After a really exhausting week at work, don’t you usually want to spend some quality time by yourself? One of the best ways to spend some “me-time” is to get the pampering that you deserve in a local spa. Whether it’s a short one-hour massage or a few hours where you will be getting a spa treatment with the whole works, you will feel infinitely recharged and ready to face another work week after.
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How Locally Grown Fruits are Being Used in Spa Treatments
Back in the days, spa treatments revolved around using expensive body creams from Europe, or treatments which made use of exotic ingredients from faraway places. This trend, however, is not that in-demand anymore as spa owners realize that there are less expensive yet equally refreshing spa treatments that they can offer their customers.
In Southern California, for example, tourists are flocking to the hilly area of Ojai not just to get their share of Pixie tangerines grown locally – but to get a spa treatment or massage therapy using the fruits as a main ingredient.
If the term farm-to-table is something that can be applied for the locally grown crops once the fruits go from the farm to your kitchen, something similar can be said for spa treatments. Farm-to-spa fruits are being integrated into spa treatments and massages so that you can get the relaxation that you deserve while supporting local farmers as well. Pixie tangerine and pomegranate treatments for the skin and similar fruit-based massages are growing in popularity, especially when the fruits are in season.
Another reason why such farm-to-spa fruit treatments have become such a hit is because both the tourists and locals do not want to get the same experience when they venture out into different cities. For instance, if you are getting the tangerine body scrub treatment in California, you want to experience a more localized version of it when you go vacationing in Florida.
The same thing holds true when travelling abroad – you want something that is locally grown to be part of the spa treatments and massages that you are getting. So when your massage therapist is giving you the treatment, you can actually smell the fresh juice being squeezed out of the tangerine which is locally grown.
Aside from citrus fruits, elderberries and other seasonal fruits are being used for spa treatments and massages. Just don’t expect a summer spa treatment that you had to be available during fall or winter, because it might not be available the next time you ask for it – especially when the main ingredients of fruits are not in season anymore.
Finally, do farmers have any objections when the fruits or crops that they grow are being used for purposes other than eating? Some of them might have thought it to be silly at first, but upon realizing that fruits can actually be used for spa treatments that relax body, they didn’t seem to mind it at all.