"spas" news and stories

Grocery shopping is not usually the activity at the top of the "fun things to do" list, but Whole Foods wants to change your mind about that by making the experience relaxing and pleasurable. The company has just opened The Everyday Spa, a prototype full-service spa, at their Dallas store.

The spa is 4,500-sq. feet and is entirely enclosed in a soundproof section of the store. It offers the same services as other day spas, including a wide variety of skin treatments, massages, nutritionists and "wellness consultants." There is also a "private balcony where lunch is served" and a store that carries most of the skin care products and cosmetics that are currently located in the Whole Body aisle/section of most Whole Foods Markets, in addition to jewelry, shoes and clothing made with organic materials.

Grocery shopping and spa treatments, despite the fact that WF is trying to emphasize the organic connection between the two services at their stores, don't seem like the best matchup. The point of getting a full body massage, for example, is to help you relax and clear your mind, not to think about what to buy for lunch tomorrow. That said, if their prices and services are good, there's no reason to rule out one of their spas if this one is successful and they decide to roll them out to locations across the country.

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Part spa, part amusement park - the Yunessun Spa in Japan offers guests the chance to experience green tea, sake, red wine and even coffee in a way that is truly unique. Instead of drinking any of these beverages, visitors to the spa can bathe in them. The sake spa is continuously filled from a huge cask and is said to be good for the skin. The green tea spa is brewed with tea grown at the "foot of the Tanzawa and Hakone mountains" and contains a powerful anti-oxidant that is reputed to enhance the immune system. The wine spa is filled with real red wine, inspired by the fact that Cleopatra loved to bathe in red wine as a rejuvenation treatment in ancient Egypt. Perhaps the most interesting is the coffee spa, which is filled with coffee that is brewed with the natural hot spring water at the spa. Not only will it energize you, but it will energize the skin.

More pictures of the pools after the jump.

[via neatorama]

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