breathe

Sure, in winter months you want a more even skin tone and plenty of foundation to bring color back to your cheeks. But in summer, take advantage of your sun-kissed, wind-swept look. A facial peel will help bring the natural feel back to your face. You don’t need to cover it in layers of makeup. Instead, you can show everyone your natural, youthful glow.

Start planning

A facial peel needs a few days to work its magic. Thankfully, it just takes a bit of planning to make everything come together. If you plan on using a vacation day to catch up on your summer reading, schedule a facial peel before your long weekend. Then, relax, read, meditate, and catch up on some me-time. By Monday you can re-emerge into the world as a fresher version of yourself.

Keep your skin protected

One of the reasons for a facial peel is UV damage. Do your best to prevent that damage from happening in the first place. Having a facial peel and starting from scratch means you can forget about the damage from last summer. Now is the time to take better care of your skin and always apply sunscreen. You can live your best life and stay protected at the same time.

Organic Facial

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If your skin appears dry, wrinkled and aged, you are in need of one of the wonderful organic facial treatments at our spa in Toronto. Through exposure to direct sunlight, pollution and high temperatures, in addition to working long hours and frequently enduring stressful situations, the condition of our facial skin can deteriorate. It’s your responsibility to look after and rejuvenate that skin and our organic facial treatments are an excellent way of doing that.

Organic Facial Treatments at Urb Organic Spa

At the Urb Organic Spa, when we say our facials are one hundred percent organic, it’s because they are. Our facials only contain natural plant extracts, naturally occurring oils and vitamins and never contain any of the harmful chemicals that are used in ordinary facials. Why should you opt for an organic facial at our spa?

  • Thorough Cleansing – Unlike many ordinary facials, our organic facial treatments do much more than simply clean your skin on a superficial level; they soak deep down and cleanse the underlying layers of skin, ensuring greater hydration and nourishment, and a healthier skin complexion.
  • Naturally Occurring Ingredients – This is obviously the main benefit of an organic facial; all of the ingredients that are used are naturally occurring and proven to do no harm to your skin. Contrast this to facials containing synthetic elements, which can cause skin irritation, inflammation, discolouration and may sometimes contain carcinogenic substances.
  • Filled With Anti-Oxidants – Has your skin suffered due to high exposure to UV rays? An organic facial contains a high concentration of anti-oxidants and can help to sooth and repair skin that has been damaged by the sun.
  • Increased Collagen Production – Collagen is a naturally occurring protein that provides support to the skin and adds volume. As we age, collagen production levels can slow down and skin can become stretched and sag, causing wrinkles. Our organic facial treatments stimulate collagen production to restore your skin volume and a youthful appearance.
  • Oxygen and Blood Flow – Our organic facial treatments also lead to better oxygen and blood flow to your skin, which helps to meet requirements on a cellular level and dispose of naturally occurring but potentially detrimental waste by-products.

As well as providing a wide range of health benefits, the organic facial treatments offered at our spa are also extremely therapeutic and relaxing and can help you to escape from the stresses and strains of everyday life.